A little end of the work week decompression
Category: Programming
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In some ways it seems like a small thing, but learning that my employer was making Juneteeth a global holiday felt important.
We want everyone at 1Password to have the opportunity to reflect and learn about racial inequality, so we’re making Juneteenth a paid holiday for our team of 400+ people, across the globe – our (virtual) offices will be closed on Friday, June 18, 2021. In an effort to educate and inspire action, we shared information on the history/heritage of the holiday and ways 1Password employees can make a difference in their communities.
1Password is making the Juneteeth pledge
I love the idea of describing what I do as “Sparkling DevOps”
Only 30 minutes until the WWDC keynote! Every year I tell myself I’m going to dive into iOS development in my spare time… 🤔
Really I’m mostly excited about the potential of iPadOS
I am excited to finally be able to talk about what I have been up to at 1Password for the last year!
Introducing Secrets Automation
13 April 2021
Introducing Secrets Automation
It has been a decade since this experience and given the state of social media I cannot really say this person was wrong.
11 March 2021
listening to a man from bell aliant tell me about how web 2.0 will end the world
Bitcoin and other crypto currencies are the face of Silicon Valley’s hubris.
Poorly addressing problems that don’t really exist and crushing the environment to do so. All in the name of generating value for the early adopters, yet another form of gate keeping in tech.
Twitter Source
14 February 2021
Poorly addressing problems that don’t really exist and crushing the environment to do so. All in the name of generating value for the early adopters, yet another form of gate keeping in tech.
Twitter Source
Today we had a symmetric gigabit internet connection installed giving us far more up speed at home.
Jumping from 10Mbps to 1Gbps is exciting because it means we don’t have to worry about Zoom bandwidth and as a bonus I can also reliably run my own VPN
15 November 2020
Jumping from 10Mbps to 1Gbps is exciting because it means we don’t have to worry about Zoom bandwidth and as a bonus I can also reliably run my own VPN
I started reading Anand’s take on Apple Silicon on my iPad and it brought back memories of reading Anand’s take on the Pentium M using AvantGo on my Palm Pilot.
11 November 2020
I still need to dig in to the details more but the Apple M1 announcement and the updated Mac Mini definitely seems like a candidate to replace my elderly 2012 Mac Mini as a home server at some point in the future
10 November 2020
I am always astonished by how applying some artificial constraints to my regular work routine always leads to a surge in creativity. I am feeling pretty jazzed about work potential today.
3 November 2020
Step one in my 2020 home backup strategy is complete. Drives acquired, now I just have to wait for the RAID enclosure.
10 September 2020
This week marks 3 months at 1Password and last night I received a “swag” package. They definitely went all out.
21 July 2020
I am not usually keen on Buzzfeed quizzes, but this one gave me some good chuckles this morning.
Answer Some Questions About Git And We’ll Tell You Which Disney Princess You Are
21 July 2020
Answer Some Questions About Git And We’ll Tell You Which Disney Princess You Are
I changed jobs a little over a month ago and yesterday I received a belated welcome pack!
4 June 2020
An Afternoon of Snake-charming 16 May 2020
A 24 hour update on my homework experiment with using Cloudflare for my domain.
Most of the traffic is to my micro.blog site and the photo posts I made last night.
The 93% cache rate is awesome and the Cloudflare speed tool is reporting a 30% reduction in page load time!
3 May 2020
Most of the traffic is to my micro.blog site and the photo posts I made last night.
The 93% cache rate is awesome and the Cloudflare speed tool is reporting a 30% reduction in page load time!