Phillip Street

Founding employee @Codisto (acq @Shopify) • Ex-AWS SDM & Sr. Systems Dev Eng. Now semi-retired, tinkering for fun, & open to interesting tech projects. 🏔️

[Daniel Lemire @lemire]

Writing twice as much code is not your objective. Focus on quality. Write correct and fast code, even if it takes you longer. Test your code. Read other people’s code. Compare, assess, benchmark.

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

Tune in as the First Lady and I attend a Gala Dinner hosted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mrs. Sophie Grégoire Trudeau of Canada. https://t.co/pCMyEy6MBu

[Seattle Police Department @SeattlePD]

Police recover gun after arresting harassment suspect:
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[Phillip Street @phillipstreet]

@wolfe_au I'm not directly impacted, but know friends & colleagues who have been. There'll be fallout for folks leaving and those who remain. Not speaking for Amazon, but I don't think we've seen the end of it - I'm doing what I can to help & prepare for the worst but hoping for the best.

[Phillip Street @phillipstreet]

The layoff announcements recently have been very sad news. My heart goes out to friends I know, and all others impacted. For folks on Visa in the US here's a thread I think is important to highlight with useful info.

[Deedy @deedydas]

Yesterday, the USCIS released a document compiling the EIGHT options the ~5–15k high-skilled immigrant worker that were laid off in 2022 have.

In this thread, I'm going to go over them.

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[Phillip Street @phillipstreet]

Check out what my teams been up to in 2022 and what we have in store for 2023!

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

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[Alanah Pearce @Charalanahzard]

I will never get over how frequently Americans tell me they’re too scared to visit Australia because of the animals, meanwhile my Australian family is hesitant to visit the US because of the shootings.

[Phillip Street @phillipstreet]

Beginning February 1st, 2021 AWS is offering Amazon WorkSpaces for up to 54 users at no charge for new WorkSpaces customers, offer available through July 31, 2021. Great opportunity to look at moving desktops to the cloud! See article for details. https://t.co/XMWpJDFWTM

[Phillip Street @phillipstreet]

Will be interesting to see what fallout comes of the GME stock market situation with respect to the brokerages that suspended the ability for retail investors to buy in. Yet Wall Street and other brokerages were able to continue trading without issue. So much for "Free" market.

[Phillip Street @phillipstreet]

@vladtenev I don't expect Robinhood to control the spread of information/mis-information that takes place on social media. I do expect to be able to trade on the platform if Wall Street and other platforms are continuing to trade. If that's not possible on Robinhood, I'll go elsewhere.

[Phillip Street @phillipstreet]

@RobinhoodApp As a customer I want the freedom to make my own decisions as to what I can and can't trade. If it's on the market being traded by Wall Street it should be for others as well. Your "Democratizing finance for all" bio claim is currently a lie! https://t.co/1u2xgIiStX

[Phillip Street @phillipstreet]

Hit another bump in the road with purchase facilitated by Paypal. Got a delivery today, apparently Merchant got contacted by Paypal, they shipped a shirt - not what was ordered, doesn't even look the same as the image in order email. Shady, shady stuff. @AskPayPal help? :(

[Phillip Street @phillipstreet]

I'm in a farcical cycle of having to reset my password for my account with @paypal because the phone number attached is an old Australian number I no longer have access to, but it keeps wanting to dial it to get a code entered.. there seems to be no way out!

[Phillip Street @phillipstreet]

Another quick update, a customer support agent "Michael" has carried the torch and helped to get me unblocked with my Aussie account - and they've also filed a dispute ticket with the original merchant store where all this trouble began. 11 days to go for refund! 😂