I personally have been using it for years, it's pretty good. It starts up much faster than a customized zsh/bash but has all the same features out of the box. You can also do cool stuff like setting a global variable in one fish shell that applies to all running shells, so you don't have to restart your shells when you write a new function or set some variable

trying it out. pretty usable already out of the box

Spammer alert. See #748936364283920495 and other channels.

Thanks yeah, just saw them and am kicking them out ...

starting to think if we should start some sort of bot/spammer screening now that we're approaching 1k users

or more moderators?

yeah, that too. we used to have an informal system with @User methinks its time to bring that back 🙂

I have a job interview on Monday with Amazon Web Services for a position in San Francisco and im so excited

this is a terribly funny and odd bug. put in

find-and-update

in any link as a domain or subdomain and the preview looks like a tag. this is the website https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/

Slowly embracing reading ebooks instead of physical books. Will still be buying paper versions for reading for pleasure, but for everything else highlighting and exporting them is something I'm missing out right now. So, what's everyone's favorite ebook reader? I am currently on a mac, also use an ipad and an android device.

i'm quite happy doing my leisure reading on a kobo forma but for highlighting and scribbling my choice is still ipad + pencil, don't have a real workflow yet for exporting highlights

kindle!

For iOS, I really like Marvin. I need to be able to highlight / annotate as I read, and I liked its features for each of those. I'm looking forward to trying it on a Mac, whenever I end up getting one with the new chips that run iOS apps. For now on Mac, I really like Murasaki since it lets me make each chapter just one long page that I can scroll through vertically.

For technical works, e.g. programing, I like Goodreads, (ios), I get the pdf's so the layout is true to the printed book. I set it up to present two page spreads, then zoom out to view the lefthand page, swipe over to view righthand page, (10.5 Ipad). you have to include cover sometimes to get even-odd ordering of the spreads. You can trim margins to reduce wasted space.

Thanks guys 😄 I'll check all of them out!

Interview tomorrow, I'm so excited. Scheduled on the busiest two weeks of the summer, just before prime day where I'm working 50 and 55 hour weeks with one day where I'm off to sit down in a quiet environment and organize my thoughts / LP stories. It's a nice stress test. Any advice Kevin? Since you worked there

coding interview is pretty typical compared to other tech companies. LP would be a good place to focus on, specifically having solid examples with specifics. disagree and commit and bias for action tend to come up a lot

it's a level 3 data center ops job

so I'm not like, stressing about having to whiteboard anything luckily, but I'm definitely studying those LP's and tying them to personal experiences of the past

What's LP if you don't mind me asking?

Leadership Principles

this reminds me of the military all over again tbh

so i'd like to think im in my element

Rather super late, but there was some interesting discussion on Amazon's culture over on Hacker News recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27566676 Naturally impossible to say how accurate it is mind, but it largely seems reasonable for a company of that scale.

yeah, this happened before my time but it was in full swing by the time i joined. everything is a decoupled two pizza team api call away

I liked this response to it: https://gist.github.com/kislayverma/d48b84db1ac5d737715e8319bd4dd368

i remember this as well 🙂 keeps popping up in different places and being taken down

over the summer had an encounter that really drove home the difference between google and amazon https://www.kevinslin.com/notes/ebd7fd65-988f-422a-93f5-b1fe5c3f29ce.html

I should probably self disclaim - I'm a cloud architect for Azure