Don't let your ball of wax become a ball of whacks

Overheard on a call with @cormacfoster @gitlab, "No one wants to be in a place where you have a platform you keep but resent.”

Sermon for the day: Don't assign to malicious intent, behaviors in others that can be easiest explained by stupidity. Don't assign to stupidity, behaviors in salespeople that can be easiest explained by the structure of their comp plan.

The #Alabama #uga game is more fun to watch than pro sports. Very high quality football.

I don’t get the intentional grounding call both QB’s are throwing the ball away, and UGA lost a TD due to obviously grounding by AL…?

@kyleecodes I’ve got a guy who is the “Indians Jones” of Data Science. He works for a private consultancy, and has a decade of real world R. He goes into the muck of the field and gathers data, then comes back and analyzes making his company $$$millions. I’d love to refer him.. r u hiring?

@GergelyOrosz Much of tech moved so far so fast it’s too complex for the talent pool… tech simplification needs to happen before widespread adoption. Aka: the haves will accelerate away from the have nots in the near to medium term.

@hasan_umit @VKCsh This was me.

To all life forms across the galaxy, I wish you a very special Wookie Life Day. I hope you enjoy the festivities as much as Ichy, Mala, Lumpy, and Chewy did on Kashyyyk.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain. ― Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Spoken by Arthur Weasley #Kubernetes #dockerhub #proxycache #complexnestedimagepullsfromhelm #useopa #privatereposaregood

I just echo'd $RANDOM from a bash script for the first time in a decade. . . the number I got back? 12345 Again and again?... it's working! I need to buy a lotto ticket. 9226 21947

Why does this make me feel old? I need to backup an entire HD to our home NAS, so I instinctively reached for an ethernet cable for higher throughput. Turns out my WiFi provides twice the throughput as 100baseT.

Joining #TGIK8s this friday for the first time, just to see this!

Alexa announcement mis-transcription: “Why are the great pants in my space mind?”

RT @KeithRichardLee: CVE-2020-8554 hit the headlines this week for a MiTM vulnerability that affects all #Kubernetes versions 😬 But, with…

@CommsNinja +1 on wobble board. +1 on stool. I realized that my back hurt without shoes. Shoes helped me (I’m too far gone I suppose). Net advise is to give yourself variety. You’re not Dick Cheney.

@storagebod Global holiday = lockdown the countries. Watch out what you wish for.

@storagebod There is a vim plugin for vscode.

Everybody #remembertheplan. No matter what he says tonight, vote for #JoeBiden

@robertsirc @VMwareTanzu @SpringOne I’m one of the webinar hosts. Sorry you didn’t get the message from zoom cancelling this week’s session. Don’t try to join. I’ll be at the session "Bulletproof Microservices with Spring and Kubernetes" at We’ll restart Tanzu Connect Sep. 9.