Dave Withnall

Software Engineer at Amazon. Father. Aussie in Seattle. he/him. Thoughts are my own

[Dave Withnall @dww84]

Two months ago, I ordered this statue as advertised on Facebook. This arrived (from China) today. NAILED IT

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@endingwithali We are hiring in Australia!

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Last time I posted, I was living in the States. Been a while then! Haha

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Three days left on the team and still cutting code between KT sessions. So much I want to close out before I finish up

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Trying out my new @bee__computer and need to remember to turn it off when watching TV. We watched the latest few episodes of White Lotus and now my summary is full of random tasks.

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In Brisbane, unpacking our old items that have been in storage since before we moved to the US. Any plastic bag we stashed has long turned to dust.

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I was listening to a recording of a work presentation the other day and one of the questions was from an Australian. I was checking the org chart to see what other Aussies were in the new team, before realizing it was just my own question 🤦🏼‍♂️

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Hamish just pointed his wand and yelled "CRUCIO" at George who started writhing on the floor. I've taken his wand. I didn't think I'd have to explicitly ban Unforgivable Curses in our house but here we are.

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I started the game ASTRO BOT, via @TrueTrophy https://t.co/xpUylOE3Jx

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@brooke_jamieson Just sent you a DM on Slack. If it's what I'm currently using, great work!

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@yangwong No idea. Haven't lived in Brisbane for 8 years remember 😂

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I just got a memory of an early #FakePeterBlackQUT tweet from the early Twitter days. I had completrly forgotten about that nonsense. I think I did eventually meet him in person

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Is my new hoodie too obnoxious to wear in public? The things we do for our children

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@film_girl I've been doing Spanish for 3.5 years. Reading comprehension is alright but not great at understanding speech because I always do my lessons while watching TV. A friend recommended watching more TV in Spanish with subtitles on, but not sure my wife would appreciate it 😂

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Judging by the massive lines of Teslas and Rivians outside every store and apartment parking lot, a region full of EVs doesn't cope so well with a multi-day power outage.

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@Anni22_10 @amazon Congrats! What will you be doing?

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It just took me 1.5 hours to get to work. Only gonna get worse come January once @Amazon 5 days starts. At least with 3 days, people can spread out some of the load - the Monday run yesterday was only 0.5 hour!

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@__spd_ Hey man. I hope things go okay at work this week.

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@__spd_ Oh no. COE time?

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Thinking about movies from high school that were set in the 80s. If they made the Wedding Singer today it'd be set in 2011 🫠

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@shanselman I wish they brought it across the border to Seattle. I miss Nando's from Australia. We always have it when making it to Vancouver and Chicago.