SF Tech Gamer Car Nerd. Googler (opinions my own). Previously Cruise, Mesosphere, Pivotal. @karlkfi.bsky.social @karlkfi@hackyderm.io

San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2009
Alright, y’all. The time has come. Most of my friends and colleagues have left. The algorithm is angertainment. And the new owner turned into another Rupert Murdoch. I think I’m done here. Karl Isenberg, signing off.
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Ugh. This human is full of words.
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TIL Blood Wine is made from farm worms. #LowerDecks #Spoiler
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I did not expect the skill tree in #DragonAgeVeilguard to be so much like Path of Exile’s.
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Metrics are customer facing APIs. Don’t go adding metrics willy-nilly just because you think they might be useful. You are going to need to maintain those suckers forever to avoid breaking customer metric queries and alerts.
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This assumes your customers deploy and operate your software. If you operate it as SaaS yourself and don’t open source the code, then go wild! Break your own dashboards and alerts! Just make sure you fix the important ones before they go filing P0 bugs and paging on-call.
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Ever get half way through a refactor and just give up because the code is just a giant ball of tangled spaghetti?
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One of those days...
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Oh hey, GitHub Copilot now works with Gemini, and it's 2 million token context. I wonder if the experience is better on Go projects with lots of vendored dependencies. cloud.google.com/blog/produc…
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Looks like you can alternatively choose Claude, o1, and the original Codex GPT-3. github.blog/news-insights/pr…
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Did Other Boimler just do the Riker Maneuver?
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He did!
As alternate Boimler gets up to take command of the USS Cerritos at the end of #StarTrekLowerDecks' "Dos Cerritos", he performs the Riker maneuver on the bridge! -)
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You accept free shit. You don’t expect free shit. Pay your way.
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Hey @X can I just get a “no politics” button? I’m only on this platform for tech info. Fighting your algorithm sucks.
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Apple commercials have gotten worse.
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Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate Which phase is your company in?
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I voted already. You can stop sending me spam mail now.
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If changing your API is slow, expensive, and disruptive, you can’t just deliver MVPs and fix them later. You need to consider all the possible ways the requirements might change in the future and make the API flexible enough to avoid needing to make breaking changes.
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The amount of future proofing you need to do depends mostly on the cost of change.
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Agile has programmed a generation of software developers to believe that shipping hacky MVPs is always the right thing to do. Pro Tip: it’s not.
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