Mike Newswanger

Cloud Networking Team Lead @ Elastic - golang, containers, kubernetes, performance, and lego

[Jonnie Hallman @destroytoday]

How to get into woodworking:

Step 1 - Learn to code
Step 2 - Burn out
Step 3 - Get into woodworking

[Mike Newswanger @mnewswanger]

@engineering_bae I’d done that a few times as a hiring manager in the past; in those cases it was primarily to respect my and the candidate’s time, and when I’d do so I’d try to be as open as possible with them as to why.

[Mike Newswanger @mnewswanger]

@engineering_bae It’s infrequent, but my guidance is: once things reach a point where there’s nothing the candidate or interviewer (depending on which role you’re in at the time) can say nothing more to change your mind, that’s a point to call it.

[Mike Newswanger @mnewswanger]

What does the following output:

package main

import (
"fmt"
)

func main() {
myString := "string"
repeat(&myString)
fmt.Printf("Repeated String: %s", myString)
}

func repeat(myString *string) {
myNewString := *myString + *myString
myString = &myNewString
}

[Mike Newswanger @mnewswanger]

I feel like @davecheney right now writing go pop quizzes showing examples of how pointers can bite you in #golang

[Mike Newswanger @mnewswanger]

@tarynpivots If you haven't already tried them, I've found the right fitting tips on IEMs to be super comfortable for long-term wear. Over ears tend to irritate my ears / head far more quickly.

[Mike Newswanger @mnewswanger]

@tarynpivots I use a Yeti X mic (it's got directional pickup options, which is nice and hardware mute - perfect for calls) and mostly use speakers but switch to comfortable headphones / IEMs if there's a lot of outside noise (i.e. thunderstorm)

[Mike Newswanger @mnewswanger]

@Nick_Craver That’s my work laptop. Not a fan. Well, speaking of fans - they never stop. Running two 2560x1440 monitors off a wd19 the left cuts out (and comes right back) multiple times an hour. Otherwise, performance is reasonable and the machine itself pretty stable.

[Corey Quinn (in London this week) @QuinnyPig]

So today's thread is on how to apply for jobs (beating out "the horrors of git" by a nose).

Scenario: you're on the job market for one reason or another. Let's begin.

[Mike Newswanger @mnewswanger]

@matryer @_rsc @FiloSottile @golang Barely indistinguishable from the original cast!

[Mat Ryer @matryer]

Thinking of leaving Go because generics is now officially coming to the language?

I broke out my guitar, and my pale face and channeled my inner Lin-Manuel Miranda. With lyrics from @_rsc, @FiloSottile and even @golang.

(I'm as embarrassed as you are.)

https://t.co/HxQHShwq4N

[Mike Newswanger @mnewswanger]

@Nick_Craver Such a great mug shot!

[Mike Newswanger @mnewswanger]

@TheAmyCode I’ll buck the trends a bit- track saw, cordless drill, and a router. It’d get a ton done, relatively safe, and small storage footprint

[Mike Newswanger @mnewswanger]

@JennaQuindica @crayzeigh ++ on the Aeron recommendation; they've got a few sizes (largely affecting width of the chair) but will hold up over time to the weight and are appropriately sized.

[Mike Newswanger @mnewswanger]

@thefarseeker They did back out a lot of the really painful points of the feature set change, but they've been tightening restriction gradually over time and don't have a great story around hobby users between free and enterprise licensing; only time will tell there

[Mike Newswanger @mnewswanger]

Trying to get started with Solidworks and found SQL Server (which is a dependency of Solidworks) has a dependency on... you, you guessed it - Edge. 🤷‍♂️

[Mike Newswanger @mnewswanger]

@thefarseeker 👍 it’ll be an adventure - wasn’t too thrilled about the license nerf Fusion360 dropped last year so figured I’ll give Solidworks a go. Want to try to set up and render my ideas for a CNC enclosure

[Mike Newswanger @mnewswanger]

@Nick_Craver @yesthattom Cmon, Nick. Be a good sport about it!

[Mike Newswanger @mnewswanger]

@todpunk @GBrayUT Right hand hasn't been too bad for me... finding ~ was brutal though

[Mike Newswanger @mnewswanger]

@todpunk @GBrayUT They ship em in batches, so likely to be delivered around the same date
Overall getting pretty comfortable with it. Bottom row w/ the ortho layout is killing me though - I've got a 50% chance of hitting correct w/ c v b