I work @render leading the Support team. 7yrs alumni of @heroku and @kyan. Dinghy Instructor, Model Railway nerd, all-round tech geek! Guildford, UK.

Joined March 2008
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Happy Holidays from Render!
18 Dec 2025
The only logs we want to dig into for the next 14 days
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4pm on a Friday and I get beta access to a new @intercom feature that is just amazing and immediately put it to use!!!! Another hit out of the ballpark! ⚾️ 👏
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Some lovely subtle color tweaks in the UI today @intercom
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People freaking out over the new Mac mini power switch on the bottom. When was the last time you touched a Mac power button? It's a pretty rare event for me.
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At @intercom Pioneer in London today learning all about the advances they've made with AI for Customer Experience. It's a changing world and we need to be with it and not against it.
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John Beynon retweeted
4 Oct 2024
What does Salesforce actually do? We asked their CEO to find out
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On a train travelling at 250km/h between Florence and Rome. I had an email telling me the train was early. It's clean, probably counted about 10 staff on the train including 2 who are cleaning the facilities up and down the train as we go. Cost, €90 for family.
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Today I saw a PR going through to fix a 201 response which should be a 200. It was also the 201st PR for the repo as well!! Chances of that????
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Quite the week. I'm calling it...it's the weekend.
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Thanks @madebygoogle for rolling Nest Aware and FitBit premium into Google One. Nice move!
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Looking for a new member to join the Support team @render. The position is US remote, ideally East Coast. Interested? Let's talk! boards.greenhouse.io/render/…

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Darn it....I'll have to wait until my next visit now to ride them again :)
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Ok, @browsercompany , we've had an on and off relationship for 6 months. Let's get serious
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Good luck today friends @supabase - the move to default IPv6 was a bold move.
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I had to sign my wife up for a Microsoft account this morning - I had to do 20, repeat 20 capchas to verify...pick the checkered Sphere and striped cube, just crazy!
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I love saying "See you on Monday" when I sign off Zoom calls this week - see you next week San Francisco :)
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I mean, I'm not going to argue with this! :)
11 Jan 2024
Unless you can justify the cost of a full time dev-ops engineer (130k - 175k a year in NYC) you should be hosting your project on something like @render instead of @awscloud. Currently hosting 3 environments with each environment having a FastAPI, Postgres, redis and (2) celery instance for around $850 a month. Last month our web app handled over 11 million requests with a p95 latency < 195ms. Our celery instances handled over 3.4 million tasks. The trick is to queue all external api calls and non-urgent work as background tasks. Allows for a super lightweight monolith. The best part: no dev-ops required. Render handles all the setup, auto-scaling and Postgres backups for me. Deploys are super simple. GitHub merge to main for deploy with auto deploy.
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John Beynon retweeted
20 Dec 2023
I ❤️ DNS I’ve spent 2 years full-time building nslookup.io. Now, I’m teaching everything I know in this course.
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John Beynon retweeted
25 Dec 2023
3 hours later, Shopify's monolith is running Ruby 3.3.0 in production! In case anyone needed any more proof of how solid this release is.
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Ruby 3.3 adds a new parser named Prism, uses Lrama as a parser generator, adds a new pure-Ruby JIT compiler named RJIT, and many performance improvements especially YJIT. ruby-lang.org/en/news/2023/1… Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and enjoy programming with Ruby 3.3!
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