Love it - but it was so long! Thankfully being a dab hand with a sewing machine I’ve managed to take it up to a reasonable length for the female form!
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- Premium ring-spun cotton
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- Print won't crack or fade
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I Used To Be Allowed To Do Things
I used to be allowed to do things is the complaint of an engineer who once fixed servers directly and now files a ticket to watch someone else do it. The principle behind it is older than most of the people enforcing it: least privilege, set out by Jerome Saltzer and Michael Schroeder in 1975, says every user and program should have only the access the job needs. Add separation of duties after an audit and a change advisory board after an outage, and production becomes something you request rather than touch.
Between the first job and the current one, deploy access quietly disappeared. Each guardrail arrived for a defensible reason, and together they removed the ability to simply act. A t-shirt for anyone whose admin rights are now a story they tell at lunch.
More access requests still waiting on an approver in the DevOps & Cloud collection.
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Product: Premium Unisex T-Shirt
I Used To Be Allowed To Do Things - t-shirt
Manufacturer: TECHMERCH
Address: Kollegievej 2B, 7. 5, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark
Email: support@techmerch.io
Age restrictions: For adults
EU Warranty: 2 years
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Overall rating: 4.6 / 5 from 418 reviews.
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Made by people who get IT.
What started as a private label became something more - apparel for people who build the modern world. We're a small team still going to work every day, writing code and shipping features.
Techmerch exists because we wanted tech merch we'd actually wear. T-shirts that speak your language. Quality you can feel, graphics you'd actually wear. For work, meetings, weekends - wherever you show your craft.
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