My first baby turns 15 today. Thank you for teaching me what it means to love somebody ❤️

Thank you, we’re proud of them!

Help to keep Turing alive one more year. I think it’s going to take about $500k in charitable donations, loans, or some other creative funding.

After a string of nearly non-stop bad news for 18 months, some little rays of hope broke through the clouds.

My life’s work at Turing still needs a few more heroes the show up, but things look a little better than they did a week ago.

I’m awful at asking for help, but maybe this time it’ll work.

Congrats! I think you’ve picked a good time.

My schedule has been “fix it when it breaks” which is not too great!

Writing this book was demanding, and while very rewarding, not particularly lucrative. Sales events like Black Friday really help!

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Trump’s victory was primarily driven by economic frustration. But it’s easy to overlook how his first term came as a reaction to President Obama, while his 2nd term is enabled by a reaction to social progression 2020-2022. Stories like this will be common. www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

I’m thankful, in the modern era, that places like Costco, Amazon, and Target make returns pretty easy. I’ll give this thing a go for another week then probably bring it back for a refund.

It’s 2024 and most technology is still fucking dreadful to use.

Your secret code. It’s the one in the middle here, if you’d like to steal this thing and unlock the hard drive. Sweet responsiveness on the mobile UI, Microsoft.

Once I got in I was finally able to play a game — EA FC 25. Except every few minutes it pauses, inexplicably, for about 7 seconds.

Demanded a numeric code. Clicking into the field despite having no idea what to type, the keyboard would not activate.

Thankfully Quora of all places had the answer — push the Volume Down button (despite them being left and right buttons) to activate the keyboard, then login to Microsoft to find…

Figured out how to run Software Update, it had over thirty updates pending from a variety of vendors. The same sound card driver showed up four times in the list. It “failed” to install all four times.
When the system rebooted to update the BIOS, it entered a “Bitdefender” Lock Screen and…

I impulse-bought an Asus ROG Ally yesterday to try gaming on the plane. Jumping into this small Windows environment, despite some 30+ years of IT experience, has been shocking.

Out of the box apps crashed. Security dialogs were hidden until the primary window was minimized. When I finally…

Thank you. As you know well, this small business life is not for the faint of heart! One day at a time.

That the average grad is increasing their lifetime earnings by over $5M, so our impact is in the neighborhood of $10B so far. Fighting like hell to keep going but we’ve shrunk 85% over the last two years.

I love that you all have made this work! Whenever I buy a Tito—powered ticket it brings a smile to my face.

I’ve been plugging away at this education thing. We have about 2500 alumni now. I wish we were at $1B in revenue, but the eye opening number is…

Hi! Hope you’ve been well 🙏🏻

I tell my students this is why economics doesn’t work. It relies too heavily on people pursuing their own self interest. But when you don’t even understand your own interest and how systems work then decisions are effectively random.

Let’s tariff our way to cheaper groceries!

Yeah the experience on the other side, running a school, was heartbreaking. “I know you want to do X but you have to do ABC” was a daily refrain. The tech should accelerate the people, not slow them down!

I love this. SQLite has to be one of the most underappreciated technologies in the history of web development 🤣

My dream when I left K-12 was actually to build the student management system that deserves to exist. My Jumpstart Lab training work was supposed to pay the bills while I bootstrapped. 15 years later I’m still trying to get to that SMS project 😆

What’s special about the Ruby community is that people actually give a fuck about each other and try to help; try to open a door; try to make a connection.

There are few places in the world of work where people prioritize helping each other over “let me give you my elevator pitch.”

Talking with friends new and old and being real about what it’s like to be facedown in the mud. Instead of taking a step back they said “what can I do to help?”

When people talk about MINASWAN and all that, I think the real heart of it can be overlooked. It’s not just being polite.

The hardest lesson of the last ten years is that success is social and failure is lonely. When Turing was thriving everybody wanted a piece. Through two years of the deepest struggle, it’s only been the real ones who still show up.

That was the real joy of #rubyconf…

I find myself intrigued by this social network reboot, and also it feels like I don’t have much to say anymore. It’s been so long since Twitter was a part of my daily life. Maybe this will be some mix of dadops, tech, work, and random musings. At least I don’t have a podcast!

And the management practices where you know such a bug exists but don’t prioritize fixing it — just wild.

Confirmed that the VPS had crashed. They then phone called an ops person from the stage to have the server reset. We waited about 10 minutes and continued the tutorial.

I was amazed. I’m not sure I’m capable of building a web app bug so egregious it could instantly crash the host machine.

All this aligns with my experience with PowerSchool 15 years ago 🤣

I was once in an official training session where they were walking us through a multi-step process and then said “please DON’T click this button”…and an attendee audibly said “oops.”

The presenter switched screens quickly and…

The reason I like MiniTest is I very rarely have to google “how to XYZ in minitest.” Just writing Ruby rather than a DSL is so straightforward.

I think a lot of people found out or remembered that this kind boxing is usually a let down. There’s a reason you hadn’t watched a fight in a decade.