Gareth Townsend

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Gareth Townsend

@quamen

Builder of things. Engineering Lead @Blocks @CashApp Cyclist/Guitarist/Photographer/He/Him.

Melbourne, Australia Katılım Mayıs 2007
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goosewin@Goosewin·
you should add megabool to your projects
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Jon Bershad@JonBershad·
Please watch this movie trailer through to the very end so that you can experience the greatest title reveal of all time. Watching this in a theater made me lose my mind.
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Randall Munroe@xkcd·
(Thread) In the first What If? book, I answered a question about cooking a steak by dropping it from space. At one point, I commented—jokingly!—that if anyone put a steak in a hypersonic wind tunnel to gather better data, I’d love to see the video. Well, I have good news.
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Adam Tornhill@AdamTornhill·
”The quality of a system is defined by our ability to change it!” Great opening keynote from @davefarley77 at #YOW22
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Zach Cole
Zach Cole@ZachACole·
38° is the perfect above freezing temperature. 25° is the perfect below freezing temperature.
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Jamu Kakar
Jamu Kakar@jkakar·
It’s important to understand that DRY increases coupling. Combined with microservices, which often require migrations to make changes safely, they make a system more brittle and difficult to change and maintain over time. This also leads to greater blast radius when things break.
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Fausto@fausto_st·
Sharing it again because it is genius: (from The Almanack of @Naval Ravikant)
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Vinod Khosla@vkhosla·
Block (@Square) users are putting their paychecks in @CashApp per wsj.com/articles/cash-… . Likely this puts Block on path to be among the largets bank like institutions in number of account holders.
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kdin@wooperbot·
hey man i don’t make the rules
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rileycrane@rileycrane·
There’s no good holiday music between “spooky, scary skeletons” 💀🎃 and “All I want for Christmas is you” 🎄
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rands@rands·
Give them ample warning. Give them context so they can prepare. Remind them frequently of its importance. Be calm when it happens. Don’t panic when it goes sideways (it usually does). Look for learnings. Share those learnings. And repeat. Like forever.
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Ólafur Waage
Ólafur Waage@olafurw·
Mastodon's big idea is that there is no one server, it's all distributed. But then humans arrived and did their human thing so most of them picked one server, and now that server is down.
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Ben Orenstein
Ben Orenstein@r00k·
After five years of incredible work, our CTO @SpencerCDixon has decided to move to a part-time IC role at the company. We're now looking for a CTO to lead our small but mighty engineering team (and work closely with me!). tuple.app/jobs/cto
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