Software Engineer @ Nextdoor | Former Math Teacher
near Boulder, CO
Joined April 2015
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Tried Go 1.5 years ago, but it was a big adjustment after Python + JS.
Back to Go again while on parental leave and, man, it is such an easy language now that I have a little more of an idea of what I'm doing in the statically typed land.
If your account/receipt/transaction/whatever IDs include digits and letters. Please don't use 0 and O.
It's already hard enough that two words are stuck together sometimes (ex: some times) but "nonetheless" is a monstrosity.
Messing around with tmux this morning because I'm sick of forgetting which iTerm tab is doing what.
Now I just `hyper+t` and it changes focus to iTerm and opens up the list of windows I can `up` and `down` through.
It's delightful.
Been a professional software developer for 2 years now, which is why I have the technical know-how to do things like spend 15 minutes making CSS changes in the wrong file without understanding why the change wasn't visible.
Building CLIs using React is a wild idea.
Is there an extension of Atwood's Law for React?
github.com/vadimdemedes/ink
I am very quickly becoming a fan of the "one commit per PR" approach. Wish I had started sooner!
We squash commit our PRs anyways, but this saves me from 95% of rebase nightmares.
I run a free game during the super bowl every year.
Predict things like the coin toss, national anthem length, total points scored, and more.
Some people donate and the winner picks what charity we send the cash to.
props.tylerauer.com
Tyler Auer retweeted
Did you know if you hold an ermine up to your ear, you can hear what it’s like to be attacked by an ermine?
ALT An ermine, with summer brown coat, stands upright at Katmai National Park & Preserve.
The new AI stuff is really cool, but I think it's going to make it even harder to know what to trust.
Internet let everyone *look* like an expert. But at least you could learn about the author and gauge their trustworthiness.
How do you know if the AI output is trustworthy?
But a human has to be there at the end or you are going to get some spectacular misses. Done dangerous.
It's like a power tool for your brain. You still need a human to use the tool but it takes care of a lot of the effort that is repetitive or low cognitive demand.
Tyler Auer retweeted
Wow I did not expect this celebrity divorce story to get even crazier but this truly shocking revelation from the former dog walker blew me away: bit.ly/3gll84C
Somehow just managed to set up a GitHub Action to migrate a prod db without a commit history like:
- add gh action
- fix secret
- fix secret again
- fix secret again again
- fix db connection error
- connection try 2
- trigger action
- no really trigger action
- why why why