Patrick S. Kelso

Irish dancer, armchair linguist and bodhran player; ask me about Enterprise DevOps, scaling engineering teams and diminishing returns on automation.

[Patrick S. Kelso @patrickkelso]

Great to hear @nathaniel_avery describe his career the way I do mine. "Very lucky, and arse backward into opportunities".

Most of my career leaps weren't planned at all, just luck. (Or is it preparation meeting opportunity?).

[Last Week in AWS @LastWeekinAWS]

"Do what you love. Find something that you love, figure out who does the thing that you love, and go there. Or go to a place that does a thing that you love poorly. Go there. See if you can make a difference.” — Nate Avery (@nathaniel_avery)

Listen: https://t.co/PvQ1DKqj6I

[Patrick S. Kelso @patrickkelso]

I'll be very sad if we don't have lots of proposals to review. Please help me not be sad.

[SREcon @SREcon]

ICYMI: the Call for Participation for SREcon23 Asia/Pacific is now available! The conference will take place 14–16 June, 2023 in Singapore. Talk and panel proposals are due on Thursday, 2 March at 23:59 SGT. https://t.co/KHEYbOgIr9 #SREcon

[Patrick S. Kelso @patrickkelso]

@trunarla I can't make Reddit a better place, but I have added your youtube channel as part of the onboarding for my intern cohort who are all starting in a a week. Though I will expect them to deal with their own spider problems...

[Patrick S. Kelso @patrickkelso]

@ashleymcnamara Personalised hoody from @jonasrosland and the team at EMC Code a few years back. I can never change my twitter handle because it is embroidered on the sleeve.

[Patrick S. Kelso @patrickkelso]

@bigyahu I thought those 8 packs were a standard day's ration. Christmas is the only time a year I get my 5 a day of fruit...

[Patrick S. Kelso @patrickkelso]

@hgsgtk Your presentation talk was understandable and clear. As you've pointed out trying to talk to people at the bar is harder, you had 3 Australians, 2 Americans and a Scotsman to deal with. Just keep practicing. (wait until you hear me try and talk for more than 2 minutes in 日本語)

[Patrick S. Kelso @patrickkelso]

@duncanlean Grow old, but never up.

[Patrick S. Kelso @patrickkelso]

@davefarley77 The CIO spoke with Gartner...

[Patrick S. Kelso @patrickkelso]

@davefarley77 The (unem|de)ployment Pipeline is the open tabs to 20 job ads, and the coffees I have with a former colleagues.

I will apply through the pipeline when our "must release on date X because we promised the market this (bug|feature)" release goes sideways. #dumbdefinition #cicd

[Patrick S. Kelso @patrickkelso]

@CommsNinja It has made me much better at capturing important information somewhere else.

I can't remember the last time I had to search my history to find that article that I read that time...

[Patrick S. Kelso @patrickkelso]

@CommsNinja How much RAM have you got?

I have adopted what I call tabocalypse. At the start of every week I close all tabs and start again. If it was important I should have written it down and/or bookmarked it.

[Patrick S. Kelso @patrickkelso]

@davefarley77 The hour before anyone else wakes up at home/comes into the office.

[Patrick S. Kelso @patrickkelso]

@Dr_Paul_Penn Anecdotally staff cuts that have resulted in fewer scheduled classes are affecting it too. Students can't get the class times they want, so they have to stick with online offerings.

[Patrick S. Kelso @patrickkelso]

@patrickdebois Transcendant Engineer

[Patrick S. Kelso @patrickkelso]

I had a great chat with Gary last week working through some ideas. I highly recommend it.

[Gary GRUVER @GRUVERGary]

If you'd like to schedule a time to discuss the challenges you're facing in your organization, need a sounding board, or have something new and insightful to share with me, I'd love to have a conversation.

Set up a time here: https://t.co/x1YQEVWpVt

[Patrick S. Kelso @patrickkelso]

Although people love gitflow, I can't stand it.

[Dave Farley @davefarley77]

Complete the sentence 👇

Although people love ..., I can't stand it.

[Patrick S. Kelso @patrickkelso]

I ran into @billshortenmp in Heathrow once, and he was kind enough to listen to me rant about the good and the bad of NDIS funding, he offered no platitudes, just understanding. I can't think of anyone better to take charge of getting @NDIS back on track.

[Bill Shorten @billshortenvcuc]

ScoMo says he is “blessed” to have two non disabled children. Every child is a blessing. The NDIS is there to help people with disability live their lives to the fullest. The Morrison Gov has slashed NDIS plans for 1000s of children around Australia. Labor will fix the NDIS.

[Patrick S. Kelso @patrickkelso]

@duncanlean You've come a long way since 2006 cooking wise. Wouldn't you agree @kookabat

[Patrick S. Kelso @patrickkelso]

@GRUVERGary I appreciate that. I just thought it was funny enough to tease you about it in public 😀 I think the form might accept all zeros anyway.