I am not meant to be a leader, am just meant to be a problem solver - and that takes away all the worry about appearing to be in a certain mould
and this freedom to be you when you meet people is precious
it's less common than people think, almost everyone in middle age in tech can discern this
I am not meant to be a leader, am just meant to be a problem solver - and that takes away all the worry about appearing to be in a certain mould
and this freedom to be you when you meet people is precious
it's less common than people think, almost everyone in middle age in tech can discern this
The most beneficial part of me deciding not to pursue a product management vertical career ladder, instead trying for IC dev roles is:
I have to worry less about impressing people
I know I will be hired using my coding assignment or live coding interview, not by how I talk or how charming I am
1/2
Some of my favorite deepdives from this year:
- What the end of 0% interest rates means for software engineers
- Paying down tech debt
- AI tooling for software engineers: reality check
- State of the engineering job market in 2024
- What GenZ software engineers are like
Pre 7 am tea
it was so dark outside, had to switch on lights, you'd think you were living in the nordics
the morning time is something else, I think the ancient were right about the morning rituals
This
right here
what I have
is enough ...
Here's an in-progress starter pack of all the brilliant @zed.dev members (who are already on 🦋) ⚡️
go.bsky.app/DJTgVFK
Pre 6 pm tea
started exploring zed because I wanted to write code without AI help & develop some intuition for Rust
also just checked the repo for merge velocity & it's being shipped really fast
it's a different workflow as compared to windsurf_ai & cursor_ai
exploring the middle path
iykwim
what are some KV stores that are distributed, horizontally scalable, and come with auto-sharding? is FoundationDB the only one?
A standing desk +
a chip +
half-a-cup of tea
This
right here
what I have
is enough ...
I'd always prefer a platform to be prosperous so that it can continue to invest in itself
first draft of tweet-scrolls
convert your twitter archive json to text + CSV file of scrolls, which are assimilation of multi-tweet threads in a single text unit starting with the non-reply tweet
github.com/that-in-rust...
A standing desk &
a notebook to express myself
This
right here
what I have
is enough ...
This
right here
what I have
is enough ...
definitely
hello world!
