Alan Simkins

Cloud nerd. Database geek.

[Towards AWS @TowardsAws]

Great cheatsheet for Linux networking tools.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

How dinosaurs really went extinct, according to flat earthers:

[Noah Garfinkel @NoahGarfinkel]

Bringing your dad both screwdrivers because you don’t know what he’s talking about.

[ely kreimendahl @ElyKreimendahl]

sorry i didn’t answer your call. i don’t do that

[Daniel Vassallo @dvassallo]

If I want to improve something around the house, it’s usually faster to learn a new trade from YouTube than hire a contractor.

[Daniel Vassallo @dvassallo]

You may work for months and make little progress, and then something big comes to you in a flash.

In a randomness-laden world, progress is rarely linear.

[dinosaur @dinosaurcouch]

multitasking

[Vess @VessOnSecurity]

1970: We're going to build a global network that can withstand a nuclear war.

2021: AWS is down and my coffee machine doesn't work.

[Katie Bauer @imightbemary]

Every so often I see a Twitter thread where a new manager asks for advice, and inevitably, someone in the comments below says something to the effect of, "hire awesome people, listen to them and get out of their way"

Let me tell ya, this is not advice. It's wishful thinking

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

I apologize for writing a complicated program.
I didn't have time to write a simple one.

[GitHub @github]

🤫 New shortcut: Press . on any GitHub repo.

[Lee Trott @MC372]

New app BRICKIT uses machine learning to SCAN a pile of lego, and tells you what you can build from it! 🤯
For anyone with a giant pile of lego, this is a godsend...

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

If a UFO beams you up, steal a gizmo from the shelf when the Alien isn't looking. Bring that to the lab — you’ll need it to supplement your eyewitness testimony.

[Incunabula @incunabula]

The arrow of time.

[Chris Krebs @C_C_Krebs]

And there it is - election machine rigging claims by supporters of #TheBigLie determined "not credible." Source material: https://t.co/cZU8sGHSzP

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

And now, a small thread on what to do in your first two weeks of starting a new job.

[Michael Lopez @StatsbyLopez]

Here are the path's that Patrick Mahomes (top) and Tom Brady (bottom) took before pass attempts in shotgun during tonight's #SuperBowl

Red: complete
White: incomplete

[lauren @poteto]

becoming a senior engineer is just saying "it depends" over and over again until you quit/retire

[Carla Notarobot 🤖👩🏻‍💻 @CarlaNotarobot]

I think 90% of my VSCode plugins don't do anything except send me notices that there's a new version of itself.