Dave
@dorkrawk.bsky.social
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https://dinosaurseateverybody.com
https://dontbreakprod.com
Coding agents are pretty great for projects where my first assessment is that they'd be more trouble than they're worth.
4 days ago
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Don't Break Prod
18 days ago
Consider Hofstadter's Law when making estimates:
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Things Will Take Longer Than You Think They Will - Don't Break Prod
Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.
https://dontbreakprod.com/posts/things-will-take-longer-than-you-think-they-will
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about 1 month ago
"Dude, sucking at something is the first step to being sorta good at something" - Jake the Dog
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Don't Be Afraid To Be Bad At It - Don't Break Prod
Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.
https://dontbreakprod.com/posts/dont-be-afraid-to-be-bad-at-it
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Ok! Next week I'm going to teach a bunch of elementary school kids about binary numbers and Boolean operators!
about 1 month ago
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Starting to collect training data for a squirrel scaring program I put together this morning. If it works, it should blare metal super loud whenever a squirrel gets on to our bird feeder. 🐿️🤘
about 2 months ago
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What now?
dinosaurseateverybody.com/now
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Dinosaurs Eat Everybody :: now
https://dinosaurseateverybody.com/now
about 2 months ago
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Gung Hay Fat Tuesday!
about 2 months ago
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New keyboard day! I’m excited to feel like I’ve forgotten how to type!
2 months ago
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I recently migrated the blog on my site over to Postwave (a blogging library I wrote). It's really nice to use a tool that works EXACTLY the way you want it to!
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Dinosaurs Eat Everybody :: Powered By Postwave
https://dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/powered-by-postwave
2 months ago
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Don't Break Prod
2 months ago
Done is better than perfect:
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Done Is Better Than Perfect - Don't Break Prod
Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.
https://dontbreakprod.com/posts/done-is-better-than-perfect
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No matter how much I clean my desk, there's always a cat on it.
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Code is a habitat for bugs:
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Code Is A Habitat For Bugs - Don't Break Prod
Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.
https://dontbreakprod.com/posts/code-is-a-habitat-for-bugs
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I kind of forgot that I own
daveschwantes.com
(it just redirects to
dinosaurseateverybody.com
)
3 months ago
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Oh good. I just bought a new keyboard. ⌨️ 💸
3 months ago
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Don't Break Prod
3 months ago
Fail productively:
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Fail Productively - Don't Break Prod
Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.
https://dontbreakprod.com/posts/fail-productively
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Postwave 0.1.5 released!
postwave.blog/posts/postwa...
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Postwave 0.1.5 Released | Postwave
This is a blog built with Postwave.
https://postwave.blog/posts/postwave-015-released
3 months ago
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New post about my adventures in self-hosting:
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Dinosaurs Eat Everybody :: Fine, I'll Do It Myself
https://dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/fine-ill-do-it-myself
3 months ago
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Don't Break Prod
3 months ago
Clarity over cleverness:
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Seniority Is Clarity Not Cleverness - Don't Break Prod
Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.
https://dontbreakprod.com/posts/seniority-is-clarity-not-cleverness
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... ... ... ... ... I should probably buy another domain for this little project...
3 months ago
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I just started playing with
@coolify.io
in an effort to handle more of my own hosting (without having to actually do much real dev ops), so far it's pretty cool. I got
postwave.blog
fully moved over last night!
3 months ago
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Don't Break Prod
4 months ago
Habits Beat Motivation
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Habits Beat Motivation - Don't Break Prod
Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.
https://dontbreakprod.com/posts/habits-beat-motivation
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I wrote a bit about Postwave, the blog engine I built:
dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/postwave
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Dinosaurs Eat Everybody :: Postwave
https://dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/postwave
4 months ago
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My new bari sax just showed up! It is huge and awesome! 🎷
4 months ago
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Aaaaand all of a sudden I'm doing a bunch of saxophone repair work. Tonight I used shellac and a small torch to reattach a key pad on my tenor and I just ordered a kit to re-cork the neck. I guess it was due for some love. 🎷
4 months ago
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Hmm... AI gives much worse advice about Elixir compared to Ruby, Go, or TypeScript. Volume of training data seems to matter a lot.
4 months ago
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Don't Break Prod
4 months ago
Remember, careers have both direction and speed.
