Lachlan Donald

@lox

Dad, Computer Geek, Llama Aficionado. Works at , formerly .

Melbourne, Victoria
Joined March 2007

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  2. Dec 20

    I’m not even sure what to say to this one. Maybe meant for ?

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    Dec 19

    After a new challenge in 2018? Shoutout, in particular, to all senior engineering women keen to take the next step into supporting and mentoring a team as Engineering Lead on Outbound product. Click for more , share or DM for a chat 🙋🏿🙋🏽🙋

  4. Dec 17

    I still don’t know what we were thinking with REST.

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    Dec 16

    Silicon Valley doesn’t need to cuddle its bigots out of fear they won’t shit out another unicorn turd. It needs to embrace the responsibilities of running a major part of the world economy, and do so with decency, empathy, and ethics.

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    Dec 14
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    Dec 15

    Ok look, I never link these myself but this one I just like as proof that (very) occasionally it’s worth including details of things users won’t have ever noticed. Because, tbh, software is really fucking ridiculous.

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    They all love to pick "diversity" as their "PC evil" of choice. And I'll give them that: calling these problems "diversity" problems is pretty inaccurate. Instead let's call it what it really is: workplace discrimination based on gender and race. Which is - SURPRISE - illegal.

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    Dec 14

    MUST WATCH: Republican asks one of ’s US District Judge nominees basic questions of law & he can’t answer a single one. Hoo-boy.

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    Dec 16

    Software creation is inherently unpredictable. You can tell how actually agile an organization is by looking at who bears that risk.

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  12. Dec 14

    They called to discuss my complaint and needed my DOB 😂

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  13. Dec 14

    Someone from just called from a private number and when I refused to give my DOB "for my privacy" they said "the line is secure, because it's a private number" 😱 Will shortly no longer be a customer.

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    Dec 14

    Someone on Reddit pointed out that Disney’s purchase of Fox brings with it the Alien franchise, so this is now technically a Disney princess:

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    Dec 12

    [shoving glitter glue and felt pens back into my bag, visibly upset] ok look all I'm saying is maybe you guys shouldn't have called it a 'craft brewery' because people are gonna get the wrong idea and lemme tell you Karen this has been a big let down

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    Dec 12

    I ran my first deploy to Amazon's Fargate — it worked, but I'd been hoping for something ... simpler. Despite Docker, containers, and Kubernetes, the world is still looking for a deployment and operational experience on par with Heroku in mid-2011. There's lots of room to grow.

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    Distributed Monolithic Applications: a monolithic application disguised as a collection of microservices, stitched together using JSON, simultaneously writing to a single database.

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    Dec 9

    Here's your periodic reminder that evolutionary psychology is a cesspool of unfalsifiable and self-serving hypotheses that often take the form, "I, a person with some power, only abuse that power because it is inevitable, given the imagined lives of early hominids."

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    You know we've all been here the whole time? We've watched what you've done.

  20. Retweeted
    Dec 6

    Any Aussie web developers interested in working on a new charity idea with me? Experience in the not-for-profit sector would be a huge plus. DM me.

  21. Dec 6

    Last weekend hacks: A docker socket proxy that allows you to safely share a docker socket with CI builds.

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