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Staff Engineer, @seatgeek (Mastodon: @AD7six@expressional.social)

Valencia, Spain
Joined July 2009
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It's pretty rare to see REAL Seasoned Staff-Plus Engineers talking about their career, where and how they try to influence, what questions they ask themselves, how they try to flight complexity, how they embrace “messy” things It's even rarer to see someone like @copyconstruct…
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La culpa de no haber previsto nada la tiene Mazón. La culpa de no haber avisado mucho antes a los valencianos cuando tenía mucha información de AEMET y demás expertos la tiene Mazón. La culpa de haber desplegado un dispositivo ridículo incapaz de salvar a casi nadie la tiene Mazón. La culpa por no haber pedido ninguna ayuda al gobierno en las primeras horas cruciales la tiene Mazón. La culpa de que el gobierno no haya activado el Estado de alerta porque la comunidad no activa el nivel 3 la tiene Mazón. La culpa por no haber accedido a lugares en los que los civiles sí han podido por falta de efectivos la tiene Mazón. La culpa de haber RECHAZADO ayuda de los consorcios de bomberos de un montón de comunidades que los ofrecían la tiene Mazón. La culpa de que los voluntarios que confiaron en los autobuses de la GVA les llevase al Centro Comercial Bonaire y que allí no pudiesen hacer nada la tiene Mazón. La culpa de que los sanitarios estén doblando turnos para sustituir a los que todavía no pueden movilizarse a los puestos de trabajo por no abrir bolsas extraordinarias es de Mazón. …
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your annual reminder that .gitignore_global exists please clean up your OS junk files, we live in a society
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📢 Quiero denunciar una situación de abuso. Como la mayoría de inmigrantes no tienen voz, voy a hacer yo de altavoz por ellos: 🔴 Es prácticamente IMPOSIBLE conseguir CITAS en Extranjería sin pagar a ciertos estafadores. Cada vez que la web de Extranjería publica citas nuevas, en cuestión de microsegundos, desaparecen consumidas por bots. Los extranjeros, para poder conseguir una cita: - Tienen que pagar a dudosos abogados que "misteriosamente" disponen de ellas. - O a ir a sitios todavía más turbios, como ciertos locutorios, en los que se pueden comprar estas citas. El estrés y ansiedad a la que somete esta situación a varios amigos inmigrantes que la han sufrido es terrible. Ya no solo son las esperas interminables para renovar su residencia (trámite que debería ser sencillo si cumplen los requisitos legales), es la ansiedad que provoca el no saber si ni siquiera vas a poder conseguir una cita, por muy tarde que te den. Esta situación de abuso en la web de extranjería es a nivel de toda España. Y la Administración no le está poniendo freno (por desconocimiento, quiero creer, pero pienso que también por desidia).
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new word: obselopers. Leading us into a new world of observability during development, yeah.
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✨ We're hiring a Design Engineer and Staff Software Engineer to work on some ambitious new projects with us at @tailwindcss. 🏕️ Fully remote 💰 $275,000 USD tailwindcss.com/blog/hiring-…
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I've said this before but I'm saying it again: when you're looking at your job, you should have: - Good pay - Good culture - Good growth opportunities If you have 2/3, it's not too bad, but 0 or 1/3, you might want to question why you're still at that job.
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"Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup" -- cep.dev/posts/every-infrastr… Best infrastructure post I've read in YEARS; would love to see this become a hot series. Write one about your choices, please!!!
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My talk from QCon NYC 2023 has just been posted: "Perils, Pitfalls and Pratfalls of Platform Engineering." Pitfall #1: Running too much software #2: Writing too much software #3: Not letting teams own their own reliability ... and so on! (there are 8) infoq.com/presentations/plat…
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It’s surprising to me when leaders don’t think that morale is their job. IMO, the higher in the company, the more morale and making sure people understand strategy IS the job. I myself don’t always do this perfectly but I always know it’s my responsibility.
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can someone smarter than me explain how gistRegex.test(url) resulted in "Maximum call stack size exceeded" on Chrome const gistRegex = /^(https?:)?(\/\/)?gist\.github\.com\/([^\/]+\/)?[0-9a-f]+/ even on long strings I can't get this to happen in manual testing
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Politicians are failing us abysmally on the #ClimateCrisis. Can comedians step up and save the day? Watch the heroic Jo Brand give it a proper shot with scientist @ProfMarkMaslin 🔥 If this doesn't prompt revolution, what will? Please share far and wide! #NoNewOil #COP28
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This is an important message. Please share far and wide- let’s put some pressure in the right places to make sure Naomi is not only okay, but allowed to live her best life! hackingbutlegal.com/p/naomi-…
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Curious what the right cadence of time off is for folks throughout the year to avoid burnout. 5 days a quarter? 2 weeks per year? Would love to know what works for others
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I've been an Engineering Manager (switched from an engineer) for a year now... here are my top learnings:
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We just gave $500,000 to Open Source maintainers Read more from @chadwhitacre on how, why, and to learn a bit more about Foss Funders 👇 bit.ly/sentry-fundfest-23-3
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That sucks. I’m sorry that happened. I’d recommend something like “I’m glad you agree with my idea” but also cultivate allies in the room to back you up and agree with you as well. What other suggestions to y’all have #womenintech?
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Bram Moolenaar, creator of my favorite text editor on Linux, vim, has passed away. RIP 🙏🏻
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The most common mistake I see with feature flags is having too many. Flags are like tech debt. They’re useful, but they should typically be rare and short-term. Every flag adds variability and testing complexity. So, I remove each flag as soon as it’s not necessary.
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Cis is a slur "Sex assigned at birth" is a logical fallacy Gender Affirming Care is child mutilation Minor Attracted Persons are pedophiles Trans is a mental delusion Reclaim the language they stole from us.
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