I asked 1 billionaire, 1 PHD math professor and 1 99 year old man what self-reflection questions they asked themselves
Their list of the questions to make you feel more fulfilled in life, love & career
Ask yourselves these questions today:
Today we cut our Redis Engine CPU Utilization by 80% and survived to live (and grow) another day!
We were CPU constrained & maxed out scaling limits for our ElastiCache cluster. We had 2 hours to reduce utilization before our next traffic surge or we were toast.
What did we do?
be me
make a change
cool
refresh
no_changes.jpg
double check
triple check
cmd+r
cmd+shift+r
CMD+SHIFT+R
WTF
ok
console.log('hit')
*smug look*
refresh
*no logs*
wut
WUT
debugger;
cmd+r
no breakpoints hit
WHATTHEFUCK
im a fraud
retire?
...
hours pass
...
pwd
path/to/other/clone
People have no idea of how much Music is a precursor of programming.
Sheet music is kind of a event driven document which can be interpreted by humans but also machines.
Product managers must understand that maintainability is a crucial part of product delivery because it’s what allows you to continue to deliver features. Tech debt has compound interest. So every corner you insist gets cut to deliver features is borrowing against the future.
So far, I'm really enjoying the remote and engineering culture at GitHub. I can see how they've had success with a remote workforce, pretty much EVERYTHING (like, literally everything) is documented and organized for everything. It's awesome.
Hire me as a consultant to improve your site’s performance*!
* I’ll tell you to remove your ridiculous third-party trackers, then shame you for invading your site visitors’ privacy. You’ll be embarrassed, but I’ll have shaved off 200+ requests, ~2mb, and cut load time in half.
Software development still has a lot of terminology with a racist or patriarchal background. Let's change that.
- Blacklist ➡ Denylist
- Whitelist ➡ Allowlist
- Killer app ➡ Beloved app
- Master/slave ➡ primary/replica
🌟 Lazy-loading images and iframes are coming to the web platform and I'm excited that this will soon be possible:
<img lazyload='on' src='cool.jpg' />
<iframe lazyload='on' src='cool.html' />
Check the issue on whatwg/html: https://t.co/WbrUpqiulq