He / Him. Dreamer of dreams. Engineering @BackMarket. Previously @Pivotal. Black Lives Matter. Trans Rights Are Human Rights.
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Tim Jarratt retweeted
If people understood that you can do all of this with a single language & codebase, there would be many more Elixir developers.
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
Tim Jarratt retweeted
“To be able to spam people, pay me.”
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Tim Jarratt retweeted
Scams like this are already happening today.
It's worth talking to the less tech-savvy people in your life about this risk
Gave my parents the talk about how one day a robot may call them on the phone using my voice, answering their questions in real time, explaining with desperation that it's stuck on a highway near Des Moines & it lost its wallet & needs them to wire $850 to the following address
Tim Jarratt retweeted
New blog post, inspired by a recent @SimplerMachines issue: surfingcomplexity.blog/2023/…
Tim Jarratt retweeted
a thing i have learned the hard way, multiple times, over the last few years, is that if you are going to engage in a role where your actions have a direct, outsized impact on a large set of people, you need to be prepared for their reactions to have an outsized impact on you
Tim Jarratt retweeted
In the “Japan does a better job at hotels” and “Japan does a better job at taking children seriously”, for ~$12 our hotel had a 20 minute cooking class for children where they got dressed up as patisserie chefs and, under the instruction of a staffer, made themselves dessert.
Tim Jarratt retweeted
I have ranted about the absurdity of the term "full stack engineer" (I mean, show me the web dev who also writes their own device drivers 🙄) but I'd like to recant.
Annoying it may be, but it's the term we've got to describe the most significant shift in eng roles since devops.
Tim Jarratt retweeted
On this day in 1985, the Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on a West Philly neighborhood, specifically on the house of a Black liberation group called MOVE, ki!!ing 11 members, including 5 children, destroying 61 homes and leaving 250 people homeless.
Tim Jarratt retweeted
If you give would-be fascists all your microphones and megaphones they don’t need guns to take over.
Tim Jarratt retweeted
Ugh, I hate waking up and seeing my tweet has left my little universe, & now all these sad little men want to center themselves. Bffr, everyone expects you to be in cybersecurity. NO one expects it to ME, so STFU!
Shoutout to the men who acknowledged & showed supported 💛
Tim Jarratt retweeted
Was walking around Nakameguro today in an unfamiliar path and found a surprisingly nice thing, in a genre where Japan has a will to have nice things, and will share it minus the identifying information (for social reasons):
Tim Jarratt retweeted
My latest blog, on hiring and creating scalable and consistent interview evaluations
blog.robbieclutton.com/p/on-…
Tim Jarratt retweeted
Random, but do I know any tweeps who are Canadians and living in the US on a green card? I’ve got some questions 4 u!
Tim Jarratt retweeted
This is a reminder that if you work in a country with very strong worker protection laws, and your employer announces mass layoffs, there is a fair chance you are protected.
Before signing anything: pay for an employment lawyer to get their opinion.
Very relevant in Berlin now.
