DiegeeK

IT Geek

[DiegeeK @diegeek]

Things that amaze me...🧵

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[DiegeeK @diegeek]

Sometimes I think about existing footage of indigenous tribes seeing helicopters/airplanes for the first time.

The technology has been out there for dozens of years and they have never seen it before.

What if aliens are already here and I’m part of an indigenous tribe?

[DiegeeK @diegeek]

Hits hard…

[Kai Lentit (e/xcel) @KaiLentit]

POV: Engineer leaving for Big Tech to work on imaginary projects...

[Rhevolver @Rhevolver]

No entiendo ni madre de lo que dice, pero pinche rolón jaja

[DiegeeK @diegeek]

Someday...

[DiegeeK @diegeek]

We are living in the future...

[DiegeeK @diegeek]

@theramblingfool This is literally happening to me with ethernet cables... sigh...

[DiegeeK @diegeek]

Wallets are irrelevant... cellphone can store car keys, insurance card, credit cards, drivers license...

[DiegeeK @diegeek]

Things that amaze me...🧵

[DiegeeK @diegeek]

Home lights turn on/off in an automated schedule...

[DiegeeK @diegeek]

Remember remember the 5th of November... #Election2024

https://t.co/b0X4qXU4Jg

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

IT teams waking up this morning

[DiegeeK @diegeek]

@ModdedQuad Had a classmate that could only move a computer mouse with his right hand. He could code software with the keyboard-on-screen. Imagine what you could do. Let alone, software you could build with your thoughts if you were to learn to code... And stream the journey...

[DiegeeK @diegeek]

I'd love to see scientific accounts go back to post about science, or history accounts post about history... We dont need to see the same meme for the 100th time from an Nth account...

[DiegeeK @diegeek]

I love @X , but based on new revenue policies there are two main issues:

1) Accounts that were focused on specific content are pivoting to spam timelines with content unrelated to what they were focused before.
2) Big accounts are repeating each others content/videos

[DiegeeK @diegeek]

"...the Internet and dreams are similar. They're areas where the repressed conscious mind escapes."-Paprika

[Matt Schnuck @mattschnuck]

18 years ago, a struggling actor named Bryan Cranston made a shift that changed his life.

His mindset (and how you can use it to change yours):

Bryan was going from audition to audition but not getting parts.

He was trying to win the job each time.

But he had the job wrong...

Old mindset:
The purpose of an audition was to get a job.

New mindset:
The purpose of an audition was to serve the script in a unique way that only he could do.

Whether he got the job or not was up to someone else.

This mindset shift was an inflection point in his career. Bryan has been busy ever since, starting with guest roles on Seinfeld to 6 Emmy awards for Breaking Bad.

Takeaway:
Attachment to outcome gets in the way of our best work. This is true in business, in art, in life.

Goals are important because they set a direction. But goals are in the future.

If you are overly focused on your goal in the moment, it will block your authentic best.

As the Stoic Philosopher Seneca wrote:
“The more you seek to control external events, the less control you will have over your own life.”

If this resonates, comment below and follow @mattschnuck for insights on inflections in life, entrepreneurship and 25 years in business.

[DiegeeK @diegeek]

How it feels working from home as a software engineer...

[Unusual Videos @UnusualVideos]

best video you will watch today

[Catalin @catalinmpit]

I just don't understand how Fullstack Open is not more popular.

It's a free online web development course by the University of Helsinki and Houston. It teaches you the following technologies:
• Node.js
• MongoDB
• GraphQL
• TypeScript
• React
• Redux

It's such an incredible resource!

https://t.co/c06n95Etj6

[DiegeeK @diegeek]

Relatable...

[Kevin Naughton Jr. @KevinNaughtonJr]

no matter how long i write code for i'll never remember regex syntax

[DiegeeK @diegeek]

@walmarthelp

[DiegeeK @diegeek]

Me after waiting 2.5 hours at the Walmart curbside pickup, having to get inside the store to talk to the manager, and watching all other cars still waiting their orders while loading my car as the store is about to close