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💭 How To Build The Tallest Building In Town
Here's my thought on 💭 How To Build The Tallest Building In Town Have some positivity! "Just Build the Tallest Fucking Building" is one of my favorite Gary…
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💭 DHH on X: "You have all the time you need, you'r...
Here's my thought on 💭 DHH on X: "You have all the time you need, you're just spendin... The message so many of us need to hear, stop scrolling and start…
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principal-engineer-at-meta
Jake Bolam principal engineer at Meta, has some of the best career advice for those looking to become principal or just be better at their craft. This video was such a banger I had to bring it in as a full post, and not just a thought. It was a random YouTube auto play, something that I probably wouldn't have clicked on given title an thumbnail, but turned out to be very impactful. Jake is such a smart guy with a lot of great insights, and I can tell he thinks really quick on his feet, he jus
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perfect
Perfect is a made up word that humans use to describe something that is above average, or works really well for them. The idea of perfection is fleeting, as you think more deeply about something, you can continue to chase the idea of perfection to unimaginable senses. Sometimes perfect simply means good enough . Could there be something better, Always , but at what cost. If I spent 10 more minutes on this post would it be better, maybe, but I might fuck it up. If I spent my lifetime stu
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just
I just never quite understood why the word can send people over the top. I get it when you don't know someone, you don't have history with them, and they come in saying you are doing something wrong. When you say "just," you're skipping over all the invisible complexity. You're assuming the problem is simple, and that the person asking for help hasn't already considered the obvious. You're not seeing the constraints: Legacy code Business requirements Team conventions Time, budget, or technical
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💭 neverjust
Here's my thought on 💭 neverjust I just never quite understood why the word just can send people over the top. I get it when you don't know someone, you…
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💭 Root for Your Friends · Joseph Thacker
Here's my thought on 💭 Root for Your Friends · Joseph Thacker Such a great message right now. I feel like everywhere I turn is negativity, especially social…
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💭 Marp: Markdown Presentation Ecosystem
Here's my thought on 💭 Marp: Markdown Presentation Ecosystem Intersting markdown presentation tool, Looks very simple. I really like split on much better…
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💭 Proompted Kiddies Learning The Hard Way - YouTub...
Here's my thought on 💭 Proompted Kiddies Learning The Hard Way - YouTube Damn prime makes an interesting point near then end of this video. He's seen a…
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💭 The Worst Thing You Can Do For Your Career - You...
Here's my thought on 💭 The Worst Thing You Can Do For Your Career - YouTube Don't stop learning! Stop trying because you have a doomer outlook on ai, llms,…
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💭 Fork Around And Find Out | Remaining Authentic i...
Here's my thought on 💭 Fork Around And Find Out | Remaining Authentic in Retirement w... What a great first guest for FAFO. Kelsey is always such a great…
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💭 Getting a Dev Job in 2025 - YouTube
Here's my thought on 💭 Getting a Dev Job in 2025 - YouTube Theo weighing in on the 2025 job market. It's no 2018 out there right now, the ratio of jobs to…
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blogging in 2024
Over the past years couple of years blog traffic has been tanking, for some time I thought it might have just been me, but then i heard it from Dave Rupert on Shop Talk show, and it made sense. LLMs and AI is slowly killing the internet as we know it. My metrics I dug into my emails from the google search console team and found two results nearly one year apart. Impressions are only 60% of its value a year ago while clicks are only 35% of where they were a year ago. I'm getting less impressio
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💭 /Tips-for-Being-Happier--Healthier--More-Product...
