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Dad and husband.
Google Cloud engineer working on SRE and infrastructure. Harvard graduate.
Previous life as tech journalist (ex-Engadget) and full-stack developer (ex-Yale).
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Who had “coup d'état” in their cards for how Putin’s regime would end?

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Some cool book news:

Makenzie Lystrup, who became the first woman in Nasa’s history to be appointed the director of Goddard Space Flight Center on Thursday, took her oath on a copy of Carl Sagan’s 1994 book Pale Blue Dot instead of the conventional practice of using the Bible.

While many officeholders across the country have placed their hands on books by Dr Suess, the US Constitution, copies of the Quran or other documents, this seems to be the first time someone was sworn in on a book by Sagan.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/space/nasa-director-carl-sagan-oath-b2317698.html

Makenzie Lystrup: New Nasa director swears oath on Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’ instead of Bible

Makenzie Lystrup first woman in Nasa’s history to become director of Goddard Space Flight Centre

The Independent
Tennessee Rep. #JustinJones is a badass!! He tried to enter the chamber with a child size casket
Office space occupancy at around 50%. With housing affordability issues, isn’t the answer obvious?
Made a quick “what #SRE is not” slide today. Used it already with two C-level executives. It changed the conversation dramatically!! There’s so much misunderstanding about #SRE out there!
I just donated to #NPR congratulating them for leaving the birdsite and asking them to join Mastodon. If money talks, this should help!
Musk is an idiot!

In April of 1985 I’d hired a replacement to succeed me as head of the Mac/Lisa User Education Group, and had moved over to Guy Kawasaki’s staff to run the Developer team (Evangelism, Developer Marketing, Tech Pubs, and Developer Tech Support). The idea was that I would take over Developer when Guy got his business plan approved to spin out Apple apps as a separate company.

It had been a pretty brutal grind from the Mac intro to shipping Lisa 7/7 to the 512Ke and I needed a break. 1/

From being a Windows system administrator and power user I’m now happy to say I’m 100% Windows free!! I still use a Mac for work, but next work machine will also be Linux!