Last Thursday, I woke up to a pile of emails that I was, in truth, half expecting. They were all worded a bit differently and came from different senders but the message was the same: Today, Okta made the decision … Read more
2023-12-14 Yesterday, we gave away our ~6-year-old GE French-door refrigerator after a never-ending slog of repairs. At least the guy and his mother who came to pick it up have a side-hustle of repairing and reselling appliances. There’s hope it … Read more
Goodbye to Thien-Thi Nguyen emacs-devel [Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Goodbye to Thien-Thi Nguyen From: Amin Bandali Subject: Goodbye to Thien-Thi Nguyen Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2023 23:55:05 -0400 User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/30.0.50 (gnu/linux) We have learned … Read more
Cicero provides a possibility for “too many times” with nimium saepe: Quare “bene et praeclare” quamvis nobis saepe dicatur; “belle et festive” nimium saepe nolo (Cicero, De Oratore 3.101.2) I think the meaning is even clearer with Seneca’s Medea: Quodsi … Read more
As of this week and after almost four years, I’m not a Twilio employee anymore. I’m writing this while I work through a range of conflicting emotions, and try to adapt to new daily routines without Twilio in my life. … Read more
Earlier this year, we blogged about an incident where we mistakenly throttled a customer due to internal confusion about a potential violation of our Terms of Service. That incident highlighted a growing point of confusion for many of our customers. … Read more
I woke up yesterday to the news that DigitalOcean has cut a bunch of jobs from the payroll. It sounds like a pretty big wave, and yes, my job was lopped off with it. This is my first rodeo with … Read more
How we used WebAssembly to annihilate 80,000 lines of legacy code Author: Andrew Kelley It’s funny – I have shared this story a handful of times with friends of mine who are qualified, competent software engineers, and each time the … Read more
This is more of a personal post than something intended to be profound. If you are looking for a point, you will not find one here. Frankly I am not even sure who the target audience is for this (probably … Read more
Why Crypto Fireside is migrating from Medium to Ghost. Goodbye Medium, Hello Ghost It’s finally happening. When I first started Crypto Fireside over a year ago the plan was to always navigate away onto my own hosted website and now … Read more