Aaron Beals

VP Eng/Product at Flux (early stage startup). Dad. Unabashed Celtics fan. Interested in management, AI, 100% remote teams, Python, DIY.

[Aaron Beals @abeals]

A good reminder for those of you leading teams (or aspiring to).

At @appsembler, we have a company vacation policy that mandates preparation time in advance to coordinate handoffs and owners, and then people *disconnect*.

https://t.co/ahvPZbQVXj

[Aaron Beals @abeals]

so we could text Flux, our intern tricked the LLM into vibe coding up some vulnerabilities: https://t.co/ZR9pQFxCnZ

[Aaron Beals @abeals]

and here's my prior post on the work (Flux) blog: https://t.co/jVcMcK6Epx

[Aaron Beals @abeals]

been a long time, but I'm blogging again for work. I'll bring my own blog back soon, too.

https://t.co/6A7sdtdPWU

[Henning Koch @triskweline]

JS thought leadership wants you to render on the server, but it cannot possibly be a Node app responding with HTML. It must involve a custom compiler, a new RPC protocol and a cloud service. Nothing less will do.

[Jason Goldman @goldman]

Elon says "We will have to do a total rewrite to gain velocity" and immediately @igb is says "tell me what's so crazy about the stack; just describe it and how rewriting will gain you velocity"

You will be surprised to know he did not respond.

[Aaron Beals @abeals]

Read this whole thread. I was about to set one up to boost the federated web, but this is an angle I hadn’t considered.

[Aaron Beals @abeals]

@jamessocol Ha! I remember well having a great chat with you on a bus on the way to either PyCon or DjangoCon. Clearly I remember the conversation but not the convention.

[Aaron Beals @abeals]

This is very late 90's / early 2000's, but I'm planning to ramp up blogging instead. Let's respond to each other with longer-form posts that take time and thought...

... and to which random bots can't respond.

[Aaron Beals @abeals]

@adriennefriend Fully, *fully* agree. Meta properties are deeply flawed, and Instagram especially so. Great shout out about those studies.

So where do we all go?

[mazdak hashemi ✊ @mazdakh]

If you’re wondering why Twitter is still up & running with the majority of hardcore engineers gone, it’s because many exceptional engineers over the years gave it all they had to ensure the platform scaled under any conditions.

Twitter was resilient 💙

[Aaron Beals @abeals]

yep, because we're all exfiltrating our personal data so we have a fresh backup, in case some key engineers no longer work there.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

And … we just hit another all-time high in Twitter usage lol

[Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins]

Having seen the surreptitious way NY collects DNA of children as young as 12 and puts it in a DNA database, I can guarantee you Texas is not collecting this DNA to identify victims of school shootings, but rather to prosecute and incarcerate children and their family members.

[Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins]

PSA FROM YOUR FRIENDLY PUBLIC DEFENDER: DO NOT PROVIDE YOUR CHILDREN’S DNA TO A DATABASE!

For that matter, this applies to everyone: DO NOT EVER VOLUNTARILY GIVE A DNA SAMPLE.

[Aaron Beals @abeals]

In what will likely reduce the number of Meta recruiter calls and emails I get, I wrote this post about how I’ve disengaged from Facebook and Instagram, and why: https://t.co/PRBMANL1fD

[Aaron Beals @abeals]

Every developer should have the experience of typing `git blame` and seeing their own username sitting there…

https://t.co/B57r0F8bD9

[Aaron Beals @abeals]

sometimes the best way to get something to happen is to make the first draft, even if the result is terrible.

https://t.co/GpBtt14ugE

[Aaron Beals @abeals]

How do you make decisions, especially on a distributed team? https://t.co/tmEYn859Pg

[Aaron Beals @abeals]

Be excellent to each other. https://t.co/fDEnv6vgAn

[Aaron Beals @abeals]

Last year, I resuscitated my blog. I haven’t yet ported over older pieces, so the list of posts is short.

My pace of posting has been anemic, mainly because I’m getting in my own way.

Today, I decided to address that: https://t.co/Mkdtr5BPUD