Engineering. Always trying to be better. Find me at @mranney at bsky dot social
Pittsburgh, PA
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Friends, I’ve been on Twitter for 14 years and generally I have enjoyed it. The situation with the new owner and the new random rules has drained all of the goodness away for me. I’m stepping away from Twitter for while. Perhaps I’ll be back at some point.
I’m no aviation expert, but one technique for avoiding being tracked by ADS-B is to fly on commercial airlines. Sounds crazy I know, but it might work.
Lots of people in software talk about “technical debt”, but I don’t think we have a shared definition of this term. Also I think the metaphor is bad. Rarely do we explicitly “borrow” some bad, faster to write code.
Hard conversations I had today:
1) my teenage son: dad, why do people hate Jews?
2) some friends: we want to do a web3 startup. Will you help us?
web1: everything is content
web2: everything is a comment
web3: everything is money
web4: everything is a moderation policy?
Today @heathercmiller let me talk to her dist-sys class at CMU, and it was super fun. Trying to be thought provoking, I asked them what the difference was between a database and a filesystem.
In these troubled times, I am reminded that little babies in fun costumes are just wonderful. Also, dogs in costumes. These are good things.
Doing some remodeling. Teen son lost his Ethernet temporarily. I gave him the crimping kit and told him to figure it out or just use wifi. To my delight, he figured it out. Crimping cables is hard.
I was there. Chris is a very compelling speaker doing important work for real production systems.
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I interview a lot of candidates at my current job, and mostly what I ask are “systems design” questions. I’m seeing a trend of people suggesting to use a message queue like Kafka or Kinesis without understanding why or what the tradeoffs are. Anybody know why?
Matt Ranney retweeted
"Did you finish that thing yesterday?"
ALT Someone pulling a sword out of a sheath. "Yes" is visible inscribed on the sword. He finishing pulling the sword out. "Yesterday I got pulled into an unrelated investigation" is the full inscription
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To all my under represented friends and friends of friends, this is huge. You belong! Our friends at @DoorDash and us want to help you!
- 1500/mo - no questions asked
- all code/intellectual property is yours (released)
- hack on anything you want
- no time pressure requirement
Big News: We are expanding the Hack the Planet Scholarship thanks to our partnership with @DoorDash ! Our #engineering friends at DoorDash will be sponsoring TWO additional recipients providing mentorship and financial support.
#developers
redpanda.com/scholarship/
Hey Americans, for many of you today is Election Day. Stop worrying about the stock market or microservices and go vote.
And with that, I’ll see if I can still get in as an attendee.
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This seems like a really good thing.
🚨 Huge news! ATTN: all of my Latinos, latinas, black, women and all other under represented groups.
Our #HackThePlanet scholarship is open again !!!
We give you money and mentorship. No strings attached.
redpanda.com/scholarship/
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