Aleksey Yeschenko (@[email protected])

Highly loaded database engineer @ Apple
Apache Cassandra PMC member
Mastodon:

[William Gibson @GreatDismal]

AI is the scariest beast we've ever created, says sci-fi writer Bruce Sterling https://t.co/JRgPv1W1WH

[Vessel Of Spirit @VesselOfSpirit]

fire coffee dog memes will continue until people start justifying their metaphors

[Aleksey Yeschenko (@[email protected]) @AYeschenko]

In addition to not tweeting here, will also now not be tooting at https://t.co/AJM5x3lTY6

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

Today I asked the AI to interpret the phrase "Soviet Afrofuturism" and this is what it spat out

[Schmidt @AndrewSchmidtFC]

“We’re looking for people who want to solve hard problems,” say half the job listings, oblivious to the fact that their hard problems are mostly organizational and not at all interesting or unique.

[Zach Weinersmith @ZachWeiner]

Their platform actively harms the arts. Facebook sucks. Metaverse sucks, and even if it didn't, nobody sane is going to move their art there, because we know facebook would fuck us there too. Leave, and do something that makes the world better.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Okay this debate is officially settled

[nicola 🌞 @nicolarushton]

I think about this Reddit comment a lot.

I think this may be the core of human-centred design: observing the reality of how humans behave, and honestly accepting that it's not always going to align with your ideals for how they *should* behave

[Aleksey Yeschenko (@[email protected]) @AYeschenko]

@jjirsa @_belliottsmith Right. This isn’t new, but it is well forgotten. This time I think we’ll find the cycles though.

[qntm @qntm]

A thousand microservices is a milliservice

[Inactive; Bluesky is @hillelwayne(dot)com @hillelogram]

One of my most controversial software opinions is that your sleep quality and stress level matter far, far more than the languages you use or the practices you follow. Nothing else comes close: not type systems, not TDD, not formal methods, not ANYTHING.

Allow me to explain why.

[Alex P @ifesdjeen]

Don't be scared of escalation, and don't submit to the politics of appeasement. You see that the enemy is weak, and has literally no changes against the united front. It's only if we get scared and polarised we lose our power. Push back on their imperialism and propaganda.

[(((JReuben1))) @jreuben1]

Accord: Fast General Purpose ACID Transactions at Scale for Cassandra https://t.co/wVwfuKk8d8 globally available consensus in one round trip with a timestamp protocol

[Andrew Wilkinson @awilkinson]

"Here's the number I used to win the lottery"

–Entrepreneurs giving advice

[Laura Claytor @thehgic]

@dmofengineering This is one of my favorite tech debt representations.

[poorly drawn lines @PDLComics]

in life

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Data visualization inspiration thanks to DALL-E: how Rothko, Basquiat, Picasso, and Monet would create an academic chart.

[Ed Yong is not here @edyong209]

🚨I wrote about “brain fog”—one of the most common & disabling symptoms of long COVID (and many other pre-pandemic conditions), and one of the most misunderstood.

Here’s what brain fog actually is, and what it’s like to live with it. 1/

https://t.co/Gq8iylgfBr