VP of Engineering at a SaaS startup. TS, VueJS, PHP, Python, AWS, etc. PhD, English (medieval). He/him/his.
Joined March 2009
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Michael Widner retweeted
I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?"
As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.
Michael Widner retweeted
In 2018, 62% of Americans who didn’t vote later told @pewresearch they wished they had.
Those people - millions of them - would have voted D by 19 pts if they had second chance.
Don’t be that person. Don’t let your friends be these people.
#vote
Big H/T @jschavez – at Concord, MA
Michael Widner retweeted
This is the coolest crossover I ever seen. Was not expecting dude to take off with the vocals like that.
Anybody in my network know any young adult fiction publishers or literary agents? A friend has several promising books written already.
Here I am, deploying late on a Friday night when I have plans for the weekend. Why? Because I trust my team, our process, and our automated tests.
Michael Widner retweeted
For years I've been trying to get any proctoring company to agree to a study where I try to cheat. None have agreed. I've had legal advice not to do such a study without permission from the vendors.
I'm delighted to share that someone else has done one: ris.utwente.nl/ws/portalfile…
Michael Widner retweeted
Was going to decorate the page a bit more, but I got lazy. So I'm just shipping it. victorianaws.com — AWS services explained like it's the 1800s 🥂
hn: news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
So happy to have paced myself with Nabokov novels. I still have new works to read. Half way through Pale Fire and it is, as reported, a mavel.
Michael Widner retweeted
Startups are always tough. If you plan in advance for it to be balanced, it will still be tough. But if you *plan* for it to be a grind it will fail. Research has shown that you cannot work in crunch mode successfully for more than 4 weeks. ericdodds.com/research-and-t…
Michael Widner retweeted
Petition to rename Low, Medium, High, Critical security bug severities to Common, Uncommon, Rare, and Legendary
Just answered my first ever cold political poll phone call. The woman on the other end seemed amused by my radical lefty responses.
Michael Widner retweeted
Excited to publish our bio of Alix Strachey, written by Gesa Stedman! Read more about Alix Strachey-- a fascinating psychoanalyst and translator--including her interactions with Virginia Woolf and Sigmund Freud at
modernistarchives.com/person…
Michael Widner retweeted
You can now register for our free public event on #womeninpublishing @ransomcenter on Tuesday 7th June. Talks will be recorded and shared afterwards eventbrite.com/e/feminist-in…
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Republican Senators are going to try to run out the clock. They’re hoping our outrage will subside by next week. We can’t let that happen.
Gun violence is a preventable public health crisis. Here are SIX things the Senate can do to help #EndGunViolence: