Jesse Martin

Teacher, Writer, Engineer, Full Stack Maker. Tag everything :latest. Ex Dev Rel. Ex. Sales Engineer. Currently @ModusCreate. Family man and follower of Jesus.

[Jesse Martin @motleydev]

Anything that can run on Postgres will eventually run on Postgres.

[Jesse Martin @motleydev]

Google fires the guy that should probably replace a PM somewhere at Google. Builds the thing that every engineer influencer has been asking for and creates instant love for the product.

This is not how you do it.

[Justin Poehnelt @JPoehnelt]

Two months ago I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI. It went viral, hit #1 on Hacker News, gained thousands of GitHub stars and many thousands of actual users in just a couple days.

It was an incredible, confusing journey, from directors and leaders asking what they could learn from the tool to getting grilled by legal about why the Google logo and brand colors are on the Google Workspace GitHub code repositories.

I think the cause was that Workspace and certain leaders (and projects) were afraid of being disrupted. But the fear wasn't specific to my CLI, it was a broader fear in what agents meant for Workspace. Either way, the irony of my termination was the announcement at Google Cloud Next two days before I was fired that an official Workspace CLI was coming.

I want this out there because it is easier for me to explain my story and it is an experience I want to fully own. It's also part of my healing.

Nearly 7 years at Google was an incredible opportunity for me and I was fortunate to have wonderful teammates and a manager that fully supported me through these last few months. Thank you.

[Jesse Martin @motleydev]

This story needs more exposure.
https://t.co/dvIoudeq9l

[Jesse Martin @motleydev]

New business idea, agentic IDE and issue tracker.

Cause issues.
Find issues.
Fix issues.
(repeat)

Hockey-stick DAU and evaluation.

[Jesse Martin @motleydev]

@kenwheeler @thekitze @soraofficialapp And now they've had to shut down. I hope you're happy with yourself.

[Jesse Martin @motleydev]

Maybe it's just me, but if you are replying to a candidate 6+ months after they applied to a job to inform them the role is no longer available, just don't.

I've moved on. I'm happy. You're just reminding me of a time I'd rather forget.

[Jesse Martin @motleydev]

Wanted a way to generate a fake text conversation for a screenshot for my slides. Had Google make an app for me to do it. Three shots. Done in 3 minutes. It proposed the AI feature. This is wild.

[Jesse Martin @motleydev]

The reason I am FOR social healthcare is because I like knowing my neighbor can focus on being healthy, not how to pay for it. Seeing EMTs advise people on whether they should go to the hospital or not based on how much it would cost sorta liberalized that part of my politics.

[(Tejas) Kumar @TejasKumar_]

behold the reason i live in germany

this injection costs €3000

i need to take this every monday

if i dont i am dead in weeks

social healthcare

[Jesse Martin @motleydev]

I don’t know what level of family life includes “children who sing in the shower” - but it’s a good level.

[Jesse Martin @motleydev]

"You don't need a sword to go potty," is a very on-brand thing to say as a dad of boys.

[Jesse Martin @motleydev]

@kenwheeler @thekitze 6 generations of “the one your mom told you to watch out for”

[Jesse Martin @motleydev]

Because quality of life in Europe is not dependent on the evaluation of others.

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

why is it that vacationing in Europe is so amazing, and yet, the largest company in Europe is 10% the size of NVIDIA.

[Jesse Martin @motleydev]

@adamwathan Always buy organic dog food. It’s not for the dog.

[Jesse Martin @motleydev]

This is a thing.

[kitze 🛠️ tinkerer.club @thekitze]

my poor wife panicked that something happened to me from eating so much junk food 😭 i took melatonin which i never do and got knocked out till 11 am 💀

[Jesse Martin @motleydev]

Fridays are tab burn-down and consolidation day. How many tabs you x'ing out?

[Jesse Martin @motleydev]

My best hair is scorched earth.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Same

My best hair is no shampoo and only occassionally soap

The natural oils return after a few months and if your diet is healthy your hair will get natural volume and shine

Your hair will also respond to the local water, in Bali I'd get hair like deep fried noodles from the salt I think while in Portugal where the water is more hard my hair is more flat

[Jesse Martin @motleydev]

@aarondfrancis What is interesting is there will be a huge market for "robot ergonomics" in retrofitting tools that were made for humans. The whole grind/tamp process could be swapped with one attachment, removing the grinder, etc.

Hammers, saws, etc - there's a huge new market.

[Jesse Martin @motleydev]

@levelsio Can’t speak to China - but I’ve done a tinker’s version of a VPN with a light weight VPC running a tail net node as an exit node. Keeps my IP under the radar from any blocking bots so far. It’s really simple to configure. And if you get it scripted, you can turn and burn.

[Jesse Martin @motleydev]

@simonswiss Back flipping is a great psychological trait of being willing to bet on yourself and not your environment.

[Jesse Martin @motleydev]

@thekitze Taxi ride and stick your camera out the window at a light. Always freaks the drivers out.