Sam Garson

Product focused Engineering leader, building teams @meetcleo in London. Left leaning, pragmatist. "Lukewarm is no good."

[Sam Garson @samtgarson]

We've been featured 👇

[Directories @directoriesso]

New directory added: Books About Food 📚

Books about food and the people involved in making them.

Profile: @BooksAbout_Food

Makers: @jamingalea, @samtgarson

[Sam Garson @samtgarson]

@directoriesso @BooksAbout_Food @jamingalea Thanks for including us! https://t.co/NhCPsWJgVR is amazing ❤️

[Sam Garson @samtgarson]

A few weeks ago @jamingalea and I launched a little passion project we've been working on. We're proud of it, take a look 👉 https://t.co/qQh0806Cg4

[Jamin @jamingalea]

I don't spend much time here, but came to tell you about a project I'm wildly proud of. @samtgarson
and myself launched it a few weeks ago. Have a look... https://t.co/519ceA7fxL

[Sam Garson @samtgarson]

@leeerob a bug escaped, can we get a quick fix? I can't view any logs 🫠

[Robert Espina @realRoes]

anyone from @vercel who can help? I'm getting build error but seems I can't check the logs preview

[Robin Bortlík @robinbortlik]

Updated my website with latest employment info and evidence of my work (which is what I'm most proud of).
I will be available to join new project starting from October. Check my website if you want to know more about me. https://t.co/xNAGTZ31iq

Thank you for sharing.

[Sam Garson @samtgarson]

You can do whatever you want when you don't have to work with other people

[@levelsio @levelsio]

https://t.co/jZn6eesb2K is now almost 14,000 lines of raw PHP mixed with inline HTML, CSS in <style> and raw JS in <script> tags

I did not use TS, flexbox or frameworks except jQuery

A lot of $.ajax() and float:left though

It has 1,872 paying customers making $61,808 per month

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

this is actually the funniest tweet to come out of this entire situation

[Eve Fairbanks @evefairbanks]

Somebody simply has to write the ultimate catch-all essay on disruptive, libertarian, private-sector-touting entrepreneurs simply begging and demanding for state intervention at the end of their journeys. (This is the Titan sub company's adviser.)

[Sam Garson @samtgarson]

Also, this is just like… agile. Which I feel is fairly well accepted by now?

[Sam Garson @samtgarson]

All metaphors eventually fail—houses are built in an extremely rigid waterfall fashion where all designs are drawn up in detail before any building even begins

[Ryan Singer @rjs]

Lately I've talked a lot about building software like building a house: getting the walls, wires and pipes in place before the interior design details. Here's an example of what that looks like.

I'm building out a new website. Instead of starting pixel-perfect, I shaped a concept on a whiteboard. Now I'm implementing the moving parts in Ghost. These standardized "stub" classes let me focus on the wood walls and wiring without getting distracted by the drywall, paint, and decor too early.

[Shirley Miao @shirlmeow]

also nearly the entire eng team who works on text and vectors (one of the most technically challenging pieces of the C++ codebase) is comprised of women, including the EM, and we once wrote a full-on musical during covid.

whatever alien civilization this is, beam me up 👽

[Sam Garson @samtgarson]

@GergelyOrosz @jevering There have also been attempts to standardise before, the biggest one afaik is SFIA (https://t.co/4xyT2dbzBi).

But having worked at one company that used SFIA as a reference, the complexity made it harder to actually interact with the framework and parse all the requirements.

[Sam Garson @samtgarson]

Great example of my long held belief that values and principles are worthless unless you state what you’re sacrificing

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

8. Their eight product principles

[Chris Annous @chris_annous]

The Home Office is not Suella Braverman's personal office.

It is wholly inappropriate for a politically neutral government department, responsible for enforcing the law, to request a private organisation takes an unflattering video of their Secretary of State down.

[Progression @progressionhq]

Our next #London meetup has just been announced!

Growing tech careers in 2023 | Wednesday 8 February, 6.15pm-9pm | @localglobevc, Phoenix Court, NW1 1DX

Tickets are free — grab yours here: https://t.co/c4V0EzqtrM

[Sam Garson @samtgarson]

This is a horribly bad faith suggestion.

Even though you’ve never had a dog, as a human you have an implicit mental model of what a dog is, and what it’s like to have a companion, love something, be frustrated by it, etc.

GPT does not have that, it’s doing word prediction.

[Nathan Labenz @labenz]

For example, I've never had a dog, so arguably I don't "really understand" the experience. Yet, if I told a compelling story about a dog that I loved, the special bond that we had, etc – you would *rightly* conclude that I have at least some understanding of what it's like.

[Sam Garson @samtgarson]

@tobyblackman This is lovely!

[Sam Garson @samtgarson]

Inject directly into veins

[Al Drago @Al_Drago]

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, holds her smart phone with former US President Donald Trump on the line, as Rep. Matt Rosendale, a Republican from Montana, waves it off during a meeting of the 118th Congress in the House Chamber on Friday.

#SpeakerVote

[Progression @progressionhq]

1:1s are great. Great for building trust, resolving issues and getting on the same page. But 1:1s can fail if they’re not planned, aren’t actionable or are one-sided.

Here’s five reasons your 1:1s might be failing right now, and what you can do about it.

https://t.co/AiZaAjZ4dK