Chris Smith

Software developer. Maintainer of google-cloud-ruby.

[Chris Smith @quartzmo]

"most Rails applications won’t need a dependency on Node given these defaults" #Rails

[Chris Smith @quartzmo]

Listening to @kathleencodes Day 2 Keynote at https://t.co/EORHp5xuDy Great so far.

[Chris Smith @quartzmo]

"now, with GitHub's introduction of OIDC tokens into GitHub Actions Workflows, you can authenticate from GitHub Actions to Google Cloud using Workload Identity Federation, removing the need to export a long-lived JSON service account key." #googlecloud

https://t.co/LY6hVeJee2

[Chris Smith @quartzmo]

Just registered for the latest session of Google Cloud Security Talks, Dec 15, 2021. #cloudsecurity #googlecloud

https://t.co/7Xh2FpBVpR

[Chris Smith @quartzmo]

I read a post about gRPC vs REST that listed one of the potential disadvantages of gRPC as "wants TLS". I agree that this is broadly true, although insecure channel credentials are supported. But isn't the zero-trust network pretty well established as a positive? #ZeroTrust

[Chris Smith @quartzmo]

"There isn’t a single ticket in HashiCorp’s support database about Python module versions or Ruby gem versions or kernel release... our support workload would be about 5x if we had to sort out every user’s environment." #golang #hashicorp
https://t.co/PKE3eDbs4R

[Chris Smith @quartzmo]

Learning from video courseware talking heads has never been my thing, but @goinggodotnet is impressive. He puts everything he's got into it. Great energy. (Ultimate Go Preview - Prepare Your Mind)

[Chris Smith @quartzmo]

Listening to back episodes of Go Time, the design philosophy presented in 172 by @goinggodotnet is excellent: Easy to understand more important than easy to write. https://t.co/FGgAfMSlxK #Golang

[DHH @dhh]

Rails 6.0 beta1 has been released! Two major new frameworks – Action Mailbox and Action Text – and two important scalable-by-default upgrades with multiple database support and parallel testing. Along with a ton of other awesome stuff. https://t.co/3QvrFDTBno

[Chris Smith @quartzmo]

I just bought #UnblockedBook by @unblockedfuture and it already derailed my work day, so hard to resist reading the whole thing straight through. $1 today only. https://t.co/QEzcHLiAlx

[Chris Smith @quartzmo]

"often overlooked in economic histories in favour of product innovation, ... Process innovation is harder to do, and more influential in determining productivity growth (as recent research underlines). It drives the democratisation of capitalism"
-- https://t.co/nNe5st7PUG

[Aja Hammerly @the_thagomizer]

I was up late last night reflecting on diversity in tech issues. If you think tech is a meritocracy you are wrong.

I'm thinking about writing an Auntie Aja blog post about all the things I've learned I have to change or hide about myself as a woman in tech.

[Chris Smith @quartzmo]

"Auth may be the difference between someone having a good first 15 minutes with your product and them wanting to throw it on a trash fire." -- @the_thagomizer

[Chris Smith @quartzmo]

"Bitcoin’s energy footprint has more than doubled since... six months ago. It’s expected to double again by the end of the year... bitcoin would be gobbling up 0.5 percent of the world’s electricity, about as much as the Netherlands."

https://t.co/UZBWd87n31

[Chris Smith @quartzmo]

I've been a big fan of Grimes for a while. https://t.co/5p52zr1lyN

[Chris Smith @quartzmo]

Open-source can sometimes require a thick skin, so it's really nice to get a comment like this:

https://t.co/2c5o0lrOhZ

[Chris Smith @quartzmo]

@shanebdavis https://t.co/6CbtOYWRys looks really cool! If you want to adapt some of the readme into a blog post, I'd be happy to guest-post it for you. Follow back and dm, or email (gmail).

[Chris Smith @quartzmo]

#Ethereum Please go to #Casper #PoS asap! "the Bitcoin network consumes as much energy each day as some medium-size countries... the network supporting Ethereum, the second-most valuable virtual currency, gobbles up another country’s worth of electricity" https://t.co/JyPysCyZN9

[Chris Smith @quartzmo]

"forget everything else about the Bitcoin frenzy, and just keep these two things in mind: ... a database without anyone being 'in charge' of the database, and a way of compensating people for helping [secure] that database" https://t.co/oyR5Vnoe5m

[Chris Smith @quartzmo]

“How We Implemented a Fully Serverless Recommender System Using GCP” by @IWillFuks https://t.co/vDOYQE8QhO @googlecloud