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Ben Ransford

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mother hen, recovering academic computer scientist, he/him

 Seattle, WA
ben.ransford.org/
Joined August 2008
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hiring an assistant to pick my battles. send 100 picayune rants to apply
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⁦@Fidelity⁩ seriously?
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OTOH, the cool thing about tetris is that things disappear when you get them all lined up
Curtis (@ccastrapel) profile pictureCurtis@ccastrapel18 Apr 2023
Replying to @ccastrapel
As we added employees, AWS accounts, apps, and resources, IAM complexity grew. It was like playing Clue to find misconfigurations, Jenga to remove temp permissions, and Tetris to organize access. It was time-consuming, and on-call was a nightmare.
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Curtis@ccastrapel18 Apr 2023
Managing IAM & permissions across multiple cloud accounts & identity providers accounts is hard. Introducing IAMbic, an open-source, multi-cloud control plane that simplifies IAM management. Think Terraform for Cloud IAM, launching now. More details in 🧵
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wait, *do* people eat crackers in bed?
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my only rules are golden, threes, and futterman’s
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introvert care tip: if you’re having an NYE party, put out a jigsaw puzzle
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or leave a lot of citrus out to squeeze
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or write this guy on a chalkboard with blanks for the operators, parens optional
Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) profile pictureFermat's Library
@fermatslibrary31 Dec 2022
Here's a special countdown for 2023. Happy New Year 🎉
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i notice i’m never *under*billed for anything
welp
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If you’d like to hire any of the wonderful former Stripe employees who are leaving, email [email protected]. We’ll let you know as soon as the directory is ready.
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just donated to your campaign after seeing this; good luck
Charles Booker (@Booker4KY) profile pictureCharles Booker
@Booker4KY24 Oct 2022
At an event in Bardstown, a woman showed up to heckle me. She accused me of wanting to kill babies. I didn’t give her the response she expected.
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⁦@GEICO⁩ it deeply sucks that you collect “search history” with your app
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i’d go so far as to say children will not try to stream video content *unless* the device is pleading for a software update
my one weird trick to dramatically improve my reading retention, working remarkably well this year: the magic bookmark.
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create a shortcut with an NFC action trigger! have it direct you to your Books folder.
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you can get fancier and add a menu to select a note, play a sound, insert the current date… i’m a simpleton so i haven’t. now all i need to do to make a note is touch the phone to the bookmark. and now i readily take notes and remember things. magic!
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