Thomas Watling

Occasional coder, sporadic long distance runner, unceasing LEGO lover. I spend my days enabling product teams through DevOps and corporate innovation.

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@PongCheese @CheeseTastingCo Port Salut - might have been the first cheese that made me realise there were cheese beyond the miniature variety pack in the netting from the mid 90s!

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@theKevinShen Thinking a lot about this as I need to improve the home office soon. Do people have different set ups for video recording vs. a day on video calls? Be a shame to lose the outside view/natural light… but a cost to the video quality?

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@HelenIlus Second attempt is now in my list. 🎉 fingers crossed for a full backing

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@HelenIlus Hmmm, yes, it’s not in my contributions. Not sure what went wrong… I’ll do it again

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@RenewalJournal @DantonsHead @alfie_stirling Phenomenal article, I hope for all our sakes they're listening.

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Thanks @ArrestedDevOps for the podcast on OpenTofu - felt like the right balance on asking some hard questions!

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@shehackspurple @IANS_Security And that’s “second gen”? I think I’ve caught up! 😁

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@shehackspurple @IANS_Security The subtle one this week was error logging tools vs logging tools configured to filter for errors.

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@shehackspurple @IANS_Security I end up doing tool comparisons and trying to articulate how different setups of tools lend themselves better/worse to fast feedback loops. Explanations that help me group tools are useful to work out where to focus on trying “new” ways of doing things.

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Why didn’t I buy second hand wooden train track years ago?!

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@sallygoble For me, who’s rubbish at anything consecutive, it’s been really impressive to see the consecutive day tweets tick up (and especially the one that took a lot of planning)! I’m no coach or expert but the *muscle is heavier* fact (?) has sometimes been useful to me

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@BjoernKarmann Adding the ability to be able to use it for $2 was brilliant! Thank you - I paid my $2 and had fun :)

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We have a winner from clearing out the food cupboards as we prepare to move out of the flat we moved into in…2019

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@fershad That's brilliant! Just used your link as an example for why sustainability/carbon impact can't be proxied by just cloud infra spend alone.

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@boyney123 This is really nice! Was the DynamoDB TTL to provide a simple operational model for avoiding data volumes growing without control?

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@MrPatrickJohns My new year’s resolution of refreshing BBC Sounds every day to see if Top Brass comes back is now complete! Thank you!!

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@michael_nielsen I think my most memorable lectures from university must have used this format. The best one was possibly 1hr on "discovering" how to create bulk steels with bainitic microstructure for the Indian railways.

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Took some photos of my set of the BrickLink Designer Program Venetian Houses.