Patrick Davey @[email protected]

Programmer, Lover of all things outdoors, Sustainability & He/him.

[David Seymour @dbseymour]

After having a laugh about it, Jacinda Ardern and I are going to auction a signed copy of the Hansard (official record) of her calling me an “arrogant prick” to raise money for pricks everywhere, a great cause, the Prostate Cancer Foundation. https://t.co/6QJ0bV73Zc

[Eric Wastl @ericwastl]

The new #AdventOfCode shirts came out pretty well this year! https://t.co/JcujKkAiV7

[Patrick Davey @[email protected] @psdavey]

@timClicks Haven't really yet (she's only 4). Can set up the pieces and then it's just "play". Have had a bit of fun removing all but two of the pieces and pretending the floor is lava (especially for bishops). Great fun when you're on the opposite color and can't be attacked ;)

[Emory Beck @MapHustle]

#30DayMapChallenge Day 28 3D.

Huntly Power Station in Waikato, NZ.

Data from LINZ Data Service.

QGIS, Blender and GIMP.

[Eric Wastl @ericwastl]

Curious what it takes to make and run #AdventOfCode every year? Here's a peek behind the scenes: https://t.co/5mzvzzyFFS

[Patrick Davey @[email protected] @psdavey]

@rbates Really depends on what it is. If I want to try out a new language for example, I don't think there's much better than @ericwastl's #AdventOfCode.

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

Last night I ate my first 3-D constructed steak, made entirely from plants, at the great Chouchou restaurant in Stockholm. It's astonishing. The texture's exactly right and the taste is excellent.
This is *before* we have precision fermented proteins, encapsulated fats and heme.

[Patrick Davey @[email protected] @psdavey]

@maartenballiauw And I'm (of course!) not the first person to think this... https://t.co/J2U7838Wy7 . It would be excellent if you could add an alias to your account so that you could just use the underlying infrastructure but own your own identity..

[Patrick Davey @[email protected] @psdavey]

After following this excellent guide to _very simply_ having your own "activity pub" handle (which is what backs mastodon etc.) https://t.co/DHJTKBMObz I have changed my handle to [email protected]

If you own your own domain, it's trivial to setup your own alias.

[Patrick Davey @[email protected] @psdavey]

@maartenballiauw The only issue (and it's a big one unless simple to fix) is that people would still _follow_ your underlying account (ie [email protected]), which isn't _awesome_.

[NZPolKermit is on Bluesky / Kikorangi @nzpolkermit]

@tveastman @elonmusk It's illegal here in New Zealand. I hope we do something about it.

cc @netsafeNZ

[Patrick Davey @[email protected] @psdavey]

@nashthomas Congratulations! They're lucky to have you :)

[Patrick Davey @[email protected] @psdavey]

What a thread about Luxon..

[Palle! @Palle_Hoffstein]

Firing requires a breach of a term in the employee's contract. Even then 2 written warnings are expected. You can lay people off. That requires notice and compensation by local law and written documentation submitted to local governments explaining why the layoffs are necessary.

[Palle! @Palle_Hoffstein]

Elon also asked his remaining employees to work long hours. But for his remaining employees here, doing so requires notifying the local government and the union. There entities have the right to enquire about the necessity of this. So this is another legal breach.

[Patrick Davey @[email protected] @psdavey]

Far out what a thread. Honestly, reading this makes it _clear_ why anyone who's good enough to work at Twitter Scale doesn't have to put up with pushy CEO's and can just walk into a job. Someone who has worked through even a small percent of these issues in production is gold!

[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.

[Patrick Davey @[email protected] @psdavey]

@nateberkopec @newrelic @ScoutAPM I haven't used NR in a long time, but, for the small team I work with @datadog has been excellent. We have our own boxes and DD gives much better visibility into what's going on there than NR does (they discontinued that service for small uses), and Scout can't do it.

[Stammy @Stammy]

i think one of the twitter engineers left a present for elon 💙

back in the day there were these things called "vanity" URLs that very early employees could claim. they were on the root of https://t.co/2VZWIjdaMF, twitter's link shortener

try visiting this: t dot co/elon

[@[email protected] @BowmanNancy on Spoutible @BowmanNancy]

@Ammie508 @CaseyNewton https://t.co/L8N46QDsdo