Shaun McCormick

principal eng. @poweredbycmrc. rubyist/gopher. board gamer. oss fan. dad puns. gruf author, bsky: @splittingred.com

[Shaun McCormick @splittingred]

Wow! Today, @BigCommerce's #opensource #grpc #ruby framework #gruf hit 2M (!) downloads. So thrilled to see it helping others. Thanks for using it! https://t.co/9oFsQHQmTO #oss @BigEng

[Shaun McCormick @splittingred]

The year is 2076, AI swarms ravage the world, until one lone teenager saves humanity by running around screaming, “David Mayer!”, and all is still again.

[Shaun McCormick @splittingred]

Well good on them I’d be wanting to escape 200 years of needles too

[The Associated Press @AP]

Monkeys that escaped a lab have been subjects of human research since the 1800s https://t.co/GnFJs5Uow0

[Shaun McCormick @splittingred]

@TravisCOSW Allandale area. Lasted a good 10m or so.

[Shaun McCormick @splittingred]

In my 10th year at #bigcommerce, proud of being a part of 10 years of 100% BFCM uptime. WTG team! Truly a organization-wide effort.

[BigCommerce @BigCommerce]

2023 Cyber Week data is in — and BigCommerce customers had another huge year:

📈 12% Cyber Monday GMV YoY
📈 10% Cyber Week GMV YoY
🏆 BigCommerce’s 10th consecutive year of 100% uptime

Take a closer look in our #CyberWeek2023 report: https://t.co/6BxrhQgf0m

[Doug Lewin @douglewinenergy]

ERCOT won't be credible until they start communicating honestly. They completely left out the fact that 6,600 megawatts of gas and coal plants are currently offline. That's >30% higher than typical. They also got the hours wrong. 1/🧵#txlege #txenergy #energytwitter

[Shaun McCormick @splittingred]

https://t.co/yMLntbDxCB me on the blanket app

[fooler initiative @metroadlib]

I LITERALLY stopped working on my memo so I could read this indictment.

I am on page 24 and JESUS LUPITA NYONG'O CHRIST.

HOW this man still has the capacity to shock me after everything that's happened, i'll never know.

but I am sitting here *STUNNED*.

[Shaun McCormick @splittingred]

"You can use your masks from the global pandemic to help you breathe better in the wildfire smoke covering half the country"

Paging historians, here's your anecdotal quote for the 2020s.

[Shaun McCormick @splittingred]

Github being down gives me a chance to finally get around to checking my email...

...ha ha ha no

[Nate 🐝🌹🇵🇸 @natemaklocklin]

Texas is 77% Christian. It has had 17 mass shootings in the last 10 years.

Japan is 1% Christian. It has had 0 mass shootings in the last 10 years.

Texas has 29.5 million citizens. Japan has 125.7 million citizens.

It’s the guns. Don’t bring Jesus into this.

[BigEng @BigEng]

"It was clear we needed to find a replacement mesh. And we needed to yank the carpet out from under our service-oriented architecture without anyone noticing," says Principle #SoftwareEngineer @splittingred.

Read about the process at https://t.co/Pr3wSbG42n.

[Shaun McCormick @splittingred]

We did a thing! How we hot-swapped our service mesh to #envoy and #consulconnect at @BigCommerce: https://t.co/btHZkjN9Q3 @BigEng #servicemesh #devops #engineering #hashicorp

[Shaun McCormick @splittingred]

*side glance at Thomas Jefferson*

[Austen Allred @Austen]

“With the way they’re rewriting Roald Dahl’s books it’s just a matter of time before they try to rewrite the Bible!”

Boy do I have bad news for you

[Shaun McCormick @splittingred]

We’re getting real close to “moon’s haunted” aren’t we

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: F-16 fighter jet was used to shoot down unidentified flying object over Lake Huron

[Shaun McCormick @splittingred]

@mattlargey May be relevant depending on how you tweet?

[Developers @XDevelopers]

A new form of free access will be introduced as this is extremely important to our ecosystem – limited to Tweet creation of up to 1,500 Tweets per month for a single authenticated user token, including Login with Twitter.

[Shaun McCormick @splittingred]

Ok, currently trying out Mastodon at @[email protected] - feel free to follow me there! Going to only post there for a while.

[Shaun McCormick @splittingred]

I am curious as to what will socially happen on this website when eventual consistency breaks. Or tweets get misattributed. Or timeline ordering fails. Millions of users experiencing that at the same time will be fascinating. #RIPTwitter

[Shaun McCormick @splittingred]

Nature is wild.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

No matter the language, we exchange information at 39 bits/second, suggesting a biological limit. Languages that are lower information density are spoken fast (Spanish & Japanese) while denser languages are spoken more slowly (Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese). https://t.co/5iqldh15fO

[Shaun McCormick @splittingred]

@dmofengineering @bigeng is: https://t.co/Xa1BGdBJ23 🙌

[Shaun McCormick @splittingred]

Hey Twitter/Stripe/Lyft Eng/PM friends, @BigCommerce is hiring and we'd love to have you. Remote-friendly, lots of teams hiring. Eng/Product/Design/etc. Feel free to DM if you have any Qs. https://t.co/10jRGLDQMk