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SRE / staff software engineer making sure Google Cloud stays afloat Big Matt Levine and Scott Alexander fan. Tweets are meta-post-irony. London. @AlexPalcuie on Twitter

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after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

submitted 47 days ago • 332 comments

LinkedIn still desperately needs a "yikes" reaction.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

#HugOps to my friends and colleagues at Meta dealing with the outage I suggest you use this moment as leverage to ask for more headcount in 2025

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Google Cloud SRE is celebrating Black Friday in London by having the dashboard from our Shopify friends. Good luck and #hugops for everyone involved this BFCM season!

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

According to me go.bsky.app/D34oYEo

submitted 93 days ago • 8 comments

got 20+ people in an SRE and SRE-adjacent starter pack if people want to be added, or you know other folks who could be there, reply to this thread bsky.app/starter-pack...

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

is anyone going to make an SRE starter pack please?

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments

not sure if this is the right social network, but I was pretty impressed with the views from the 30th floor of the Google Warsaw office on my last business trip

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

Welcome @monevator.bsky.social to Blue Sky - good to see you on here - there has been a paucity of #investing & #fire types so far

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

how do we get this man in the government?

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

if the election ends with the current indicated result, we need to start using prediction markets for many more things

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

happy elections day and may the odds be ever in your favour

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

I wish I was a recovering Blind user, but sadly I'm still addicted... pure art www.instagram.com/reel/DB7OHh5...

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

have chat groups become more silent because people are just talking directly to Claude?

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

really great slide design by @lisa-kc.bsky.social at SREcon

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

Pretty great view to start the day at #srecon EMEA 🇮🇪

submitted 120 days ago • 2 comments

ACX London Meetup is happening in full swing

submitted 129 days ago • 0 comments

Amazon’s earnings call will be held on Halloween so they can dress up as an AI company.

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

from the latest iOS release, phone’s keypad now supports T9-style calling, like my old Nokia had a bunch of zoomers will now get a demo of the feature tomorrow at work

submitted 163 days ago • 0 comments