@thomasj

current: software consultant previous: serverless devrel lead & open-source dev @IBMCloud. @openwhisk committer. @serverlessldn organiser.

 Manchester
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Walk Ride GM@WalkRideGM24 Nov 2023
The Safer Streets trial is well under way in Withington 🚸 🚶🚴 @crispeater @beenetwork @becky_cham
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A resident of Manchester built an artificial intelligent powered speed camera, and used the evidence to persuade his local council to install traffic calming jamesthom.as/2022/05/ai-powe…

AI-Powered Speed Camera

Building an AI-powered virtual speed camera using Google Cloud Vision APIS and FFMPEG. Turns any video device into a virtual speed camera.

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@ManchesterMill7 Mar 2022
An editor's note from @joshi about Reach Plc, Google and why we need your help now more than ever. manchestermill.co.uk/p/a-sur…

A surreal headline - and why we need your help

An editor's note

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Rest in peace Mark Fisher.
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@ManchesterMill15 Aug 2021
Manchester embraced China. Then things started to get sticky. 🇨🇳A fascinating, deeply-reported long read by @kwan_jacklin. manchestermill.co.uk/p/manch…

Manchester embraced China. Then things started to get sticky

The inside story of a city region’s delicate diplomacy

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I am tired of technical evangelists explaining things they do not understand by delivering canned content and running through lists of talking points then stumbling on questions. There is no substitute for knowing what you are talking about. Learn before trying to teach others.
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Manchester's new arrivals: remote workers from London , by @ManchesterMill manchestermill.co.uk/p/manch… try to remember, dinner is tea, & lunch is dinner. & you drink tea with tea. Simple. – at Manchester, England
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@QuinnyPig2 Jul 2021
“Our hybrid cloud and AI strategy is strongly resonating with clients.”
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Replying to @thomasj @typescript @Neovim
hi james! you see this too? neovim.discourse.group/t/neo…
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GitHub
@github29 Jun 2021
Meet GitHub Copilot - your AI pair programmer. copilot.github.com
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I also recommend advocacy to all engineers, you pick up all sorts of skills and I'm twice the engineer I was before I moved into DevRel, in quite unquantifiable ways. I haven't found my way back to engineering yet though (still having too much fun)
James Thomas@thomasj28 Jun 2021
Replying to @thomasj
I left devrel in 2020. I learnt a huge amount in that role and would recommend advocacy to all engineers (even only for a short time). It benefited me in some many ways (although advoacy is a very challenging role). I've moved back into engineering now and onto new adventures...
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solid knowledge drops in this good, long post about developer relations at a BigCo by @thomasj jamesthom.as/2021/06/lessons…
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pratik patel@prpatel28 Jun 2021
Superb article by @thomasj, full of direct advice like this: "Would you hire a VP of Engineering or CTO who has never worked as a developer? I’m assuming no .. People often move into senior leadership positions in Developer Relations without any practical experience of the role"
James Thomas@thomasj28 Jun 2021
Here the lessons I learnt about Developer Relations after over five years working as an advocate. This (rather long) blog post lists all the things I'd do to make a successful developer relations organisation. jamesthom.as/2021/06/lessons…
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Dan Ronald@DRo_60417 Jun 2021
Our latest launch: I am pleased to announce the launch of AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio, a new visual workflow designer. You can now prototype and build workflows quickly using a new drag and drop builder for Step Functions. aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new…

New – AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio – A Low-Code Visual Tool for Building State Machines |...

AWS Step Functions allow you to build scalable, distributed applications using state machines. Until today, building workflows on Step Functions required you to learn and understand Amazon State...

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Tim Bray@timbray31 May 2021
Happy Monday everyone, and happy Memorial Day to Americans. Let’s argue about software testing in the 2020’s, shall we? tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/… [Warning: Long and opinionated]
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Jeremy Daly
@jeremy_daly2 Jun 2021
There are lots of great ways to emulate #serverless dev environments locally (e.g. serverless-offline, @_localstack, sam local, etc.), but I think @garethmcc is spot on that once you introduce most cloud services, local emulation becomes a fool's errand and a massive time suck.
Gareth McCumskey@garethmcc2 Jun 2021
Its amazing what can inspire you to get something done. Had a blog post sitting around I've been picking at for months. @astuyve made a post yesterday about the same topic and it galvanized me to action. Behold: dev.to/garethmcc/why-local-d…

Why local development for serverless is an anti-pattern

Developing locally when building a serverless application is not only tiresome and hard to do its actually bad for you

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I'm happy to announce *serverless-rules* in public preview! 🥳 An open-source set of rules to check infrastructure-as-code templates against recommended practices for serverless applications. Some explanation in the 🧵👇 github.com/aws-samples/serve…

GitHub - awslabs/serverless-rules: Compilation of rules to validate infrastructure-as-code templa...

Compilation of rules to validate infrastructure-as-code templates against recommended practices for serverless applications. - awslabs/serverless-rules

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Paul Swail@paulswail28 May 2021
I'm writing a book on Testing Serverless Backends on AWS. If you've any experience building with serverless on AWS, could you spare 5 minutes for this survey of your testing experiences? RTs appreciated 🙏🏻 forms.gle/kvwpoHvN6gxnJUWy7

Testing AWS Serverless Backends — Survey

Thank you for agreeing to take part in this survey! If you're building or have built a serverless application on AWS, I would really appreciate if you could take a few minutes to answer some questi...

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How to set up the blazingly fast esbuild bundler to compile TypeScript libraries for Node. 🔗 jamesthom.as/2021/05/setting… ✍️ by @thomasj 🏷 #TypeScript #JavaScript

Setting up esbuild for TypeScript libraries

How to set up esbuild to compile TypeScript libraries for Node.js. Walk through building a TypeScript library with esbuild. Example configuration file and other hints and tips.

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1. I watched #Seaspiracy on Netflix last night. It’s a brilliant expose of the greatest threat to marine life: fishing. This thread explores why we have so seldom heard the the truth about what’s happening to our oceans. #TellTheTruth @GretaThunberg netflix.com/gb/title/8101400…
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