Ben Nelson

Software Engineer interested in data, distributed systems, and automation. Goal: put the thing on the thing!!

[I Am Devloper @iamdevloper]

The AWS status page right now...

[F2 @0xF2]

Best quote about the S3 outage so far: "Unfortunately, AWS choose to host their red X status icon on S3"

[Brendan Gregg @brendangregg]

new post: Where has my disk space gone? Flame graphs for file systems https://t.co/5tKM9G4LwN

[C. S. Lewis @CSLewisDaily]

“Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until they have something to forgive.”
#CSLewis

[Justin Shanes @justinshanes]

Amazon thinks my recent humidifier purchase was merely the inaugural move in a newfound hobby of humidifier collecting.

[About Programming @abt_programming]

"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute" - Hal Abelson

[Computer Science @CompSciFact]

Objects are data structures with functions. Closures are functions with data.

[About Programming @abt_programming]

"Just saying that I can’t remember a single Star Trek episode where they solved the problem by inventing a new package manager" - @mrtazz

[kate matsudaira @katemats]

17 Tiny habits that drain your energy (and make life more difficult) https://t.co/gO6qDUBsLQ

[pip-pop bim-bam @danslimmon]

My new hobby: finding incomprehensible diagrams on office whiteboards and adding alarming conclusions to them

[C. S. Lewis @CSLewisDaily]

"A promise must be about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling a certain way."
#CSLewis

[Brad Fitzpatrick 🌻 @bradfitz]

OpenSSL.

Fixing CVE-2016-6307 caused CVE-2016-6309 and CVE-2016-7052? Can't make this up.

[Joshua Bloch @joshbloch]

A fascinating case study on Netflix's transition from blocking multithreaded to nonblocking async architecture https://t.co/3q5F6KvsnE

[Russ Roberts @EconTalker]

The morality of surge pricing: https://t.co/pJvQLkk9jj

[GitHub Engineering @GitHubEng]

The GitHub GraphQL API https://t.co/1EFnZGkRp8

[Armon Dadgar @armon]

Consul 0.7 is now available! Multi-key transactions, ACL replication, and much improved stability and performance https://t.co/UK2LzYz4e3

[Jessica Kerr @jessitron]

Perhaps error handling *is* the essential complexity in most of our software tasks.

[Ben Nelson @4BitBen]

@iamthechad I am so sorry to hear that. That is a terrible thing to have to go through.