Peter K

I like bicycles, coffee, good cheap eats. Mostly tweet about work stuff but occasionally tweet other stuff to prove I’m human. Product Manager @prisma.

[Peter K @pskim_]

@VerizonSupport Is FIOS down in Philly again? 😩

[Peter K @pskim_]

LinkedIn thinks I'd be a top candidate for this craft beer sales manager role. You know, they might be right. I would love to try to sell craft beer after ~10 years of selling software. 😁

[Peter K @pskim_]

It's interesting there are still lots of companies that force you to set up a 1:1 call with a salesperson to learn anything about their product. Does that customer acquisition model still work? Your marketing and value proposition better be pretty darn compelling and unique.

[Peter K @pskim_]

One of the main reasons why I like document-oriented data stores is that it makes it easier to work with multi-valued fields. My survey contained many multi-select questions which get captured as a comma-separated list in Google Sheets.

[Peter K @pskim_]

Even though the analytics world is dominated by SQL/relational-based tools, I found that I prefer using document-oriented databases. A big part of PMing is making strategic decisions based on user data. I pushed user survey data into MongoDB and visualized it with Atlas Charts.

[Peter K @pskim_]

NY Times' Gift Articles is a great feature. It allows paid subscribers to share ungated access to 10 articles every 30 days with friends/family. Addresses much of the frustration around people wanting to share interesting content. https://t.co/tVKnidS75C

[Peter K @pskim_]

@mj_bilodeau @lopez4schools @Waymo @Uber I'm personally more committed to getting more people to take public transit and bike/scooter but I accept the reality that some people will always want to be in a car and for that, I'd love to see AVs take over. Mostly because I think it'll be safer for everyone, especially 🚶🚴.

[Peter K @pskim_]

Might as well register yourself as a church called The Church of Raw SQL at that point and invite followers to make tax-deductible sacrifices and offerings to advance your mission. 😂

[Peter K @pskim_]

People can have "religious" debates over all sorts of topics. It's incredible how passionate some people can be about trying to get others to NOT use an ORM. If you don't want to use an ORM, that's fine, but going all Westboro Baptist Church about how ORMs are evil is weird IMO.

[Peter K @pskim_]

Trying to debug a stored procedure for the first time in decades reminded me how much I hate this. 😂

[Peter K @pskim_]

I was thinking about this lately, more in the context of resiliency than performance. I think a lot of it is due to increased dependencies on 3rd party libraries and services. Sure, they accelerate time-to-market but is it worth the negative impact on performance and resiliency?

[Sebastiaan de With @sdw]

Whatever happened to software — with design and engineering caring about how it works?

You open doordash on a phone with a hundred times more processing power than this computer and it makes you stare at a stupid logo animation and loading screens for half a minute.

[Peter K @pskim_]

@aaronmiller8 @GergelyOrosz Clearly not. 😉

[Prisma @prisma]

📢 Join us as the Head of Product

🚀 Lead our dynamic team, drive innovation, and shape developers' experience when building with data.

👉 CVs are great, but let your talent shine by answering our specific questions in your application.

https://t.co/6yiPDlVPY4

#RemoteJobs

[Peter K @pskim_]

macOS sed vs gnu sed. why??? 🤯

[Peter K @pskim_]

A customer service rep told me they can't change the shipping destination on an order; they have to delete it and create a new one... I guess I can't ask them if it's because they didn't build the UI, API, or data model to account for that. 😁

[Prisma @prisma]

🎉Today, we invited the first users to try out Pulse in Early Access.

Want to be next? Sign up now at https://t.co/PGJczt1BUP

[Søren Bramer Schmidt @sorenbs]

🎉 Today is an exciting day for @prisma!

⚡️ We are inviting the first batch of users to try out Pulse — a managed Change Data Capture service that allows you to subscribe to real-time events in your database via Prisma Client.

👀 Join the waitlist: https://t.co/9XtrN2g3Cy

[Peter K @pskim_]

It's nice to have a few things in life where you don't feel compelled to upgrade every 2-3 years! 😁

[Peter K @pskim_]

I had to loan my webcam to my son for virtual school today so I wondered if any of my other cameras could act as a webcam. Continuity Camera doesn't work with Google Meet, Panasonic only supports DSLR webcamming with their newer cameras, and the GoPro webcam software is flaky. 😒

[Peter K @pskim_]

The cool thing about webcams in general though is that most don't require proprietary drivers or software. And despite the significant increase in demand for webcams in recent years, there isn't a ton of innovation--Wirecutter's top choice (Logitech C920) is over 10 years old!