Matthew Riley

@matt.dev

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security eng manager at Google • he/him

Screenshot of Bluesky's careers page listing a "Sports Partnership Manager" role under "Growth"
A parking sign that reads: NO UNAUTHORIZED PARKING VIOLATORS WILL BE IMPOUNDED
a screenshot from Half-Life 2 of three Combine Civil Protection officers threatening a civilian with stun batons
Matthew Riley @mdriley25519 • 8/20/21 It seems like MemoryDB is an acknowledgement of how many shops use Redis as a *database* and not a *cache* • AWS built a service with Redis APl and performance profile but with DB-class durability. And if you're selling durability you can't call it a "cache" Matthew Riley @mdriley25519 That said, easy to imagine AWS thought customers would see a starker difference here than they have. When you're AWS, the idea of putting data into something without strong durability is unthinkable. If you're a startup, it's called Tuesday. 6:50 PM • 8/20/21
Homer Simpson as a youth football coach: "Now, while I wasn't able to cut everyone I wanted to, I *have* cut a lot of you"
a panel of a Penny Arcade comic Gabe, sitting at a computer: "You're mad at some words?" Tycho, unperturbed: "Don't act surprised. It shames us both."
It's the "survivorship bias" airplane
Keith Wasserman tweets: "Real estate ballers don't pay any taxes!" 15 Oct 2021
Two racks of lamb, sliced, with the bones arranged in a spiral
a perpendicular bisector construction in sand using a curved stick as a compass
A wall clock with 33 minutes marked in tape, from the Battlestar Galactica episode “33 minutes”
djb presents djbsort, a constant-time djbsolution to a djbproblem you probably don't have. To install, just unpack djbsort.djb and run the ./djb script. Make sure you have djbtools installed first