Steve Astels

Senior Data Engineer at @CDS_GC. Views my own. He / him.

[Steve Astels @sastels]

Wow, the wait time to pay respects to the Queen is almost as long as the wait time for emergency medical care in Ontario! https://t.co/XDgQ8p44QG

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@AntoineAugusti @CalvinR Only for the SRE folks.

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Spending Friday night the way the cool kids do, making candied citrus peel for a batch of stollen.

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@megberetta @yaelberger (Redirects Notify’s smoke test emails to the two of you)

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@peripherlvision I had to go to the university library to look up the UWaterloo mailing address in a book so I could mail my grad school application. 😔

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So proud of what we’ve accomplished in so short a time. Get the top free app in Canada today, and help protect your fellow Canadians and yourself!

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This is a really great product to be working on, and a big part of that is due to the attitude and abilities of the RCMP staff on the team.

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@timarney @thenextmusk We’ve been fairly happy with it so far. Still a bit of work to do to get a11y right of course (I’m looking at you, checkbox groups)

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@quidampepin @CDS_GC Handling ProtB data requires putting in place security controls and procedures, and accrediting the cloud provider appropriately. There’s ongoing work to do this for GoC with Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS.

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@quidampepin For the first, there’s quite a few online guidelines on how to build and test, including @CDS_GC ’s Accessibility Handbook https://t.co/0v8886sDcH

Some work in development at @CDS_GC includes
https://t.co/uRtNBPciGZ
https://t.co/eXpJtLuih7

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@Actinolite @CBSAllAccess I watched the first ep on the “CTV Sci-Fi Channel” app. Probably the rest won’t be available, mind you.

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@Actinolite @CBSAllAccess I think it’s all about licensing unfortunately. Presumably it’ll at least be on iTunes at some point soon, as Star Trek Discovery is.

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@DaveToeg Really sorry Dave.

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@anatolep https://t.co/gyUztVcXdS

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I love how fast we can iterate on our ideas. Finding out quickly what works with people and what doesn't keeps us on track to deliver a service that will meet our users' needs.

[Steve Astels @sastels]

Me: run my code, I promise it works
JavaScript: you had me at “run”
Rust: lol no
#AdventOfCode

[Steve Astels @sastels]

Inclusion and accessibility are at the heart of building services.