Jake Kirkbride

Father, Husband, and Quintessential Fortune 500 Tech Lead. I like making games for myself when I’m not making software for others.

[Jake Kirkbride @JakeLegendXIII]

@BecomingCritter Relatable.

[Jake Kirkbride @JakeLegendXIII]

@rfleury @cmuratori Because this was satire you don’t have to delete your account.

[Jake Kirkbride @JakeLegendXIII]

@mattyglesias Coke Zero is way better. I think there may be some generational divide here.

[Jake Kirkbride @JakeLegendXIII]

Completed my collection of all of the Fire Emblem games that have been released in North America today. Well I guess once I actually receive them and test them out it’ll be completed.

[Jake Kirkbride @JakeLegendXIII]

@tunguz Eventually?

[Jake Kirkbride @JakeLegendXIII]

@WarrenInTheBuff I do this everyday, but I actually have to intentionally do it. The default state now is always listening to or reading something.

[Jake Kirkbride @JakeLegendXIII]

@SinkingStarGame Skipping stones and the Heroes of Hauling is the plan right now. Not sure which one first but the classic sokoban mechanics and then I have spent so much time watching the streams about the skipping stones and water simulations that I want to finally play that part.

[Order of the Sinking Star @SinkingStarGame]

We’re excited to announce that Order of the Sinking Star will be available on @Nintendo #Switch2 later this year! 🎮

Watch our new Overview Trailer where @Jonathan_Blow reveals more details about the characters, worlds, and story! 🎬

Join us > https://t.co/qpaf1S62Gg

[Jonathan Blow @Jonathan_Blow]

Something we've been working on...

[Jake Kirkbride @JakeLegendXIII]

@LubaRaphael Oh no. Was there an announcement for the announcement that I missed!?

[Jake Kirkbride @JakeLegendXIII]

@slimjimmy pi is the way.

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

Origin of github's Logo

[Jake Kirkbride @JakeLegendXIII]

I am incredibly frugal and I’m realizing when I have to pay for my own tokens I’d rather just code stuff myself. I’ll let work pay for it for work projects, but personal projects are not something I want to pay somebody else to make for me.

[shako @shakoistsLog]

databases are super interesting. if you do your career right you should learn a new 400 level topic every year in perpetuity.

[dax @thdxr]

the thing with being a leader is you get to take credit for your team's work

so when things go wrong it's only fair that you pass the blame onto them

[Jake Kirkbride @JakeLegendXIII]

I’ve been dealing with business built apps in Excel and Access that have always outgrown their ability to support them and turned into a developers responsibility for much longer than 15 years lol. There are cases where each new thing works for a bit before it reaches its limit and then you need somebody technical. The upside now is at least it’s people making React dashboards and Python scripts. It’s at least code and not a drag and drop tool or over extended UI macro tool thing. Still ends up being my problem though…

[Jake Kirkbride @JakeLegendXIII]

@theo Anthropic does everything they can to make it seem like they hate their customers. I have never seen a company like this before it’s like Dick’s Last Resort is their business model.

[Jake Kirkbride @JakeLegendXIII]

This has been going on forever. The first 2 years of my career was just formalizing business spreadsheets and Access database projects into actual purpose built software. There is always some level of complexity that makes it land back on the engineering team. I’ve seen it with office apps, no code tools, RPA, and now gen AI.

[Jake Kirkbride @JakeLegendXIII]

Yeah I agree… I still can’t believe with all of the investment alleged focus on GitHub that pipelines, boards, and everything else is so much better in ADO. I am basically half and half with my repos (like 200 repos across 15 different types of deployments). I figured at some point GitHub would win me over as actions got better but it’s been getting worse not better and ADO is winning by doing nothing and actually just working… Been pushing back on the guidance of moving everything to GH.

[Jake Kirkbride @JakeLegendXIII]

Bro I am going back to IDEs and trad-coding. We all knew the rug pull was coming, but this is annoying all at once.