Dietrich Featherston

founded engineering @Netflix, prev Apple, GitHub

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working on 1s streaming spectrograms for hifi metrics as a side quest, more to come

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A wallpaper module that just pulls a random frame from Koyaanisqatsi on the hour

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Every change to Postgres since 1996 as an embedding in 15s

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@Duane1024 @openclaw my answer to this category of problem is generally nix

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@samlambert I remember walking in and seeing this on my first day in 2013 and adding tail latencies shortly thereafter. What a fun time.

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A quick wordle clone in Java https://t.co/1oBTMc1b2C

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@kneath very happy to have started at hq 2.0. it felt like a special place. i remember writing a hubot plugin to drop a front door gif in chat when someone rang the doorbell.

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@evanm know an unlicked window

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@norootcause @robertskmiles i suspect our jobs will be automated long before laundry

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@jdmaturen

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system complexity expands to fill all available staff

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@moonpolysoft breakfast wanters wanted for breakfast. circle of life.

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@moonpolysoft yeah, wouldn’t be a problem for me

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@kneath the cold grip of entropy comes for us all

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@moonpolysoft makes u think

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@moonpolysoft build your web services in erlang, justify why later

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@moonpolysoft “i did it this way because i wanted to”

[Dietrich Featherston @d2fn]

learn skills unlikely to be automated. welding, plumbing, electrical, construction, tailoring. anything that marries brain power and the material world. touch grass.