I do stuff with technology and give presentations about it. Tweets are mine. He/Him
Joined June 2015
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28 Jun 2023
Iโm migrating over to Bluesky, would love to stay in contact with yโall!
@vmikeb.bsky.social
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18 Jun 2025
To add to it:
Most orgs need to pay their people what they're worth, send them to training that will build their resume and the company's defenses, and leverage open source tooling that people can learn fast and iterate on quickly.
16 Jun 2025
Iโd venture to make an educated guess that most orgs donโt need more security tools, they need to learn their existing tools better to get more out of themโฆ
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9 May 2025
Seattle fam!
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I'm speaking at Ceph Days Seattle next week to spread the good word about NVMe/TCP and Ceph Block performance! Come catch the fun with me, and see some amazing sessions here
osnexus.regfox.com/ceph-daysโฆ
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31 Dec 2024
Hey @Costway_com I've been told 3 days in a row that your technical support people will get back to me within 24 hours. What gives? Can you help out please?
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26 Dec 2024
Omfg. Can you imagine. Perfect.
26 Dec 2024
Home Depot should allow men over 40 to have birthday parties in their stores.
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vMike "Save the ๐s" retweeted
18 Dec 2024
CEO asked me โwhat are we doing about Russians exploiting 0days in AIโ
Meanwhile our servers are on Ubuntu 14, our SRE team quit, IT is pasting bash scripts into the JAMF editor untested, and the CFO has a 2-star chrome extension to make gmailโs font comic sans
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27 Nov 2024
Neurotypical coder has entered the chat ๐
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21 Nov 2024
Mike Burkhart, from Ethics Training-as-a-Service here. Did you know you can be compliant with your corporate policies for only <checks price> $25 a month?
<quietly pays @CrunkComputing $15, over and over again>
20 Nov 2024
I'll take your ethics training for you for $15. Any takers?
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21 Nov 2024
Hey tech fam - is someone in my network an expert in GPUDirect Storage? Hit me up!
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vMike "Save the ๐s" retweeted
31 Oct 2024
What idiot called it โmigrating an application to use Graviton processorsโ instead of โArm wrestling?โ
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1 Nov 2024
VMware fam - itโs been an interesting year, whoโs going to Barcelona?
Iโm excited to say Iโll be there!
Whatโs good, what sessions and parties are you headed to?
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31 Oct 2024
Iโm another episode of โshirts that absolutely should not wind up in a thrift storeโโฆ
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31 Oct 2024
A very fulfilling one. One probably filled with things that would frustrate and enrich me just as much as tech.
30 Oct 2024
If you weren't in tech, what life would you have chosen?
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vMike "Save the ๐s" retweeted
30 Oct 2024
Join us tonight for fun, prizes, & tacos*!
(* Attendees must provide any and all tacos & taco-related paraphernalia. Mistwire, calvinhp, & all related entities cannot be held accountable for taco or taco adjacent injuries) ๐๐ฅณ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฎ
30 Oct 2024
#Kubernetes made simple? ๐ค Challenge accepted.
Tonight at 8:30pm ET, join #AWS Heroes @calvinhp (CTO of Six Feet Up) and @mistwire (Dev Rel Mngr at HashiCorp) live on @vBrownBag for โMastering the Zen of Dev Experience.โ
๐ Donโt miss it! ๐ Join: loom.ly/lfnHxzs
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30 Oct 2024
Hey tech fam! Join me for KubeCon CloudNativeCon North America 2024! cvent.me/yPbALl?sms=2&cn=21Jโฆ ##kubecon #cloudnativecon
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22 Oct 2024
We're getting the band back together maaaaaan! Finishing #TechXchange day 1 with @CTOAdvisor, @vmikeb, @SolutionGeek, @joatmon08 & @armon (& mirror men ๐ฅฐ๐๐ฅฐ๐)
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11 Oct 2024
Fun question: what was your craziest travel day?
let's hear your wackiest, most brutal, or most fun travel stories!
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