Nate May

Engineering Leader. I build my own systems in Rust, Haskell, and PureScript. Formerly at MongoDB and RedHat.

[Nate May @codenoodle]

How good was the first drawing you ever made? Most consumable software is the first time that group of people has ever written that kind of app. Practice coding what you want to release because the first time you get it to work, its not going to be very good.

[Nate May @codenoodle]

Manually tested yamlbash: an industry standard for mission-critical infrastructure.

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If your dev tools can warn you when a value that doesn't exist was referenced and you didn't have to run that branch of your program, you're building software with technology from at most 50 years ago. Somehow, new tools still come out that make me play the guessing game.

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When you choose a programming language for your application, you attach that language's ethos to your product. If you choose Python, every line of code you write is your user interface.

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Leaders publish articles not only to share the thought behind their work, but because the writing process itself guides ideas to maturity.

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@bruno__quaresma It's not an easy problem!

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@bruno__quaresma It's legitimately fun 😁

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@bruno__quaresma tree-sitter

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When I have coffee I forget to eat lunch. Hello 3pm.

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@chris__martin Game changer 🤯

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@PFarrissey I ended up springing for two 27" Dell UltraSharp U2720Q. I'm only on day one with them, but I am thoroughly impressed.

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I got new 4k monitors AND cleaned my glasses. Everything is so pretty.

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@adamgordonbell @CraigTreptow 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

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@0hrely https://t.co/d1xboZP6IE

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@ryan_c_harris I'm using a 50$ Lention one which has proven to be an acceptable budget pick.

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@Mataway Saved for later! 😁

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@Al_Grigor map (\x -> (x, length x)) $ group "aaaabbbcca"

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I'm excited to announce that today was my first day as an engineer @fishtowndata. I'll be working on @getdbt to empower analysts all over the world. 🚀

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@kellyamalone Wow. 🤪

[Nate May @codenoodle]

This week I learn Rust. #rust #rustlang