Some of the busiest people I know are very prompt to reply to messages and to make room in their calendar for me, while some of the least busy people I know take days and multiple follow-ups to try to schedule a single coffee chat. I find it interesting and counter-intuitive! Has this been studied?

To highlight GKE's 10th anniversary celebrations as well as close in on the GKE Turns 10 Hackathon, part of the GKE team (including yours truly) will be hosting an AMA on Reddit this Friday (September 19) at 8am PT / 11am ET! Ask questions today! www.reddit.com/r/googleclou...

Does the sheer quantity of street car stops showing up on Google Maps look silly to anyone else or am I overthinking it 😅

Another week, another successful workshop! 🥳 The developer community in Atlanta is electrifying, haven't seen a crowd like that in a while! Hoping to be back soon! #GoogleCloud #Agentverse

Are you a developer wanting a chance at winning up to $50,000 in prizes? 💰 The GKE Turns 10 Hackathon submissions are open until September 22. There is still plenty of time to participate! ✍️ Details & submissions: gketurns10.devpost.com Looking forward to seeing what you build! 🏗️

By far my favourite part of my job is seeing all the excitement and energy of workshop attendees as they learn how technologies can help improve their work & personal endeavours! The sparkle as they figure out how it all connects together is priceless! ☺️

"if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it"

I miss when apps focused on being just one thing but doing it very well. I really don't need a music app to break into yet another social media app.

Maybe a controversial take, but I feel people wouldn't be so outraged about things like their streaming subscriptions going up $5/mo if the average rent wasn't 75% of people's net income. Everything else (food, entertainment, travels, miscellaneous) has to compete for that remaining 25%.

My dear friend @churubirb.bsky.social draws the cutest lil' characters. Consider supporting a lovely artist and get your own custom chibi artwork commissioned! 🎨

Submissions for the GKE Turns 10 Hackathon are officially open as of today, and are running until September 22! 🎉 Tune in live this Wednesday to hear me talk about the hackathon, GKE, and introduce the starter applications used for the hackathon! Register: cloudonair.withgoogle.com/events/gke-t...

Obsidian is by far the best note taking app I've used (and I've tried dozens over the years!) and its new Bases plugin brings the last bit of features I was still missing from Notion. I can't wait to see what the community builds with this new plugin, now that it's officially released to the public!

Vibe coding is not new. It's just that it used to be called Microsoft FrontPage. 📝🌍

Everyone's talking about @kubernetes.io's potential inclusion of KYAML in #Kubernetes v1.34. But hear me out... XML manifests! 😇

The Internet made with the explicit purpose of monetization is too boring. I need more people following in footsteps of folks like @philsalv.bsky.social and make silly websites for no other purpose than being silly. Reviews of fictional transit routes don't monetize, but they're whimsical af! ✨

I know, nostalgia and rose tinted glasses.. But sometimes I wish I could wake up in 2003 again, y'know? Ragnarok Online had just come out, Fullmetal Alchemist was airing, and there was so much anticipation for The Return of the King in cinema. No LLMs. No smartphones. No algorithmic social feeds.

New cycling infrastructure just dropped in Toronto 🔥🔥

"link in comments" or even worse "link in bio" is by far the most frustrating engagement hack to me. Pleeeeease just put the link in the original post and step off of your figurative engagement maxing horse.

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is turning 10 this year, and to celebrate we're hosting a global hackathon! 🥳 📅 Submissions open Aug 18 and close Sept 22 💰 $50,000 in prizes, Google Cloud credits, and more More info, rules, and sign-ups in the attached link. Can't wait to see what you build! 🏗️

Shower thought: why is it socially acceptable to talk about and announce life & career milestones (work promotion, purchasing a house, getting married, having kids, starting a business) but doing the same with financial milestones is frowned upon or even taboo?

Advocacy works!

