Paul Annesley

Family. Engineering at Buildkite. Bouldering, motorbikes, Go, Ruby, food, coffee, electronics, whisky.

[Paul Annesley @pda]

@waferbaby Shipping bugs is a good sign that you're shipping code 🚀💚

[Paul Annesley @pda]

@lox Keychron K3 is great for me. Low-profile mechanical is the only type I'd use these days. Keychron feels adequate build quality, solidity etc. Definitely good enough, but a more premium low-profile 75% would be even nicer. Maybe the Air75 @waferbaby mentioned?

[Paul Annesley @pda]

(This assumes zero access to those objects during their lifecycle; it doesn't factor the substantially higher cost per-request and per-GB to access the data. That depends on your access patterns.)

[Paul Annesley @pda]

Digging into AWS S3's new Glacier Instant Retrieval storage class pricing. Total cost of uploading (many) small objects, transitioning to Standard-IA or Glacier-IR, then expiring/deleting after 6 months. Standard ends up cheaper than either of those for objects under 200 KiB.

[Paul Annesley @pda]

For the record:
“I have [deleted] 4.1 petabytes. This much data would need 10,088.7 km (or 6,268.8 miles) of shelving.”
Thanks @alexwlchan 👌🏼 and @madpilot for the reminder .

[Paul Annesley @pda]

Someone made a cool “how much shelf space does X bytes in 3½-inch floppy disks use?” calculator site, but I can't find it now. Anyone remember, or better at searching than me?

[Paul Annesley @pda]

@madpilot Yes! Thank you. I shall never misplace it again, now that I know how hard it is to search for.

[Buildkite @buildkite]

We're hiring a VP of Engineering. Come work with us and make tools developers around the world love to use 💚 https://t.co/vhZbSucAUN #devTools #SaaS #Hiring #CICD

[Paul Annesley @pda]

@Bensign Probably also piping lots of third-party spend through AWS Marketplace, which counts towards committed spend to reach new discount thresholds.

[Paul Annesley @pda]

@Bensign Perhaps something like 20% growth commitment, so perhaps $200M this year, ramping up to $700M in the final year?

[Paul Annesley @pda]

Thank you to the amazing @JuanitoFatas for the unexpected iCE40HX4K-TQ144 FPGA hook-up 🙏🏼

[Paul Annesley @pda]

Chip shortage! I spent many hours designing this hobby 6502 computer, boards are currently being fabricated, but the FPGA is now unobtainable until sometime next year 😫 I wonder what device I can buy that has an iCE40HX4K-TQ144 in it for salvage 🤔

[Paul Annesley @pda]

👋🏼 Has anybody used https://t.co/XJsVghLVFn as their company comms/collaboration tool (i.e. instead of Slack, Basecamp etc)? What did you like about it? What wasn't good? What size was the company? 🙏🏼

[Paul Annesley @pda]

And come work with me at @buildkite too! There's some fascinating Rails/PostgreSQL/AWS Site Reliability Engineering to be done. I'd apply if I wasn't already there 🙃

[Samuel Cochran.oci @sj26]

Come work with me at @Buildkite making a big rails and postgres app go brrr! https://t.co/ySMwEPKtQQ

[Paul Annesley @pda]

@SaturniusMons @davecheney @buildkite I'm often confused about time zones full stop 🙃

[Paul Annesley @pda]

✨ We're hiring at @buildkite — several new roles, including Ruby/Rails and Go engineering. https://t.co/NtP0lVM2q5

[Paul Annesley @pda]

@tianhao_au @buildkite We were… sorry! But we're back in action. https://t.co/ROPF3ty4iJ

[Paul Annesley @pda]

macOS 11.0.1 Big Sur / Safari 14.0.1 — anybody else having trouble with ctrl+cmd+space emoji input in Safari? It seems to periodically stop working (picker doesn't appear). Continues to work in other apps 🤔

[Paul Annesley @pda]

@jim_healy @chendo Yeah, winner-takes-all per state is a huge difference (but not inherent to electoral college, and not the case in a couple of US states). It seems to bias massively towards rural population preferences; big cities vote progressive but entire state goes the other way.