Colby Aley

programmer 💻🛩

[Colby Aley @aley]

@Jmartens Have you tried Trader Joes for flowers? Pretty nice at a good price point.

[Aaron Levie @levie]

The biggest misread of anyone predicting the end of software engineering was imagining that the world only needed a certain amount of software, and bringing automation to the field would reduce the need for labor.

Exactly the opposite is happening where essentially most things are actually turning into software. Because agents can use tools, work with computers, write software on the fly, and process data like humans (but far faster), we can now throw “software” at problems that never could reasonably be digitized before.

What that leads to is the role of engineering taking on greater importance in the economy, because we can now engineer far more systems and processes than were possible before.

If you’re a bank trying to do new forms of trading, engineers are often your first bet. If you are in life sciences, you expect more and more research and lab work to be engineering centric. If you’re in manufacturing, you’re trying to automate more of the supply chain, all that is engineering. More and more work is shaped like software problems.

Yes we’re not going to be coding manually in the future. But almost everything will be code, which means those that understand it are in a fantastic position.

[Colby Aley @aley]

@joaomdmoura Congrats João!

[Colby Aley @aley]

@cabel Sounds like the model trains from this thread are still looking for a home https://t.co/zoKMctqDGi

[Zach Klein @zachklein]

You guys.

My wife's uncle is a major model train buff. He built a 2000sqft train layout over decades and now he wants to retire from the hobby and just give the whole thing away for FREE.

He asked me if I knew anyone...I want to help!

[Colby Aley @aley]

So how are we feeling about buttons inside buttons on the web these days? I've seen two recent examples but can't get on board.

[Colby Aley @aley]

@DGaff_ Devin, I’m so sorry. 💔

[Colby Aley @aley]

@Delta I'm stranded at AMS after DL165 was cancelled, and was just put on hold for 45 minutes then disconnected while trying to rebook. Can you help?

[Colby Aley @aley]

Some buildings will omit the 13th floor from elevators, and some will omit a dozen plus at random, and this is just a normal thing that's somewhat common.

[Colby Aley @aley]

@Jmartens Big brain move is saying “Pacific”, “Eastern”, etc.

[Colby Aley @aley]

that feeling when you have to write a commit message and pull request title/description for a trivial one line code change

[Colby Aley @aley]

I love when Quora reminds me of the dumb things I have previously Googled

[Colby Aley @aley]

@elliottkember Thanks Elliott. Double vaxd but not boosted. Symptoms mild so far.

[Colby Aley @aley]

After nearly two years of cancelled trips, celebrations, and constant worrying over either being too cautious or not cautious enough, finally slipping up and getting COVID just feels so… deflating.

[Colby Aley @aley]

I do not understand dreams. My dream last night was that my friend published a book and was begging me and all their other friends to buy enough copies to make the NYT bestseller list. ???

[Colby Aley @aley]

@kiernanmcgowan very safe very reliable

[Colby Aley @aley]

Something about being a software engineer makes this terrifying to read

[Colby Aley @aley]

@joaomdmoura Hell yeah! 👊

[Colby Aley @aley]

Portlanders: Wow our street racing problem has really gotten out of hand.

Also Portlanders: We should shut down the race track where people can race legally.

https://t.co/wtXytDOoOO

[Colby Aley @aley]

@mginnard Like The Purge but everything you destroy just reappears the next day 🤩

[Colby Aley @aley]

me devouring an entire box of Pocky