You’ve been taught to conference by @tristanlombard.bsky.social and @elchefe.me when half your suit case is a full size skin care and a bottle of rose water. Talk outfit has been approved by the tech besties.

Most of what we call "tech" is about getting the right information into a database and trying to prevent the wrong person from reading or updating it.

Dream: now that I left Google, no more performance reviews! Reality: writing the CFP submission for “The Go Cryptography State of the Union” every year.

Sometimes, executive dysfunction/ADHD lies to you about a task that will only take an hour at best to make it seem like a huge, multi hour thing Today, I am finally cleaning/organizing my desk. ADHD was not lying 🥲

Ngl I hate that "build this from scratch" is common as part of interviewing. In 5 years of working as a software eng all I ever did was contribute to large codebases and build on top of existing code. Closest to that is prototyping for a tech design but even then you're not building in isolation...

A reminder for these times.

I was… probably not gonna last much longer at NPM. I was doing really poorly just trying to do what was apparently needed. I wasn’t on a PIP but I was very close to it. And then I was just… given free rein and that’s when cacache/pacote/NPM5 & 6 happened It was kind of incredible [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Hey did you know that the two most productive people I have ever had on my teams have been people I was told to fire for performance reasons? This is why it’s so important to: 1) hear context from previous managers but not anchor to it 2) give people clear feedback and give them a chance

To those who are also looking for engineering roles, what websites are you using? I know I've been relying on DiversifyTech, LinkedIn & TechLadies. Any other notable ones I should add to my list?

Apparently my model of dishwasher goes on strike if you neglect it and refuses to run any cycle but Machine Care until you descale and put salt in it And you know what? I respect that

Not since Prohibition have so many Americans wanted to commit the same crime at once

I’m really happy to see companies starting to open source more games that they’ve ~sunset. between this and Valve open sourcing the code for TF2… I’m weirdly hopeful [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Yup. Its pretty easy to put dots together when the meeting labels arent hidden for calendars of others

The hardest part of rewriting the Go map implementation was getting the tables in this blog post to render correctly. [contains quote post or other embedded content]