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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 17/06/2026

How is CI/CD changing because of AI, and what are sensible deployment practices more teams should be doing? Robert Erez is a CI/CD expert, having worked in this field for 10+ years, and also my former teammate at Skype. We went into deployment pipelines, GitOps, on-prem vs SaaS CI & more (cont'd)

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

couldn't figure out why a colleague kept talking to me in depth about music quality despite me clearly being baffled turns out the music service i picked when migrating away from Spotify is the High Quality Streaming music service i am such a pleb i didn't even know that 😩

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

i have rarely seen kiwi software engineers as excited as when someone said in a meeting that there is no way a train carriage could go directly onto a ferry

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

my smallest dog, Otto, cannot stand to see me cuddle someone else. he grumbles at me and wiggles his butt until he is picked up, held like a baby, and included in the snuggle

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

i cant explain it but I can't stop watching shoresy

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

i just completed a complex infrastructure setup task I've been hyperfocusing on for three days and i feel bereft now that it's done you know what i should do? i should convert it to run in kubernetes instead 😈

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

i can imagine the look the bus driver gave their techy nerd friend when the tech nerd promised other nerds would find this specific number on a number on a bus extremely funny

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

"ooh look at our new In Her Corner initiative to include women!" rule of thumb: if it involves your marketing team, it's not the real systemic, transformative change that's needed

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

this device is evil. do you see that enter key? probably you missed it because it's TINY

a photograph of a particularly tiny apple keyboard on a wooden desk with my finger pointing accusatorily at a particularly small enter/return key

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

"I've missed your angry, passive-aggressive work muttering" - friend and former colleague, sitting next to me while i check slack i swear it's not personal! i just have a lot of feelings to get out before i write anything!

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

it's been really hard keeping my mouth shut when my male colleagues talked about ice hockey today. i had to keep reminding myself they don't know about heated rivalry, they just wanted to talk about the olympics.

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

he is definitely thinking about how he finally tricked me into letting him bite my nipple this morning

a small black pug is curled on the chest of a man lying on his back on the couch. the pug has a pensive look on his little face. the man is wearing a green tshirt and glasses. he's smiling down at the pug.

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

i explained to my friend how i use 25 min timers between my complex and drawn-out medication routine and he nodded and said "congrats, you've reinvented pomodoro timers"

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

a pack-a-day habit, but it's Coles gluten free hot cross buns

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

considering submitting to a conference in Japan so i can take a trip there on work's dollar to buy quilting fabrics

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

announced my team move today - i didn't realise it was weighing on my shoulders until now! I'm switching from doing black magic execution engine things to ... well, no one really knows what it is yet, but it's called CoreCD with a team called Modern Deployments, to give you a taste. Extremely hype!

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

thread of unintentional sexual innuendo from software developers, overheard and misinterpreted by my dirty mind: "let's nut it out together"

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

my tattoo artist just called me Rainman because she said "i think we're about halfway through colouring the ivy leaves" and i said "we are, we're at 12.5 out of twenty" (she was entirely joking and it was funny and also fair)

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

my favourite game to play with my husband? "guess what car this romance writer considers to be a signal of status and wealth" anyone wanna guess the most egregious contender?

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

having a parent in rest home care is a part-time admin job. desperately wishing for siblings right now. even if they didn't do anything, at least I'd have a capable adult as a target for all my frustration and ffs as you get older and retire, make a plan for your own care

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

love blocking out focus days in my calendar. i get SO MUCH important shit done while avoiding focusing on the big important thing to do.

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I can't quite believe this happened, I've been offered a ticket to the Australian Open on Wednesday through work. Developers very rarely are on the receiving end of these sort of business partner invitations and i am SO excited and grateful to be going! Freaking out about what to wear though

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

i just bit my dog's tongue because HE stuck it in my mouth while i was talking, why am i the one feeling guilty??

