Nathaniel Jones

Duct taped vimrc, bash and AppleScript together and now my desktop background cross-fades to a random image on :w

@nateberkopec I would measure them constantly, just to be sure

What would you imagine the perf impacts are of adding 1,000 additional constants (MY_CONST=...) to the top level (root) Ruby namespace? How would you measure them?

@babysoftluke run far far away

just need that one person to give me the confidence to believe in k8

@babysoftluke yup, and ActionCable, put it all together and ✨

@thenthj hehe if you like, i know i will like. you using turbo too?

going to try replacing turbolinks with turbo on one of my apps. i have some javascript that runs alongside turbolinks right now, and might try replacing with stimulus . let's see how this goes 🕳️🐇

@adamlogic I’m curious your take: I put jobs that work with external APIs on dedicated queues, preventing API degradation from having an outsized bottlenecking effect on other jobs. Eventually at a certain size I handle this with dedicated “circuit breakers,” this seems to work to start

A couple weeks ago I wrote a scaling guide for the Sidekiq wiki. The issue I see most people run into is simply cranking their concurrency up too high, especially on Heroku dynos. You probably don't want more than five threads.

@bernhardsson Look here I have no idea who you are or by what magic you ended up in my feed but I would like to be friends

This might be heresy but: 1. Code reviews are a massive productivity tax with tiny quality benefits 2. They should not be mandated 3. The author should feel free to request a review if they want it 4. If you don't trust your engineers, invest more in CI, or hire better ones

A poet who doesn’t have great strategic sense is likely a loner or a populist, poetry alone isn’t sufficient, but strategy alone will run you straight into Chesterton’s curious case of the mad hatter—mad because he measures people’s heads

Some time back I deliberately pivoted from optimizing for abstractions and strategy to optimizing for poetry, and I think those two terms are a helpful distinction and comparison between engineering and leadership

@hargettly Hello friend! I'm the maintainer of rubygems.org/gems/ignorable with over 1 million downloads. I have been working with Rails since 2.x. I would be glad to help with maintaining the heroicon gem. Would that be something you're willing to consider? github.com/bharget/heroic…

@babysoftluke I followed the link, why are you stealing my product bro

ok been grinding over the holidays. happy to share my second app i am releasing in a span of two weeks. http://localhost:4567 let me know your feedback on the product

yes I am listening to the INTERSTELLAR soundtrack, why do you ask?

moving fast inherently means leaving more options behind

So many engineers I work with invest so much effort into marketing a future where we have more options. I can already spell any future I want into a computer. I already have infinite options. I am already a wizard. Commit to one option that improves our future position

@fmbillwatt We started out on Switch, it’s more limited but “just works” a bit These days we use CurseForge on macOS to manage all the modpacks and such godspeed

I need a "Minecraft for Dad's" tutorial or maybe support group

If you listen to Taylor Swift while writing Swift code does that make you a Swiftie Squared

@VicVijayakumar that's how they get promoted to architect or tech fellow and then the cycle repeats

Every company needs 2-3 senior+ engineers who have fuck you money or just have 0 fear of getting fired. Then when the architect or tech fellow or whoever unveil their new plan, those engineers unmute to say wtf is this, we're not moving everything into Lambda, are you high???

Current status: my eight year old is teaching me Procreate on iPad for my work