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I'm a principal engineer at SurveyMonkey based in Atlanta, GA. My personal website is https://www.polibyte.com

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lethain.com 1d ago

Make No Assumptions

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www.rubick.com 12d ago

How to think about span of control

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www.politico.com 21d ago

Energy Department hits its target on small nuclear reactors

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top500.org 29d ago

LineShine debuts as the most powerful supercomputer

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anthonyliddle.dev 2mo ago

Pocket

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pushtoprod.substack.com 5mo ago

The Productivity Ceiling of AI Coding Tools

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www.caranddriver.com 11mo ago

Ford Announces $30k Mid-Size EV Truck for 2027

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thehill.com 12mo ago

Appeals court hands Mike Lindell win in fight over $5M election fraud contest

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newsletter.eng-leadership.com 1y ago

How to Ace Engineering Manager Interviews

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arstechnica.com 1y ago

Government IT whistleblower calls out DOGE, says he was threatened at home

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arstechnica.com 1y ago

Should we be concerned about the loss of weather balloons?

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sylormiller.com 1y ago

The Staff+ Performance Cliff

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www.vmunix.com 1y ago

Mark Mayo: Gecko. Mozilla. Thoughts

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skamille.medium.com 1y ago

Platform Engineering Beyond CFEngine

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www.technologyreview.com 1y ago

The radio-obsessed civilian shaping Ukraine's drone defense

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www.washingtonpost.com 2y ago

The Silicon Valley realignment leading tech titans to Trump

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blog.danielna.com 2y ago

Don't change hearts, change workflows

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medium.com 2y ago

Stepping Stones Not Milestones

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platocommunity.substack.com 2y ago

How we drive Developer Productivity at Yelp

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foreignpolicy.com 2y ago

Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Chinese Agents

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www.ajc.com 2y ago

Georgia needs to produce more electric power for data centers

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kubernetes.io 2y ago

The Case for Kubernetes Resource Limits: Predictability vs. Efficiency

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www.rubick.com 2y ago

How to not screw up your product strategy

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www.thecode.xyz 2y ago

Coding Posters for Programmers

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www.rubick.com 3y ago

Unusual tips to keep Slack from becoming a nightmare

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www.reuters.com 3y ago

SurveyMonkey owner Momentive Global to be taken private in $1.5B deal

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blog.relyabilit.ie 3y ago

SRE in the Real World

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github.com 3y ago

Move past incident response to reliability

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highscalability.com 3y ago

How Not to Measure Latency (2015)

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www.rubick.com 4y ago

The weekly rituals you should master as a software project manager

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I think they're talking about https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-ousts-army-chief-of-sta...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement, sources familiar with the decision told CBS News...

Two other Army officers were removed from their roles, according to three sources familiar with the matter: Gen. David Hodne, who led the Army's Transformation and Training Command, and Maj. Gen. William Green, who headed the Army's Chaplain Corps...

Hegseth has fired more than a dozen senior military officers, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. C.Q. Brown, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. James Slife and the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse.

Postal Arbitrage 6 months ago

I checked the first five items while logged in with Amazon Prime. They all required a minimum order of either $25 or $100 to get free shipping.

The GPS satellites aren't receiving anything. The GPS satellites transmit signals, and the starlink terminals (and other users of GPS) receive those signals.

SurveyMonkey | Canada (Remote), US (Remote), Ireland (Remote), India (on-site) | https://www.surveymonkey.com/

SurveyMonkey lets people create beautiful, engaging surveys and forms that inspire powerful feedback and inform smarter business decisions. We're hiring for a number of roles, including

* Director of Platform Services

* Cloud / Infrastructure Engineers

* ML Engineers

* Full-stack Software Engineers

You can find more details and apply via https://www.surveymonkey.com/careers/dept/engineering/

I'm not sure how you're getting that from a post that explicitly says Mitchell isn't on either board any more.

To help highlight where there are changes and where there is continuity at the top level, here's a table of who was the MoCo CEO, MoCo and MoFo Board Chairs, MoFO President, and MoFo ED over time for the last ten years.

https://imgur.com/a/OLD9EiI

The leadership has been ousted.

This includes major growth in our Boards, with 40% new Board members since we began our efforts to evolve and grow back in 2022. We’ve also been bringing in new executive talent, including a new MoFo Executive Director and a Managing Partner for Mozilla Ventures. By the end of the year, we hope to have new, permanent CEOs for both MoCo and Mozilla.ai... With these changes, Mitchell Baker ends her tenure as Chair and a member of Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation boards.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-leadership-growt...

From my past experience, I can say that Google Cloud services (e.g load balancers) by default blocked traffic from ITAR sanctioned countries. Not just blocking people in those countries from becoming customers of GCP, but blocking them from accessing content hosted on GCP.

I didn't know how that situation had evolved since I last used GCP.

I actively avoid watching videos I think MIGHT be interesting because the risk is too high

You can remove videos from your viewing history. I do this when I start watching something but the content turnes out to not be what I expected. It seems to prevent polluting my recommendations.

Gemini 2.5 Flash 1 year ago

For many workplaces, it's not just that that don't pay for a service, it's that using it is against policy. If I tried to paste some code into ChatGPT, for example, our data loss prevention spyware would block it and I'd soon be having an uncomfortable conversation with our security team.

(We do have access to GitHub Copilot)