Tuan-Anh Tran

@tuananh.net

Head of Tech Platform @ VPBank. ☁️ AWS Community Builder. ☸️ kun-tay-nerr nerd. DadOps. k8s || GTFO. Hanoi ➡️ Bangkok ➡️ Hanoi.

This week I learned that Amazon back-loads their option vesting, so you vest 40% in years 3 & 4, 15% in year 2, and just *5%* at the end of your first year. The median employee tenure at Amazon is 1.8 years. Did y'all know this? What the ACTUAL FUCK. I didn't think Amazon could still surprise me.

Hazel Weakly@hazelweakly.me · last yr.

Amazon specifically (can’t speak for others) is doing this from what I’ve heard. Like 30% of the workforce at this point is early career H1B visas who are now trapped in a predatory environment and can’t leave because they’ll risk deportations Now, combining with perf based stack ranking… 🫠

It’s time for THE charger. Today, the USB-C becomes officially the common standard for charging new mobile electronic devices in the EU. It means better-charging technology, reduced e-waste, and less fuss to find the chargers you need! #DigitalEU

A minimalist illustration showing a packaged charger box labeled "one Union one Charger." The box features an image of a blue charger with the European Union flag symbol and a USB-C cable. The scene is set within a holiday theme, with decorative Christmas trees, ornaments, and gift boxes surrounding the charger box. In the top right corner, there is a small EU flag symbol.

Right now probably thousands of engineer hours are being wasted because GitHub is reporting an x/crypto/ssh vulnerability to a myriad of projects that don't import x/crypto/ssh AT ALL. The vulndb has package and symbol information, and govulncheck is open source. It's 2024.

This is huge news! The python-build-standalone project is officially moving under Astral's leadership. They were the basis of Rye, they are what uv fetches, and they are probably one of the best hidden secrets in the Python community that already drive tons of workflows. astral.sh/blog/python-...

A new home for python-build-standalone

Astral is taking stewardship of python-build-standalone, Gregory Szorc's foundational project for installing portable Python distributions.

astral.sh

bluesky engineers: perhaps today it’ll be a little slower, we’ll catch our breath the internet: MORE!!

user growth chart. it shows we are currently at around 800 users per minute, but we are spiking - multiple times - at 1000-1350 accounts per minute