The bar for changing your app icon, even temporarily, needs to be higher. Unless you’re a game! Seasonal launch, etc But for everyone else? Stop it!

3 days in a row of poorly designed experiences for sites that are gating behaviors until a specific point in time (enrollment, sales, etc). THERE ARE SOLUTIONS TO THIS! Use them!

OUT: tech bros inventing the bus IN: tech bros inventing employees

New post on operational debt and how you identify and tackle it! leaddev.com/technical-di...

New post on operational debt and how you identify and tackle it! leaddev.com/technical-di...

I know that’s right! Yes for Virginia!!!!

Anytime you worry that the public policy space has no experts to meet this moment in technology do not fret! It’s worse than that. They have Palantir!

Don’t mind me. Just spending my whole day tailing logs.

Sure, why not. www.wired.com/story/allbir...

Did I miss something? When did LinkedIn become a common place for ICs to pontificate.

I think one of the things about bluesky is that for a lot of its users, it represents a kind of retirement from social media. Like I’m tired and I want to get out of the game

This is so, so well-articulated.

Can’t believe I’m celebrating 5 years at Netflix 🤯 Working here has truly grown me as an engineer in ways I never anticipated. Technical challenge coupled with endless opportunity to identify and solve problems. Don’t get me wrong, it’s been a wild ride, but a rewarding one.

Love burning multiple hours trying to tune an alert just realize it can’t be done with the data available 😭

Happy stay off the internet day!

January, February, UConn, April

Codesandbox, the end of an era.

New article! I know AI content is everywhere, but this is fully informed by my recent ramp up into a new team. leaddev.com/hiring/does-...

We’re not cold, we’re not afraid, Minnesota taught us to be brave

What a great build

This build is going to be nostalgic

Merry Christmas!

Such a shitty start to the holiday break thanks to @playstation.com support. Charge me for the game? Yup! Give me the game? Nope! Support response? That’ll be one to two business days for us to review your refund. Wtf?!

I know people put a ton of work into this, but I’m sorry, I hate the glass iOS UI/UX so much 😭 I don’t care if my phone looks like it was made in the future. I care that it’s easy to focus my eyes!

Klaus truly is one of the best holiday movies ever made. Makes me smile every year.

It’s a tough job market, but given that I recently transitioned roles after more than 4 years it was on my mind. New post for the lead dev is live! leaddev.com/career-devel...

Today’s the day!

Go play some games! Boggle is my favorite 🎮 www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...

Just here, doing my daily duty, of ruining my workplace 😎

I’m convinced, at this point, that about 90% of the things in tech look hard because you aren’t in the details. Once you dig in it’s a permutation of patterns that aren’t too complex. The other 10%, ya, I’m not smart enough for that shit.

Way to go Virginia!!! Was busier than usual at the polls when we went this morning. Glad to see that was a good omen.

tired: it's always DNS inspired: ICANN feel it coming in the air tonight

My first ever full time developer job was working in the DNS domain. It’s the backbone of the internet so it is both an unbelievable footgun and incredibly resilient to change. Yes, both can be true at once!

It's always DNS. Except when it's AWS. (In this case, it was both.)

Today is great! Something working slowly or not at all? Definitely AWS’s fault! Nothing to see here 🎶

I wonder how many utilities won’t be built because of AI. Quick scripts that format data, or automate other mundane tasks that folks won’t bother to write.

Where in we learn that a us-east-1 outage teaches us a lot about what systems just went with the default 😅

The more systems I explore/learn the less time I have to overthink different permutations of their architecture. I have yet to determine if this is a pro or a con!

While providing tech support for my FIL: FIL: What's that screen? ME: The terminal. You should never use it. FIL: Never? ME: So you know how I'm allowed to watch you open the electrical panel and swap out breakers, but I'm not allowed to ever open up it myself? FIL: Ah! I understand, thank you.

Guess now is as good a time as any! After 4.5 years in Platform I’ve embarked on a new adventure in Games Platform 🎮 Excited to get closer to Netflix customers and learn a different domain. Oh, and… about.netflix.com/news/level-u...

Underwatermelon is far more addictive of a game than it should be

I used to sit down to draft blog posts in one sitting. That doesn’t happen anymore. I didn’t realize how much practice and repetition had made things easier.

I don’t want a thinner phone I want a smaller phone! You can pry this iPhone 13 mini from my cold dead hands.

Did Claude always use “vibing” as its loading state copy?! Is that where vibe coding came from?!

Cursor really kills your battery life

Intuitive UX is always going to feel unintuitive for someone

I know I’m biased, but some of these streaming interfaces are really brutal