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“A legitimate PhD-level expert in anything,” they said. “Show me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,” I said.

Ok, I've had whiskey and my flight is delayed, so... time for some unadvised unadulterated software eng and management advice (thread)

🎵 California...knows how to party 🎵

15 years ago if you asked me to describe what aliens look like, they'd look exactly like the new power rangers

Cozy working vibes

Tonight's dinner is sponsored by...

💼 Hiring Update👩‍💼 One of my amazing engineers is transitioning to being an Engineering Manager! This leaves an opening for a Senior Backend Java Engineer on my team. The role isn't open quite yet, but I want to get the ball rolling. Descriptions below, please drop your LinkedIn links 🙌

vibes

one of my kids is about to transition to Kindergarten so I put together a list of private school costs in Oakland average cost: $34k for Kindergarten

What's the point of being rich if you can't afford to do the right thing.

If you politicize natural disasters you are a bad person.

Sledding went well

how do people live here?

My inbox right now - "Hey! You bought something from us within the past 15 years so here's an email about our black friday sale!1!"

“You’re in a bubble” is a notion I wholeheartedly reject. I live in a major metropolitan city. My neighbors don’t look like me, or each other. 6 languages are spoken on my block. My friends are multi-ethnic/gender/cultural. Regressives live in a bubble, & they want to preserve it no matter the cost

Don't forget to make your voice count and VOTE! 🇺🇸

I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM

ok ok, I'm up

Your favorite’s favorite is back out here keynoting again! This time in Round Rock, TX! Hope to see you in a few weeks at THAT conference ❤️🙌🏾🎤 I’ll be talking about how to leverage your transferable skills to build the career of your dreams 🔥

The absolute joy of flying high

What is the point of Apple's touch ID if I have to input my password every other time? 🤦

since bluesky is so much smaller…anyone hiring a junior/entry-level engineer in NYC? i have about 1.5 years of experience as a SWE, but 9+ years of experience in other roles varying from social media to support engineer :)

I'm closing out Smashing Conference with my talk "things I wish I knew about engineering management." The conference is tomorrow so naturally I'm up late still working on my slides 🥲

Is there a simple API to post to Twitter and Bluesky at the same time?

bluesky is a scam made by ICANN to sell more domain names

Got caught up in the Amazon layoffs: sad to share I'm leaving the @AWSAmplify team—but excited to be take some much-needed downtime after 6 years of hopping Big Tech roles. I am planning to travel and share “the making of” react.dev at confs. (Organizers, DM me!)

🌅 I’m excited to announce I’m joining OpenJS Board of Directors! Yesterday was my first board meeting, I’m happy to contribute to the community this way.

Pretty sure this is what my team hears when I start talking about software updates

I do wonder if Bluesky is killing its own success by limiting invite codes. Are they suffering from scaling problems?

Plz work 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ invite codes 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️

Worth coming into the office for

The Guardian captures our sentiments well

this place is 7-9 devs and 1 everything-else person. we are so, so early that it's actually insane we have these users. we are hiring through our general email inbox, [email protected]