Ed Robinson 🇬🇧

Ruby, Go and DevOps, Author of Kubernetes on AWS, SRE at @cookpad_dev in Bristol

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So I have been writing a book ... And today is the first day that you can buy it 🎉

Learn how to build, manage and use #Kubernetes on #AWS ! From minikube to EKS, EBS to the ClusterAutoscaler, ENIs to ECR its all there, and much more!

https://t.co/d5vDCEA91S

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@OhHiMark0451 @DHKRULLAH @ThePlugArena Driving instructors are no longer interested in becoming examiners because the pay is much worse than instructing.

The three years is because for anyone to supervise a learner with a provisional they must have held a full license for 3 years. https://t.co/Eg3gRxkwwP

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@nateberkopec Some kind of automatic build queue is what most projects that have handfuls of changes that need to be merged concurrently

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@sikachu There are many startups with “AI website builder” products.

Could be a cool open source project idea to have a very low tier server running php, and a MCP to push and edit files.

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@morriceGavin @nateberkopec Yeah, to be productive you have to be good at working out what you want in advance, writing code by hand means you can wing it a lot more and work things out on the fly.

Also I loose concentration waiting 1-2 mins for the model to finish…

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@morriceGavin You can get 60% PCBs from aliexpress for £10-30 🤷‍♂️

Kinda tempted as a fun project, now I don’t really do lots of quick typing anymore 🤪

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@sikachu I got a little second hand mini pc on ebay for £40 and have automated loads of stuff round the house, I love that you can just write some code to fix stuff when you run into weird issues…

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@dhh I have always been pro MIT, it makes even more sense now IMO

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@tepri_x This looks like an airport though…. In the air, unless starlink you probably are not getting a stable ssh…

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@morriceGavin Someone should make a “railway manager” game, that accurately modelled the rolling stock and staff of each UK rail franchise - let rail nerds play it for free, then sell the results of the best performing players back to the railway 😂

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@morriceGavin That and the fact that scotrail’s rolling stock for that area are 3 and 4 carriage consists, so there is never an option to move 1 carriage from 1 service to another, all you can possibly do is use 2 sets to run 8 or 6 carrage trains, but for that you need a spare train…

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@morriceGavin Note how Google Docs, is basicly the opposite in terms of “features” - I don’t recall anything major (from a user perspective) changing in the last 10 years.

The aim with google docs - presumably is just don’t break it enough that people will cancel the subscription…

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@morriceGavin Well yeah clearly it was so that Microsoft Could continue to sell licences for Office.

A sales person is going to have a hard time selling big corporate licences if the only new features are “We patched n security vulns” and we fixed some bugs.

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@morriceGavin As an example take a look at a version of Microsoft Word from 15-20 years ago and the latest version.

There are 0 new features in that software that make it any better for writing a letter or a chapter of a book, in fact the “new features” make the user experience worse!

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@morriceGavin Yes - for that reason.

To my mind, for software I use every day:

* Don’t break my workflow.
* Have less bugs.

Are more valuable than

* New features

And honestly the bar for a new feature should be really high, anything new is an attention sync, so it needs to be worth it!