Jack Danger

@jackdanger

Writes buggy software, always dances, is very enthusiastic about everything, and fights patriarchy not for women's sake but his own.

San Francisco
Joined April 2007

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  1. If you operate a MySQL database I promise you that you want this: It's the safest way to run an ALTER TABLE in prod.

  2. Backend/low-level coding work can also be creative, social, and interdisciplinary.

  3. this. the biggest changes in the embedded field in the last 20 years is mostly dev process related and not basic ideas.

  4. Is there any research on in-groups and out-groups in social justice movements?

  5. Learn yourself a Javascript platform and that knowledge is obsolete in a year. Learn how system calls work and you'll be dangerous forever.

  6. Javascript frameworks and APIs change constantly and it's like working at the tip of a whip. The Linux API has not changed in decades.

  7. Folks just starting your software career: You probably work in front-end because it's intuitive. But know that it's harder than backend.

  8. "Yes, I would gladly recruit more males to my top team if there were any good enough," Barbara, Police Chief Constable

  9. A couple times a year I'm reminded that if I care about distributed systems and don't follow then I don't really care about them.

  10. If you’d like to help me edit things I write online let me know - I can always use a fresh pair of eyes.

  11. Privacy is one of the fields of study with the most ideas ignored, at great cost to ourselves and the world.

  12. $ cat <<-Z >> config/application.rb R = IO.method(:read) def IO.read(*args, &block) sleep rand R.call(*args, &block) end Z

  13. Dream: I think I'll start a new Go app today. Reality: I'll write a sed script to patch a JVM config to maybe plug a memory leak kill me ok

  14. Today my Irish heritage collides with my inability to see green. My solution to this problem will likely involve dark beer.

  15. 💔🔜💖

  16. Oh cool, lobbyists are superdelegates too? I think I hate the DNC more than I hate the DMV.

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