CTO at 360 Media Direct. Cloud architect, musician, and occasionally magician.
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Joined April 2008
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Tom Shawver retweeted
Someone stole a package from me. Police wouldn’t do anything about it so I spent the last 6 months engineering up some vigilante justice. Revenge is a dish best served fabulously. Vid link- youtu.be/xoxhDk-hwuo
Tom Shawver retweeted
I really hate blogs that use Medium, particularly now that they're more aggressive with their paywall. How much of this $5/month do authors even get? If you care about your content, you should self-host it rather than let some company make money off your work.
Tom Shawver retweeted
"DrayNow... has completed its Series A funding of $5 million, led by @ComcastVentures and joined by @OsageVP ." ow.ly/jqZ130lzMDe #intermodal #venturefunding #trucking
Dear @AWSCloud, you sign me out of the console every 12 hours no matter what I was doing in the 5 seconds previous. So maybe the console shouldn't find it inexplicable when I'm clicking a refresh button and it can't load data anymore. "Unknown Error"? No that should be known AF.
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Took a train from NYC to Philly and no @ATT data the whole way. Public status updates are important!
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Tom Shawver retweeted
If you see a trucker today, be sure to say "Thank you"! #ThankfulTuesday #Trucking
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“It’s great to provide suggestions and feedback directly to the team who builds the DrayNow platform…and to see everything work the way we need.” ow.ly/qQay30kSfPX
.@gruber “124 JavaScript files and over 500 HTTP requests for a single goddamn web page is just shameful.” That’s not a web dev being bad at their craft. That’s an ad network loading the bid from a smaller ad network which then loads a tracker before the final ad, ad nauseam.
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The CSO — that’s ‘S’ for ‘Security’ — who ignored plaintext passwords checked into @Uber’s Github repos and is accused of covering it up, is now CSO at @Cloudflare and is interested in pushing security to the “whole internet”. Thankfully, @awscloud offers #CloudFront.
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People who use RIGHT JOINs in SQL: Are you also fluent in a right-to-left written language? I'm trying to rationalize your existence.
Music discovery on @Spotify: “Hey check out this never-ending page of artists we’ve selected with advanced algorithms based on your unique tastes”
Music discovery on @AppleMusic:
Me: “Hey Siri, play songs by Owl City”
Siri: “Now playing songs by Alive City”
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The Apple rumor mill is churning that Macs will run on Apple’s own ARM family of chips in 2020. That’s an impending exodus back to Linux for devs who need to run x86 docker containers. On the upside, maybe we’ll see some great Linux ports of tools like Dash!
Tom Shawver retweeted
medium.com/refactoring-ui/7-… This is a great article! All the tips are super helpful and immediately usable.
Dear @SlackHQ: I would ecstatically pay a partial subscription cost every month to access the full history of a massive free team I’m a part of. You’re keeping the history anyway, right? Monetize it!
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Coming soon, a remake of "Dude, Where's My Car?" starring @elonmusk. Congrats on the launch, @spacex! #FalconHeavy
I paid nearly $200/mo to CircleCI and TravisCI at one point for limited concurrent builds. They’re awesome products, but dang, #AWS CodeBuild is eating their dinner. I spend $15/mo-ish now with zero limitations on concurrency. Awesome.
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Think your startup needs #blockchain technology? Confirm with this simple exercise:
1. Prototype your app using Postgres instead.
2. Does it work? Great, you don’t need a blockchain.