Chris Castle 🐘🚴‍♂️ @crc@elephant.bike

"The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day." https://youtu.be/8CrOL-ydFMI

In other words, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s often forgotten “life is a journey, not a destination.” https://getpocket.com/@crcastle/share/3790595

New band name: Confusing Towel Week

RT @CascadiaJS@twitter.com
We're so excited for everyone up in Vancouver at #NodeJSInteractive! The lineup is awesome, the sun is out, all is well 👍

If you see @jimcalliu or @crc, give them a 🙌

🧦🧦🧦Sweet triple sock pack from 🤖@robotsNpencils@twitter.com ✏️ and @danieljpeter@twitter.com !!!

RT @RyanTownsend@twitter.com
Still buzzing from yesterday - was an absolute honour to be invited back to speak at #Dreamforce #DF18 by @Heroku.

@crc@twitter.com and I had such an amazing turn-out with half the audience stood as the seating was completely packed!

AT&T has the most ominous looking fucking buildings in major cities. What nefarious activity requires so much privacy? This is San Francisco. I’ve seen one in NYC too.

RT @RyanTownsend@twitter.com
Heading off to speak @Dreamforce@twitter.com! As I was packing, I came across this photo of @crc@twitter.com and I from last year 😂

Come see us talk #microservices and #kafka on Wednesday @ 3pm inside Moscone West!

SF locals or visitors, please come visit us at @heroku@twitter.com HQ next week!
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Developers at Dreamforce and those local to Bay Area, come see where the Heroku magic happens at our offices! Enjoy free food and drinks, unwind, meet members of the Heroku product team, get questions answered, or just kick back! RSVP at https://goo.gl/forms/tmZ1eBqELLnZN2w32
https://twitter.com/heroku/status/1043187504298504192

I would like to see your beautiful face if you're in San Francisco! 🤓
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Developers at Dreamforce and those local to Bay Area, come see where the Heroku magic happens at our offices! Enjoy free food and drinks, unwind, meet members of the Heroku product team, get questions answered, or just kick back! https://goo.gl/forms/tmZ1eBqELLnZN2w32
https://twitter.com/heroku/status/1042145625670909953

RT @RyanTownsend@twitter.com
I have inside knowledge that mine and @crc@twitter.com's upcoming talk at #Dreamforce #DF18 has some of the highest interest – and now we've even secured a 3pm slot in Moscone West!

If you're interested in #microservices or #kafka – join us for 20 minutes 👉 https://success.salesforce.com/sessions?eventId=a1Q3A00001XoCSUUA3#/session/a2q3A000001WZSiQAO

👨‍💻 I'll be on the @SalesforceDevs@twitter.com live broadcast 🎥 this Friday droppin some @heroku@twitter.com knowledge on you! Live demo and as few slides as possible 🤓. Please join me!

Get to know the panelists for the Developer Preview Live happening this Friday! 💻 See what else they're up to and what kinds of questions you'll want to ask during the broadcast! 💭 @crc @rohitforce @garazi @gayathri_rg @darabella https://sforce.c…
https://twitter.com/SalesforceDevs/status/1039204461795786754

RT @tobie@twitter.com
"[C]ontributing firms capture up to 100% more productive value from usage of OSS than their free-riding peers." —@frank_nagle@twitter.com, Assistant Professor at @HarvardHBS, https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/pdf/10.1287/orsc.2018.1202

The paper's behind a paywall, but there's a good article here: https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/the-hidden-benefit-of-giving-back-to-open-source-software

🤓 💻 :trollface:

What the heck did I just eat?! 😳🤔“Chiken”

RT @RyanTownsend@twitter.com
It might be a bank holiday, but I'm working on a new talk with @crc@twitter.com on #Microservices and Event-driven Architecture – super excited to announce we're speaking at #Dreamforce together again this year!

Link to our session 👉 https://success.salesforce.com/sessions?eventId=a1Q3A00001XoCSUUA3#/session/a2q3A000001WZSiQAO

Oh and to be clear, the $10 donation and 500 free dyno hours is for the first 500 survey respondents only, so submit it soon!

Hey developers, @heroku@twitter.com's running a survey to learn more about you & improve itself. For each response, they will donate $10 to @GirlsWhoCode@twitter.com and those respondents will receive 500 free dyno hours. Please help out (10 min): https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MMVXGBH (👉 I work for Heroku)

...optimism. To believe that people are more good than bad. To believe that the waves carrying you are neither friendly nor malicious, and to know that you’re less likely to drown if you stop struggling against them."
― Carolyn Parkhurst, Harmony

Happiness, as it exists in the wild, as opposed to those artificially constructed moments like weddings and birthday parties, where it’s gathered into careful piles, is not smooth. Happiness in the real world is mostly just resilience and a willingness to arch oneself toward...