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Ray S 🐦4️⃣🛟 retweeted
TCP_NODELAY is really the software version of “did you remember to take the parking brake off?”
Ray S 🐦4️⃣🛟 retweeted
There you have it, ladies, gents and enbies. The next time someone asks me how to get their leadership on board with testing in production, there's your answer:
"No, we aren't testing in production. We are practicing ✨proactive monitoring✨ with real datasets."
Ray S 🐦4️⃣🛟 retweeted
CEOs: “hmm Elon is running Twitter great with a small percentage of the engineers. It’s going well… we should consider…”
On Blind:
Ray S 🐦4️⃣🛟 retweeted
Hi Redhat.
You’ll understand the picture below.
You’ve been taking my work for about 25 years, and happily consuming it downstream.
You’ve never paid me, but I’ve encouraged my clients to pay you.
Perhaps it’s time we discuss how you will compensate us for our work. – at London, England
Ray S 🐦4️⃣🛟 retweeted
Staff and Principal engineer is about decision making and relationship building and mentorship and clearly explaining complexity and quality writing.
It’s almost a completely different job, and I’m so thankful for my liberal arts background for teaching me a lot of these skills.
Ray S 🐦4️⃣🛟 retweeted
It is hard to grasp for some engineers early in their careers what took them here won't take them there. Shipping features will probably can take you to senior, shipping 10x more features is not how you'll become a principal.
Ray S 🐦4️⃣🛟 retweeted
For the MTA, Twitter is no longer reliable for providing the consistent updates riders expect.
So as of today, we’re saying goodbye to it for service alerts and information.
But we're not saying goodbye to you, our customers! There are lots of ways to get real-time updates. ⬇️
Ray S 🐦4️⃣🛟 retweeted
Twitter Blue gives you:
- Prioritized rankings in chat/search
- Bold/italic text
- Longer tweets
- NFT profile pics
This feature list makes it sound like Twitter is a superior product without a Blue check.
Ray S 🐦4️⃣🛟 retweeted
We had an incident recently related to grouping algorithm migrations causing excessive load. I swear we looked at that code for an hour not finding the issue (eventual fix: github.com/getsentry/sentry/…). Was curious and asked ChatGPT if it would spot the problem. It did.
Ray S 🐦4️⃣🛟 retweeted
We've all been there
ALT Picture of two commit messages one says remove unnecessary logic and the next one says the logic was apparently not unnecessary
Ray S 🐦4️⃣🛟 retweeted
Hearing rumors of a silicon valley startup that just raised $50m and it was all in SVB. That's awful.
Ray S 🐦4️⃣🛟 retweeted
Silicon Valley Bank is imploding before our eyes
here is how SVB threw 50 years of goodwill and $80 billion down the drain in just 30 hours
Ray S 🐦4️⃣🛟 retweeted
I’m out at Twitter after two years. It was great working with the Spaces and iOS teams. 💙💜🫡
ALT Twitter laptop, badge, Hack Week plaque, and blocks with year numbers
Ray S 🐦4️⃣🛟 retweeted
Me: *slacks someone at 9 pm*
Them: *responds*
Me: “OMG why are you working right now?!”
Them: “Why are YOU working right now?!”
Me:
Ray S 🐦4️⃣🛟 retweeted
"According to an anonymous employee, (#Twitter) failed to pay its bill for #Slack, a popular workplace communication tool. This has resulted in significant disruptions to their work, with the employee reporting that 'everyone is barely working'."
in.mashable.com/tech/47827/e…
Ray S 🐦4️⃣🛟 retweeted
ChatGPT really hammers home the point that reading code is a far more important skill than writing it.
It's like having a deranged, wildly enthusiastic junior engineer who will work around the the clock for you, if only you have the skill and patience to guide it.
