Family. Engineering at Buildkite. Bouldering, motorbikes, Go, Ruby, food, coffee, electronics, whisky.

Joined November 2006
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3 Dec 2021
Digging into AWS S3's new Glacier Instant Retrieval storage class pricing. Total cost of uploading (many) small objects, transitioning to Standard-IA or Glacier-IR, then expiring/deleting after 6 months. Standard ends up cheaper than either of those for objects under 200 KiB.
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3 Dec 2021
(This assumes zero access to those objects during their lifecycle; it doesn't factor the substantially higher cost per-request and per-GB to access the data. That depends on your access patterns.)
3 Nov 2021
Someone made a cool “how much shelf space does X bytes in 3½-inch floppy disks use?” calculator site, but I can't find it now. Anyone remember, or better at searching than me?
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4 Nov 2021
For the record: “I have [deleted] 4.1 petabytes. This much data would need 10,088.7 km (or 6,268.8 miles) of shelving.” Thanks @alexwlchan 👌🏼 and @madpilot for the reminder .
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16 Aug 2021
Chip shortage! I spent many hours designing this hobby 6502 computer, boards are currently being fabricated, but the FPGA is now unobtainable until sometime next year 😫 I wonder what device I can buy that has an iCE40HX4K-TQ144 in it for salvage 🤔
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17 Aug 2021
Thank you to the amazing @JuanitoFatas for the unexpected iCE40HX4K-TQ144 FPGA hook-up 🙏🏼
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23 Jul 2021
👋🏼 Has anybody used twist.com as their company comms/collaboration tool (i.e. instead of Slack, Basecamp etc)? What did you like about it? What wasn't good? What size was the company? 🙏🏼
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2 Jul 2021
And come work with me at @buildkite too! There's some fascinating Rails/PostgreSQL/AWS Site Reliability Engineering to be done. I'd apply if I wasn't already there 🙃
Come work with me at @Buildkite making a big rails and postgres app go brrr! buildkite.com/careers/site-r…
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3 Dec 2020
macOS 11.0.1 Big Sur / Safari 14.0.1 — anybody else having trouble with ctrl cmd space emoji input in Safari? It seems to periodically stop working (picker doesn't appear). Continues to work in other apps 🤔
Paul Annesley retweeted
15 Apr 2020
Ready to learn a new CI/CD system that will rock your socks? I've written an ultimate guide to getting started with @buildkite including how we've been using it this year starkandwayne.com/blog/build…
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15 Apr 2020
Keyboard stopped working on my Arch Linux ThinkPad with latest kernel. Mouse/touchpad not working on my FreeBSD ThinkPad. At this point if Apple makes a 13” or 14” computer with a proper keyboard I’ll buy it and go back to macOS.
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26 Mar 2020
Huge thanks to @aemeredith & co for the most excellent bread-making 👌🏼
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Paul Annesley retweeted
28 Feb 2020
New on the changelog: Amazon EventBridge Partner Integration buildkite.com/changelog/311d…
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Paul Annesley retweeted
11 Dec 2019
Welcome Paul (@pda) to the Buildkite team! buildkite.com/about
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25 Oct 2019
I’m thrilled to be joining the @buildkite team next month. Great people, great company, great product. 🎉
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6 Jun 2019
TIL the ephemeral storage for AWS Fargate (e.g. a production service spooling user data to /tmp in a container) uses unencrypted EBS volumes. Not encrypted at rest 😬 Surprising, given EBS trivially supports encryption.
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29 Apr 2019
Do I know anybody registered for AWS Summit Sydney but not going? My team could use a spare reg or two 🙏🏼
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