Saying “No” 90% of the time.

A few non technical coworkers refer to me as The Wizard. Definitely makes me smile.

If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; .... -- Rudyard Kipling

In case you aren't a Software Developer, everything you do on the internet is logged somewhere. Everything. If you don't believe me, go to Reddit, open the Devtools, go to the network tab and watch the API calls go out as you move your mouse around the page.

Upstream provider Cloudflare had a major outage earlier this morning that affected many other systems like X.

Separate systems that are likely geographically distributed across regions and providers.