Michael Widner

VP of Engineering at a SaaS startup. TS, VueJS, PHP, Python, AWS, etc. PhD, English (medieval). He/him/his.

[Michael Widner @mwidner]

Thinking about getting back into Twitter. What's new?

[Mosquito Capital @MosquitoCapital]

I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?"

As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.

[John Della Volpe @dellavolpe]

In 2018, 62% of Americans who didn’t vote later told @pewresearch they wished they had.

Those people - millions of them - would have voted D by 19 pts if they had second chance.

Don’t be that person. Don’t let your friends be these people.

#vote

Big H/T @jschavez

[Michael Widner @mwidner]

@ellisgl I do actually look at the code most of the time.. :)

[Michael Widner @mwidner]

Here I am, deploying late on a Friday night when I have plans for the weekend. Why? Because I trust my team, our process, and our automated tests.

[Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse]

This is the coolest crossover I ever seen. Was not expecting dude to take off with the vocals like that.

[Michael Widner @mwidner]

Anybody in my network know any young adult fiction publishers or literary agents? A friend has several promising books written already.

[See me on LinkedIn - I've quit X (Phillip Dawson) @phillipdawson]

For years I've been trying to get any proctoring company to agree to a study where I try to cheat. None have agreed. I've had legal advice not to do such a study without permission from the vendors.
I'm delighted to share that someone else has done one: https://t.co/VGN5dw7Mtc

[Linus @thesephist]

Was going to decorate the page a bit more, but I got lazy. So I'm just shipping it. https://t.co/JoCUGY3hPB — AWS services explained like it's the 1800s 🥂

hn: https://t.co/IgYGH3ZIbR

[Michael Widner @mwidner]

@RichHoleton Cool! I'll check it out!

[Michael Widner @mwidner]

So happy to have paced myself with Nabokov novels. I still have new works to read. Half way through Pale Fire and it is, as reported, a mavel.

[Michael Widner @mwidner]

The corollary being: I cannot read any new Nabokov for at least a year. Maybe I will reread Speak, Memory.

[Michael Widner @mwidner]

Don't binge read your favorites.

[Laurie Voss @seldo]

Startups are always tough. If you plan in advance for it to be balanced, it will still be tough. But if you *plan* for it to be a grind it will fail. Research has shown that you cannot work in crunch mode successfully for more than 4 weeks. https://t.co/RAi4N1cNsQ

[Michael Widner @mwidner]

On the scribes of Beowulf https://t.co/UlEAhwnJ4K

[@bigshika.bsky.social @bigshika]

Petition to rename Low, Medium, High, Critical security bug severities to Common, Uncommon, Rare, and Legendary

[Michael Widner @mwidner]

Just answered my first ever cold political poll phone call. The woman on the other end seemed amused by my radical lefty responses.

[Medievalists.net @Medievalists]

What is hwæt? by @hanavideen https://t.co/8PGxbiKKu4 #OldEnglish #Beowulf

[MAPP @MAPP_Project]

Excited to publish our bio of Alix Strachey, written by Gesa Stedman! Read more about Alix Strachey-- a fascinating psychoanalyst and translator--including her interactions with Virginia Woolf and Sigmund Freud at
https://t.co/YOVLk6D1NI