Aaron Beals

A good reminder for those of you leading teams (or aspiring to). At @appsembler, we have a company vacation policy that mandates preparation time in advance to coordinate handoffs and owners, and then people *disconnect*. hbr.org/2017/12/emaili…

thrilled to be featured in this piece by Nathan Eddy on Platform Engineering. no surprise: I'm making the case that platform engineering teams should be thinking more like product teams.

Engineering truth lives in the codebase. Flux raised a $5M Seed round led by @CalibrateVC, with @trueventures and @GlasswingVC joining, as @eajulian, @abeals, and Julia Burmeister build code-first intelligence from commits, pull requests, and repository activity. The next developer tools winners will not just track work. They will show engineering leaders what is actually happening inside the code.

so we could text Flux, our intern tricked the LLM into vibe coding up some vulnerabilities: askflux.ai/blog/tricking-…

and here's my prior post on the work (Flux) blog: askflux.ai/blog/code-visi…

been a long time, but I'm blogging again for work. I'll bring my own blog back soon, too. askflux.ai/blog/the-quest…

JS thought leadership wants you to render on the server, but it cannot possibly be a Node app responding with HTML. It must involve a custom compiler, a new RPC protocol and a cloud service. Nothing less will do.

Elon says "We will have to do a total rewrite to gain velocity" and immediately @igb is says "tell me what's so crazy about the stack; just describe it and how rewriting will gain you velocity" You will be surprised to know he did not respond.

Read this whole thread. I was about to set one up to boost the federated web, but this is an angle I hadn’t considered.

@jamessocol Ha! I remember well having a great chat with you on a bus on the way to either PyCon or DjangoCon. Clearly I remember the conversation but not the convention.

since (i assume) this is all about to collapse tomorrow: if i followed you and you were cool and probably in tech/design/journalism i probably had at least some kind of crush on you—so, you know, file that into the ego for later

This is very late 90's / early 2000's, but I'm planning to ramp up blogging instead. Let's respond to each other with longer-form posts that take time and thought... ... and to which random bots can't respond.

@adriennefriend Fully, *fully* agree. Meta properties are deeply flawed, and Instagram especially so. Great shout out about those studies. So where do we all go?

I'm not going to Instagram, I'll tell you that. As sad as I am about what's going on here, I'm not going all-in on a Zuckerberg property. Please don't forget the studies that say Instagram *in particular* makes you feel bad about yourself

If you’re wondering why Twitter is still up & running with the majority of hardcore engineers gone, it’s because many exceptional engineers over the years gave it all they had to ensure the platform scaled under any conditions. Twitter was resilient 💙

yep, because we're all exfiltrating our personal data so we have a fresh backup, in case some key engineers no longer work there.

Having seen the surreptitious way NY collects DNA of children as young as 12 and puts it in a DNA database, I can guarantee you Texas is not collecting this DNA to identify victims of school shootings, but rather to prosecute and incarcerate children and their family members.

PSA FROM YOUR FRIENDLY PUBLIC DEFENDER: DO NOT PROVIDE YOUR CHILDREN’S DNA TO A DATABASE! For that matter, this applies to everyone: DO NOT EVER VOLUNTARILY GIVE A DNA SAMPLE.

In what will likely reduce the number of Meta recruiter calls and emails I get, I wrote this post about how I’ve disengaged from Facebook and Instagram, and why: aaronbeals.com/posts/why-i-di…

Every developer should have the experience of typing `git blame` and seeing their own username sitting there… aaronbeals.com/posts/the-valu…

sometimes the best way to get something to happen is to make the first draft, even if the result is terrible. aaronbeals.com/posts/make-som…

How do you make decisions, especially on a distributed team? aaronbeals.com/posts/how-do-y…