Mahmoud Saada

DX/SRE builder and engineering zealot

[Mahmoud Saada @saadazzz]

@cassidoo merge queue batching

[Mahmoud Saada @saadazzz]

Claude Fable got me playing guitar again by resurrecting gear I’d written off years ago:
•reverse-engineered my 20-year-old pedalboard’s SysEx format
•decoded BIAS FX 2’s undocumented preset JSON
•caught my counterfeit MIDI cable lying
https://t.co/Cajso6BIHH

[Mahmoud Saada @saadazzz]

So React.js?

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Amongst my friends, Spotify is the lowest quality consumer app we still pay for. It certainly hasnt gotten noticeably better in the last couple years (arguably worse). So, this is not the positive look Ant and Spotify are spinning here.

Bigger picture, this is the problem with a lot of AI reporting. It reports completely meaningless metrics like deploys per day or LoC. Why don’t we start reporting consumer satisfaction reports? Actually end state research results.

All the no nuance AI people always come out and think that this is anti AI. Again, I think AI is great and Claude is great. But this is bad marketing and makes both look like clowns.

[Charlie Marsh @charliermarsh]

Keys to shipping more:
- Fewer meetings
- More trust in teammates
- Listen exclusively to heavy metal / hardcore / metalcore

[Mahmoud Saada @saadazzz]

@devth clawd

[Mahmoud Saada @saadazzz]

@charliermarsh I wonder why it’s not on by default?

[Mahmoud Saada @saadazzz]

@charliermarsh Way to make it easy to contribute. The team is amazing and the mdtest approach is so delightful. Can’t wait to contribute more towards stable. Thank you for making Python an DX ecosystem that I often found hostile and inconsiderate to something absolutely delightful!

[Charlie Marsh @charliermarsh]

ty was our most technically-challenging project yet.

There are so many people to thank: our contributors, members of the Python typing community, the Salsa team, the Elixir team (whose work strongly influenced our approach to gradual types and intersections), and more.

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

GitHub feels like a product that isn't used by the people that work there. That can't POSSIBLY be true, I know. I just hit issues everyday that really make me wonder... how can this bug exist? More likely engineers aren't empowered to fix things and are bogged down by red tape.

[Steren @steren]

I sincerely do not understand how developers tolerate the Python tooling.
From installing Python, to installing dependencies, nothing works out of the box.
How can the Python community be satisfied with the status quo? Is it Stockholm syndrome?

[Mahmoud Saada @saadazzz]

🦋@saadazzz.bsky.social

[Mahmoud Saada @saadazzz]

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[Mahmoud Saada @saadazzz]

@devth It’s because it’s a matter of time before it starts to break; especially after the license changes

[Mahmoud Saada @saadazzz]

I don’t use vim, btw.

CMD+D and CMD+F are all you need

[Mahmoud Saada @saadazzz]

@zack_overflow NYC is magical. Close to Europe. Clock always ahead of SF meaning I get a head start every day. Four seasons. Cultural diversity. More raw and real and less Utopian. Better fashion. Better art, theater, and events.

[Mahmoud Saada @saadazzz]

I spent an hour failing to make ChatGPT (several models) write me a circleci config file. It would have taken me 5 mins to write by hand

[zack @zack_overflow]

Python `typing` module is a joke... It doesn’t actually type check?

They implemented half of a type system… and then shipped the unfinished product for people to use?

Why not just actually make it work like a proper type system?

[Mahmoud Saada @saadazzz]

“Use Expo and React Native” they said, “it’ll be fun” they said.

Seriously, how is this a good debugging experience? Expo app works everywhere except in AppStore TestFlight