To whomever decided corepack was a good idea: you were wrong.

Right now there’s no feedback that a kid has done more than they need. If the kid really want that A, they go full throttle. And feedback is “great!” But they don’t know that they’re overdoing it.

Free idea: final grades are the absolute value of (100-grade). If you get 100, great. But if you are a kid that overworks and does way too much because they’re stressed about things, then you give them a 115/100 which gives a final grade of 85. They gotta learn not to overwork.

one of those days

Kids put this together this morning. “Arcane Pong” jdwyah.github.io/arcane-pong/

Thank you!

Video of a student in my town who wrote a political op-ed being grabbed off the street by government agents bsky.app/profile/pale...

There were people trying to go along with it to get something out of it, business collaborators, people doing the seig heils ironically. They were people just like us!

Chatting with a customer and hearing a complaint about something, when you’ve got an improvement in beta and getting to turn it on for them right then is the best feeling.

Repairs YouTube video by Brian Estelle

actual footage of me coding with cursor yesterday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IFU...

Actual numbers on what it took a seed-stage startup to hire their first two founding backend engineers (full-remote)

It's good to know as a candidate: this is the type of competition you might have. And as a founder: this is how much time investment it can take to make a hire

OMG www.sesame.com/research/cro...

Me right now:

Molly White does amazing work. Support it if you have the means.

Child is disappointed because the Snoopy cartoon she watched did not feature the Snoop man (aka the host of the puppy bowl).

Going to the ER is just `sudo healthcare`

Slack huddles are allright, but every time I ask someone to huddle me, my brain feels like I asked them to cuddle.

What if we all get a fever but the doctors don’t have enough cowbells

Only note on scratch is that there are a ton of really dumb games on there so you need to watch them like a hawk so they don’t end up playing PizzaClicker3000 when you think they’re learning.

Got a new computer setup and pretty sure I didn't swear even once. Personal growth is possible. Digging fish. Mise is pretty nice so far. Couldn't quite get it to go the distance with op for env vars, but looks like that's actively in development. github.com/venkytv/dire... did the trick for me.

Diagram with large number: 2.7.123 First “2” is commented: Proud version. Bump when you are proud of the release Second “7” is commented: Default version. Just normal/okay releases Third “123” is commented: Shame version. Bump when fixing things too embarrassing to admit

I propose we replace semantic versioning with pride versioning

I'm sure using iPhone mirroring to use my 2FA generator without searching for my phone is wrong, but if it is please don't tell me.

“It’s not what you say, it’s what people hear”. I wish I’d heard/internalized that earlier.
I mused a bit in jdwyah.substack.com/p/how-to-act... as well. “Inessential accuracy” feels like something I wish a boss had drummed into my head earlier.

How Prefab scales with Spanner’s PostrgeSQL interface | Google Cloud Blog Drawn by its uptime, strong ACID transactions, horizontal scaling, and PostgreSQL support, Prefab uses Spanner as a datastore for a variety of uses.

I put together this post on how we use Spanner and am super excited that Google put it on their eng blog. Spanner is very cool, but I think pretty under the radar. If you love Postgres, but have a huge table you may be surprised at how affordable Spanner can be and the performance is pretty amazing.

How Prefab scales with Spanner’s PostrgeSQL interface | Google Cloud Blog Drawn by its uptime, strong ACID transactions, horizontal scaling, and PostgreSQL support, Prefab uses Spanner as a datastore for a variety of uses.

Postgres is amazing. But sometimes you have a table that is just unbounded in how you expect it to grow. Is there a way to have postgres experience with truly limitless ability to scale? We did some benchmarking of Postgres vs Google Spanner and were super impressed. cloud.google.com/blog/product...

Thanks @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com !

Feature Flag Cleanup & Hygiene (with Zombie-detection) | Prefab Stay on top of your feature flags with a tool designed for cleanup and organization. Our feature flag management solution includes zombie detection and intuitive flag tagging to keep your codebase lea...

Just launched zombie detection for feature flags. prefab.cloud/blog/feature...

It’s just ridiculously easy to spin your wheels doing marketing. Here’s my top tips:

erm…. I don’t actually have tips yet. Send halp.

How to Actually Grow in Your Organization Part 1: Digging a leadership reputation hole 😬

Wrote some words about some mistakes I made: jdwyah.substack.com/p/how-to-act...

Trying to start conversations on the Internet is like trying to start a fire with flint in a hurricane.