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Merlin
@TheWizardTower
Espresso nerd. Tech Debt Geneologist. Lord of the Boardgames.
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    Merlin
    @TheWizardTower
    Nov 24, 2025
    Reminder that I'm looking for a new role. I'm an experienced infrastructure engineer. I've worked with Kubernetes, Terraform, Postgres, AWS, with some Azure and GCP as well. I've also done a lot of valuable work as a backend engineer, having worked primarily in Haskell and
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    Merlin
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    Aug 7
    California had a multi generation lead they have brilliantly squandered.
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    Steve Hilton
    @SteveHiltonx
    Aug 7
    "The future is built in Texas." That used to be us, here in California. Shame on Newsom, Becerra, the Sacramento machine for what they have done. Not too late to turn it around. On Monday I will lay out my plan. Stay tuned.
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    Merlin
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    Aug 7
    Evolution may have left us in the role of disposable cannon fodder, but that doesn't mean we don't look after our own.
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    NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依
    @japan_nobunaga
    Aug 7
    My father died in Japan in February and I could not get back. I told exactly one American, and only because he asked a direct question at a bad moment and I have never been able to lie fast enough. He did not say he was sorry. He said, "You busy Saturday?" I was not busy
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    Merlin
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    Aug 7
    Per @JustDeezGuy, "If you can't run and verify your entire stack locally, drop everything else and fix that." He ain't wrong.
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    fj
    @fjzeit
    Aug 7
    people realising that deferring responsible decision making to the CI phase of the development cycle is inefficient. i've been saying this for 20 years. - all verification should be possible on the desktop - CI is a formal action that produces auditable proof and verified
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    Merlin
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    Aug 7
    @TuckerCarlson this demands an answer how
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    Merlin
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    Aug 7
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    I just realized this was from the same episode. The sponsored ad was immediately following the rant on debt slavery. I thought they pulled it from another episode from the archives. I found it profoundly damning then. Moving from 'debt slavery' to 'here's the sponsor of this