Saeed  👨🏻‍💻 🏋🏻‍♀️

I am a Wuhan girl living in Hong Kong. Right now, all my close family is under lock-down back in my hometown, at the epicenter of this epidemic.

My first impressions of #Rust after having spent about 5 hours writing a small module: It makes me excited to code in, but for different reasons than other languages excite me. Coding in Rust appeals strongly to perfectionism.

When I was six, I asked my father: "Dad, what happens after we die?" "No one knows," he said calmly. "No one has come back to tell us." This was the perfect answer. It didn’t assert religion, nor did it disagree. It didn’t scare me, nor did it comfort me. It kept me curious.

What’s the best term for the phenomenon by which people create additional complexity in order to preserve their role & importance?

It's quite staggering what 4 good software developers can achieve in a year if you let them, compared to what 400 can achieve in 5 years. Still amazes me when managers choose the latter.

Fascinating thread from an Internet disinformation campaign experthttps://twitter.com/noUpside/status/1218943052087119872 …

I'd rather spend $3000 on someone who can use it than wasting it on Twitter ads, so here we go New Year's Giveaway I'm giving away a new MacBook Pro 16" to a random person who retweets this tweet Make something cool w/ it (you have to follow because I want followers)

A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness. —Albert Einstein

15 yrs ago today I arrived in Phuket, Thailand on vacation. I walked the beach, had dinner, and went to bed. The next morning I took an 8:30am boat to Ko Phi Phi. At 9am the tsunami made landfall in Phuket. 230,000 people died in the worst natural disaster in a century. 1/4

TIL that when we say JSON Blob, Blob actually stands for Binary Large Object. Now I’m upset because I thought we were using it to mean a shapeless mess of shit

Invest in your programming practice, not the code you’ve written. The code you write is temporary, don’t try to hold onto it, don’t consider it precious. Your practice is forever, nobody can take it away from you, and you improve it every day you write code.

Pay less attention to whether or not what you are doing is true to the process framework. Pay more attention to whether or not what you are doing is producing the desired outcomes.

Every position we open at Basecamp receives hundreds of applications. Our secret recipe: 1) Pay well, 2) Hire remotely, 3) Explain the position thoroughly, 4) Have a reputation for being a good place to work, 5) Stop dog whistling overwork with “strong work-ethic” bullshit.https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1204977034453291009 …

The Ikeabernetes Effect: Thinking your cluster has more value because you built it yourself.