Mal McKay

Tea is the most important meal of the day

my fully remote team at @Square for Restaurants is looking for iOS & Android engineers of all experience levels! if you're interested, feel free to DM me! and also feel free to retweet for visibility in this tough job market :)

Would it be interesting to do a podcast where we interview the authors of great software about how it was built? Like a software architecture version of song exploder.

Design Your Codebase with Low Fan-out, High Fan-in Classes by @caleb_hearth lobste.rs/s/j83hqi #programming calebhearth.com/fan-out-vs-fan…

Hello friends, it's one of those "Penelope tweets on behalf of Ruby Central" fridays. And yes, it's about Texas. As a reminder: I am a transgender director at Ruby Central, the 501c3 that organises RailsConf and RubyConf Please read the whole thread. 1/

@GergelyOrosz Small companies can use quality as a forcing function. It’s easier to establish good processes and ensure everyone follows them when you know everyone. Big co’s have lots going on and it’s not as easy to have reach across everyone.

People don’t just leave managers: they leave shitty oncall rotations as well.

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For over 20 years, @pragprog's book _Programming Ruby_, better known as "The Pickaxe Book", has been an entry point and a reference for the Ruby community. It was, among other things, my introduction to Ruby. It also hasn't been updated since 2013. 1/

from a certain point of view microservices are the logical outcome of the endless game of hot-potato where everyone tries not to get caught with the state

We just open sourced Hermit - a hermetic package manager for software projects designed by @alecthomas. Check it out. It's genius! cashapp.github.io/hermit/

Slack's CEO Stewart Butterfield made a huge announcement: - On Clubhouse - About building their own Clubhouse into Slack - While Clubhouse's CEO was also a speaker DAMN. This is exactly what was said while Clubhouse's CEO raged while on mute:

So, the social network that might most successfully clone Clubhouse is Slack. Much of Clubhouse is gated by an extrovert tax, which is way smaller when you’re in your chosen Slack workspace. And Slack is already so good at adhoc conversations designed to be forgotten...

@daveganly This is very Avenue 5

@RandomEtc It is immensely watchable, but I have yet to find a description that describes it well.

Since we're building up a team to work on Rust I now get to do more Rust-based phone screens and coding interviews. It's noticeable that rust developers code is very consistent and idiomatic. Much more so than either C, C++, or Java. More like Python or Go in that way.