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Match Your Opportunities To Your Ambitions - Don't Break Prod
Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.
https://dontbreakprod.com/posts/match-your-opportunities-to-your-ambitions
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I haven't done any TypeScript outside of React projects at work, so I wasn't sure what the workflow for "just write a small program to run in the terminal" would be. I ended up just using Bun (
bun.com
) and everything was really smooth!
4 months ago
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Alright! It's Advent of Code (
adventofcode.com
) season! 🎄 Maybe TypeScript this year?
4 months ago
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My 4 year old recently got me into that Fallout Boy record about Spiderman that came out a few years ago.
5 months ago
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Don't Break Prod
5 months ago
Do not underestimate the power of caring about others in a way that makes them care about you.
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Build Relationships - Don't Break Prod
Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.
https://dontbreakprod.com/posts/build-relationships
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Don't Break Prod
5 months ago
As an engineer it's not what you do, but what your work does:
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Show That Your Work Was Useful - Don't Break Prod
Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.
https://dontbreakprod.com/posts/show-that-your-work-was-useful
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Just what the world needs, another software engineer pontificating about AI!
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Dinosaurs Eat Everybody :: Random Thoughts About AI
https://dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/random-thoughts-about-ai
6 months ago
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New post about not using a phone for everything:
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Dinosaurs Eat Everybody :: Just Use a Laptop
https://dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/just-use-a-laptop
6 months ago
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π-thon
www.python.org/downloads/re...
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Python Release Python 3.14.0
The official home of the Python Programming Language
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140/
6 months ago
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Don't Break Prod
6 months ago
Reaching for increased effort or pushed timeline is often a crutch to avoid the important work of prioritization. Prioritize Ruthlessly:
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Prioritize Ruthlessly - Don't Break Prod
Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.
https://dontbreakprod.com/posts/prioritize-ruthlessly
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My ability to get sucked into things like Cookie Clicker (
orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/
) is probably one of my biggest failings as a human.
6 months ago
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Ok, I'm trying out
@dev.to
for posting about some tech things. I just wrote something about Postwave:
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Introducing: Postwave
Postwave is for people who want to build their own website... And post things to that site... And...
https://dev.to/dorkrawk/introducing-postwave-4f68
7 months ago
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I finally put together a site (and example implementation) for the blog engine I've been working on, Postwave. It's ready for people to start playing around with. Check it out at
postwave.blog
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Postwave
This is a blog built with Postwave.
https://postwave.blog/
7 months ago
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Don't Break Prod
7 months ago
Find good problems:
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Find Good Problems - Don't Break Prod
Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.
https://dontbreakprod.com/posts/find-good-problems
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Lately I've had the strong urge to work on small tech/programming projects that nobody is likely to care about but me.
7 months ago
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This is the AI that's going to take over humanity? Call me when it can do some basic tasks 🦖...
7 months ago
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I wrote a bit about how it's nice to have things both configured and configurable after playing around with
#omarchy
for a while:
dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/playing...
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Dinosaurs Eat Everybody :: Playing With Linux
https://dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/playing-with-linux
7 months ago
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Don't Break Prod
7 months ago
Get good at getting feedback:
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Handle Feedback Productively - Don't Break Prod
Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.
https://dontbreakprod.com/posts/handle-feedback-productively
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Installing Omarchy on an ancient (2012) MacBook Air has led me ordering a replacement battery to address the horrible battery life. For about $30 this laptop that was gathering dust will be a very usable little machine.
7 months ago
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Now:
dinosaurseateverybody.com/now
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Dinosaurs Eat Everybody :: now
https://dinosaurseateverybody.com/now
7 months ago
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Whoa, LocalSend (
localsend.org
) is incredible for moving files around heterogeneous devices (iPhone, Macs, Linux, Windows, etc.). It just works! No setup, no accounts.
7 months ago
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So I dug up an old 2012 MacBook Air and installed Omarchy on it. I guess now I'm spending my night messing around with Arch and Hyprland?
7 months ago
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Don't Break Prod
8 months ago
Bad news doesn't age well:
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Communicate Early and Often - Don't Break Prod
Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.
https://dontbreakprod.com/posts/communicate-early-and-often
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We feed our leopard gecko live crickets. There is one remaining cricket in his terrarium that has been chirping all day for the past few days. Come on lizard! Just eat him, he's driving me nuts! 🦎
8 months ago
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I wrote a blog post about writing and recording my last solo record:
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Dinosaurs Eat Everybody :: Another And Or Not Record
https://dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/another-and-or-not-record
8 months ago
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