Ben Walding

infrastructure / fitness model / entrepreneur / brand ambassador

[Ben Walding @benwolding]

As you are locked up in side, don't neglect the thighs. I use a Squat Desk - where I can squat during zoom meetings to maintain that all important thigh gap and thicc glutes for that ride up mt cootha.

[Ben Walding @benwolding]

I am new to ZOOM, so I need to remember to turn off the camera (it is on by default) before shaving my thigh gap.

[Ben Walding @benwolding]

In between shaving my thighs, I move JIRA issues between sprints. How is your week going?

[Ben Walding @benwolding]

productivity tip: make sure your bike is visible on all video calls so people know you are in between races.

[Ben Walding @benwolding]

In related news see some of you in San Francisco next week.

[Ben Walding @benwolding]

What’s all this talk about waxed balls and toilets?

[Ben Walding @benwolding]

Fondly remembering that time, oh 8 year or so ago, when I worked at SE Queensland water and they had the worst floods in living memory which I had nothing at all to do with #devoops

[Ben Walding @benwolding]

@moritzplassnig @connolly_s @AcquiHair you are dealing with forces you cannot understand. Do not underestimate their trollability. For example: Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brooke’s just spent 100M to have the most expensive house next to Scott, purely to annoy him as his is no longer most expensive in the country.

[Ben Walding @benwolding]

Enjoyed my presentation last week in San Francisco. Nerves were settled with California’s finest chronic backstage with @stevengharris

[Ben Walding @benwolding]

Starting to work on my presentation now. Major focus is how to shed those last 5kg to be in race condition.

[Ben Walding @benwolding]

@aheritier I didn’t test the rollback. Do you know the SQL to undo “drop table”?

[Ben Walding @benwolding]

Upgraded some software. May work. May not. You can ssh in and restore the backup if you need to.

[Ben Walding @benwolding]

I still think the best kind of collaborative continuous deployment was several people ssh’ing in to the same server editing the same php file.

[Ben Walding @benwolding]

Need to prepare my talk on running kubernetes in a emulated x86 VM that boots Linux in JavaScript on a nodejs lambda function on AWS. #serverless

[Ben Walding @benwolding]

Heading to San Francisco next month. Great time to shop for a new outfit. I want something that says “I’m a good daddy” but in leather.

[Ben Walding @benwolding]

Lobbying AWS to add more services like Lambda, Cognito, that are both serverless, but specialised to cyclists. I have to find more creative ways to write off cycling on tax this year.

[Ben Walding @benwolding]

Back to work and no one has commented on my thigh gap. Not even Caleb.

[Ben Walding @benwolding]

Pro tip: just because it's winter and darker outside, don't ignore that morning workout maintain that thigh gap, and while you are at it, tidy up those terraform scripts.

[Ben Walding @benwolding]

Updated my profile photo.

[Ben Walding @benwolding]

@loveskuchen @twasink @michaelneale @benwalding I make all the devops artists in my devops department learn CSS. We roll out CSS changes in a canary kubernetes setup, where the health check is people complaining on twitter who get the new version vs old, in which case it fails the rollout.