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Really curious how many customers are use Jira's Cigarette emoji for their projects...
@atlassian.bsky.social
Fancy email templates be like
I don’t know what it is. But I like it
Chris Knight from BT talks to us about Working with #Neurodivergence, how he built his career in data, telling his employers about his Neurodivergence, and so much more!
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This HUMAN is stealing an AI's job! Wait... what?
Very pleased to show off our new logo for the pod, from Good Good Studios, who have been fantastic at guiding us through a process unfamiliar to us, providing original ideas, options, refinement, and no detail too small to consider.
Really good set of videos for #terraform enterprise.
Why consider TFE?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8IZ...
Understand workspaces and modules
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfQr...
Terraform Enterprise 101
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4YP...
Structuring Workspace Repositories
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDLG...
Truthpaste :: new Manchester Indie Pop band
https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/truthpaste/1793805265
The Bug Club :: Welsh indie energetic garage and punk
https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/the-bug-club/1552259279
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7eiTMbuHYUPjrAMjIhAVDB?si=jo2FyAeARCCVfB7stSfTJA
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChXs6Ghb4yDtMGHypiRPj7w
Some Tasty music recommendations
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory :: American singer-songwriter Alternative Album
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/sharon-van-etten-the-attachment-theory/1770826874
https://open.spotify.com/album/5aGKc7OL3d1aJodCG2747F?si=o2VqwgKbTIernpKx6ES8GQ
This week’s joke 🎙️
I was playing scrabble with my wife earlier, when the dog quickly ran in and ate half the tiles from the bag!
So she’s taken him down to the Vet half an hour ago, but…
No word yet
😂
Couple of Excellent TV recommendations we had:
#Adolescence not one but 2 recommends for this, absolutely gripping
www.netflix.com/gb/title/817... (watch on @netflix.com)
School Swap: UK to USA
www.channel4.com/programmes/s... (watch on @channel4tv.bsky.social)
And another mention for Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com
Platform Engineering.
www.oreilly.com/library/view...
(I promise we're not getting sponsored by @oreilly.bsky.social , guests just keep recommending books published by them by coincidence, because they really valued it)
A Tour of Go, Dave had a very strong recommendation for this:
go.dev/tour/welcome/1
Release It! by Michael Nygard
It's a bunch of tales of failure of IT systems and their root causes
pragprog.com/titles/mnee2...
One from the archives of @swardley.bsky.social from 2009:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=okqL...
Some excellent DevOps and Platform Engineering stuff we recommended in our last episode:
The SRE Handbook: @niallm.bsky.social, @jennski.bsky.social, Chris Jones & Betsy Beyer
www.oreilly.com/library/view...
@oreilly.bsky.social
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We've got platform engineering guru Dave McNeill from Sky as a guest! Dave is a stalwart of innovation and progressive thinking in Ops, DevOps, Platform Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering - a hugely experienced veteran who has seen it all, done it all, and taught it all.
links below
Very cool. How long did it take to do?
What kind of bees make milk?
Boo-bees
Which is the biggest crime building container images?
Using alpine and then installing a very long list of packages,
Or using windows containers?
Wiz acquired by Google for $32B in ALL CASH deal.
They only founded in 2020
www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/03/18/g...
GitHub action supply chain attack:
www.wiz.io/blog/new-git...
Yeah I also struggle a little bit to find the same amount of content that keeps me engaged in Reddit. I come here for a different style of content, a bit faster, a bit more of an interesting human behind each post whereas Reddit is meant to feel more anonymous to me. Don’t always find as much here
"Your opinion of agile, in one word?"
Collaborative
Yeah I really enjoyed this book, recommend it all the time
Do you prefer ghostty terminal, or @warp.dev terminal?
Why, why not?
Learning Agile, by @andrewstellman.bsky.social and Jennifer Greene
www.oreilly.com/library/view...
