Dave Sullivan 🇨🇦

jack of all trades/multipod/scanner/renaissance human. Still trying to figure out what I wanna be when I grow up. He/him

[Dave Sullivan 🇨🇦 @SullyOfNone]

Full story: My home address is in Ontario. My Rogers billing address is also in Ontario.

I spent a couple of weeks in Vancouver, not far from the Rogers store mentioned in the screenshot.

Why would a Rogers rep from a store near my location text me about upgrading my phone?

[Dave Sullivan 🇨🇦 @SullyOfNone]

@Rogers How is it okay that you're accessing my location and using it for marketing? I find this incredibly creepy and a violation of my privacy.

[Dave Sullivan 🇨🇦 @SullyOfNone]

@Rogers @RogersHelps So, is there any explanation for this?

[Dave Sullivan 🇨🇦 @SullyOfNone]

@Rogers cc @CBCNews @TorontoStar @globeandmail @CTVNews @CityNewsTO @global

[Dave Sullivan 🇨🇦 @SullyOfNone]

@saturnflyer Pretty sure there's a @doctorow short story about something like this 🤦

[Dave Sullivan 🇨🇦 @SullyOfNone]

@SendGridSupport That's the path I'm taking, but when I click on "can't receive 2FA code", it asks me to login anyway. May want to verify that's working correctly. Will email support. Thanks!

[Dave Sullivan 🇨🇦 @SullyOfNone]

@SendGridSupport I can't receive my 2FA code (phone # changed) - and your support portal is forcing me to login, even when I choose the "can't receive 2fa code" option. Help?

[Dave Sullivan 🇨🇦 @SullyOfNone]

@robyurkowski @JacksonBates @nikkiricks I like @robyurkowski2's idea of dividing the senior work between a CTO/strategic senior dev and a staff eng/programming senior dev, then you've got sufficient senior resources to continue moving the company forward + supporting 2 or more juniors.

So, I guess... ⏳? 2-S 1-M 2-J?

[Dave Sullivan 🇨🇦 @SullyOfNone]

@robyurkowski @JacksonBates @nikkiricks As a solo senior dev, there's a ton on your plate, eg. architecture, requirements gathering, scoping work, plus actual code slinging. Throw supporting juniors on that and it's a lot for one person to handle.

[Dave Sullivan 🇨🇦 @SullyOfNone]

".. Then they *stay* in. They never come out where we can get a good look at them and dismiss them or embrace them openly."

True words from @BarbaraSher's "I Could Be Anything" - how many of us are unhappy b/c we try to live up to expectations ingrained in us as children?

[Dave Sullivan 🇨🇦 @SullyOfNone]

"We're all raised in families, communities, and even cultures that barrage us with messages about what *they* want from us. Sometimes these messages are as blatant as billboards: 'Get married,' 'make money,' 'buy your own home.' Other times they're stealthy - they *sneak* in." 1/

[Fred Guttenberg @fred_guttenberg]

Wow!!! I love George Carlin. This from the grave may be his most important and timeless rant ever.

Whatever you do don’t make it go viral! #AmericaWakeUp

[Dave Sullivan 🇨🇦 @SullyOfNone]

@digiex_chris @khalleth @danabrit @GeekOnCoffee @smartpensionuk Not sure of his php experience - got a link I can share anyway?

[Dave Sullivan 🇨🇦 @SullyOfNone]

Do I know anyone looking for Node/React devs? UK-based friend of mine is looking for work.

cc @danabrit @GeekOnCoffee @khalleth

[Dave Sullivan 🇨🇦 @SullyOfNone]

@danabrit You might definitely want to move after reading it :\

[Dave Sullivan 🇨🇦 @SullyOfNone]

@danabrit I recently read a book called How Democracy Dies - it's an overview by a couple of poli science professors (iirc) that outlines how various democracies around the world have fallen into dictatorships throughout the 20th Century. The parallels are creepy as hell.

[Dave Sullivan 🇨🇦 @SullyOfNone]

@Mailchimp @robyurkowski2 We don't have a ticket number, because we never got a response after shooting an email at the address you recommended. Will send again.

[Dave Sullivan 🇨🇦 @SullyOfNone]

@danabrit Not here to take you up on your offer, just here to say thanks for the reco and I've put a hold on it from my library!

[Dave Sullivan 🇨🇦 @SullyOfNone]

@digiex_chris New house! Are you guys in Winnipeg now?