Ally Weir

@allyjweir

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Scotland
allyjweir.co.uk
Joined July 2008
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  1. 4 hours ago

    Buzzing for all the keeb GBs to be delayed because of there Suez Canal instead of Brexit as is usually the case

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  2. Mar 25

    Once a blue moon I wonder whether we could've made a quicker transition to ECS than building out a platform on Kubernetes. Things have changed over the past 6 months in the biz that mean k8s was probably the right choice but that ECS path could've been super interesting!

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  3. Mar 25

    Built out another service on ECS and I'm starting to warm to it as a service. There's still the byzantine networking plus IAM permissions to fight through but once it's there, it just goes and is a hell of a lot cleaner than maintaining EC2.

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  4. Mar 25

    Most important part here. Solidarity to all the healthcare workers in England. Hopefully this spurs something more than 1%

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  5. Mar 25

    Any time someone suggests adding in 'a simple redirect' I recoil at the addition of _more_ DNS. It's just going to break or confuse so why do it?

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  6. Retweeted
    Mar 23

    The internet was created by (adult) physicists to actually share and advance science. Cryptocurrencies are a bunch of Ayn Rand fanboys jerking each other off while performing an increasingly bizarre cargo cult speed run of history's worst financial disasters.

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    Mar 23

    It is 1 year since the first lockdown. From locking down too late, to PPE shortages, to not lifting Sick Pay, to failing to fix Track and Trace, to not giving mental health services the funding needed, to not rewarding NHS staff with a decent pay rise, the Tories have failed us.

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    Mar 22

    Make a list of the workers facing attacks on their terms and conditions today: binmen, carers, bus drivers, British Gas engineers. The very people who were out during the first lockdown putting their lives on the line. "Key workers"? Our elites never believed a word of it.

    In Thurrock, the local Tory council is attacking the terms and conditions of binmen and carers only months after they were celebrated as key workers – but instead of taking it lying down, they're voting to strike.
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  9. Retweeted
    Mar 22

    Completely agree with this summation from - lessons must be learned by SG about the handling of sexual harassment by men in power but the Tories have done nothing but show their true colours throughout this entire process.

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    Every single word of this is correct.
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    Mar 22

    Had a fun chat about the work we do and what the future holds for us post-relaunch.

    Danny O'Dwyer recently sat down with to discuss Noclip's incredible 2021, his career in games media and his current thoughts on the industry.
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  11. Retweeted
    Mar 19

    Starmer doesn't have a single principle, does he?

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  12. Mar 19

    First: Gameboy Colour (it was purple!) Newest: Xbox Series X Favourite: Xbox 360 Least Favourite: PS3 (original chonky boy model)

    We want to know your First console: Newest console: Favourite console: Least favourite console: Handhelds included (just so can put the PS Vita as your favourite)
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  13. Mar 19

    Thoroughly enjoy getting caught in the crossfire between Elastic and AWS re: Elasticsearch. All I want is my logs to be easily accessible.

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  14. Mar 19

    Nothing more satisfying than finding a Kindle book you are hyped for and realising past-you already pre-ordered it and it's already there ready to read. This time it's the next Avatar: The Last Airbender comic

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  15. Mar 19

    Now working in a team where we support users who are engineers in the company, it is wild how often they think it's the entire system that is failing rather than a typo of their own doing bringing everything down.

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  16. Mar 19

    Yep, the ergonomics of Java scared me off. Until I had tried things like C# with its excellent intellisense and Typescript, I hadn’t seen the light.

    Me: I don't need static types. Me: *Tries static types* Me: Oh.
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  17. Retweeted
    Mar 18

    This underscores the brazen mendacity and moral vacuum of the people who labelled Corbyn a ‘Stalinist’. They said those things not because they believed them but because Corbyn genuinely did politics differently & democratically.

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    Mar 17

    Churchill was simultaneously a major force in the defeat of Hitler, and a racist with the blood of millions on his hands (the 1943 Bengal famine). As this excellent article says, "even his contemporaries found his views on race shocking": .

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  19. Mar 17

    Today was a real ‘teaching sand to think was a mistake’ kind of day.

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    Mar 17

    My live reaction to seeing the Scottish tories quoting "She's turned the weans against us".

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