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Providence, RI, USA
Joined October 2007
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Republicans won't do SHIT when it comes to gun violence, but try to tell me to calm down. NO. We can't calm down. People are dying everyday while we wait.
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RIP, Jeff Beck. :(
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Unit tests: ✅
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I’ve got a few very talented junior software engineers who I’d like to help find jobs at high quality, healthy orgs. Please drop me a note if you have any available spots.
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I am equal parts WarGames and Ferris Bueller.
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Gen-X AF.
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“Knowing how it works” is not the same as knowing its implementation or constraints.
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#RubyConfMini karaoke is happening! I hope @aspleenic is proud.
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I want to concentrate on this fun talk by Aji Slater at #RubyConfMini, but I am distracted wondering what awesome font is used on these slides.
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Maybe I should also get this out the door today. In honor of @RubyConfMini, the new edition of the Pickaxe book is 35% off with coupon code “RubyConf_Mini” at pragprog.com/titles/ruby5/pr… -- the code is good until Nov 30. Pass this around!
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PVD Ruby folks, we need to decide if it’d be a good or bad thing to introduce @tenderlove to “2 all the way and a coffee milk” if he comes to town for @RubyConfMini. (cc @rirug) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_wi…
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We genuinely have some delicious food here in PVD. Some awesome calamari with hot peppers and marinara is a safe bet for a positive destination memory. But 2 hot wieners with meat sauce, mustard, rehydrated onions, and celery salt may cause some discomfort to a newbie.
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I’m impressed by Goldiloader. I recently added it to a large Rails app and it made nearly all `includes` calls redundant and solved quite a few other N+1 queries automatically. github.com/salsify/goldiload…
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This was HUGE victory under extraordinarily difficult circumstances.
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RT @garius@mastodon.social Something to note: if you are setting up a Mastodon account, even as a fallback: LIST YOUR MASTODON ADDRESS IN YOUR TWITTER BIO. There are scraper tools your followers can use that check their follows and import any that have a Mastodon address (1/2)
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Gotta love some custom guitar case stickers
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Democracy reminds me of trying to fold a fitted sheet: 
- It takes a lot of effort.  - It's going to be messy.  - Almost no one is going to do it perfectly.  - We have no choice but to give it a try to avoid complete chaos.
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