Paul Tela

Software Engineer

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

One of my biggest growth moments as a programmer was realizing that libraries I use are just code, and I could read them directly rather than puzzling it out from the docs.

Even today, I am surprised how much faster I move every time I start reading a layer I'm building on.

[Taylor Otwell @taylorotwell]

I have been asked several times where to put data you need to seed into a production database after adding a new table or column. Should you insert directly in the migration? What if you prune the migrations later?

If it were my project, I would probably do this... 🧵

[@[email protected] @Nick_Craver]

“What skills do you recommend programmers develop?”

The most important one is communication. By far. Finding agreement is just so hugely important.

So many projects never found agreement (not even on the problem they’re trying to solve…), and only realized it on ship day.

[Ross Simmonds @TheCoolestCool]

It’s easy to fall into the trap of wanting to just complain and be negative amidst chaos.

It’s hard to stay positive and keep doing the work.

But hard things pay the best return.

[Steven Beschloss @StevenBeschloss]

Any time Mitch McConnell—no longer Senate majority leader—asserts how the Democrats should follow the rules and do what’s right, Democrats should visualize his refusal to hold hearings for Merrick Garland and his ramrodding through Amy Coney Barrett in 8 days.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

Knowing that his successor opposes the death penalty, Donald Trump has rushed to execute as many people as possible before the transition. He has executed more individuals in weeks than had been federally executed in more than 60 years. Absolutely shameful. End the death penalty.

[Elie Honig @eliehonig]

Impeachment is “divisive” only if there’s an actual *divide* about the President’s conduct. If you’re ok with what he did, stand up and say it. But don’t hide behind weasel words like “divisive.”

[Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill]

They’ve sullied this room and this government and this country in a way that can’t just be wiped clean in the near term. What an absolute disgrace.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

I hope Americans see this as a wakeup call and never again take their democracy for granted. Trump was always this. The Republicans who enabled him own what's happening today down to the last trespassing thug.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

These are not protestors. They are law-breakers, they are rioters, they have attacked our Capitol, and they need to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

There really is a tweet for everything ...

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

They’re concerned because of an election fraud hoax that he himself helped perpetuate.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Never forget: Romney stood alone. Alone. All the Republican senators except Romney and Collins refused even to call witnesses.

[Phil Mattingly @Phil_Mattingly]

Good compilation here from @Kevinliptakcnn re: Pres. Trump’s list of objections to the spending package last night vs. Pres. Trump’s own budget requests:

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

The system isn't working when so many of its participants and supposed defenders are trying to destroy it. That's the crisis, and it's not going away because this time some judges threw out cases prepared by idiots.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

The election fraud hoax will go down as one of the most embarrassing and dishonorable episodes in American political history, and countless Republican officials went along with it and promoted it.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Very convenient for all of these Republicans to sign a joint confession that they are loyal to Trump, not the United States. https://t.co/0F4rdBUs0p

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

I think Jim Jordan should travel over the holidays—to a hospital where he can volunteer to help overburdened frontline health workers who’ll be working over Christmas to try to keep their fellow Americans alive.

[Ana Navarro-Cárdenas @ananavarro]

“All of you who have not said a damn word, are complicit in this.”