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  1. 11 hours ago

    I wrote some thoughts on software performance:

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  2. Jan 30

    Lazytwitter: Please link me your favorite hot takes or takedowns (or defenses?) of the term "full-stack engineer"

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    Historic preservation, in practice, is not about preserving history. It is about preserving the lifestyle of an affluent urban elite.

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  4. Jan 27

    Google Flights seems to be showing me JetBlue Blue Basic (their basic economy product) as normal economy, which was a frustrating bait-and-switch. Anyone else seeing that?

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    Jan 26

    1/ For a little over a year, a few years back, + Christian Anderson + I were a three-member "Technical Practices Team" tasked with guiding overall technical direction for Stripe.

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    Jan 24

    The surest way to get developers to make code faster is to put it into their workflow. (The thing about kernel developers optimising kernel builds times is 100% true.)

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    Jan 24

    open question for compiler people: what should be taught in a modern undergrad compiler class? I'm revamping / modernizing Utah's version of this and would appreciate feedback

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  8. Jan 24

    Re-upping for the morning crowd: I blogged about how we made the typechecker so fast.

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  9. Jan 23
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    Jan 21

    Wait a fucking minute I can either let you Brick my £400 speaker and send it to landfill in exchange for 30% off a new one or keep it and I'll stop receiving updates to my entire house full of your products. Are you having a fucking laugh?

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    Jan 20

    people deride new york winters but in san francisco I’m cold ONE HUNDRED percent of the time, in new york at least it’s warm inside

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  12. Jan 19

    I wrote some thoughts on test suites and building feedback loops for software projects:

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  13. Jan 14

    why not ... both? I will never understand this fight.

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  14. Jan 13

    I wrote some thoughts on 's testing practices and some ideas on generalizing them:

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  15. Jan 8

    I largely agree with this point, with the caveat that in practice a lot of complexity I see exists to solve _organizational_ problems, not scaling problems (although it's often sold as solving technical problems for a number of reasons)

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    Jan 3

    The Kindle is the worst designed product that I can’t live without, and I have often thought that it was made in a vaccuum by people who, and I do not mean this as a judgment I mean it as description, do not read books.

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  17. 30 Dec 2019

    3:14 on the Monday -- a PR by nearly 30 seconds!

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    Miniformats for testing are super useful and something I want when working with data, eg: tables to describe complex inputs and outputs to test by

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  19. 27 Dec 2019

    (Spoilers about the new Star Wars) This thread exactly describes my experience of the movie, and I'm glad I'm not the only one.

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    I realize everyone's twitter feed looks different. But I'll go ahead and subtweet two conversations that I see going by right now: a) How the heck did Shopify get so big this decade and b) You have to work 80 hours a week to be successful. Thread/

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