@LeftSaidTim

He / Him. Dreamer of dreams. Engineering @BackMarket. Previously @Pivotal. Black Lives Matter. Trans Rights Are Human Rights.

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Joined July 2010
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Me : how do I easily get a count of the number of tickets in my epic ? JIRA: easy. You can either use two dimensional filter statistics in dashboard. Or filter by Epic link. Or use the Epic Report in project. Me : did you just tell me to go fuck myself ? JIRA : I believe I did.
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Happy taqueria bar day @NearbuySystems @bryan_w1 @psanford
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New blog post -- Pairing is Caring ... in which I argue that we should pair because we should care about each other and elevate the team as a whole. medium.com/@LeftSaidTim/pair…

Pairing is Caring

Why suffer alone when we can suffer together ?

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If people understood that you can do all of this with a single language & codebase, there would be many more Elixir developers.
Javarevisited
@javarevisited7 Oct 2023
10 System design concepts you should learn. 1. Caching 2. Sharding 3. load-balancing 4. replication 5. fault-tolerance 6. high-avaibility 7. Performance 8. scalability 9. Performance 10. Indexing learn more on Design Guru - bit.ly/3pMiO8g
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New blog post, in which I argue that the experience we have at work should be fun medium.com/@LeftSaidTim/work…

Work is Play

Work is Play. Pairing is Caring. Caring is Work.

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This is either a "well duh" thought or going to earn me some flames I suspect 🔥🔥🔥
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Turns out sometimes writing more lines of #python is better than writing fewer. Surprised ? medium.com/@LeftSaidTim/the-…

The curious case of more code being better than less code

I recently wrote about how some of the magic in Python works and how you can use this magic by implementing so-called double underscore…

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Someone just needs to make “Feynman”
Sam Altman
@sama22 Jul 2023
i was hoping that the oppenheimer movie would inspire a generation of kids to be physicists but it really missed the mark on that. let's get that movie made! (i think the social network managed to do this for startup founders.)
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Been writing a lot more python lately. Decided to take a peek behind the covers of some of the everyday magic behind the #Python programming language. Curious how python works under the hood ? Let's take a look together. medium.com/@LeftSaidTim/a-pe…

A peek behind the magic in Python

Recently, I’ve been writing a lot of python at my current employer, BackMarket. We have a fairly diverse set of pythonistas in our crew…

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Day 1 of #Zelda #TOTK notebook doodles
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Day 68 of #zelda doodles  #zeldafanart  #TOTK #art #ZeldaArt #totk Here comes a floppy boy !
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Day 69 of #zelda doodles  #zeldafanart  #TOTK #art #ZeldaArt #totk Nice.
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Life is how much damage you can take before you die - some NES game manual, probably
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My name is Tim, and I juggle in meetings. You may be surprised to discover that I've been asked this enough times that I felt I needed to write a dedicated article about it. medium.com/@LeftSaidTim/why-…

Why do I juggle in meetings ?

tldr: I juggle to keep myself honest, to be more present in meetings, to avoid checking-out. If you see me juggling, you can be certain I…

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