Nick Selby 

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EPSD. Co-host, EPSD Podcast; Tech Debt Burndown podcast. Board member, NCPTF. Advisory Board, Sightline Security. Former NYPD Intel. Retired TX popo. Bayern, DE / Bedford, TX
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Nick Selby 4h ago

On this episode of the Tech Debt Burndown Podcast, Sarah Wells joins Chris and me to talk about the lessons learned from her decade at the Financial Times, and their journey to implementing microservices.

The same lessons that informed her book, 'Enabling Microservices Success'. We touch on whether the purpose of microservices is to scale a system, or to scale an engineering organization.

By breaking down monoliths into independent domains, teams can reduce cognitive complexity and release software hundreds of times a day.

Sarah warns however that this shift introduces a "maintenance treadmill", requiring robust automation for library upgrades, security patching, and cross-service governance to prevent a sprawl of unmanageable tech debt.

https://techdebtburndown.com/episode_s03e04/

Tech Debt Burndown Podcast Series 3 E4: Sarah Wells

Chris and Nick talk to Sarah Wells

Tech Debt Burndown Podcast
Nick Selby 1d ago
https://apnews.com/live/trump-administration-updates-06-01-2026
Live updates: Appeals court rules Trump policy illegally banned transgender troops from military

The energy price spike triggered by the Iran war has seeped into the price of bonds, causing interest rates to climb in ways that are creating a new risk for Republicans.

AP News
Nick Selby 2d ago
Findus likes eating nori.
Nick Selby 2d ago
Ben2d ago
THIS IS EXTREMELY LOVELY  
Nick Selby 2d ago
The White House's aliens.gov website is repugnant, deplorable, disgusting, and above all un-American.
Show threadNick Selby 2d ago

@[email protected] It's hard to fathom your presumptions, your snark, and your hostility given that we have never met.

In fact, @wendynather was talking about my medical history and my decade of personal advocacy to reduce overuse by the US healthcare industry of opiates. This included work as an advisor for five years to a PCORI multi-state longitudinal study comparing ways to help patients who take prescription opioids for chronic pain reduce their health risks without increasing their pain!. https://empower.stanford.edu/

Home - EMPOWER Study - Stanford MedicineEMPOWER Study | Effective Management of Pain and Opioid-Free Ways to Enhance Relief

The EMPOWER Study helps you partner with your doctor to: Achieve empowered pain relief! Lower your health risks Manage your pain with less opioid medication  Access ongoing support from your doctor  Attend free skills-based pain management classes The EMPOWER Study utilizes proven methods to deliver optimal patient care. It is a multi-state project funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). We are comparing ways to help patients who take prescription opioids for chronic pain… Read more

EMPOWER Study
Nick Selby 2d ago
Kim Possible 2d ago
In anticipation of June beginning Pride Month:
Nick Selby 3d ago
masukomi3d ago

RE: https://connectified.com/@masukomi/116669116675350606

Figured i should probably bring this to a larger audience. For those who don't know, programming by voice is absolutely possible if you have physical issues and it's not horrible either.

With the help of Talon you can handle any weird punctuation - OR - custom words which is also useful if you're a fiction writer.

I support Talon on Patreon as a form of insurance. I want it to be around in case I need it some day.

#accessibility #rsi #writer #programming

Nick Selby 3d ago
So happy that Star City is out, now that For All Mankind has turned into fuckin' Days of Our Lives.
Nick Selby 3d ago

“The meteor, measuring about 3 feet (nearly 1 meter) wide, entered the atmosphere around the New Hampshire border with Massachusetts, north of Boston, the Associated Press cited the American Meteor Society as saying.”

I don’t know what the American Meteor Society is but if they were really American they wouldn’t focus on foreign objects.