Ben Ransford

mother hen, recovering academic computer scientist, he/him

[Ben Ransford @br_]

hiring an assistant to pick my battles. send 100 picayune rants to apply

[Ben Ransford @br_]

⁦@Fidelity⁩ seriously?

[Ben Ransford @br_]

OTOH, the cool thing about tetris is that things disappear when you get them all lined up

[Curtis @ccastrapel]

As we added employees, AWS accounts, apps, and resources, IAM complexity grew. It was like playing Clue to find misconfigurations, Jenga to remove temp permissions, and Tetris to organize access. It was time-consuming, and on-call was a nightmare.

[Curtis @ccastrapel]

Managing IAM & permissions across multiple cloud accounts & identity providers accounts is hard. Introducing IAMbic, an open-source, multi-cloud control plane that simplifies IAM management. Think Terraform for Cloud IAM, launching now. More details in 🧵

[Ben Ransford @br_]

wait, *do* people eat crackers in bed?

[Ben Ransford @br_]

@adamjodonnell almost makes you want to put your head through a Single Pane of Glass

[Ben Ransford @br_]

@adamjodonnell he owes me 5 francs

[Ben Ransford @br_]

my only rules are golden, threes, and futterman’s

[Ben Ransford @br_]

@radioopensource just beautiful, thank you

[Ben Ransford @br_]

or write this guy on a chalkboard with blanks for the operators, parens optional

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

Here's a special countdown for 2023. Happy New Year 🎉

[Ben Ransford @br_]

introvert care tip: if you’re having an NYE party, put out a jigsaw puzzle

[Ben Ransford @br_]

or leave a lot of citrus out to squeeze

[Ben Ransford @br_]

i notice i’m never *under*billed for anything

[Ben Ransford @br_]

@Kiva https://t.co/X81Hfo2ACq is 500ing

[Ben Ransford @br_]

@DrKevinFu these days: assume hanlon’s razor, but then wake up screaming on a saturday

[Ben Ransford @br_]

@Roku are you aware of this entry in the iOS App Store that charges $3/week for what seems like a clone of your official app? https://t.co/qhNZoncVlY

[Ben Ransford @br_]

@noradio but what if you had a progress bar on a webpage that showed you that’s how far along you were in the book

[Ben Ransford @br_]

welp

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

If you’d like to hire any of the wonderful former Stripe employees who are leaving, email [email protected]. We’ll let you know as soon as the directory is ready.

[Ben Ransford @br_]

just donated to your campaign after seeing this; good luck

[Charles Booker @Booker4KY]

At an event in Bardstown, a woman showed up to heckle me. She accused me of wanting to kill babies.

I didn’t give her the response she expected.