Fadhil Yaacob

Lousy Software Engineer.

Building &

[Fadhil Yaacob @sdil]

I never pinned a tweet until today

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

This is why America is collapsing.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is what a broken brain looks like

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

One of the most horrifying scenes in human history has been revealed.

When Israel forced thousands in Gaza to collect flour mixed with sand due to severe famine.

A moment the world must never forget.

[İslam ASALYA @islamasalya88]

Affedin bizi çocuk; ümmet aciz kaldı, dünya yalancı çıktı… Ne büyük bir imtihan, ne büyük bir acı… Sabır, Allah’ım sabır…
📍🎥 Gazze

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Codemaxxing is WORSE than tokenmaxxing. At least tokens disappear.

Congrats. You have added an overhead of 7X slop on your software stack that will gradually make it impossible to manage, inhale its own exhaust, and break down in a puddle.

It’s amazing how dumb this company is.

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

I missed StackOverflow, so I edited my system prompt to make Claude insult me, tell me someone had already asked that question before, and refuse to respond further in the conversation since it was “off topic.”

[redpillbot @redpillb0t]

Leaked video of Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu:

“We are working to bring Iran to places it has never been before.

They will understand that they are below, and Jews are above.”

[Mo Khan @mokhanhim]

I’d rather leave my child alone with a 100 Hamas members than a single Zionist

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Kelsey Hightower has one of the most inspiring stories in tech: he went from a technician installing DSL modems, through self-directed study and very hard work, to one of the very few Distinguished Engineer at Google whom Satya Nadella personally persuaded to join Microsoft.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
03:34 Kelsey’s first job at McDonald’s
05:04 His non-traditional path into tech
11:45 Landing his first tech job with an A+ certification
15:33 His entrepreneurial years
19:45 Joining Google as a data center technician
27:48 Learning automation at a Rackspace spinoff
33:26 Moving into financial services
50:00 Building a reputation through open source
53:55 From configuration management to containers
1:08:20 The rise of Kubernetes
1:25:05 Why he almost joined NASA instead of Google
1:29:20 Defining DevRel at Google
1:38:20 Demonstrating impact at Google
1:41:20 Microsoft's offer
1:55:20 Learning how to slow down
2:06:39 Advising and investing
2:15:03 A people-first view of GenAI
2:24:27 Using AI with guardrails
2:28:26 Matching AI to the task
2:36:06 Staying relevant in the AI era

Brought to you by outstanding teams building products I love:

• @AntithesisHQ: verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. https://t.co/AKYm4cctss

• @sentry: application monitoring software considered “not bad” by millions of developers https://t.co/uoolyqTR6M

• @buildkite: CI software built to absorb whatever your coding agents throw at the build queue. OpenAI, Anthropic, Uber and others are customers: https://t.co/C05Ze9zzin

Three interesting learnings from Kelsey:

1. Side hustles and doing your own thing teach you business like no IC job can.

Before becoming a software engineer at Google, Kelsey was a manager for his comedian friend, operated a computer store, and did IT contracting. These gigs taught him logistics, planning, and about money. All this helped him be far more effective at talking with executives and acting as an executive sponsor inside Google.

2. Can you explain what your startup does without mentioning AI?

When Kelsey researches startups seeking his advice, he challenges founders to not say “AI” once. This means that they must explain the actual value their company creates. One unexpected benefit of this is that it often reveals there are easier, cheaper ways to achieve a goal than with AI.

3. It’s very rare to get an extra zero put on your compensation figure – but it happened.

Kelsey was a successful, well-paid Google engineer when Microsoft made him an offer that 10x’d his salary (!!). When Kelsey told Google he was planning to take the offer, it matched the offer, proving that his market value had massively increased. It shows that being well paid doesn’t necessarily mean you’re being paid at the correct market rate.

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

Arrest everyone in that committee.

[Fadhil Yaacob @sdil]

wow bestnya kalau blh buat CDN lagi huhu

[Railway @Railway]

https://t.co/XWVB2nDjKf

[Asa Winstanley @AsaWinstanley]

Ban all Israeli sports teams from EVERYTHING now!

[Suppressed Voices @supressedvoic]

Never forget.

[Co-op Tory 🍁 @CoopTory]

One of the costs of not wanting to employ workers or provide competitive pay.

[Ahmed Shihab-Eldin @aseisfree]

Israel is burning children alive.
This is a genocide.
This is a holocaust.

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

Their society is entirely built upon rape it's actually so disgusting I can't even comprehend it

[Sai Srirampur @saisrirampur]

Came across an interesting PostgreSQL optimization a few weeks ago:

If you're extracting most fields from a deeply nested JSONB column, try using jsonb_to_record() instead of repeatedly calling the ->> operator. In one of our customer workload, this resulted in ~100x faster performance. The performance difference is more evident is BIG JSONB columns.

We recently applied this optimization to PeerDB's Postgres-to-Postgres migrations, where CDC changes are stored as JSONB and transformed during ELT. PR: https://t.co/lojmWTjT7I

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