Lyle Troxell @Lyle@qoto.org

It is so difficult to not get distracted with all of the notifications and

Wesley learned a lot being a pirate… “Life is pain highness”… however much of personal suffering is maintained by our minds; letting go of what we want and being in the moment is the trick. “It’s really quite lovely…”

I Spotted the Netflix ... https://lyle.micro.blog/2019/08/20/i-spotted-the.html

Agreed mermaid, agreed.

@joycem137 welcome!!

@dadegroot wonderful!!

@shaunstew@mastodon.technology severance package.... and we hire people that are responsible. I think people are kinda awesome, and given respect become even more so. I guess there are sometimes bad apples, or will be at some point, but treating people well and trusting employees is important. As an employee I appreciate the way Netflix operates.

@shaunstew@mastodon.technology working at Netflix is quite amazing. We have a core ideas of Freedom and Responsibility and Context over Control, which basically means that we don’t make rules and red tape and instead trust our employees and let them (us) what they (we) feel is best.
Example: I can buy a new computer if I feel it’s best for the company to do so. I get auto-reimbursed. Same with travel expenses.
I have a whole public podcast about what it is like to work at NF: http://WeAre.netflix.net

Spoken languages vs Software languages:
For complex ideas translation between English and French is not perfect, translation transforms the information... you can not express the exact same thing in different languages.
Software, however can be “perfectly translated” you could implement the same application in Python as you can in JavaScript.

@freemo well in that case:
I have created a weekly radio show/podcast called GeekSpeak (https://geekspeak.org) for 18 years. We talk about science and technology.
This year I slowed down on GeekSpeak to make room for the podcast WeAre.netflix.net ; we talk about what it is like to work at Netflix and the different things we do.

In this two min YouTube video I’m #blacksmithing a monogrammed bottle opener for Warren Sack for a guest lecture I did in his digital media class as UCSC : https://youtu.be/B0QAys7Gyg0

A taste of #blacksmithing

@BrianCordanYoung@mastodon.technology I noticed that too. Bummer. Maybe HEVC?

@freemo wait - was this an AI written post?

@shaunstew@mastodon.technology I mostly work on modifications to the app to support our originals. For example our talk shows are quite different then our traditional serialized shows. For talk shows the most recent episode is the most important one... so we reverse the episode list and don’t show the episode number, and display the first air date. Things like that.

I’m Lyle Troxell from Santa Cruz, CA. I’m a software engineer, podcaster, maker, photographer, and father. I’m currently improving my blacksmithing skills, researching software arts / translation, and refreshing my JavaScript knowledge.
I work at Netflix on the iOS App, and create the WeAreNetflix podcast as well as my personal podcast “Geek Speak with Lyle Troxell”. I try to keep up on technology and how it affects society. #introduction