Snarkmonger. Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group.
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This the same company that's still refusing to accept Apple Pay / tap to pay?
I do not give a toot what the cause is; for 30% of gross sales Apple can figure it the hell out.
Google is running a “small” experiment in being a colossal piece of corporate shit.
In which irrepressible AWS gadfly @quinnypig.com takes on the latest AWS complaint - the end of standard support for PostGreSQL13 in RDS - and blames bureaucracy, not conspiracy.
www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/a...
Tomorrow 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST. Office Hours. Three-year commitment seemed smart in 2022? Spot instances dying at bad times? Someone said "just use Graviton"? Ask away.
Thursday Office Hours, 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST. Your vendor's cost optimization tool recommendations would break production. Your bill has mystery services you never enabled. Your team's experiment is now a permanent five-figure charge. I have thoughts.
This is what happens when you surround yourself with an echo chamber of yes men who don’t push back. Constant reversals.
They used to be called “jumpolines” until your mom got on one in the 70s.