Nate The Great

I had a PM at Facebook in 2022 who was reported to HR by a new grad and reprimanded. His offense? He said "my WIFE" instead of "my partner." This is when I realized wokeness was out of control.

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Let’s play out some scenarios if you get DDOS’d. Bad dev + VPS = you go down fast Bad dev + serverless = high bill, but no downtime Good dev + VPS = you won’t go down as fast Good dev + serverless = “wait I was ddos’d?”

We have been made aware that the Advanced Custom Fields plugin on the WordPress directory has been taken over by WordPress dot org. A plugin under active development has never been unilaterally and forcibly taken away from its creator without consent in the 21 year history of WordPress.

From a CTO: "I'm not sure if very junior developers should get AI tools; there's a risk that they don't learn to code, don't learn to spot the mistakes, and won't feel comfortable manually refactoring things." My two cents: we need to stop "over-babying" less experienced devs.

I always recommend people to keep their main job Start making things on the side and then when that project replaces the money you make with your job for long enough, only then quit your main job When I started building stuff 10 years ago I was making $1K/mo from my electronic music YouTube channel, enough to live okay in Bali and Thailand The stress of having limited runway usually doesn't work for most people at all, having a main job gives you forever runway while building projects on the side There's exceptions though: recently met a guy who was about $1M saved and is young and single, ok fair he can quit right now!

Believe in yourself like visitors who believe they can pet a bison.

I enjoyed these situations, despite the pressure, because they allowed me to focus on just one thing. I got good at crisis management, which involves: -Clarifying the problem -Getting the right people in the room -Communicating status to leaders while the experts work