Here's my thought on 💭 /Tips-for-Being-Happier--Healthier--More-Productive Deep breath, the deepest you can take in Smile, a real fukin smile not some pansy…
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What I'm learning in 2024
2024 has been a learning fueled year, Diving deep into things I never would have previously thought I would. It's been a bit of a mix of the 🔥hot twitter trends, and exactly what tech twitter tells you not to do. It just goes to show community is great, the tech community is filled with strong opinions, but you need to think about what really makes sense for you, your career and your customers (or lack there of). tech k8s tailwind fastapi htmx jinja opnsense successful one day builds play-outs
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💭 Be Fast | Jake Worth
Here's my thought on 💭 Be Fast | Jake Worth Be Fast, Practice, Hone your craft. There's a lot to be said here about honing your craft for editing text,…
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Your LinkedIn is Garbage
Your linkedin link sits at the top of your resume, its one of the first things I see when I open your resume, but yet it gives me no more information that the damn resume you sent me. Save that space on your resume for something useful. So you want that /in/me on your resume Fine if you want it on your resume make it actually useful for someone reading your resume. Actually post something If I am reading resume's and I actually take the time to look at your linkedin I want to see you post someth
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my linked in work history
My linked in work history is empty. I made up a position about content developer that tracks how long I've been blogging. I think i did this because LinkedIn requires it. Either way this is public knowledge and fine sharing. Social Engineering If you have taken any security class for your job seriously you have already been told not to share your work with most companies to the public, this is private information that only opens you up for social engineering attacks against that company. I ca
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💭 Point-in-time recovery - Wikipedia
Here's my thought on 💭 Point-in-time recovery - Wikipedia I just learned that the term PITR means Point In Time Recovery . I have never seen this term, but…
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Make the easy things easy
It's so easy to get out of rhythm, get busy, and drop the ball on some things that you really want to do or should do. This blog is a good example. I took some time off for some family reasons, but have taken a long time to get back to it simply because I am out of rhythm. As I am trying to get back into the rhythm there is some tooling that I have set up for it that I completely forgot about that feel good to use again. Repetitive Tasks Simple Repetitive Tasks that I have to do often can just f
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💭 Changelog on Twitter: "🗣️ @kelseyhightower on hi...
Here's my thought on 💭 Changelog on Twitter: "🗣️ @kelseyhightower on his demos: That ... Such an inspiring clip from Kelsey Heightower. Make good shit that…
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Stand With Your Team
People who are quick to toss team members under a bus are not well trusted or highly thought of and it will lead to some toxic team dynamics. Building Steam While collaborating on any project there are going to be decisions made that aren't necessarily your favorite, during a summer internship my mentor made some decisions that I was not on board with, but I accepted his wisdom and moved forward with little push back. Full Spead Ahead During a review, leadership showed interest in the option tha
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How to crush amazing posts on DEV
This post was inspired by a comment I left on @dsteenman's post. {% post dsteenman/how-long-should-a-blogpost-be-2k6n %} Most of the time I prefer short as I am more likely to read the whole thing. If its setup as a series I am more likely to work my way through the whole series in a matter of a few sessions. Just my preference I will say though there are certain articles that fit well to the long format. They are articles that folks tend to come back to often as a reference again and again.
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Black Tech Pipeline
I was particularly inspired by @chantastic episode 103 of the react podcast with @ParissAthena. They spoke about the black tech pipeline as well as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Pariss is quite an inspiration. She has done so much work to create a better place for POC in tech. I like that not only is she helping them get jobs but acting as a mentor for their first few months on the job to make sure that they are able to find their place and fit in. Based on an episode of react podcast. 🎙 Lis
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How I Built My GitHub Profile
I ran a discussion on dev that collected quite a list of examples in the comment section. So many great calls to action, animations, memes, and weird tricks. dev.to whats-on-your-github-profile My current profile Waylon Walkers GitHub profile social icons Upload all of your icons to the repo in a directory such as or , then link them with a attribute like below. I used html for mine, not sure if you can set the in markdown. note I did add a bit of (non-breaking-whitespace) between m
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Don’t waste your time learning everything
"Don’t waste your time learning everything." Inspired by this linkedIn post I felt that this comment was very powerful. Here are my 2 cents. Be Productive Stick to what you know, and learn a little bit of something new every day. If what you know is how to use Excel like a boss, don't fee ashamed that you are missing something. Be proud and use what you know. Don't Stagnate Take small steps enhance what you know now with something new that you get you closer to where you want to be. If you nee
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It's not all about winning
This is my story into data science. The Journey Begins I am addicted to the process of learning and improving my skills nearly to a fault. The reason I say nearly is because my addiction is fueled with results. I crave the output of my work enhance the work of others. I jump with joy as I see users gain insights they could have never imagined before. My mouth starts watering as I see their boring repetitive data mining activites be completed in a matter of seconds, opening up their mind to focus