Kevin James

@DialpadHQ (Vi, formerly @Talk_IQ) staff engineer and tech lead, @uWaterloo Software Engineer, musician, mixologist, writer

[N/A @DirtyZero]

Help your friends. Something crazy might happen #buildwithyou #buildinpublic https://t.co/lYpvJAHS14 @rickmizu

[N/A @DirtyZero]

on https://t.co/EfpLvklmJ9 I have enough users that I ran out of phone minutes and no bugs detected in the last 5 days ! I just emailed them all and extended the free trial for 30 days
so exciting this is the first time I shipped a thing people use !

[Thomasbcn @Thomasbcn]

Google's iOS apps release cycle before & after Apple asks to disclose privacy labels.

Thie pattern is probably just a coincidence. We all know "transparency forms the bedrock of [their] commitment to users"...

[Kevin James @TheKevJ]

Collaborated on a new blog series with @ameer00 on k8s multi-cluster lifecycle management, check it out here: https://t.co/wZwt5oitxg

[Tomer Ullman @TomerUllman]

This is the way the Zoom ends
This is the way the Zoom ends
This is the way the Zoom ends
Not with a 'bye' but 'where's the button'

[Kevin James @TheKevJ]

Today I made the healthy choice of walking home... then immediately rewarded myself by eating an entire pizza along the way. Still counts?

[Kevin James @TheKevJ]

@rplevy My body is a temple, does that account?

What I mean by that, of course, is that it looks like something the Romans destroyed thousands of years ago.

[Lynn (finally free) @chordbug]

folks, I've solved it

[kai (they) @old_coilysiren]

When interviewing at a company, can I ask to look at some of their code?

I wanna check for like

ancient versions of libraries (angular 1, python 2) // nonexistent infrastructure (no tests, no ci) // code that's clearly a garbage fire (you know it when you see it)

[Casually Explained @CasuallyE]

Mathematician 1: My favourite number is pi, as it explains the circle
Mathematician 2: My favourite number is e, as it explains the exponential function
Engineer: Yeah my favourite number is also 3

[TalkIQ @talk_iq]

We've been acquired! 🎉

Thank you to everyone for your support and make sure to follow us over at our new home, @DialpadHQ! Learn more about the acquisition details from Dialpad CEO, @cwalker123 here: https://t.co/RvOJDTxSgf … #futureofwork

[Charity Majors @mipsytipsy]

One of the dirtiest secrets in systems engineering is just how many outages are never really fully explained or understood.

Or how many *can't* actually be explained or understood, given existing telemetry.

[DM of Engineering @dmofengineering]

Your original DevOps person left two years ago.
IT finally got around to terminating their credentials this morning.
Roll 2d6 for how many production services just started throwing errors.

[Aaron Patterson @tenderlove]

I don't like to use double quotes for strings because it makes me read the string sarcastically

[Kevin James @TheKevJ]

TIL: `security find-generic-password -wa MyWifiNetwork`

[Kevin James @TheKevJ]

Happy New Year everyone! Remember to `find ~/my_badly_written_scripts -type f -exec sed -i "s/2017/2018/g" {} \;` before the end of the night!

[so called parody. @cloud_opinion]

Typically a bar wants you doing shots after few drinks - shots tend to be more expensive and you are too drunk to know.

I just explained serverless pricing to you in terms you can understand.

[Carlos Baquero @xmal]

A possible solution to the Fermi Paradox is that any sufficiently advanced civilization is dedicating all its resources to bitcoin mining.

[Kevin James @TheKevJ]

@irabinovitch @datadoghq Thanks!

[Kevin James @TheKevJ]

@datadoghq Just installed Debian agent, datadog.conf.example includes broken link to https://t.co/cGeP3oLGgO . Where's that page hiding?