US-based technologist/DevOps engineer and zeroproof enthusiast. She/Her š³ļøāš Lover of bad puns, good coffee, and sleeping through the night
Joined May 2017
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Excited to announce the launch of Bikecoin š²š°. It's a triptocurrency. You mine Bikecoin every time you make a daily trip by bike. The funds you earn are automatically not-deducted from your bank account in the form of not buying gas.
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#SRECon22 has done an amazing job putting super engaging speakers at the end of the dayās agenda to combat waning energy levels. @nmeans yesterday and @kristinintech today have had my favorite presentations so far in terms of delivery specifically, and both closed out the day. ā at San Francisco, CA
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New personal policy:
Whenever a woman tells me her skills at X are not very advanced, I will automatically assume her competence is at least at the same level as a man who calls himself an expert.
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A fun pair of survey questions for devs in your org:
1. At the beginning of today, if there was a specific task you wanted to work on, how much time did you think you would be able to devote to that task?
2. How much time did you actually get to spend working on it today?
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Hey, so, I've been a bit shy about announcing this, but I'm writing a book!
It's called the Staff Engineer's Path. It is, not surprisingly, about Staff Engineering! I'm really excited about it š¤©
Want to read some? The intro and first chapter are here:
oreilly.com/library/view/theā¦
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Reminder: we are not resting to recharge so we can do more. We are simply just resting. We are resting because itās our divine and human right. Itās not connected to more output.
I need yāall to get this.
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Per @ddwoods2, I actually believe that every incident has exactly two root causes. In fact, they are the same two for every single incident!
1. Resources are finite.
2. Change is ongoing.
Good luck addressing these with action items, though.
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Saying No to doing too many projects in parallel hurts now.
Saying Yes to doing too many projects in parallel hurts in the future.
When we are hurt now, we can only blame ourselves.
When we get hurt in the future, we can blame circumstances, events & bad luck.
So we say Yes.
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Some of the most critical jobs are the ones where, if done right, no one knows you did anything at all
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How many times have you seen this? Engineer says, "Descriptive variable names are so important," yet the name of their team is something like The Applesauce Top Hat Brigade because of an inside joke from eight years ago.
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Job interview: āalgorithmsā
Reality: āTurn a 127 message deep slack thread between 5 engineers into a decisionā
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My manager pointed out something very valuable in a presentation today...
All of your code will end up being deleted or replaced with other code eventually, so don't get too attached or emotional about your code!
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By the way, vaccination is not a "deeply personal decision." It is a routine public health requirement in a civilized society.
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a lesson from consulting for multiple tech teams of different sizes:
everyone is solving the same problems over and over again
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One of the main things Iāve learned over the past 15 months is the #1 criteria doctors have for wellness (because of insurance, hospital systems, cultural conditioning, etc.) is: can you work full-time?
