Trevor O

Rustlings course: Totally fucking awesome way to learn.

Every time someone mentions complex systems I think about this. There’s just a job you want to get done and everything in the middle is pure friction. If you can look at all the moving parts and understand how they work, you’ll probably go way further, way faster.

So instead of the expensive silly mail robot they just convinced the 3rd party to allow them to connect into their system and used that as the data source. Problem solved.

They go over to the government office and ask them how they send the letters. It turns out they were using 3rd party software where people upload all the details and those details are turned into paper forms. Everything was already in a structured database!

Anyway, the consultant was tasked with building a robot of some kind that would open the letters, scan them, OCR them, take the relevant data, and turn it into a database. But that’s stupid and expensive, so they start digging.

In fact, they were getting so much mail that it was easier to *weigh the letters* (IRL cardinality approximation!) than it was to count them.

Story Time! So this friend was working as a software consultant at a company that was managing huge volumes of paperwork from some government agency. The amount of mail was getting to the point where they had a team (!) of people opening and scanning letters.

Programmer age is directly proportional to number of times theyve typed <br> or <hr>

Monoliths > Microservices, KPI measurements > feelings, team > individual performance. Its almost as if engineering is a discipline and we need to be more disciplined.

Now that FaaS / Serverless is a thing, I wonder why more companies that serve tons of data aren't offering compute platforms that are close to the data, vs moving the data to them and incurring those costs on both sides.

Kickstarter staff say they're unionizing to " improve inclusivity and transparency at the company" by immediately pitting themselves against management.

Enterprise accounting methods are probably going to have more of an impact on your startup than your technology.

More and more im pretty confident the entire economy is just “move thing from a to b efficiently”.

You cannot code it faster than in figma. You cannot code it faster than in figma. You cannot code it faster than in figma.

LEFT JOIN LATERAL I love you. Let me recursively count the ways.

Equifax stock is trading higher than it was when their breach occurred in 2017. Just as a not so subtle reminder that in 2020 most people still don't give a shit about privacy.