Garret Fick

dream. design. build. share.

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My twilight zone is using a Linux container to build a .NET application for Windows

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A random comment that made for a good morning: "I really like the the code you write. It's so organized, commented, and easy to understand"

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CRUD only when you can afford it - (old but still a good read) does a job of describing when (and when not) CRUD is appropriate https://t.co/j207hN4oW8

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Apparently I'm not the only one: "I write better when I'm wearing a hoodie" https://t.co/HIrHlWo7qP @rands

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"Asking dumb questions is the best way to start figuring out what is actually going on." Care of https://t.co/uH2fp2FYmU

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From software engineering radio - choose a DB engine from the top 10 at https://t.co/6DcknMNd6V

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Rotate, Repave, Repair - another way of valuing immutable infrastructure https://t.co/0wFfzJiKee

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Thanks James Ethridge for a morning laugh - Let's deploy to production https://t.co/QYFLKihCav

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Co-worker's quote of the week: "Garret's law of three" relating to needing 3 instances to prove an abstraction is right

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Have we forgotten? MVP = version that allows collecting max validated learning regarding customers with min effort. No learning? Then not an MVP.

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simple models and lots of data trump more elaborate models based on less data https://t.co/WltCxZ56MD

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Dev teams: #velocity is meaningless if you are speeding around a circle. You also need a direction.

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It doesn't matter if you are "right" or "wrong" - focus on being "useful". A life lesson in Threat Modelling Designing for Security

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@KevinGoldsmith - "microservices" are easier to rewrite than change

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Quote of the day from DoE: "I applaud your creativity in the face of challenges"

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#SQL injection should be renamed to QL Injection to cover new database technologies

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@mealpal could you remove the forced reviews? I eat at the same few places and keep reviewing the same meals

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Verifying myself: I am garretfick on Keybase.io. BxHOO-jZPLpOooB7iq2LSAnexOxfcEMUY8-G / https://t.co/ESptRPK6H1

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The DevOps lifecycle: detect, respond, triage, remediate, review, improve

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When you let go someone who made a mistake, you are sending that learning elsewhere https://t.co/zyQhpyEolp