So @virginaustralia.bsky.social, I can’t even access a lounge on VA code share flights?!
25.06.2025 06:48
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So @virginaustralia.bsky.social, I can’t even access a lounge on VA code share flights?!
the fact that nobody says "I'll build my own java compiler" but plenty of people think they can build their own o11y that scales to their needs is something worth studying because both are of equal levels of complexity
‘“Nature has its way of taking out the weak and the not so well and the injured. The eagle likely thought it would be able to take it out quite easily,” Sequeira [the Ontario-based photographer] said. “But, it wasn’t.””
That time they were warming up for another band who no one can remember because they blew them away.
Can’t believe Sharon’s voice is still as amazing..
Do I get to claim hipster points for having seen this band play in a venue in Hengelo only slightly bigger than the stage they are on now.
And if so, do I lose any points for that being almost exactly 30 years ago?!
@wtofficial.bsky.social
Fuck... :(
Oh god.. and I had enough trouble getting anything done with Civ 7 dropping the other week :(
A frame of the Calvin and Hobbes comic, with Calvin telling Hobbes: “DEI INITIATIVES WERE NOT PUT IN PLACE TO ENSURE LOWER-QUALIFIED MINORITIES COULD GET HIRED INSTEAD OF MORE HIGHLY-QUALIFIED WHITE PEOPLE, IT WAS PUT IN PLACE TO ENSURE LOWER-QUALIFIED WHITE PEOPLE WERE NOT HIRED INSTEAD OF MORE HIGHLY-QUALIFIED MINORITIES.”
Love this. So simple.
Looks at how hypocritical this is.. First she introduces 5 different ways the universe could end and now she trivializes people like myself who are doing our darnest to keep the Higgs Fields from changing and disintegrating the entire universe.. :D
Oh, go read End of Everything, it is awesome :)
To be fair, it is still not scientifically proven that left-handed people do *not* go to hell..
But damn.. that sounds even worse than my math teacher..
With observability 2.0, you can derive any metric across any number of dimensions. That, by itself, is profound—but it’s what that enables that makes a difference.
@koogh.com shares how much of an impact observability 2.0 makes vs. your current way of working: www.honeycomb.io/blog/why-obs...
Het ergste is dat het “maar” 15 uur was. Een stuk beter dan de 20/22 uur naar NL ☺️
Only 4 more hours to go until I can board my 15 hours flight..: 😔
I ran a startup that amongst other things deployed critical applications for customers.
I only tested in production, but spent (very) signification time on making that safe.
I am glad I am flying back to Australia tonight and won’t have to come back here for the foreseeable future.
Having him “help” build out infrastructure as critical as that is about as scary as anything I can imagine… 😟
I indeed wrote a thing.. One of the hardest things about my job is convincing people that Honeycomb isn't just a little bit better than traditional metrics and logs. It is almost like cheating..
You can always spot a scam call from Google because real Google will never give enough of a shit about a customer to call them in the first place.
My very much not very technical wife has been using Astro and it looks pretty good.
I have been doing this more and more lately.. Only adding some color and frills to section dividers.
Haha.. I need to be not just consistently, but also constantly reminded of this 🤣
This is exactly the stuff they should, but don’t, teach you at school. You are expected to just find this out by yourself or something..
I was just going to watch @kvlly.com's talk about "Influence without Authority - Making an impact in your organisation regardless of job title" and it turned into a not-so-live tweet thread with my thoughts.
Loved the talk Kelly :)
bsky.app/profile/koog...
"Building influence is a long game"
Exactly! That is so true. And as she mentioned it isn't just a long game in regards to your personal growth, but also in every new context, or a change in context.
You are never "done" :)
And again.. it was leading online guilds, especially in World of Warcraft, that taught me all about emotional intelligence about others.
I learned how to discern the emotional state of people only their text output in a chat. A skill that came very much handy a decade later during a pandemic :D
Confession time: As an undiagnosed neuro-divergent kid, I got into a *lot* of heated arguments with my parents. As in, a lot. What that did force me to do is what I started called "finding the space" for a lack of a better term.
Find time to think between receiving a stimulus and responding.
"Leaders hone their emotional intelligence"..
Boy.. did that take a lot of work.. like a lot :D
Oh damn.. she actually starts with recognising your own emotions. Exactly.. that is where everything starts.. EQ isn't just about other people.
Haha.. "But also, when you find an opportunity to tell someone what they are good at, tell them.. "
I had paused this talk earlier, because I was DMing someone precisely about what I thought was amazing about them.
People know their weaknesses. Trust me, they do. Tell them their strengths..
"We quickly latch onto the things we are not good at and we forget what we are actually good at, because it comes so natural to us"..
Yes! Ask people what they think you are good at. I bet you their response will have you go: "But that isn't anything special.. "
"Leaders understand their personal strengths and work to improve their weaknesses."
Not sure if I would use the word improve, but not entirely sure what else I would use. Minimise the impact of their weaknesses?
But so much this.. lean into your strengths
One of the most practical books I have ever read is personalmba.com by Josh Kaufman. It gave me the vocabulary to ask about and understand how a business makes money.
And that is the most powerful tool you have as a leader.
Ok... guess I am "live" tweeting this now then.. We are almost at the 4 minute mark and another truth bomb.
"Leaders know how to think big picture"..
"Understand business case.. ask clarifying questions to understand the landscape and the why we are going what we are doing"..
