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That's my cue. I've had enough social media for one life 👋

@mikirez @Spiff_Inc is on the hunt for a backend engineer (possibly acting as a manager of a small team). Mix of ruby and elixir.

Wow, I ❤️@bernheisel for building this awesome community tool

We live in a world where my bank sent me a paper letter, across the ocean, to notify me that they would be sending me an email message and that I could opt-out of email...

@JonCarstens @davydog187 "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" my 3rd pass and still picking up his stuff "Permission to feel" to help me navigate the days when it's hard to be an eng leader/manager

@davydog187 “Off to be the Wizard” - Scott Meyer …Sometimes I just need some funny, nerdy fiction

What's your reading list? For non-technical, I've got 1. Snow Crash 2. Anything you want (suggested by @adamwathan) 3. American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

@bernheisel So the lesson we've learned is that building tools in JavaScript is hard and slow? Better rebuild all this JavaScript tooling in some language

Oh hey look vercel.com/blog/turbopack Another JavaScript builder thing but this time in Rust. We have Bun in Zig esbuild in Go Now Turbopack in Rust

Last week I went into a local year 6 class (5th grade) and used showoff.riesd.com to teach about programming. 3 days later, I noticed that some of the kids had logged on later from home and made additional drawings with edits by one of their younger sisters ❤️ 💛 💙 💚 💜

@nickflynndev The thing that got me excited about STEAM was hearing it pitched as STEM focused, but including art in a way that humanizes the learning. For example, learn about math in terms of how you will solve a problem for your family or community. Or SonicPi where you code music

More and more I see STEM changed to STEAM. I don't want to downplay the importance of art in education but isn't STEAM just... every school subject?

Amazing to see the tech, product, service and support at Spiff recognized in this way.

@trafnar @ztoolson I think they acquired a business that knows how to make and refine software. Not just the software itself. A team that can to work together, to argue through all the millions of decisions that have to be made and care enough about each other and their users to build beautiful

Figma acquisition shows how hard it is to turn money into software. You'd think for $20B you could build something as good as Figma yourself, but you can't. Software is art.

@sprsmpl I started it once and put it down 🥱 Maybe I should give it another try?

@mmmries Have you read this? You might like it.amazon.com/Bestseller-mea…

Do you measure your success (at work or otherwise) more on your input (worked hard) or output (work done)?

Building a project with Salesforce as a partner feels a bit surreal. My day job is getting pretty interesting

@a_wiersdorf Was it replacing a JavaScript dependency? Any time I see more than a few thousand lines deleted my brain immediately assumes that someone deleted yarn.lock

@bernheisel Are you a Dad? "You should plug that in" is my main Dad job these days

I'm like the fairy god charger in my house. I see unplugged devices, I plug them in and clean the screen.

I helped out a bit with this one. Thanks for throwing in a "Sam Ries" in the demo video!

More people need to see this "I want more, impossible to ignore...They'll come true, impossible not to do" youtu.be/Jv4MYqzg-P4

@a_wiersdorf Follow-up I recently implemented multi-region deployment for showoff.riesd.com with DETS for storage per region and phoenix presence for cross-region awareness. Showoff rooms take only a couple ms to render on the server and are under 50ms for browsers in these regions

@a_wiersdorf Haha the amount of work I'm interested in doing just to save milliseconds for the 10 blog visitors

@a_wiersdorf I compromised with a @elixirphoenix app that builds all blog entries say compile time and keeps them in memory. It let's me support search while keeping minimal size and latency