Andrew Howden (in 🐻@🇩🇪)
@andrewhowdencom
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Whale biologist
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Joined July 2014
If you're here, and you're like "Wait who is this @andrewhowdencom" what do they do I make courses! You can find the next one introducing software developers to observability on Udemy. Check it out at https://t.co/0XfBpMZo0Q
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A new article: "On communicating through writing": * https://t.co/xkOs7IxXA5 In this one, I try to convey why I am so "document-driven", heavily leaning on writing up ideas (including technical documents, product decisions and so on) in a structured way.
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This seems like a substantial foreign policy shift toward conditional support (from the previous unconditional)
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Nice work Spain, Good game, well played England.
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Lovely people I am substantially reducing my personal and semi-professional (read: conference and community) for at least the next few months. If I look like I'm ignoring things, don't worry, I'm ignoring things — but that's by design. Right now I need focus!
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#SREConEMEA #CallForPapers ends soon! If you were planning on submitting a talk, you should do it now. Otherwise, you'll forget and you'll miss that opportunity 😥 It doesn't take too long. Checkout the website for details: * https://t.co/i5XPY8Uq4r
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For a lot of us, it's labor day. And what better day to celebrate than doing some FREE LABOUR! Okay, that was terrible, But #SRECon is on soon, and a public holiday is a good opportunity to write up that #CallForPapers. If you can, get on it! https://t.co/i5XPY8Uq4r
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#SREConEMEA has its #CallForPapers currently open! You can access it here: * https://t.co/i5XPY8Uq4r I have both been and spoken at this conference, and it is the conference I think is perhaps most valuable to go to. If you have thoughts on software operations write them up!
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Another book bites the dust! This one "Quit" by Anne Duke. It felt almost like a reply to Duckworths "Grit" book at times 😅 but it points out excellent examples of the sunk cost problem, escalation of commitment and strategies to address that (such as kill or exit criteria)
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Briefly, I want to address the issue of who is to blame. Easy — the people behind the attack. Lasse, the maintainer of xz, was the target of a patient intelligence campaign that invested more resources into subverting him than anyone invested into his project.
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Another book bites the dust! This one a recommendation from @voidmaze. A super useful book for my new, vastly more diverse workplace but a book I am leaning on quickly even for intersections with colleagues, teams and vendors — for a bunch of professional relationships.
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On a large enough training set (e.g. LLMs), are AIs just a super expensive regression to the mean
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Let's see what new adventures life will bring.
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Without knowing too much about this impl, Otel getting profiling as a capability would be pretty freaking dope.
I am *extremely* happy to report that Elastic has filed a ticket to donate the universal profiling agent (the multi-runtime frictionless eBPF profiler formerly known as prodfiler) as project to OpenTelemetry. This is of course still pending TC review and many other step, but...
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Aside from the notion that my ISP should not be moderating my content except as required by law, I *own* this domain and there's precisely fuck all here. I was thinking about an address for the link shortener that makes QR codes. How on earth
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been lookin at google / firebase auth and just why. why google can't you just make an OpenID provider like everyone else. why does it have to be some custom implemented spec that i can never reuse any of the code i been using
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I am somehow depressed with this while AI generated picture thing It was nice looking at pictures of nice houses and beautiful landscapes. Now I don't know what's real or what can be aspired to and it's paralysing I miss the real
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Merry Christmas, lovely people. Many happy returns...!
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Maybe you're a recruiter or hiring manager looking at my profile, and you're like, "phew, he can definitely video stuff, but can he actually code?" Well, judge for yourself! * https://t.co/ceVKM1kruq
#OpenToWork
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