Meredith Matthews @braindouche@qoto.org
Joined Nov 2022
RT @polotek
I've got thoughts about a lot of different things in the blog post. But the very first thought I had after reading it was it's exhausting how much time we spend in tech talking shit to each other. https://charity.wtf/2023/03/09/architects-anti-patterns-and-organizational-fuckery/
He's not just an engineer, he's the most dangerous kind of engineer: extremely inexperienced, insufficiently supervised and full of unearned confidence.
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RT @polotek
People are starting to say Elon Musk isn't actually a real engineer. But he definitely said "I don't know why people think Twitter is so complicated. I could fix it in like a weekend." And then proceeded to fuck everything up. That's exactly like an engineer.
https://twitter.com/polotek/status/1591233043075067907
RT @HeerJeet
Oh no don't arrest Bill Clinton that would be so heartbreaking it's the last thing people on the left want to see don't do it don't do it. https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1641845565796253719
@anxietocracy
Some day I'll share the story of a legacy build that took me a week and two principal engineers to get running, and in the process of fixing the thing that needed fixed I replaced almost all of that infrastructure by moving the whole thing to WLS and writing a three-line bash script.
RT @DrEricDing
⚠️BREAKING—CDC team falls ill while investigating the health impacts of Ohio train derailment—➡️**7** US government investigators briefly fell ill in March while studying the possible health impacts of a toxic #OhioChemicalDisaster train derailment, @CDCgov confirms to CNN. 🧵
@lawnsea
Not to get all American Gods on this but like, why isn't Thoth a patron of programmers? He's the boss of magis spells, sacred texts, knowledge and writing, he's entirely our dude.
@lawnsea
My boss: "so before he quit, Scott implemented this app's interface with Angular and graphQL, and we need you to make some updates for the client real quick."
Me: "sure. Indenture me an army of laborers and schedule a blood sacrifice at the temple and I'll have this out of here in no time."
New term proposed! Front-End Pharaoh: A developer who creates front-ends that require the surplus labor of an entire bronze-age kingdom to build and maintain. Someone who doesn't factor in scale of developer resources against the incidental complexity of systems they create.
@janl
Ahh. There they are. Thanks.
Remote work cope for a long meeting of limited relevance to me. #cubing
Does anyone besides me look at quantum computer.research, and especially the non-general-computing machines D-Link sells, and wonder if we're just reinventing a really expensive version of analog computing?
@janl
I know he's developed and advocated for some pre-typescript libraries and technologies that have been thoroughly memoryholed and actively hated some latter-day JavaScript language additions, but I don't think those count as sins per se. But that's all I have.
@trinsec
Right? So inconvenient!
Weird things that bothered you as a child? I'll go first:
It bothered me endlessly that pencils don't write black. I don't know if I was craving more contrast on the paper or if I just thought they *should*.
Not very hot take: prompt engineering is just QA with a trendy paycheck #changemymind. I hope historically underpaid QAs are getting bank while the getting is good.
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RT @business
“Prompt engineers” are people who spend their day coaxing AI to produce better results and help companies train their workforce to harness the tools.
They're also getting paid upwards of $335,000 a year.
A thread 🧵
https://twitter.com/business/status/1641089191638441990
Does anyone know if Douglas Crockford has been cancelled for anything? Because I still swear The Good Parts has been the most useful programming book I've ever read, and I need to know if it's a problematic fave or not.
RT @PavelASamsonov
"How would you explain programming to your grandma? How would a product manager describe what they do to their mom?"
My grandma programmed mainframes before you were born. My mom has been a PM since before you started school. Maybe they should explain these jobs to you instead.
Nobody:
Absolutely nobody:
Buffalo weather right now: I'm bored. Let's snow sideways at 40 miles per hour!
Joined Nov 2022
