Damon Aw

Full Stack Engineer at Gusto, likes hacking and building products. Hates it when there’s no choc filling at the end of an ice cream cone. Tweets are my own.

[Damon Aw @daemonsy]

👋 I wrote a post about preventing traversal attacks on #GraphQL APIs. Hoping to write more this year!

https://t.co/4syAAC08J5

[Damon Aw @daemonsy]

Them, blocking PR: "I see you added 2 lines to this class, can I shame you into unwinding 8 years of legacy code in the god object and that you barely have domain knowledge of?"

Them, 8 months later: "The refactoring initiative didn't work 🤔"

[Damon Aw @daemonsy]

The guy who request changes on a PR to nitpick on a name with no suggestions and the police officer who pulls people over to sarcastically "admire" their custom paint job.

Same guy.

[Damon Aw @daemonsy]

@MillyCodes Worse: realizing you’re the first one on the call and will have to make 1:1 small talk with whoever joins next.

[Carl Vellotti 🥞 @carlvellotti]

Nice try 😏

[Smoke-away @SmokeAwayyy]

OpenAI is hiring a Killswitch Engineer for GPT-5.

Apply now.

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

A modern day Romeo and Juliet.

[Damon Aw @daemonsy]

@mrbrown Everything he do, he’s doing it for you.

[Gusto @GustoHQ]

Gusto does not use Silicon Valley Bank to fund customer payroll services and operations. Therefore, Silicon Valley Bank's current situation does not affect our ability to provide payroll services to you.

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[Damon Aw @daemonsy]

@tadas_t Shhh until I’m ready to pull the plug, shed my past, be devoted to the Matto Espresso family. Sorry kids.

[Damon Aw @daemonsy]

Lol, I bought a fucking latte from a cafe and I’m now part of a family that aims to change the world?

[Keith Pitt @keithpitt]

Founders, as your company grows, senior managers will start to pressure you to “stop getting involved in product development”. I took that advice 12 months ago, and I regret it.

No one knows your product or customer better than you. It’s your super power. Use it.

[Roy van Rijn @royvanrijn]

If you know what this is:

SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H5 T6

... it might be a good time to start taking daily supplements and consider a check-up at the doctor.

[Damon Aw @daemonsy]

Goodbye to a pioneer and innovator, Mr Sim Wong Hoo.

I have fond memories of buying the latest/greatest sound card for my gaming boxes. And the Nomad mp3 players.

https://t.co/MbvlBK65H8

[Damon Aw @daemonsy]

Let the ADR wars begin… (inside joke)

[Dean McGowan @deanmcgowan]

Outside of NYC people think that residents walk around scared of being robbed or shot every day.

Inside NYC the most stressful day of the year is santacon because folks don’t want to ride the subway with a bunch of blacked out college kids. That’s the biggest fear.

[Damon Aw @daemonsy]

How I feel trying to build a feature over the weekend that's estimated to take 2 weeks...

[Pinboard @Pinboard]

The Programmers’ Credo: we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy

[layla @pilatesdev]

British Python devs be like
“oy thats a constructor, __init__”

[Damon Aw @daemonsy]

LOL nicely played

[Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred]

Me, whispering to Starbucks employee: Someone took a large…sorry…a venti poop on the floor.