Well eff. Having had the pleasure to work with these folks I can say the are not only talented but genuine and kind. I really hope they find a place to continue their work.

Hej Stockholm! Just added the new Google Cloud region to gcping.com

The US Dept of Energy has slashed 16% of admins overseeing cleanup of the old Hanford nuclear-bomb-making factories. WA District 4 voted by a 21 point margin for Trump. So, you know, the majority of them voted for this. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

"Massage Minutes Added to Your Account" Guess it's been another year...

Pączki aren’t as easy to come by in Seattle but we pulled it off.

GCPing has added stats from the newest #GoogleCloud datacenter, northamerica-south1, México.

No matter how long I'm in tech one constant is someone mailing a list with 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe' expecting anything to happen.

It’s that time of year. Celebrating #TwinPeaks day at Holy Mountain Brewing. They always set up a nice vibe and do a few special releases for the occasion.

Plans show presale is so different than the experience trying to do Transatlanticism show. Got through the artist presale without issue. Looking forward to seeing the fellas in Seattle in August. #dcfc

Down in the desert this weekend for CVMA at Chuckwalla Valley Raceway. Wind picked up but it’s much warmer than Seattle. Also first time I’ve been here for CCW track direction.

I for one am surprised that the manchild that got upset his jet was being tracked also wants his intergovernmental activities not subject to FOIA and is asking folks to stop using Slack. Okay, not that surprised...

Somehow my morning is full of folks saying we had to install this administration as the previous one was ruining our economy. What’s the chance they know the USA has one of the lowest inflation rates globally? By all measures they’d done an outstanding economic job. But their eggs y’all.

In the infinite wisdom of the Seattle Kraken the seats we are in are handing out wine and kettle chips. RIP the beers we bought before heading to our section. Is there anything more Washington than offering free pours of cab?

America at the moment.

At this point, it's really just an IPO with extra steps and a less elastic market. These later series seem to be debt financing and opportunities for engineers to sell shares to institutional investors.

I don't get to talk about what I do Google nearly as much these days, so I love to share when I can. @sethvargo.com and Seth Rosenblatt put together an article that pulls the curtain back a little bit, showing how we operate Google Cloud at Google scale. cloud.google.com/transform/ho...

Any of the folks I know that have worked as part of USDS (Digital Services) have anything else to share here. Because y'all have done great work and this can't be good. www.ibtimes.com/elon-musks-g...

I just received cookies by mail. I am finding my afternoon meetings are just a bit more cheerful.

Outside of tech I also race motorcycles. This weekend was the WMRRA awards banquet and I did alright on the season. I only did half of the rounds and performed well enough in them to finish in 2nd and 3rd in my classes. Hoping to spend a season on the new platform (Aprilia, see how it shakes out.

It's that time where Spotify reminds me what I listen to. One fun callout: the Home EP (Ben Gibbard, Andrew Kenny). You should check it out if you haven't. And despite the lyric the AI picked for me to symbolize this you won't be wasting your life. open.spotify.com/album/5vrRXb...

OH: Why didn't AWS name Trainium2 T2?

As we approach US Thanksgiving, we also approach the deadlines for yearly planning and Q1 planning. I sat down to 16 workspaces on my mac this AM. Now time to figure how many of them need to exist now that I've submitted my plans...

I’m at a work event, Huey Lewis and the News is on, and we’re about to be handling axes.

I foresee slightly more frequent trips to the Anaheim greater area.

I generally keep regular hours, but working with folks around the globe means being flexible on availability. This said the greeting this morning of "don't have anything better to do?" was not expected. Nor was my response of "I could be eating my breakfast in peace." Establish Norms ✅

People are coming out of the woodwork again talking about how 2020 was rampant with voter fraud. Nevermind that both candidates running had more votes. Nevermind that we lowered voter barriers and made gains in franchisement by advertising absentee and alternate voting paths... Nope, it's fraud...

Trying this again. After nearly 15 years I'm going to try rehoming my social media. Seems at this point most of the folks I care about are here and I look forward to (virtually) hanging out again.

As I sit in an internal conference I am discovering some teams really take pithy naming to the next level. "So the Arnolds, those would be the terminators".

Turns out I'll put off setting up this account until I have to submit a change of 5700+ files... and of course it just failed.