Eric Williams

Software developer with a passion for long distance cycling, raising my daughter, and generally challenging myself.

[Eric Williams @evvillian]

@dhh Oh man, I’m writing an energy monitoring alertboard right now for work (command center). Dare I steal this idea? Think they’ll notice? ⚡️⚡️

[Eric Williams @evvillian]

@richcampbell Cool, I did something similar with a base class that I picked up from some @honeycombio examples (pizza shop I think). Nice seeing this written up

[Eric Williams @evvillian]

@kellabyte @JustDeezGuy I feel like this has so much to do with scrum and sprints. Meanwhile software is a marathon not a sprint, our software sucks because we tackle it one sprint at a time. Hyper focused on an arbitrary deadline while forgetting about the bigger longer term goals

[Eric Williams @evvillian]

@DamianEdwards @Aaronontheweb @davidfowl @eehardt I have a SignalR client application published as Native AOT using MessagePack. I’m fairly certain I could have used system text JSON with type resolvers as well but I’m using nerdbank

<PackageReference Include="Nerdbank.MessagePack.SignalR" />

[Eric Williams @evvillian]

@unclebobmartin Would love to have heard your opinion had this happen when Biden was president

[Eric Williams @evvillian]

Every bug is oportunity for better test converage. Try telling that to my team.

[Eric Williams @evvillian]

@wagslane So true, in fact when I went to public school in 9th grade suddenly a math course required a TI83. Required. Um, my father got a masters in mathematics around 1952 and could run circles around me using one of those things. I clearly needed to know math

[Eric Williams @evvillian]

@mitchellh Yeah he fixed a bug in the wrong code base that didn’t event have the bug

[Eric Williams @evvillian]

@mitchellh I just reviewed and closed the single most unhinged PR I’ve ever seen clearly created by an employee using AI. Tons of beautiful content in the PR markdown, great code changes, wrong freaking repository!!!

[Eric Williams @evvillian]

The lamest thing about AI is that we now get tutorials and blogs about markdown files. This stuff used to be interesting

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

I hate these "coding isn't the hard part" tweets

I have been a part of and seen several companies not just struggling with "the right decision" but the culmination of their past technical decisions.

AI won't magically make this go away. Lines of Code is still a liability and producing it faster doesn't change or reduce it, if anything it increases liability.

Room temperature Twitter take strikes yet again

[Dave Callan | dotnet @Dave_DotNet]

All signals are suggesting Discriminated Unions are finally on for C# 15 and #dotnet 11

[Eric Williams @evvillian]

@edandersen FTG. I used to be a tow truck driver now I have an invisible white collar on thanks to software engineering. Was able to pay for my daughter’s college, never thought that was possible. Why create a system that stands to wipe out so much wealth from the middle class

[Eric Williams @evvillian]

@justinskycak @csanyi_andras I have that person under me right now and it’s amazing. I’ve been that person when I was younger. This is the first (maybe second) time I’ve had someone driven and talented under me and working with him is delightful. Sadly I lack that person above me

[Eric Williams @evvillian]

@SumitM_X Rejoice, if bots are flooding my login, I’ve made it to the big leagues 🎉

[Eric Williams @evvillian]

Why do all the Agile and Scrum folks always say “because we’re not doing it correctly”. As if that’s some excuse for a failed system. If nobody ever “does it correctly” it’s fundamentally broken

[Eric Williams @evvillian]

@unclebobmartin You may not know the definition of the word humanity

[Eric Williams @evvillian]

Pops, He’s innocent until proven guilty, that’s why he’s still on the street. Heck he probably won’t even be charged. He’s getting far beyond reasonable doubt. She was referred to as a domestic terrorist on national TV after being executed publicly (how’s that for presumed innocence). I sincerely hope you act the same way after a school shooting, or perhaps your political ideology has gotten in the way. The difference between us, I’m not being political about this. I just plain and simply watched an American citizen get executed and I’m will to believe my own damn eyes.

[Eric Williams @evvillian]

@thestanduppod I’ve always rolled my shirts. The efficiency gains mean I don’t need AI to help me code.