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

i pretty regularly check my mum's email to make sure she's not getting scammed or missing bills (with her permission) but reflexively delete/unsubscribe from pointless update emails, which I'm sure is disconcerting for a woman with Alzheimer's

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Quilt #2 has been completed. So much happier with how this one turned out! It's now on its way to its new home in NZ, and I'm starting on quilt #3. I would quite like my dining table back for a bit but i want to get the third one done quickly if I can.

a square rainbow quilt with a thin white border and a pug heart fox applique on the bottom right corner, hung up in front of interior french doors inside my apartment

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

the joys of living in Australia: is it some sort of electrical tool or a particularly annoying cicada

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

My team, Server at Scale, is being renamed. We work on the execution engine of Octopus Server - the bit that knows how to run a user-specified deployment process. Guess what we're getting renamed to? 100 internet points to whoever guesses it. it's... not good.

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

there is always a pug somewhere in my photos. always. even if I don't intend it anyway, having my first go at bias binding #quilting #quilt

photograph of my sewing table covered with white fabric with a rainbow check on a cutting board. a corner strip has been cut out of it, and a quilting ruler thingy and rotary cutter lie next to the strip.
in the corner of the photo there is a pug lying on the ground.

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

still thinking about the guy who unequivocally said the ManageMyHealth breach was due to TLS1.2 and chuckling. In RNZ, no less. Best comment i saw: this man has never felt the cold touch of a computer

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

final part of my tattoo sleeve booked in for mid-Jan. so excited to finally have it finished! and branching out into having tattoos that i can't cover up with business wear - this will end on my hand

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

"Readers! They are the worst! Why can't we write books without people reading them?" i have learned that this is the writer's equivalent of how software engineers feel about our users. my code would be so nice and secure if people didn't insist on using it for things.

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

if i ever send you a video please know i probably didn't watch the last quarter of it and I'm not sorry

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

i am only now learning about the benefits of a protein shake after working out and honestly i feel a bit cheated. what's the point of pushing yourself if you don't get to luxuriate in the slight pain the next day, reminding you that you did good?

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

just discovered that tomorrow (well, today) is not a public holiday and i am working whoops would've been good to figure that out before midnight

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

i went bouldering again, pushed myself a bit harder, fell off the wall a couple of times. having hope that I'm actually getting healthier, and might be able to do this regularly, is incredibly scary. it's such a massive thing but it's so hard for me to talk about?? i just want to live a normal life

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

dotnet devs really do believe everything needs it's own emotional support SQL Server

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

why does doing basically anything on the linux commandline make me feel like a god? i think it's the same principle as computer games, in a way - you value achieving something if there has been the right level of struggle to get there

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

anyone have an NYT subscription they'd be willing to share, and/or a particularly good paywall remover? i just want to try their top 50 recipes but i keep getting paywalled and don't want to pay a subscription just for that

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I'm retiring referring to my pack of three pugs as a grumble of pugs (the correct collective noun for pugs) in favour of simply calling the three clumped together "Cerberus"

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I've been thinking of getting some custom embroidered patches to put on my finished quilts. need a cute name, though - i was thinking "patchwork pug by alix" with a little pug face? but i dunno, i am awful at coming up with names

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

forgot that I'm working in between Christmas and NYE. was very excited to get stuck into my quilting. i have regrets. send me good Tidal playlists to get me through?

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

went to buy a $4 applique for a quilting project. accidentally spent $400 on boxing day sale quilting fabric. i have SO MANY potential quilts to make now

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

first time going climbing (without friends hauling me up with ropes) since i got really sick in 2019. feels like a huge milestone and I'm so so happy and excited. here's to doing this more in 2026.

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

i want to get back into writing so i was researching writing tools ... but I realised I'm a software nerd at heart and all i want is obsidian and git. I don't need some fancy doc history thing, I'll pick my savepoints thank you very much

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

coming up on my yearly tattoo! should i get my sleeve finished, OR - outside contender - get face freckles tattooed?

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

my mother is at the stage of memory loss where she occasionally thinks I'm her sister. it's actually quite sweet - although a bit confusing

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Alix @evolutionise.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

trying to pick appropriate books to give to kids aged 5/6/7/8 and wondering how the fuck my mother ended up deciding on Clan of the Cave Bear and Flowers in the Attic when i was 8 anyway i was thinking the Detective Beans stories, they seem cute and fun

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