Ron Brown

Engineering Manager @Netflix. /dev/color member. Car enthusiast. Passionate about distributed systems and security. 👋🏾. All views and thoughts are my own

[Karthik Hariharan @hkarthik]

The lucky few tech folks who weren't laid off are starting to poke around for new jobs.

Some advice that I've shared with a few of them is to think about their careers like a Role Playing video game.
🧵

[Matt Turck @mattturck]

The new startup founding team:
* CEO
* CTO
* 2 engineers
* GitHub Copilot

[Netflix @netflix]

Love is Blind: The Reunion — LIVE!!!!

Yes, that's right! Tune in and watch the cast spill all the tea in real time. Sunday, April 16 at 8pm ET/5pm PT. Only on Netflix.

[Ron Brown @_rbgt]

Every time I log on to twitter I’m reminded just how bad it’s become. My timeline is filled with content from people I don’t follow. Crazy VC’s pumping up the new FoTM thing like they did with Crypto, crazy conspiracy theorists with blue checks. If this is twitter 2.0 it’s trash

[Ron Brown @_rbgt]

@mattrickard You make a great point. Any company can (and all to commonly, do) fall into this. I think the key is really to recognize when your internal investment is being outpaced our at parity with OS versions — not an easy thing to do

[Ron Brown @_rbgt]

@AaronDGoldman Pay extra for basic security? This app continues to disappoint me every day

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

200 students walked out of class at an Alabama high school after they were reportedly told their student-led Black History Month program could not reference slavery or the civil rights movement "because one of our administrators felt uncomfortable"

https://t.co/75aqp1HvjA

[Ron Brown @_rbgt]

@GuyDealership You’ve peaked my interest, why do you say that?

[Ron Brown @_rbgt]

@NWSBayArea Oakland, Lake Merritt.

[Ron Brown @_rbgt]

@TaliaTrilling Also never experienced this, maybe your glasses don’t fit?

[Ron Brown @_rbgt]

@fjakobs You’re making good points but I don’t think it’s completely this binary. Most companies have at least two archetypes for Sr. Engineer: technical domain expert and x-functional builder. You can be a domain expert and never play any type of politics or have deep org understanding.

[Dantley Davis @dantley]

I’ve gotten a ton of people reaching out for roles at Nike and contraction to Tweeps to folks in my network. I’ve been sending resumes and LinkedIn profiles to hiring managers. My responses may be slow because of the volume, but keep ‘em coming!

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

When you share a tweet, the URL copied contains a parameter ?t=XYZ. This is the encoded user ID of the person who shared this tweet (aka your user ID). Twitter can track this way who views the link that you shared elsewhere.

To maintain privacy, manually delete this parameter.

[Ron Brown @_rbgt]

At this point, I log into twitter juuuust to see how Elon is burning it down today. Who knew he could make his own company AND several others loose billions of dollars in a day so effortlessly. He truly is a genius.

[Ron Brown @_rbgt]

Do not, I repeat DO NOT listen to this absolutely horrible advice. This isn’t some secret, it’s utter bullshit that this person made up for whatever reason. Shame.

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

The layoff email from Twitter is the first email in history that should have been a meeting.

[joel ⛈️ @joelhooks]

don't sleep on the work @bdougieYO is doing right now if open source plays any part of your business

smart af

[Ron Brown @_rbgt]

@MAJTOURE @OfficialFBMA @NBA @KyrieIrving Why?

[Ron Brown @_rbgt]

Absolutely heartbreaking.

[Nick Caldwell @nickcald]

My wife and soulmate, Tia Caldwell, passed away suddenly Saturday the 15th of October. She was only 39 years old yet lived a full, beautiful, and accomplished life overflowing with love. Services will be held this weekend in Sacramento, rsvps will go out today.