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I've Succumbed to the Dark Side

• Tech Life • 124 words • 1 minutes to read

I’ve succumbed to the dark side. My brother, my sister, my 2 best friends, and another really close friend were all telling me about this great website where you can find anybody you’ve ever known because everybody is on it.

I’m now on MySpace. *Hangs head in shame*

I want to apologize to all of you that had any respect for me as a person, a blogger, a web developer, a music lover, or anything else. I have let you all down. Now I’m just a dork who sits around on long Thanksgiving holidays waiting for other people to send me messages, and trying to think of ways to spruce up my “Space”.

I hope you can all forgive me. BTW, here it is…

Ryan Parman

is an engineering manager with over 20 years of experience across software development, site reliability engineering, and security. He is the creator of SimplePie and AWS SDK for PHP, patented multifactor-authentication-as-a-service at WePay, defined much of the CI/CD and SRE disciplines at McGraw-Hill Education, and came up with the idea of “serverless, event-driven, responsive functions in the cloud” while at Amazon Web Services in 2010. Ryan's aptly-named blog, , is where he writes about ideas longer than . Ambivert. Curious. Not a coffee drinker.