Anthony J. Agby Jr.

Professional problem solver, mobile location expert, aspiring inventor, a terrible Buddhist, econ nerd, and Manager/Tech Lead at @CapitalOne

[Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal]

new little song:

"The Re-Org Rag (I'm My Own VP)"

[Anthony J. Agby Jr. @agbyaj]

Lebanon goes to the polls amid its worst-ever financial crisis https://t.co/AI30EeXuNE from https://t.co/AI30EeXuNE

[Anthony J. Agby Jr. @agbyaj]

Emmanuel Macron will battle Marine Le Pen for the French presidency https://t.co/B1GxoR0T8I https://t.co/B1GxoR0T8I

[Luke Johnson (ljohnson.bsky.social) @johnson]

This is Zelensky's message to Europeans for an oil and gas embargo. Not pulling any punches:

[Anthony J. Agby Jr. @agbyaj]

Why Macron matters https://t.co/02sBLQS8u3 https://t.co/02sBLQS8u3

[Anthony J. Agby Jr. @agbyaj]

@MissyReif I got a shirt and hat. Design is 🔥

[Anthony J. Agby Jr. @agbyaj]

@zugaldia Oh man this takes me back to my days of cleaning up GPS data. There’s a lot of ways to make crappy GPS signal/chipsets perform better.

[Thich Nhat Hanh @thichnhathanh]

The International Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism announces that our beloved teacher Thich Nhat Hanh passed away peacefully at Từ Hiếu Temple in Huế, Vietnam, at 00:00hrs on 22nd January, 2022, at the age of 95. #thichnhathanh #Buddhism

[Louie Bacaj @LBacaj]

I managed multiple engineering teams before quitting big tech.

Now that I quit, I can speak freely.

Here are 12 things your manager may not be telling you, but I know for a fact will help you. 👇

[@norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com on Bluesky @norootcause]

As a software developer, you may be called upon to perform some of these tasks in your career.

How well a CS degree prepares you for these tasks (and whether it even should prepare you for these) is left as an exercise to the reader.

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[Anthony J. Agby Jr. @agbyaj]

Like Prussia was considered an army with a state, the more I observe of present day America, the more I’m convinced that it is just corporations with a state. Everything that the govt does is geared towards corporations and shareholders.

[Anthony J. Agby Jr. @agbyaj]

US Army Creates Single Vaccine Effective Against All COVID, SARS Variants https://t.co/rtj3b9e1LG

[Molly Struve 🦄 @molly_struve]

Dear Software gods,

Any chance we could hold off on more fun surprises until, idk, after the holidays?

Sincerely,
All Security and SRE folks

[Leland Takamine @LelandTakamine]

It's harder for Mobile engineers to progress beyond the "Senior Engineer" title than it is for backend engineers.

A thread on why this is and how to get promoted beyond “terminal roles” as a mobile engineer ⬇️

First, a few examples demonstrating why this phenomenon exists:

[Vlad Mihalcea @vlad_mihalcea]

Code review in a nutshell