Jordan Leigh
@AlwaysBCoding
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I'm giving a talk on AWS Athena September 4th at Miami's best meetup for hardcore devs. Come through if you're in town.
Next Miami Software Internals meetup will be Sept. 4th! Can't wait to see you there! This months talks are: 1. Debugging Data Pipelines with AWS Athena: @AlwaysBCoding 2. Testing practices in Go: @vlad_ai Sign up here:
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RT @thejimmymackey: Fat loss doesn’t mean you need to suffer. After 12 years in the gym and coaching 300+ men to permanent transformations…
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The virtual office is genuinely a cool product. better than slack presence indicators.
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Fun fact: Atlanta is closer to Canada than it is to Miami. Keep re-learning this the hard way.
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@TheCinesthetic The Nightmare Before Christmas: Terrorist activity is ok as long as you're well-liked and promise not to do it again.
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@WillManidis 1. The Chip by T.R. Reid was probably my overall favorite 2. Crystal Fire by Michael Riordan goes deeper into the Shockley / Transistor story specifically 3. The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner is a great story about Bell Labs and the context around it
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> discover a woman from pre-1950 who did something extraordinary > go to the early life section on wikipedia > childhood trauma. every time. -- spawned from the Coco Chanel biography
> discover someone from American history who did something extraordinary. > go to the early life section of the wikipedia page. > son of a protestant minister. every. time.
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The Franco-Prussian war in 1870. Germany curb stomped France and took Paris, thought they could do it again and miscalculated the effect 40 years of technology would have on defensive warfare. Also the Schleiffen plan, it was a hyper-specific deployment process to quickly defeat France that automatically kicked into gear when Franz Ferdinand was assassinated. Nobody actually did the analysis and decided this was a good idea, really it was a process in control of the decision making and people sticking to the steps of the process without truly understanding the consequences. The lesson from WW1 is not to blindly follow processes because they worked in some other situation and to actually put human autonomy in control of major decisions (see Kennedy during Cuban Missile Crisis)
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accurate.
urgency is a life hack you need to be unreasonable when it comes to "not being able to do a thing" like, anything at all. any reason someone says "you can't just do this" you need to feel extreme urgency to do it you always need to work with urgency
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This actually works pretty well. I gave it two books I want to read right now: A history of credit card adoption in the US and a history of Las Vegas, it gave me back two seemingly adequate options.
“Tell me of the book you seek but cannot name” — An LLM powered book recommendation engine. Gave some some great suggestions already:
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going to watch an episode of squid games 2... aaaand they're already playing rock paper scissors to the death.
fr tho. why does every anime have a major plot around a high stakes game of rock-paper-scissors ?
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RT @balajis: This is the single best long run measure of food inflation. And it’s gone vertical.
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Another fun fact. Most of Ernest Hemingway's bangers were written from his office at his wife's house in Key West.
Fun fact. Harry Truman vacationed in Key West once to decompress from ww2 and was so attracted to its magic he came back 11 times during his presidency, and operated out of there for 175 days.
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Fun fact. Harry Truman vacationed in Key West once to decompress from ww2 and was so attracted to its magic he came back 11 times during his presidency, and operated out of there for 175 days.
Key West is awesome. Was debating gatekeeping, but people should know.
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Key West is awesome. Was debating gatekeeping, but people should know.
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Just heard someone refer to software engineers as "AI fluffers" and it's going to take the entire industry a year to recover from that one.
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