Engineering Director, helping businesses do awesome things with technology. I love running and coffee.
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January lasted eight years but now it’s March in a fortnight even though February started yesterday.
Okta again...
Okta says hackers stole data about all of its customers during a recent breach of its support systems, despite previously stating that only 1% of customers were affected techcrunch.com/2023/11/29/ok…
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What it feels like to watch users test your website, ℅ @mathowie #UX #aeachi
i.imgur.com/GpWZtCn.gif teapawt.net/zeldman/status/6387192…
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This is Claus-Henning Schulke.
The 57-year old German is a civil engineer but — once a year — he morphs into an athletic legend.
How? Schulke bikes around the Berlin Marathon course and is the dude who keeps Kenyan super-marathoner Eliud Kipchoge hydrated.
Last year, he played a part in Kipchoge’s record-breaking marathon time of 2:01:09.
Per the LA Times, Schulke is an accomplished triathlete, having finished 6x Ironman events.
How did he get in with Kipchoge?
While other major marathon events let top runners grab water off of tables, Berlin pairs the best marathoners with a volunteer (who hand them bottles).
They first teamed up in 2017 and Kipchoge — the greatest marathoner ever — requested for Schulke in the following years.
After setting the marathon record of 2:01:39 in 2018, he signed his running bib and gave it to Schulke.
It read: “Dear Claus: Without you, I would not have managed to run this world record.”
Kipchoge has also called Schulke a “hero” for his efforts. The rest of the world calls him one of the most glorious nicknames ever: “Bottle Claus”.
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Not that many systems handle 6B QPS. 😀
"Bigtable has been in continuous production use at Google for more than 15 years now, processing over 6 billion requests per second at peak and with over 10 exabytes of data under management. "
cloud.google.com/blog/produc…
That's scary, researchers were able to identify keystrokes with 95% accuracy with recorded audio and 93% over zoom: bleepingcomputer.com/news/se…
Not the be all and end all, but this is impressive, and a game changer for getting a placeholder up or a one person business startup getting going. (H/t to @rossstevens_uk )
Website creation is entering a whole new era.
Wix just unveiled their AI website generator, allowing anyone to create entire websites in seconds.
Type a description into a box and answer a few questions, and boom. Website.
Details:
-Allows users to create a complete website, filled with text, images, and business solutions within seconds
-Leverages OpenAI's ChatGPT for text creation, along with Wix's proprietary AI models for other aspects
-More new features to be introduced include the AI Assistant Tool, the AI Page and Section Creator, and an Object Eraser feature
-Wix CEO, Avishai Abrahami, emphasized commitment to leveraging AI power to advance website creation and grow businesses
Entrepreneurs and small businesses will love this.
Wix is taking no-code to the next level.
Love this - not all to my taste, but a genuine refreshing break to the Omni present sterile office design trend.
A little about @automattic's space in Noho, NYC. Happy to host community events here. automattic.design/2023/06/08…
What people's views of carbon plated running shoes? I read that really the super pricey Nike ones are the only ones that make a significant difference, and I'm not sure that would be worth it for me. How have others found them?
Saw a running brand I didn't recognise, clicked through and found a gilet for over £1000 . Speaking of things that are obviously not worth the price, @rossstevens_uk 😯
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Silicon Valley Bank is imploding before our eyes
here is how SVB threw 50 years of goodwill and $80 billion down the drain in just 30 hours
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Excited to see the HashiCorp document management system become open source! Built on top of Google Workspaces, this has really helped our writing system scale better with the company instead of pure Drive + Groups. hashicorp.com/blog/introduci…
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If you use both inbound and outbound security group rules in AWS, you only have a certain amount of connections you can maintain until new connections are rejected. Previously a technicality only in the docs, there is now a user facing metric: aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wha…
Got to love the boldness of a retailer marking something of £500 RRP as on sale with a 10p discount 😂
Interesting
"Cloudflare servers don't own IPs anymore – so how do they connect to the Internet?"
blog.cloudflare.com/cloudfla…
We've been working on this project for a while - I'm proud we can talk about it publicly now.
> "Soft-unicast is indistinguishable from magic" <
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BREAKING: My mental models as @awscloud finally (FINALLY!) builds a search tool to find resources within your AWS account.
THANK YOU. Wishlist granted.
aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/int…
