Software bricklayer. Beer geek. Vegan. Mighty Pirate (TM). Stay at home astronaut. (He/him)

Joined September 2010
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youtube.com/watch?v=88_LUw1W… I've received so many questions about where I got the shirt I was wearing during this talk: It's the amazing swag from @OfferZen. 10/10 recommend their swag.
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My wife has started a customized sneaker business. It has been immensely inspiring watching her work so hard on it. Now she's running a competition for a giveaway. You should enter! instagram.com/p/Cgt1LldtCbj/

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I've been trying to give @MyGetTeam more money for almost 2 months now, and nobody has responded to my contact form submissions. Does anybody have a contact at myget that I can directly reach out to?
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William Brander retweeted
21 Mar 2022
Replying to @williambZA
@williambZA invites us to join him on "... a tour of insanity through some of the worst ways to make distributed mistakes", in his #DevConf talk "Top 5 techniques for building the worst microservice system ever". Who could resist? #Microservice #dev #tech #techevent #software
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William Brander retweeted
11 Mar 2022
My talk on On The Aesthetics of Code is now online! This talk represents months of focused reading on the subject and I'm very proud of it; it would mean a lot to me if you watched it! youtu.be/CkGqINHZit0
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Random draw done, and the 2 winners are @KapFreshMusic and @fetsiHD. I look forward to seeing you both at @devconfza
I have 2 free tickets to give away to the JHB @devconfza event. If you are (or know) someone starting out in your career who can use the opportunity, reach out to me and you could win one of the 2 tickets!
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Ladies, ask for more money. 💸 Your male counterparts are doing it, I can promise you that 💯 Taken from @Offerzen's survey offerzen.com/reports/softwar…
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I have 2 free tickets to give away to the JHB @devconfza event. If you are (or know) someone starting out in your career who can use the opportunity, reach out to me and you could win one of the 2 tickets!
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CTRL A, Del ==> inbox zero
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William Brander retweeted
20 Dec 2021
Have you ever had a 3rd party webservice go down and cause a flood of errors in your system? Yeah, I thought so.
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Replying to @vumatel
@vumatel still waiting for connectivity. ISP-485117. ISP says you need to contact me yet nobody has done so.
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@vumatel please help. Or respond. Or anything. I need internet to work and do my children's schooling.
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On May 12-13 @Masternak and I are going to run the Building reliable message-driven #microservices workshop ndcworkshops.com/slot/reliab…. Sign up and learn about all the ways async communication can go wrong #exactlyOnceProcessing

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William Brander retweeted
17 Mar 2021
If you haven't heard, we're hiring! (Americas time zones) Some things you might want to know about out work culture before submitting:
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William Brander retweeted
Micro ORMs
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🚀In December I am planning to dedicate the entire month to contribute to Open Source FULL-TIME 💕I am looking for sponsors, big and small 🙏Please retweet for reach Here is my GitHub sponsors page: github.com/sponsors/markwhit… #openSource #angular #ngxs

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Looking forward to watching @GerybBg @cobusbernard and @mikegeyser rock some #devconmu today!
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