Shawn Stephens

Principal Software Engineer. Polyglot. I love open source, architecture, Golang, Ruby, hiking, and boating.

[Shawn Stephens @shawns02]

@ebelaski You can get a refund by canceling through the “request refund” link at https://t.co/rZgoLONruE

[Shawn Stephens @shawns02]

@TeamYouTube I managed to fix it by manually setting the resolution in the YouTube app to HD. It was set to auto and severely downscaling all channels to 360p. I’m in the DFW area.

[Shawn Stephens @shawns02]

@YouTubeTV Apple TV is limited to 640 x 320 @ 30 fps today across all channels. The Samsung native app doesn’t have this problem. Please fix this.

[Shawn Stephens @shawns02]

@wfaaweathertoo This was near Prosper Trail and Dallas North Parkway in Prosper, Texas this evening. It was the “hook” just north of 380 that @wfaaweather mentioned between 7:10 and 7:15 pm. Video has been sped up 4x.

[Shawn Stephens @shawns02]

When looking back at the various teams I’ve been part of throughout my career, I often think about what made certain teams successful, and why others struggled more? Learn how @stitchfix teams are built for success. https://t.co/DYfGDi00VP

[Shawn Stephens @shawns02]

@KaleeDionne Prosper, TX

[Shawn Stephens @shawns02]

I registered for GopherCon 2019. Check it out here https://t.co/7uBN4iKges

[Shawn Stephens @shawns02]

I'm almost done working through the book Introducing Go. Very easy to learn if you know other C-style langs. A small grammar set and simple concurrency model. I also like implicit implementation of interfaces. https://t.co/ysyejGNUT1 #golang

[Shawn Stephens @shawns02]

The Macbook Pro wait continues! I'm still using a 2015 Retina. Several MacbookPro14,3 variations exist on Geekbench. This one has 32 GB of DDR4 RAM with a 6 core/12 thread Core i7 🤤. #wwdc18 https://t.co/sG9qYhriFr

[Shawn Stephens @shawns02]

@jaredknipp Good read. Being one of a few remote people is much harder than everyone being remote first/remote only in my opinion.

[Shawn Stephens @shawns02]

My 3 year old hasn’t yet been introduced to internet forums, but she is really good at drawing internet trolls.

[Paul Fairie @paulisci]

To retire by 65:

By age 35, you should have 30 Bitcoin saved for retirement.

By age 45, you should have 15 Bitcoin saved for retirement.

By age 55, you should have 330,000 Bitcoin saved for retirement.

By age 64, you should have 6 Bitcoin saved for retirement.

[Shawn Stephens @shawns02]

This is why automated tests are invaluable. Properly written, they can remind the future version of you about all the constraints that were originally put in place at the time the code was written. https://t.co/hcnre3mRrH

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

"Eagleson's Law: Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else." - Alan Eagleson

[Matthew Skelton @matthewpskelton]

Hint: More planning will not make big, complex releases less error-prone.

Smaller, more frequent releases with decoupled systems *will* reduce errors.

#ContinuousDelivery

[Shawn Stephens @shawns02]

@alexcameron89 Congrats Alex! You were just saying you wished the 2 year old would sleep. 😴 Kids are one of the few things worth losing sleep over.

[Shawn Stephens @shawns02]

It is reported Macbook Pros in 2018 still won’t have 32 GB of ram. I don’t want to go back to fiddling with a notebook Linux distro all the time but @pragdave is frustrated enough to jump ship. That says a lot. https://t.co/95kAX7Bdoq https://t.co/htGfUBYrC3

[Dave Thomas @pragdave]

After several aborted attempts over the last 18 months, I've finally moved my development environment off my Macs and back to Linux. Only real pain point is the horrible mish mash of control/super/alt between different apps. Small price to paygiven the hardware options available.

[Shawn Stephens @shawns02]

I just published “3 Reasons Your Microservices Architecture Isn’t Working Well” https://t.co/TTwJnZ2VXv

[Shawn Stephens @shawns02]

Nice to see another Ruby App Server option. No multi-thread support yet. Passenger Enterprise threaded mode is dangerous though. A single stuck thread can cause the entire worker to be shut down and all other threads will cease as well. https://t.co/75LBk8t8v8 https://t.co/XOIQRZLhlI

[Nate Berkopec @nateberkopec]

New post: A New Ruby Application Server: NGINX Unit. https://t.co/4RdlW5FNbw Probably most interesting to those with specific "hot restart" requirements, running multiple Ruby versions, or service architecture.

[Shawn Stephens @shawns02]

Yes! Also, history repeats itself. So, I'm reading the Tao of Microservices (fantastic book) and in a few years I'll be reading the Tao of Monoliths because many took for granted the line about automation being mandatory for deployment of microservices architectures. https://t.co/NAfD5el6VF

[Venkat Subramaniam @venkat_s]

The solutions of today often turn into problems of tomorrow.

[Shawn Stephens @shawns02]

Moving the components from a monolithic app into RESTful HTTP servers is not microservices architecture. It may initially help ease scope of deployments. Cutting service scope and adding transport layer message routing capabilities are when the real decoupling occurs.