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Joshua McKenty

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, builder of software and companies. Co-founder of

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, #netscape & circus. Father. He/Him.

EntrepreneurVictoria, British ColumbiaBorn 1977Joined December 2006

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Sent out our first “friends-of” update for the new venture today. It’s a super exciting feeling - and probably why, despite the very real financial risks and a nearly impossible amount of hard work, I keep doing this. Startups are one hell of a drug.

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Margaret Russell, MD, MA, AAHIVS

But I had never REALLY thought about the fact that my "gift" will be essentially reserved only for the wealthy. That a piece of myself given freely could not possibly be given to someone like my patient. The thought makes me ill. It makes me sad and angry. 11/

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Apparently "Died Suddenly" is trending, which means it's time to point out that COVID vaccines have saved tens of millions of lives worldwide, hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin STILL don't work against COVID, and Bitcoin is down by more than 50% YTD. Have a nice day.

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This is legitimately the most insanely-cool thing I've seen in internet land since... well, basically ever. EVERY electron app could be a dedicated

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Tailscale-for-wasm shipped! Now you can SSH in your browser to @Tailscale nodes. It runs all of Tailscale+WireGuard+gVisor netstack+SSH client in your browser locally. #WebAssembly twitter.com/mihai/status/1…

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Tailscale-for-wasm shipped! Now you can SSH in your browser to @Tailscale nodes. It runs all of Tailscale+WireGuard+gVisor netstack+SSH client in your browser locally. #WebAssembly twitter.com/mihai/status/1…

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For the first time, GitHub has surpassed $1 billion in ARR. This achievement is a direct testament to the ingenuity and dedication of our Hubbers, and the longstanding trust held in us by the developer community and our customers. And we know this is just our beginning.(1/3)

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Bogomil Balkansky

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It’s official now :)

@projectsigstore

is ready for prod!

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Sigstore is now GA! github.blog/2022-10-25-why chainguard.dev/unchained/sigs opensource.googleblog.com/2022/10/sigsto

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Somehow this thread reminds me of OpenStack packaging / versioning decisions…

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Okay. So. I'm building this app that's distributed by Helm, right? I'm separating out the Helm chart repo from the app repo--because apparently that's what people do. I have a lot of questions.

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Is it too soon to call Kubernetes the OpenStack of containers?

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taylor swift makes music for single people staring at spreadsheets for 14 hours a day

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Raj Parameswaran

Sure, I could answer your email, and instantly forget about it. Or I could leave it unanswered, such that it lives in my mind exerting a slow, daily pressure, and I feel your spectral presence always beside me for countless weeks, and in a way, wouldn't you prefer that?

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“Open S3 Bucket”

The first thing to do on your first day at a job is to rebase the entire codebase to a single commit with the message “Legacy Code,” then force-push it to main as a display of dominance.

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Will “it’s terminal”

Great googly moogly. We've released a new version of Textual! The TUI library for #Python 🎉 This version has all the stuff I've been banging on about for months. CSS, devtools, live editing, data-tables, and more... Here's the announcement: textualize.io/blog/posts/tex

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Boris Johnson Drops Out Of U.K. Prime Minister Contest forbes.com/sites/carliepo

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The New York Times

After just 44 days in office, Liz Truss, the departing British prime minister, is eligible for a taxpayer-funded allowance of 115,000 pounds ($129,000) a year for the rest of her life.

Liz Truss is eligible for a taxpayer-funded allowance of $129,000 a year for life.

The departing British leader would be the sixth prime minister to receive the reimbursement for her expenses after leaving office.

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CBC News Alerts

British Prime Minister Liz Truss steps down, just over six weeks after taking the Conservative Party reins as leader. Full story:

British Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after short and chaotic tenure | CBC News

British Prime Minister Liz Truss announced on Thursday she was stepping down, just over six weeks after taking the Conservative Party reins as leader. The Conservatives, in power since 2010, will now...

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✨ A new photo from the James Webb Space Telescope shows the Pillars of Creation — made famous by the Hubble Space Telescope — in vivid detail like never before. Just compare JWST's photo (left) to Hubble's 2014 version. trib.al/UwUhKIV

Alt text from NASA: Webb’s near-infrared image shows the a star-forming region, the Pillars of Creation. The pillars are semi-opaque and rusty red-colored. The peaks of the second and third pillars are set off in darker shades of brown and have red outlines. The background is cast in darker blues and blacks, and stars in yellow and white of all sizes speckle the entire scene.

