Two sticks of RAM

Found buried treasure in the bottom of a closet

YouTube Screenshot of New Year’s Eve livestream a few minutes after midnight. The camera is pointed at a worker cleaning confetti with a leaf blower

Now that the NYE ball has dropped the livestream has switched to peak leaf blower content

Hologram pyramid with a woman dressed as a cowboy shown in a projection. The projection is blue with horizontal lines.

Building holograms

Tiger has a message for his wife in case he doesn't make it · Leet Heat S1.E11 YouTube video by CodeTV (formerly Learn With Jason)

Loved this #leetheat episode! The musicality, the suspense, the Ketchup method! @georgerodier.com and @notwoods.bsky.social were fantastic! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXU2...

Love the subtitle. Not everyone knows I’m a ghost now

Fun times CGI-ing fingers back in that were just out of frame

DUMB LOVE | NYC Short Film Club YouTube video by NYC Short Film Club

Daphne did one too! youtu.be/RaveIxcQuHs

Cozy Snare | NYC Short FIlm Club YouTube video by NYC Short Film Club

I helped make a film! Worked on editing and acting with the NYC Short Film Club.

youtu.be/YDYq3RhS-sM

The M4 iPad Pro is so good I can edit a 6K short film with no proxies or lag. It blows away my 5 year old desktop PC

Next step is to get alllllll the tiny islands up one-by-one. I’m still missing Hawaii and Taiwan too!

My DIY project the last couple weeks has been building a giant 4’x6’ frame for a wood world map.

I got hardboard wood sheets and moulding and cut, painted, and mounted all by hand :)

Scissors with an AirTag duct-taped on

After losing my scissors too many times I’ve created my best invention yet

Florida man eats diet of butter, cheese, beef; cholesterol oozes from his body High cholesterol is considered 240 mg/dL. The man’s was over 1,000 mg/dL.

Man’s blood veins turn into butter

Lumon brand cup sitting in front of a group photo of MDR staff

Retro computer with programs on screen used by MDR in the Severance TV show

Caricature of a MDR staff member as an astronaut

Glass statue with 3D art of the face of Mark S.

I took my birding camera to the #Severance Grand Central popup and took some desk photos

Finding the murderer @nearestnabors.com during our @halfstackconf.bsky.social talk!

Full talk with @thebetterdaphne.bsky.social’s shenanigans: www.wearedevelopers.com/en/videos/12...

Poor documentation is a whole ‘nother level of difficulty 🫠

I find reading the source code helpful when available, but that wouldn’t work for a private API like Google Drive

Historically the expectation has been to learn on the job. It’s good to become intimately familiar with all the tools you use but learning a language and 3-10 libraries in depth is a massive barrier to getting started.

Asking questions to senior devs at the same rate as googling is much slower though, as well as discouraging. It’s not bad when the google fail rate is low but it’s been getting higher and higher.

I haven’t seen significantly different results with DDG/Bing but haven’t tried Kagi.

I’ve preordered! It would be nice to see a high level comparison of Bun/Node/Deno security features

Security and permissions In-depth documentation, guides, and reference materials for building secure, high-performance JavaScript and TypeScript applications with Deno

I’ll check out Snyk!

Is Bun using permission gates like Deno, or does it have additional security tools?

docs.deno.com/runtime/fund...

Outdated libraries on Stack Overflow/Medium are pretty rough but that’s at least something automation could catch. Linters could suggest newer replacements. (I think @e18e.dev is working on this?)

I’ve had much better luck with native web tech (yay MDN) but libraries are where I run into issues the most, and someone newer won’t necessarily know which is which.

I’ve also seen this be more pronounce with Python, where libraries sometimes inject global-looking functions or hidden proxies.

Medium honestly hasn’t been too bad. What I’ve run into are long blogs that have introductions like a cooking recipe (history of the library, the language, the author’s mood) then a paragraph midway with an incorrect answer.

What’s also helpful (and I need to do this more too) is to pair with a junior dev and see how they’re researching.

I think with experience you learn to dismiss unhelpful resources, even in new programming languages, but that’s hard to build up.

The trouble is it’s difficult to validate/invalidate the results when you’re learning. I’ve seen ChatGPT point someone to the wrong library and then you’re sent down the wrong site for validation.

But then sometimes the results are wrong 😓

I don’t know how to teach devs to google things anymore. Most of the results are for SEO-optimized walls of text instead of solutions.

You can point folks to official documentation, but that doesn’t help when the source of the problem is unclear. Maybe only use Stack Overflow?

Tiger & Daphne Oakes dressed as 1920s detectives with flat caps and pointing at the camera

Flat cap buds

Today is my last day working at Microsoft. I got to work on lots of web performance and mentorship here over 3+ years!

Off to new things in New York starting next month.

Back in Seattle…for the last time. I’m moving to NYC next month!