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Everett Toews

@etoews

I collect spores, molds, and fungus. | Platform Engineer at Deloitte NZ

 Wellington City, New Zealand
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Joined October 2009
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Just link people to stuff please. It's the HT in HTTP and HTML.
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Be a tidy Kiwi and use the AWS account cleaner AWSweeper to keep your account cruft free! etoews.github.io/blog/2022/0… Thanks to @jckuester for providing such a useful tool.
AWS Account Cleaner

AWS Account Cleaner

Whether you’re new to AWS and just learning or you’re a seasoned veteran, working with AWS usually involves extensive experimentation. That means constantly creating, reading, updating, and deleting...

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I installed Desktop Goose on my kid's PCs for April Fool's. Goose times ensued. 🤣 samperson.itch.io/desktop-go… /thanks @SamNChiet
Desktop Goose by samperson

Desktop Goose by samperson

I have created a goose that lives on your desktop. He is an asshole. Available for Windows, macOS

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I have a theory that organisations are more effectively when they generally use public channels instead of private chats in chat tools. Tough to locate real info/data on that via Google. Does anyone know of any studies? Can anyone corroborate? Even anecdotally?
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In this article, @etoews shares how asking for help is a common and natural thing that everyone does, but getting help from others is a skill that can be learned and refined over time. #CBO #culture #peopleandculture #troubleshooting #debugging hubs.li/Q01534v00
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Diagrams suffer from a fundamental problem. Most tools make it impossible to share a rendered version of the diagram (e.g. png or jpg) that is conveniently editable. I've come across what I think is a great solution open to all. etoews.github.io/blog/2022/0…

Diagramming is a Solved Problem

There are numerous diagramming tools in the market and they all do a very good job of diagramming. However, almost all of them suffer from a fundamental problem that makes the diagrams they produce...

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Cloud Native Summit ONLINE 2021 9 speakers 6 fantastic sessions - Nov 18th, 2021 3 hands-on workshops - Nov 19th, 2021 Get your free pass today to enjoy our talks and/or workshops! Check out cloudnativesummit.co for more details. #cloudnativeANZ #developers #NZ #Australia
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I feel like this is excellent advice for any endeavour involving computers.
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The Cloud Native Summit [in person] agenda is now live and it's full with expert speakers! Connect, learn, share and grow at @cloudnativego - November 29-30th in #Wellington, New Zealand! Visit: tinyurl.com/3zdfsjzj
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I am ridiculously excited about these cable trays.
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I'm honoured to be on the Deloitte NZ team that won the Red Hat Innovation Partner of the Year for APAC. It's the result of a lot of great work from a lot of great people.
Deloitte New Zealand (@DeloitteNZ) profile pictureDeloitte New Zealand
@DeloitteNZ3 Aug 2021
We are thrilled to announce our Deloitte Digital Platform & Cloud Engineering Team recently won an Innovation Partner of the Year award from Red Hat, for driving and delivering innovation using Red Hat open source solutions: deloi.tt/2Vl23VY #deloittedigital #deloittenz
Derek Wilson from Red Hat presents the award to Jeff Brandt and Everett Toews from Deloitte.

ALT Derek Wilson from Red Hat presents the award to Jeff Brandt and Everett Toews from Deloitte.

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If you've ever considered yourself to be building a platform or consider yourself a platform engineer, in my opinion this article by @techiewatt is required reading infoq.com/articles/platform-…

Platform Engineering as a (Community) Service

Nicki Watt shares how successful platform engineering initiatives start by adjusting their thinking to centre around people and communities, and their experience consuming the platform, with examples.

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The work we did at @DeloitteDIGI_NZ with Education Payroll has won a 2021 #RedHat Innovation Award! We're also in the running for the title of Innovator of the Year and would appreciate your vote. Cast your vote using the "Vote now" button found at redhat.com/en/success-storie…
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Did I miss the memo that we're all supposed to be using "whilst" a whole more these days?
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I went to Tauranga on a three day dive trip over Easter weekend. The last dive of the trip was absolutely amazing. totalbottomtime.com/blog/eve…
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This is super slick. I didn’t even know you could do this with an iPhone. Thanks ⁦@NanogirlLabs⁩ newshub.co.nz/home/technolog…

Finding the COVID Tracer app hard to open? Nanogirl shares how to open in just two taps

iPhone owners could be opening the Tracer app with just two taps to the back of their phone.

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I did a presentation on an OpenShift Migration: OCP 3.9 to 4.5 for the Wellington @openshift Meetup Prez: youtube.com/watch?v=-4h4lZ6I… Deck: docs.google.com/presentation…
OpenShift Meetup - December 2020

OpenShift Meetup - December 2020

DetailsEducation Payroll with the help of Deloitte has successful...

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It sounds better saying “Yoda baby”. Seriously. Try it.
OH “All of the beans have been mocked”.
I developed an acute case of Aeropress elbow and now make my coffee by foot.
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Seriously Bing?? Bing finds the album "Freeze" by T-Pain when I search help for "freeze rows" in Excel for Mac. Makes me miss Clippy.
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