Staff Engineer at Prodigy Education. Options my own (and without quality guarantees). Mastodon: @benjohnson@hachyderm.io
Oakville, Canada
Joined April 2008
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i’m in a code review with elon musk. ive got the CSS for neopets.com on 3 monitors. my browser’s in dark mode so it looks cool. “this part?” he asks, pointing to code for the Giant Omelette. “caches tweets in the mainframe cyberhex,” i say. he nods. “as i suspected”
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Ten years ago I stopped posting to this account because I was ready to move beyond Twitter. I think we've built something unique over at Micro.blog. An open platform based on blogs, community principles, that peers with Mastodon too. Made by people who love the web.
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Your website is a letter you write to your customer
First write the letter
Then design your site around it
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2002: “Organize the world's information.”
2007: “Connect with all your friends.”
2012: “The Sharing Economy.”
2017: “I don’t know. Chat bots?”
2020: “Fuck it. Ponzi schemes.”
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Lord give me the serenity
to accept the metrics I cannot change,
The courage to change the roadmap I can,
And the leadership layer that knows the difference.
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[unfolding a sheet of paper and looking into your eyes]
In these wedding vows, the key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
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TIL you can force push git branches with `+`.
ALT git push --force origin main git push -f origin main git push origin +main
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The problem with PMs and POs insisting that everything should look the same on both platforms is that no one apart from POs and PMs uses both platforms. To everyone else, going against platform idioms is jarring
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Hybrid apps are a VC / management fever dream about getting something for nothing.
They’re the progeny of decades other similar boondoggles wrapped up in the wish that all problems were solvable without actual expertise and talent that you have to pay for, and keep paying for. – at San Francisco, CA
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Reminder that computers exist only to serve us. Every time we wait for a computer, the computer is the one who is wrong.
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[me interviewing at Docusign] signing documents is my passion. It's all I've ever wanted to do in life.
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We've gained so much by using open source software while building @tuple.
As a small token of our appreciation, we're sending 3 OSS devs (and their +1s) on vacation!
Please help us find the most deserving folks by nominating/voting.
tuple.app/sends-you-on-vacat…
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The metaverse is very funny because it’s basically everyone in corporate America being so horny for monetization they forgot to even make the thing they’re trying to monetize first and now they’re just hoping you won’t notice before you throw money at it
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Wow I tried to cancel a subscription to a product I use for work and absolutely fuck this dark pattern
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A problem that is endemic to the whole developer community is the urge to "rewrite everything". It is the one of the most harmful practices in software engineering.
Why? (thread)