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Alt text from NASA: Hubble’s visible-light view of a star-forming region, the Pillars of Creation, shows darker pillars that rise from the bottom to the top of the screen, ending in three points. The background is opaque, set off in yellow and green toward the bottom and blue and purple at the top. A handful of stars of various sizes appear.

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I’m going to say it louder for the folks in the back: Micro-services solve a team scaling problem, not a tech problem. Container orchestration solves a micro-services deployment problem. Most of y’all have neither. Use a PaaS.

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Watching the ever-spreading wave of container hysteria, and people solving problems they not only don’t have, but will probably NEVER have, and I remember seeing how @anotherjesse ran a global top-50 property on a single VM - for years.

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My absolute favorite SaaS pricing and packaging principle is, "Sell order, give away chaos." Easy to remember, super effective. It sounds cynical but I promise it isn't! 👇🏼

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Chris Richardson

How do you feel about agile now?

: It’s a devastated wasteland. The life has been sucked out of it. It’s a few religious rituals carried out by people who don’t understand the purpose that those rituals were intended to serve in the first place.” bit.ly/34kFrqI

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Sad to see

shilling for Google Cloud Run without acknowledging the HUGE dev ex problems around SSL certs and custom domain names.

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George Whitesides

So basically, a bad fire season in California can swamp over a decade of anthropogenic CO2 reductions.

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Rich Burroughs @ KubeCon

I’d like to see a Venn diagram of the people who think there shouldn’t ever be any comments and people who think they are 10x engineers.

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Dave Thompson - Victoria councillor-elect

@DaveThompsonVIC

Tonight I thank my amazing team of supporters for this win.😚 Also thanks to my fellow candidates for standing for election. Most of all, thanks to the voters for thinking carefully about what you want for the future of this great city, and for voting for it. #yyjpoli

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Finding product-market fit is a combination of 3 things: The product. The customer you're targeting. And the messaging you use to sell to this customer. You should test and iterate on all 3 dimensions at the same time to increase your chances of finding PMF.

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Hey #YYJ friends! Don’t forget to go vote today!

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Replying to

Thanks so much @jasoncwarne for your mention during our IPO last year. I couldn’t respond at that time due to quiet period guidance, which I mention in this blog post about the #IPO process that contains a bunch of things I learned:

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One-third of what we learned about IPOs in taking GitLab public

GitLab co-founder and CEO Sid Sijbrandij shares the first in a three-part series of what we learned in the process of going public.

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I will literally pay ANY ARBITRARY DOLLARS for a cypher-supporting graph DBaaS that isn't run by the ass-clowns at

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Replying to @obra and @neo4j

They turn the database off and send you an innocuous "proactive ticket" from support... right before a weekend where no one is available, and it takes them SIX DAYS to bring the db back online.

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This isn't actually a rhetorical question. I've discovered that

does what you would LEAST EXPECT.

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What is the *right* thing for a DBaaS vendor to do when a customer goes over their storage quota?

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OK - It took me a dozen hours of research (and meeting with several of the candidates personally), but I've come up with my own "slate" of the 8 candidates for Victoria city council that I'll be voting for. YMMV! I'll share my process and thoughts; hopefully it's helpful.

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Real talk for younger voters. Biden delivered on two major policies I never thought I’d see: Student loan forgiveness and marijuana pardons. If you don’t vote in midterms, you’ll be telling every politician in America passing policies younger voters care about doesn’t matter.

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I found out where all the weird conspiracy shit has been coming from.

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Kelsey Hightower

@kelseyhightower

Real talk.

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Google Cloud Tech

@GoogleCloudTech

The thing about burnout is it's helpful to talk about it. So let's talk about it at #GoogleCloudNext. Add this Keynote to learn the symptoms of burnout to look for and actions you can take → goo.gle/3Cfu8jd

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Richard Seroter

Wrapping up final rehearsals for tomorrow's #GoogleCloudNext and you honestly need to block your calendar at 11am PT to hear

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's talk. Might be the most important 30 minutes you invest in yourself this month.

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A little late but good morning ☕️

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