Ciarán Archer

Dubliner who likes to build nice things for nice people. Senior Principal Engineer and Lead Architect @Zendesk. Plotting the future.

[Dave Anderson @scarletinked]

As a Director at Amazon, I repeatedly saw that big tech career incentives basically guarantee cycles of too much growth, and then layoffs. I just had someone email me, and say that they're worried about their career as a development manager.

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[Ciarán Archer @ciaranarcher]

@DublinAirport All people will remember is their experience at Dublin airport.

[Ciarán Archer @ciaranarcher]

@DublinAirport Brutal showing this morning. A Boeing 777 AC2100 from Toronto arrives with over 400 passengers. You disembark it onto the tarmac with ONE set of stairs. 45 minutes later we’re off. Now we’re waiting over 45 mins for bags to turn up. Get your act together! 🤬

[Product Hunt 😸 @ProductHunt]

If the code works, don't touch it

The code:

[Ciarán Archer @ciaranarcher]

Seems like Twitter Spaces is not happy with 500K people for the @RonDeSantis announcement. Has crashed my app three times so far trying to open it.

[Ciarán Archer @ciaranarcher]

I recall you telling me and I thought you were all succumbing to the drink and a case of group-think. Turns out you all had much bigger balls 😜 I also thought this was way more than 10 years ago!

[Mark Horgan @Younghorgan]

This week 10 years ago was one of the maddest weeks of my life. Eoin, Ken, Murph, Simon & I resigned from our job in radio that we’d had for the previous 7 years. We were told not to come to the office again, our desks would be cleared & our belongings sent to us. (1/10)

[Ciarán Archer @ciaranarcher]

Brilliant episode. It had it all!

[Ciarán Archer @ciaranarcher]

Fixed now after a few hours

[Ciarán Archer @ciaranarcher]

@VirginMediaIE internet down in Dublin 16 - any issues you are aware of?

[Ciarán Archer @ciaranarcher]

First trip to 🌁 since Nov 2019 🛫

[Ciarán Archer @ciaranarcher]

@GiftGrubMario https://t.co/b81su3ddhD No hassle at all, and been loving it the last 2 years!

[Ciarán Archer @ciaranarcher]

Being able to think about nothing but what is right on front of me - the here and now - for an hour. Everything else is forgotten for that hour playing football.

[Kara Detwiller @karadetwiller]

Tell me a reason you exercise that has nothing to do with losing weight or otherwise changing the way your body looks

[Ciarán Archer @ciaranarcher]

8th June 2015 ⁦@Zendesk⁩ with ⁦@scott2211⁩

[Ciarán Archer @ciaranarcher]

@drewshape Yes (eventually) and slower than before 😂

[Ciarán Archer @ciaranarcher]

Football at 45 😅

[Ciarán Archer @ciaranarcher]

Why can’t we have a central list of coaches contact details for each age group on a central website? Because GDPR. Or at least that is the “excuse” I have heard.

[Ciarán Archer @ciaranarcher]

It also made organising kids football matches significant worse too.

[Robotbeat🗽 ➐ @Robotbeat]

GDPR made the internet significantly worse. We can admit this now, right?

[Ciarán Archer @ciaranarcher]

This is a real problem! You have to rely on leaders and sub-leaders in groups and functions communicating decisions downward and funnelling concerns upwards to ensure you don’t end up with massive meetings.

[Andy Budd @andybudd]

Most people feel there are too many meetings.

However most people also hate the idea that they aren’t being included in important conversations and decisions.

[Ciarán Archer @ciaranarcher]

Interesting piece. As an architect I find it very helpful to embed with teams on detail-orientated work. High level strategy should help align detail-orientated work, and detail-orientated work should inform high level strategy. This is a practical approach to achieving that.

[Gregor @ghohpe]

Should architects code? Perhaps. Should they debug? Absolutely! #architectelevator https://t.co/hHX6sErZ8l

[Ciarán Archer @ciaranarcher]

Everyone is a person in the end. Good advice in this thread.