Matthew Mark Miller

OH: "I think if all computers just stopped working tomorrow, I wouldn't be at all surprised. I'd think 'it all seemed too good to be true.'"

Yesterday on the train I was solving a hard sudoku and noticed the guy next to me was solving an even harder sudoku. It struck me that a functional social animal would have used this an opportunity to make a friend. But such an animal wouldn't be solving a sudoku on the train.

Ahh, July. The month where every critical email can expect 5 immediate replies (from out-of-office bots)

My threads handle is threads.net/@data_miller I don't follow anybody yet, let's see if Meta can build an actual useful and compelling social app.

Apple Vision Pro looks pretty doofy. So I guess I'm going to be looking doofy because the experience looks compelling, at least for work.

I'd like to thank every brand I've ever been associated with (and some I haven't) for their heartfelt birthday wishes via text, email and LinkedIn.

Apple: When you switch my audio from the conference call I’m talking on on my MacBook to my phone, simply because the PagerDuty trombone went off: that does not feel like magic.

Am I using this thing right?

To misquote Plato, I'm beginning to think that only those who do not want to program computers should be allowed to do so.

Software Engineering

I ask an LLM to help me solve a business problem with code. It provides an answer that is right in thrust, but wrong in one key detail. However, because I've been doing this shit a long time, I know why it's wrong, and am able to fix it. Who wrote the code?

The real problem with special characters is that some of them are more special than others.

I must use this gift for good and not evil.

ChatGPT is the new Google. Well, asking ChatGPT, then fact checking it in Google -- that's the new Google. Suggest the main reason I check ChatGPT first is that the SEO horde hasn't yet found a way to manipulate it, which changes the nature of my skepticism.

Tracing is a fucken superpower. Thanks to everybody who told me that who I ignored -- at least you tried!

Pleased to announce I have been promoted to Director of Engineering at Global-e.

I don't even want to use this fucking thing with that goddamn dog up in the corner.

Nothing can turn an anomaly hunt into a needle-in-a-haystack problem faster than telemetry that defaults to averaging a frame, even though you asked for the max

DataDog: Hey man, you want to download this table as a CSV? Me: Yes that would be very helpful. DataDog: Okay, here you go! [CSV has two columns: a date field, and a message field with a JSON Blob in it]

Hell is the live band you didn’t expect at the only restaurant you want to eat at.

This is the CVS receipt of error messages