Good news for accountants, A.I. tools are still shit at creating spreadsheets. Bad news for me, I have no idea how to create the spreadsheets I want 🥲

One of my homies proposed to his girlfriend last week. The engagement ring was inside a Pokeball 🔥 She loved it.

Turning off Claude and code auto-complete just to feel something.

The transition from Energy to Break My Soul needs to be added to the record books. Never gets old 🔥

I need to find a new career mentor for 2026.

Good news Chicago. After several years, I finally caved and bought a snow blower. So that means it won't snow again until next year. You're welcome!

Stephen King has written 65 books and more than 200 short stories. I need to get my life together 🥴

A present day Black history fact, Philippe Dufour (arguably the greatest watch maker of all time) is passing the torch of watchmaking onto his daughter Danièla Dufour. Master watchmaking has been a male dominated scene for years, so pretty cool learning about her journey alongside her Dad.

One thing I miss about my old job is having 4 hours of time on Friday's whereas everyone at the company could focus on improving their learning. Whether you wanted to work on getting certifications, reading a tech book or meeting with a mentor. The company had a learning-first culture. I miss it 🥹

Rest in Peace to a legend 😭 deadline.com/2025/12/cary...

Watches are my new obsession 😌 Bulova Jet Star on the wrist today.

Google's Gemini has gotten VERY good in a short amount of time. So much so, that it's replaced Chat GPT for me when it comes to non-coding tasks. Still experimenting with coding tasks, but Claude is still #1 at the moment.

Took a stroll to Hawkins yesterday, aka a dive arcade bar in Chicago that did a Stranger Things pop up 🤪

You ever look over your resume and think to yourself, "Damn, I did all that?!?" Just me? Cool 😂

Using A.I. coding tools has made me a better code reviewer to say the least. I've become much more suspicious of all code being generated these days 😅

I finally started watching "And Just Like That...". I'm a few episodes in, but I miss Samantha ☹️ Her character and personality was needed in that friendship between the 4 of them. Gonna keep watching but definitely feels like she's the "something missing" from the show at the moment.

Chat... I think we're cooked 🥴

I miss Twitter Spaces...

Cool software that I use everyday and take for granted.... Vimium for Chrome/Firefox. Allows you to navigate pages using vim key-bindings. If you're a fellow vim key-bindings nerd, give it a look. Chrome: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/vimiu... Firefox: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...

I just spit out my coffee 💀

Went watch shopping today. I think I'm leaning towards the Tudor Black Bay w/ the gold links & Bronze and Black bezel 🤌🏾

The Outlook app for Android really is the bottom of the barrel of apps I've ever used. Why am I getting calendar reminder notifications for a meeting that occurred over an hour ago?! Fortunate I suppose, as it typically just decides to never alert me of any meetings at all.

Okay folks, it's time: I'm hiring! Looking for 5(!) developer relations engineers across the world! Our company is remote-first but this role involves in-person appearances at events so although you don't need to work in a specific office we are focusing our search in specific metro areas:

My first advice to junior contributors is to STOP using vibe coding for PRs. OSS is always about people more than about code. We don't need more code generated by LLM, we need more people who care.

Hmmm. Probably a good sign for me to change all of my "password" passwords 🤔

Why is there such a wide gap between PTO with so many companies? You either get 20 days for the year or "unlimited". I feel like there's a happy medium of 25-30 days in there. With a sabbatical program for folks who've been with your company 5+ years.

Revise Robotics is looking for a Software Engineer to help build the software foundation that ties robotics, data, and operations together. Revise Robotics builds robots to automate electronics refurbishment. New York, NY. buff.ly/RARfHwK

My Hero Academia spoiler! My Hero Academia spoiler! My Hero Academia spoiler! .... That brief look that Deku and Bakugo shared before they LOCKED TF IN! 🔥 No words were needed. Gave me chills!

Talk about a landslide! Good job America 🙌🏾

Been to every Chicago Emily King concert and I will continue to go as many times as she tours. Love her music ❤️

We really are in a great era for horror movies 🙌🏾

$1000006447863358855 See? I can make up imaginary numbers too! This is all make believe! 💸

15 minute afternoon naps are really a productivity cheat code that no one talks about enough.

On a side-note, while I wait for my pre-order copy of the 2nd edition DDIA, what other "systems" books have y'all been reading and enjoying lately? 👀

Storytime! 🥳 So, for the past week or so, my team was on a pretty tight deadline to deliver a new project. Then, in the midst of this crunch, aws us-east-1 went down and had a pretty massive impact on our ability to do our jobs (as it did for many others) 🧵

Everything I've learned about Terraform has been against my will 😭 I've gotten a lot better at navigating it over the years and I both love and hate that for me 😂

Basta is looking for a Staff Engineer (Frontend) to shape the user experience of AI-powered Seekr Adaptive platform. Basta builds a bridge between employers and an untapped talent pipeline. New York, NY. buff.ly/K61uKlI

Am I going crazy or have we been experiencing more of these large outages than normal, lately?

There's still a huge audience for Tron films. No one wants to see Jared Leto in them though. Easy fix 🤷🏾‍♂️

Doechii's concert was EVERYTHING ❤️

I keep hearing folks talk about how this is a great time for junior engineers looking to break into the tech industry, but I never see any junior level engineer job postings 🥴 Something ain't adding up.

Hey all 👋🏽 Who's team/company is currently hiring software engineers at the moment? Any stack, any level. Feel free to share! Thanks!

This is why you always proofread any and all Claude changes before approval 😅

Highest 2 Lowest might be Spike Lee's worst work to date. Big fan, but that ain't it y'all.

It's always dope when your childhood heroes don't let you down in adulthood. Bill always been standing on business ✊🏾

At some point, social media CEO's are gonna have to realize, you don't HAVE to respond to EVERYTHING.

A couple years later and I still wish YouTube gave users a way to hide YouTube Shorts.

I feel like I'm screaming into the void on this!! The fact that this happened in the neighborhood I grew up in has my blood boiling!!

I'll shout it from the rooftops every chance I get. District 9 needs a sequel!!! youtu.be/DyLUwOcR5pk

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.