Developer Advocate for Google. The author of Driving Technical Change. Originally from Philly and it shows.

Bay Area, CA, USA
Joined February 2007
A friend who is a municipal arborist just called to tell me about a guy who cut down 32 big mature trees on his neighbor's NJ property to get a better view of NYC. He hired a guy who hired another guy. Cut them down and left the debris there. The fine per tree is $1000 so the 1/
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Here at Google Cloud, we think about software supply chain security... a little differently. Learn more ➡️ goo.gle/s3c
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Here are a few click-to-deploy architectures available in our Architecture Diagramming Tool! ✅ Simple VM app ✅ 3 tier app ✅ Batch ETL pipeline ✅ Cost Management ✅ Static web hosting with domain ✅ Storage event function app
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Most people's true deepest fear is that they're unloveable, unworthy, or broken. They fear the thoughts in their mind are true.
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Grief often reveals itself as rage.
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Why did René Magritte paint a man with his face hidden by an apple in 1946? And why did he call it The Son of Man? Welcome to the uncanny world of Surrealism...
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I am a human being, and as such, I can be petty.
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It would be dope if iOS had a method to only notify on the first message on a message barrage from people that text like this because getting notified 20 times in 10 seconds spikes my anxiety and gets in the way of doing whatever it was that i was doing
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Everybody knows that Vincent van Gogh loved the colour yellow. But why? Well, the story begins 19,000 years ago...
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The saddest, most beautiful piece I think we’ve ever published. @robdelaney⁩ on losing his son, Henry thetimes.co.uk/article/09dae…
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Here are 25 highly specific things you've noticed before, but which you didn't know also have very specific names. Starting with "craquelure" - those fine cracks and lines that appear on old paintings.
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God damn this town is awesome.
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Just a few months ago I literally had to explain to Republican members of Congress how periods work. Their complete and utter incompetence is now killing women and pregnant people across the US. There remains no legitimate grounding or basis to force birth in the United States.
‘6 weeks pregnant means 2 weeks late for your period’ — Watch @AOC school Gov. Greg Abbott on the problems with Texas' new abortion law
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Let's talk walkthroughs in the Cloud console with @stephr_wong, @ThatJenPerson, @philkrie, & @tpryan! Join our Twitter Space on April 28 at 9am PT for a discussion on how the Cloud console can easily help speed up onboarding and product adoption ↓ xitter.cf/i/spaces/1rmxPgmmbBgJN
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I just used #AppInABox to answer the age-old question: doesitneedmorecowbell.com/ Quick way to learn, build, and have some fun! 🎉
More in my soft launch - App In A Box: YesOrNoSite. A one step site maker that includes buying the domain name. yesornosite.appinabox.dev/ With a demo: youtu.be/81Pknup5-Pk
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2021 was our biggest Black Friday Cyber Monday ever! Together with our friends at @GoogleCloud we achieved near-perfect uptime while averaging ~30TB/min of egress traffic across our infrastructure. That’s a massive ~43PB/day! Here are some of the most interesting stats 🧵👇
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#RowlfQuotes Day 2: Mohandas Gandhi
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I don’t like that I can predict the future but I try to use this power for good.
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