Tom McLaughlin (@tmclaugh.bsky.social)

I'm really honored by this. And I think it's a great time to talk about how I got here. Some folks may have noticed I disappeared from the tech world for a period. This is about what happened and how I recovered. Going to talk about mental health. 🧵 aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/anno…

If you walk through the Common in the morning and appreciate the daily weather forecast, sports scores, and being wished a good day; this is Gilbert our town crier. #boston gofund.me/c3dcbb55

Today is Cinnamon’s Forever Home Day! 9 years with this sweet companion who has so important to me through these past few years. 😻

@pinskinator I’ve worked places where your solution could be rejected because it wasn’t good enough. Valid on a technical level but not reflective of the quality bar we expect to present.

@pinskinator Say one team thinks their solutions should Just Work OOB for devs and another thinks their services should be a gated service which requires tickets to them. What do you do when they all have technically valid solutions but are worlds apart in approach?

Does anyone here work in an engineering organization that has a "Definition Of Good"? There's countless ways to solving a problem that may be technically correct, but not all of them are "good". I know definitions of done and of ready. But what about good?

@zack_overflow Loved your city. Want to visit again and see more. But no thought in my mind of ever living there.

@zack_overflow Finally, both SF and Boston having housing shortages. Even I'm being priced out of here. But I can see construction and new buildings going up. I don't think I saw one crane in SF or new building being built. That made me assume hosuing isn't being meaniungfully addressed.

If you work in tech, but live in NYC instead of SF Why? SF has: - highest density/caliber of devs/founders/optimism of any city - bigger apartments - beautiful and abundant nature - beautiful architecture - consistent weather

also, only back here because I need actual views. Still haven't put this app back on my mobile devices.

I literally signed up for community notes so I could make sure to demonetize dipshits like this.

millennial men were too busy quoting anchorman and figuring out new, innovative ways to sack tap each other to get radicalized by the far right and I love them for that.

@tmclaughbos They have a well oiled machine from chat rooms and small social groups to battle test memes and messages and elevate them all the way up the media ladder until the most important and effective ones become part of their core reality

There is nothing like this from the left that can build an alternate reality. It was amazing to me how suddenly half this country thought the economy was good in 2017 with no substantive change. How do you deal with half the country living in a weird echo chamber?