Principal Product Engineer at @fusionauth. Author _Letters to a New Developer_. Helps w/@boulderruby He/him

Boulder, CO
Joined April 2007
Still good.
If you're interacting with humans, you're performing public speaking. Dedicate 1 hour to the "How to speak" class by Professor Winston, it's a masterpiece that will give you solid basis to improve how you prepare and speak. youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731i…
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"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." --Benjamin Franklin
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A pattern I've seen: - the 1st time I do something new and hard, I'm terrified. - the 2nd time I'm exhilarated. - the 3rd time I'm enthusiastic - the 10th time it's rote - the 20th time it's boring Go do new stuff.
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Every software engineer, ever.
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Replying to @mooreds
What's wild is that the days of the week correspond to the planets in the following order: sun, moon, mars, mercury, jupiter, venus, saturn And this is true in Sanskrit, Tamil, Hindi, Gujarati, Korean, and Japanese.
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🛰️ Running @FusionAuth in space! @bpontarelli talks through the value of #hybrid flexibility for today's tech stack 👉 @SharpNetwork @mooreds #developers #ux #spacetech #startupstories #TechNews #podcast
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Unpopular opinion but Java is actually a great language with an extremely high performance JVM that also has sub millisecond garbage collection cycles. Most complaints besides potentially max memory usage is just cope.
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Nobody will remember: - your salary - how “busy you were” - how many hours you worked People will remember: - how much time you spent trying to understand SAML
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"oh god"
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Did I click that unsubscribe link by accident? No, no I did not.
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Replying to @d_feldman
Hold my beer. I'm living with a 7 day week originally from ancient Babylonia.
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Being helpful, 1000%. Younger Dan would have answered 'being right', but younger Dan was wrong. Being right == playing the short game Being helpful == playing the long game
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Kids, this is how we deployed apps in monolith applications not too long ago...
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"Doors are like magic" - every dog, everywhere
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I gotta say, I find this conversation a bit boring. Ofc there are times to use library provided auth (don't roll your own, but one built in to a framework is fine). There's also times when a managed auth service offers capabilities/scale you couldn't build on your own. 1/2
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"Doors are like magic" - every dog, everywhere
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Replying to @samjulien
I think part of adulting is accepting you can't do all the things. That would make 20 year old me sad, but 40ish year old me is fine with it. It turns into a question of priorities. You only have so much time, money and energy, and pretending otherwise is foolish.
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Replying to @simonw
See also this recent discussion from @troutgirl : xitter.cf/troutgirl/status/15100… SQL/relational databases give you so much. Sure, they have scaling issues if you reach a certain (large) size, but ACID, well known patterns, tooling, and vertical scaling can take you a long long way.
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