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Tom Elliott

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Building @ocuroot.com, open source, distributed CI/CD with no YAML! Posts bi-weekly on https://thefridaydeploy.substack.com/, occasional public speaker.

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Tom Elliott @telliott.me · 22h

We went out to vote this afternoon and two hours later we’d voted, got coffee, sat in a public garden, saw two free concerts and spied two red tailed hawks sitting on a church. I love living in the East Village!

Tom Elliott @telliott.me · 2d

Now the dust has settled from Monday's AWS outage, Amazon have released their summary document. It's a heavy read, with long, detailed, technical paragraphs. I went through it and picked out the key parts for a read that's only 20% as long!

open.substack.com/pub/thefrida...

Demystifying the postmortem from Monday's AWS outage

Amazon put out a postmortem for the recent us-east-1 disruption, and it is dense to say the least. Here's my interpretation. Hint: it wasn't a "kill switch" or rogue AI.

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Tom Elliott @telliott.me · 4d

Interesting model! Presumably a report would need a mitigation or a reason to accept the risk?

Assuming there was a route for a senior enough person to access the secrets shared by CI, we could liken this scenario to their laptop being compromised?

Tom Elliott @telliott.me · 4d

Discovered some concurrency issues with the worker model. Possibly some bad logic in determining the work that actually needed doing, and definitely a problem with handling git interactions.

Today shall be a testing and debugging day!

#buildinpublic #openstandup

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Tom Elliott @telliott.me · 4d

Theft is a concern for sure so encryption at rest is important.

I guess the evil maid/cleaner is more of a reliability problem than a security one.

Tom Elliott @telliott.me · 5d

Hot take: there's nothing wrong with hosting a CI runner on a spare box under a desk.

Did this for years at varying degrees at different companies. People complained it didn't feel right and made jokes about it but it rarely failed.

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Tom Elliott @telliott.me · 5d

I'm working on a new short-form video site to specialize in clips that make you angry and sports highlights.

Ragebait & Tackle.

Tom Elliott @telliott.me · 5d

Tested the worker loop against my new mock cloud tool and made some tweaks to select the right branch and poll more frequently in dev mode.

Started setting up monitoring for intent changes and need to do some deep thinking on error handling.

#buildinpublic #openstandup

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Tom Elliott @telliott.me · 5d

Curiosity piqued, although I can't quite picture it yet 😅 Always down to see demos and provide feedback if that's something you'd find useful.

Tom Elliott @telliott.me · 6d

Anything to get me away from a keyboard long enough for my mind to wander. Taking a bath is usually a good way to get some flashes of inspiration.

Tom Elliott @telliott.me · 6d

Anything specific that you're particularly proud of?

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Tom Elliott @telliott.me · 6d

On Saturday, I put together a lightweight git repo poller and a simple worker loop. Today I'll be expanding the config for multiple repos and maybe webhooks.

Distributed CI/CD, here we come!

#buildinpublic #openstandup

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Tom Elliott @telliott.me · 6d

On the cusp of signing up, but would love to hear more about what makes the experience richer. Is it the editor itself, or the type of content you can create?

Tom Elliott @telliott.me · 6d

Silicon Valley North. Like "West New York"

Tom Elliott @telliott.me · 6d

Promised myself a day off, and ended up coding for fun. Having a nice time messing with Cytoscape, seeing what I can do with styling and animations.

Tom Elliott @telliott.me · 6d

If you think about it, political canvasing is like trick or treating for adults.

Tom Elliott @telliott.me · 8d

`Panther Moderns,' he said to the Hosaka, removing the trodes. `Five minute precis.'
`Ready,' the computer said.

Been thinking about this a lot. Gibson predicted AI search.

Tom Elliott @telliott.me · 8d

This morning I was reminded that stargazy pie exists. I promise I will never defend British cuisine again.

Tom Elliott @telliott.me · 8d

Had more fun with the Ocuroot REPL this afternoon. I've added some prettier rendering to return values, with highlighting and a tree view for more complex structures.

It even prints function docs for you!

#buildinpublic

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Tom Elliott @telliott.me · 9d

The folks at parade.com breathe a sigh of relief.

Tom Elliott @telliott.me · 9d

This is amazing! Really pops as the overall brightness changes.

Tom Elliott @telliott.me · 10d

CI/CD pipelines are code too. In this post we'll explore some testing strategies so you're not always left waiting for feedback. We'll also look at what Ocuroot is doing to make it even easier!

www.ocuroot.com/blog/how-do-...

Blog | How do I test my CI code?

CI/CD pipelines are code too. In this post we'll explore some testing strategies so you're not always left waiting for feedback. We'll also look at what Ocuroot is doing to make it even easier!

www.ocuroot.com

Tom Elliott @telliott.me · 11d

Just discovered that Zoom's screen sharing allows you to share just a portion of your screen. Game changing for those of us with ultrawides.

Tom Elliott @telliott.me · 11d

Congrats! That average is fantastic.

Tom Elliott @telliott.me · 11d

The only thing funnier to someone with basic French than a bakery called “Pain D’Avignon” would be a hat store called the “Jaunty Alouette”.