Allison Kaptur

@mintiiB And RC isn't that well-suited for some kinds of leveling up to a senior role - e.g. breaking down projects so multiple people can work on them, leading a team, making product decisions, managing tech debt, working within infra constraints - so it depends what you're trying to do.

@mintiiB RC is an amazing place if you have a goal or plan for your time (even if it changes) and want a community around you. It's not helpful to people who are looking for a curriculum or a heavily guided program. This application question is trying to distinguish those cases.

Contemplating attending the Recurse Center during my time of funemployment. I wonder if the study goal of becoming a sr. engineer is concrete enough for their program?

@lemay time for a peck of pickled peppers?

I suppose I could freeze them or dry them or something but I also have a lot of jalapeños for that. A lot. of jalapeños.

Today’s garden haul:

@kellan @zmagg Ha, Kellan, if she had only killed off unsuccessful database migrations you’d hire her for that too

@zmagg Finished a _successful_ migration to a new database, _multiple_ times.

@norootcause I think it’s a great metaphor, but it lands differently depending on how the listener thinks about debt. Is this tech choice credit card debt (high interest, desperate situation and/or bad choice) or a mortgage (secured, ~only way to afford a house)?

I don't get the hating on the term "technical debt". It's a useful piece of technical argot: when somebody says "we need to prioritize work to reduce technical debt”, everyone understands what they mean. I’ve never seen it lead to confusion in practice.

I wrote a piece on Staff+ dysfunctions! Regardless of hype, when I ask folks if they feel like their organization is effective at (1) understanding what it is staff engineers do and (2) empowering them to do it, the answer is very broadly "no." squanderingti.me/blog/2022/06/2…

@simonw Very handy if you’re asserting about deserialized nested objects that include timestamps and so on

TIL there's a ANY object in the Python standard library that you can use effectively as a wildcard in any test - it has a __eq__() that always returns True and __ne__() that always returns False: #L2384-L2396" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/python/cpython…

Great reflection on being a sustainably effective senior IC. twitter.com/dbsmasher/stat…

@glyph It’s a really beautiful day outside

Hey everybody, how are we doing, just checking in to make sure we’re not accidentally doing anything useful, just refreshing our various sources of misery and stress on a loop

@hmason I found this little crutch pocket incredibly useful, much more convenient than swinging a backpack on and off amazon.com/dp/B004CZ5P6S

Twitter friends -- I fractured a bone in my foot 😭. This is my third experience on crutches, so I'm not a beginner, but each time I figure out new tricks and hacks to make it easier. I'd love your wisdom! What advice do you have for me?

Working in TypeScript clarified a lot of the nuances of optional static typing in dynamic languages for me, and this was a fun reflection to write.

I wrote a post for @PilotHQ 's engineering blog on working with TypeScript after a long time spent in Python with mypy: @Pilot-EPD-Blog/typescript-for-pythonistas-f90bbb297f0a" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@Pilot-EPD-Blo…

@spang @ksplice @jessicamckellar @waseem @jeffarnold Nice work, Spang!

I just want to point out that all 2 of the CTOs on this list are @ksplice alumni. Prolific crew! @jessicamckellar (copying @waseem @jeffarnold)

DNS doesn't "propagate" jvns.ca/blog/2021/12/0…

@gvanrossum @glyph @ericvsmith In 2017 when we started down this path dataclasses obviously didn't support our needs yet, but by this point they might

@gvanrossum @glyph @ericvsmith Possibly! David's actually not on Twitter but he says: "We've built up quite an architecture around attrs (e.g. structuring to/from JSON, shared type annotation between typescript, runtime type checking when necessary) it would be a pretty big change to switch to dataclasses."

I didn't stick around quite long enough to see this launch while I was there, but I'm pleased to see a description of Pilot's very cool style of Python posted publicly — @Pilot-EPD-Blog/mypy-and-attrs-e1b0225e9ac6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@Pilot-EPD-Blo… — as well as the story of some IMHO foundational Mypy features from David Euresti!

@kellan The difference between types and interfaces is pretty subtle, but classes are different: they also exist at runtime. I love the TS playground for exploration - look at the JS tab and the .d.ts tab to see what’s types and what’s transpiled JS. eg #example/types-vs-interfaces" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">typescriptlang.org/play?q=287#exa…

New to Typescript, can someone explain to me why there are Interfaces, Types, and Classes?

I'll be on a @TheLeadDev panel tomorrow on understanding the role of a Staff engineer! Tune in here: leaddev.com/events/underst…

@EvyKassirer For Rust and challenging technical problems, it’s worth looking closely at Dropbox. Happy to facilitate an intro if they want

a friend of mine just finished a master's in CS and is looking for a new grad position (they also have experience from several internships) looking for challenging technical problems, preference for rust, but generally down for anything lmk if you're hiring <3