Jon Topper
@jtopper
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https://t.co/DpKia5G2Gv on the butterfly themed site these days.
Leeds, England
Joined April 2008
Ok, I’m done with this place. The butterfly site seems to be growing in popularity with my tech people at the moment. https://t.co/2W2wobk9F0 over there if you like.
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Vincent W. Kosuga be like
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10 racks of 1U and 2U servers all named completely randomly: buffy. balrog. mottled. sirocco. rotten. An absolute shitshow to find the damn things at 4am on call.
Elder sysadmins: share your ridiculous server naming schemes. I'll go first: Dune. Mailservers named after guild navigators, all-purpose utility server that changed identities all the time was "Scytale," 40 DHCP servers all named "Duncan Idaho," etc.
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I wonder if this “bureaucracy mailbox” is open to AWS partners as well as employees because JFC, I have Many Fucking Opinions to share.
Two big updates from Andy Jassy today: - Taking a buzzsaw to middle management - Return to Office 5 days a week $AMZN has been dead money for 4 years. Time to crack some skulls
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Attention SaaS builders: on 12 September, I’m hosting an unconference event in London that might be of interest to you. https://t.co/9iMvEowhB0 for more information - drop me a line for a discount code if you’re interested in joining us.
scalefactory.com
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I hate how much I like this idea.
For my birthday I asked everybody to come prepared with a PowerPoint presentation about any topic they wanted and BY GOD THEY FUCKING DELIVERED. These are just some highlights 🧵 (Pic of mine for tax)
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No lies detected
SOFTWARE ESCROW IS FUTILE FOR SAAS COMPANIES YOU HAVE NO HOPE OF RECREATING THESE TWISTED NIGHTMARE PLATFORMS THIS IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOUR NOTHING VALUED IS HERE WHAT IS COMMITTED WAS DANGEROUS AND REPULSIVE TO US THESE REPOSITORIES ARE BEST SHUNNED
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Bouba and Kiki
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You see this, this is what happens in real life. The bots can't show up on the streets. On the right there (yeah the far right) are the 6 nazis who turned up to cause mayhem. Everyone else is there to stop them. This is England.
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Useful advice for those of us condemned to attend re:Invent again this year too.
As a Brit who has lived in Las Vegas for the last 18 months, I humbly submit this thread of recommendations and advice for anyone coming to black hat and def con. Feel free to ask questions and add any other recommendations!
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Haha wat.
By 2034, your 9-5 job will be extinct. Everything will be so cheap you won't have to work anymore. That's Marc Andreessen's latest prediction — the billionaire investor who predicted the rise of the internet in 1993. Here's what he said next:
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The SaaS CTO Conference: 12 September, London. Join other CTOs and technical decision makers for a one day conference dedicated to the art and craft of building SaaS. https://t.co/9iMvEovJLs
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And yet Eventbrite still does very well in its category in spite of their page performance being absolute garbage for years.
Almost anyone in B2B SaaS could dominate their category by achieving frontend rendering speeds below 150ms. Yet, less than 1% of the industry masters this. There's a significant arbitrage opportunity right in front of you. Capitalize on it before everyone else catches on.
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British people really do hate foreigners more than they care about the planet, huh? Pricks.
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Surely this is the CTO’s remit.
The rise of the Chief AI Officer is incredibly fascinating to me. It's this new role where someone is hired to specifically keep up with everything happening in AI and implement it into certain operations within the company. For example, this person might: - Find a ChatGPT
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Telegram has a feature where, if someone in your contacts signs up for that service, it lets you know. My friend James died in 2019. Today, seemingly, the new user of his old phone number started using Telegram. The resulting notification was… a surprise.
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