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Software engineer obsessed with speed and stability. BBQ aficionado. Striving to be happy, happy with the struggle.

Washington, DC
Joined November 2008
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Does the channel's creator have a Twitter account? Email? I'm looking for anyway to contact them.
nvim-treesitter. Curious about it? Watch my first 30 minutes of playing around with installation and testing twitch.tv/videos/1084308624
I'm going to get past all the "@" and "//:" strings this time and learn to love Bazel 💚
The world would be a better place if @JCutrell created a "So, you have a disagreement..." course. @DeveloperTea has so much to say about resolving differences. Listen to today's episode on Local and Global Rationality for one of the lessons spec.fm/podcasts/developer-t…
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Tech debt is a symptom. Look to the causes. - Feature addiction - Inefficient processes and prioritization - Understaffed (use with caution, it's too easy to stop questioning here) To name a few. Find your causes and ask "why?"
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Steel yourself, "why?" is a long game.
My first OSS coding livestream was a lot of fun: twitch.tv/videos/1063984089 Maybe I'll even post to social media *before* the next one 😅
Y'all, zero knowledge proofs are going to change everything. *goes back to watching anime vtubers*
HugOps to the @hbomax engineers. We’ve all been there 😂
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Illusion of Control: - I overestimate my ability to control events due to my Overconfidence Bias - I underestimate the influence of Luck Check out #HowToDecide by @AnnieDuke to recognize the trap and adjust.
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Interestingly, the opposite holds true too. Illusion of No Control: - I underestimate my ability to control events - I overestimate the influence of Luck Something I'll keep in mind the next time I feel like I can't affect a situation.
Public speaking experiment: I asked attendees to mark a piece of paper each time I said "um/uh/like", telling them I'd donate the tally amount in dollars to @TrevorProject Final score: 17 marks in a 30-minute tech talk 😂
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This is definitely something I recommend folks try 💯 I was self-conscious of my mistakes in the moment, but I think there could have been a *lot* more.
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I know, I know, don't chase the new shiny, but I'm excited about astro's framework-agnostic approach astro.build/blog/introducing…
Thinking of Twitter as a place for reflection may actually make the platform tolerable. disgustinglyoptimistic.com/p…
Your goal is to get from 1 to 4 with consideration to quality and speed. Shipping in a bureaucratic org: 1. Customer-facing team thinks they found a product enhancement. 1/2
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2. Customer-facing team identifies upstream requirements, coordinates development with those teams, creates roadmaps. 3. Teams implement/integrate their parts. 4. Feature released. Impact observed. Imagine a solution that cuts steps 2 & 3 entirely. Work backward from there. 2/2