Matthew Greenfield

Dad, software engineer, and weirdo extraordinaire

[Matthew Greenfield @omgreenfield]

@AnthropicAI Beautiful article.

Though this stood out to me.

I don't understand why we keep forcing people to use 33% of their monitors.

[Matthew Greenfield @omgreenfield]

@Lizzy9595670190 @JituChaudhary25 @POTUS So if a terrorist organization from where you live attacks a neighboring territory, you’re OK if that territory retaliates by killing you and all of the other adults and children living around you?

[Matthew Greenfield @omgreenfield]

@Strykteam @ksorbs What? Have you heard of the Catholic Church? I always thought y’all just ignored the rampant pedophilia in your political party—turns out you’re just unaware of it. Spend some time educating yourself: https://t.co/k25KASEHLx.

[Matthew Greenfield @omgreenfield]

@TruthsTale @sachee You have no clue what you’re talking about.

She was a tech lead for the platform API team and is a huge figure in the GraphQL world.

She, like every other software engineer I know, is getting a never ending stream of interview requests sent to her LinkedIn every single day

[Matthew Greenfield @omgreenfield]

@ajsteelshow @E4edges @theresonly1JD @sachee Guessing you’re not a software engineer.

The industry is enormous, and the demand for talented engineers is staggering.

She will verrrrryyy easily find a new job.

[Matthew Greenfield @omgreenfield]

@alex_lanstein @VerizonSupport Why do you think you know how difficult it would be to accomplish this?

[Matthew Greenfield @omgreenfield]

I haven't used Emacs since college. I didn't know how much more I like it over Vim.

Why... why did it take me so long to figure that out? I'll never get that time back.

[Matthew Greenfield @omgreenfield]

I love URL shorteners, so I got my own from https://t.co/7pMpUP493X. I needed a domain, and "https://t.co/n7Wnf00UVX" just seemed to be the most correct option.

So now this will redirect to my website: https://t.co/kQYANGSO6E

[Matthew Greenfield @omgreenfield]

Reusing Amazon filters:

- The query param is called "rh"
- Reuse your favorite filters for later
- When I focus the address bar and type "qamp<space>", it types the below, which checks "Prime" and "4 stars and up"

&rh=n%3A1055398%2Cp_85%3A2470955011%2Cp_72%3A1248915011

[Matthew Greenfield @omgreenfield]

Apple Reminders are amazing.

Saying “hey Siri, add salt and pepper to my groceries list” to my watch while in the shower? Oh my Dog.

[Matthew Greenfield @omgreenfield]

I used to think apps that only had "Yes" and "Not Now" as options were obnoxious. Now I like it. If the app has updated features or I find myself using apps differently, it's nice to have the option presented to me so I don't have to go hunting for it.

[Matthew Greenfield @omgreenfield]

Setting Siri to a British accent brings me great joy

[Matthew Greenfield @omgreenfield]

Things that recently entered my life and made a tremendously positive impact:

- Tea
- WordPress
- Marie Kondo

[Matthew Greenfield @omgreenfield]

https://t.co/rTFBLpeKxi

[Matthew Greenfield @omgreenfield]

@comcastcares There's no point. You guys are vultures. I called to cancel the delivery of the Flex equipment that I wasn't told I'd be getting. The rep said that either I take the equipment I don't want, or I have to cancel my current service and go back to the one I was using before.

[Matthew Greenfield @omgreenfield]

@comcastcares why do you make talking with a person so difficult?

"How may I help you today?"
"Billing"
"Let me list 15 automated processes that won't help with your question"
"Representative"
"I know you want to talk to someone. Too bad. Here are more automated processes"

[Matthew Greenfield @omgreenfield]

@whirlpoolusa My phone experience:
- "Alright. Let me get someone to help you with that"
- "Alright. Let me get someone on the line"
- "To receive a call back, press 1"
- *I press 1*
- "Please wait on the line for the next agent"
- Me: "what the !@#$?"

[CSS-Tricks @css]

Reducing the opacity of a box-shadow as the size of it increases...

https://t.co/MOvU2pti65

[Matthew Greenfield @omgreenfield]

Just wrote a blog post on a coding style I call "method-driven execution"

https://t.co/GRveXzmP12