Merritt Krakowitzer

.*nix sysadmin, puppeteer, poker player, DevOps advocate from Ireland.

[Merritt Krakowitzer @mkrakowitzer]

@IKEAIESupport I order a gift voucher off your Irish site and I am being asked to pay a 100euro customs fee?

[Merritt Krakowitzer @mkrakowitzer]

@IKEAIE I ordered a gift voucher off your Irish site and I am being asked to pay a 100euro customs fee?

[Merritt Krakowitzer @mkrakowitzer]

@AskAIB heya, I can't make card payments or draw from the ATM. Are you having technical problems?

[Merritt Krakowitzer @mkrakowitzer]

@OGesports @redbullesports Where can I buy the new Redbull OG jersey? https://t.co/vBgzk15ro6 only has legacy jerseys.

[Rich Rogers @RichRogers_]

"I bought my boss two copies of The Mythical Man Month so that he could read it twice as fast." - @rkoutnik

[Sarah Drasner @sarah_edo]

Someone was recently telling me they were a "Code Ninja". I don't want to work with a Ninja, they leave a bloody mess. I want to work with a "Code Janitor". Comes in the middle of the night, cleans things up, you only know they were there because everything is organized and tidy.

[Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll]

The ideal goal of infra projects: Make systems easy.
The current goal of infra projects: I'll show you how smart we are.

Can we have a break and focus on usability and making complex concepts more accessible please?

[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.

[Michael Nygard @mtnygard]

Three stages of memory loss for a system:

1. "When can we remove this hack?"
2. "Does anyone know why we do this?"
3. "Nobody knows why we do this, so I'm afraid to change it."

[Existential Comics (find me on bluesky) @existentialcoms]

btw, if there democratic primary comes down to Oprah vs Zuckerberg for who gets to take on Trump, we need to just dissolve the Union once and for all.

[Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn]

Most family holiday letters I receive blur together. Not this one:

[Carl Miller @carljackmiller]

Bitcoin really hasn't turned out even remotely as it was intended to.
- Rather than a currency, it's become a speculative asset.
- Rather than efficient, the energy and CPU costs are extravagant
- Rather than decentralised, ownership and mining power are hugely concentrated

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Did he also announce the results? Would save everyone a lot of time and effort. https://t.co/AW5XjKGfpU

[David L. Craddock @davidlcraddock]

130,000 words. 250 pages. 24 chapters. One incredible era. Rocket Jump: #Quake and the Golden Era of First-Person Shooters, only @shacknews. https://t.co/m3WMSKuNg7 #gamedev #QuakeChampions #DOOM #videogames

[Eric Bailey @EricVBailey]

Retweet if you've ever met someone face-to-face after previously only knowing them from Twitter.

[Jordan Rinke - Bluesky: @rin.ke @JordanRinke]

We need fewer hackathons, more apprenticeships. Fewer bootcamps, more classes. Fewer rockstars, more mentors. Develop people instead of products.

(Finally with proper grammar thanks to the new character limit)

[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.

[mattheard.delve.town @mattheard]

@SchuKnight @jc_kiwi 100%.

A good team:

1. has a mix of junior devs and senior devs,
2. encourages junior devs to share opinions that contradict senior devs, and
3. encourages senior devs to frequently seek the advice of junior devs.

Everybody knows a lot and everybody has a lot to learn.