I knew street car bunching was an issue in Toronto, but seven (7) trains back-to-back on Richmond St. is crazy! Might as well just replace the lane with a super long moving walkway like in airports. 🥲

I'm in this picture and I don't like it. Literally how my July has been going. I've got like 12 receipts from IKEA.

The world needs more colours, bring back fun electronics. 🌈

NIMBYs are always up in arms about narrow bike lanes being "in the way" but then there's entire "lanes" of car parking on major streets going unused and no one talks about it. 😔 Church St., Toronto, on a Thursday morning. 📍

I have officially moved to... Toronto! 🍁 Anyone living here with an inclination towards tech or urbanism that'd like to meet up sometime? Feel free to reach out to me! ✨

This month marks the 10th year since I've taken my first commercial flight, so I decided to try doing some fun data visualisation out of the 76 flights I've taken over the past decade! ✈️👩‍✈️

The shell terminal is still to this day one of the most complex parts of being a developer. The intricacies coupled with the variety of tools with up to hundreds of flags mean I'm always looking at docs. We've just announced Gemini CLI, which brings the power of Gemini directly to your terminal! ✨

I wonder if the people would be more inclined to be more vocal about the urgency of climate change, if ubiquitous A/C had never been a thing. +46C (+115F) humidex in Canada, in June, is not normal. But it's too easy to ignore when your home, vehicles, and workplace all have A/C set at 21C.

Fun fact of the day: Mario Kart World has better rail transit than most North American cities. 🚃

Every year I am more convinced that I'm going down the right path by keeping my lifestyle low and continuing to pursue FIRE. 😔 I ran out of hands to count the number of people I know that have been looking for a gig for the past 6+ months without any success, and that's not inspiring confidence.

NYC friends, what do I do here? Am I allowed to enter or nah? 🤔

I'll give NYC that, they sure know how to build cool-looking urban parks! 🌲

Just landed at LGA and... Hold on, is there really no rail connecting USA's largest city with its airports...!? 🤯

Alright I caved already and snagged a console over the weekend--

I know, I know, inflation. But it still feels surreal to see these prices. $115 + taxes for games that came out 1-2 years ago? That's rough...

Nothing fuels my optimism for the future of technology more than having to repeat "please transfer me to a human" 3 times to a customer support phone bot before it finally complies. "I understand you're looking to speak to a live agent, but please let me help you firs--" No thanks.

You know how train platforms sometimes have that one little section with a ramp that ends up one foot higher to allow for wheelchairs and such to be level with the train doors? Why don't we just build the entire platform one foot higher...? #accessibility

Submitted a CFP for KubeCon NA, time to sleep until the end of July. 😴

I provision, therefore IAM.

I am always saying this, phpBB forums and IRC were the peak of the internet

"The average career costs ~$15k in LinkedIn subscription fees." My math: $29.99/mo * 12 months * 42 years

Found the cutest frog sticker at @animenorthcompass.bsky.social and now I'm realizing I didn't note down the artist's name. 😭

because i do shout out to autism

Christmas has arrived early, this year! 🥳 Soooo looking forward to trying this release out! I've been using the Dataview 3p plugin which does some of this already, but having it be a natively integrated feature... 👀

In the USA there is a well liked idiom, "from zero to sixty", used in contexts like "this story went from zero to sixty really quickly". But did you know that In Canada the idiom is actually "from zero to one hundred"? It's because we use the metric system! 60 mph ~= 100 kph

Due to events entirely within my control, I'm spending the next 4+ hours sitting down inside the Calgary Airport domestic terminal. Please send help, I'm running out of things to do. #YYC 🛩️

You'll know we're close friends when I keep sending you photos of inanimate objects I find in the wild with the caption "look, it's us!"

Last month I built an interactive observability demo and presented it at Google Cloud Next 2025. ☁️ ... And I wrote about it! Interested in hearing about it? Read on! 📖

There's a show I wanted to see and I was failing to find any valid presale codes. Asked Gemini, and it legit just gave me one of the super fans presale codes. 🤯 So anyway now I have a really good seat to see Lindsey Stirling live!