Steve Pember

Music fan, tired dad, sometimes will talk about software development

[Jared Ryan Sears @JaredRyanSears]

They tell you that we have a spending problem, that we must suffer some pain to get our economy on track, and that we need to raise the retirement age, cut Medicaid, and cut food assistance to address our deficit.

Those are lies.
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[TollBit @TollbitOfficial]

@GergelyOrosz Step 2: charge bots for crawling and scraping with tollbit

[Momentum Chaser @electricfutures]

After several delays, @DOGE has finally posted its purported savings. Why did it take so long to create a simple webpage with a 1000-row table? Who knows! Let's dig in.

Headline number: $55B saved. They list the savings per nixed contract. This should be easy to verify then.

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[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

The Office of Government Efficiency is off to a great start with split leadership: two people to do the work of one person.

Yeah, this seems REALLY efficient.

[Gary Shteyngart @Shteyngart]

"They're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs" proved a more effective message than "Let me help you buy your first house."

[TollBit @TollbitOfficial]

TollBit is proud to announce our $24M in Series A funding to revolutionize how AI companies and publishers work together.

We do this by making it easy to manage the entire lifecycle of AI data licensing and support innovative business models to protect the health of the entire content ecosystem.

Backed by @lightspeedvp and @S32_VC as well as @JeffDean, @mbronstein, and prior investors, we’re setting a new standard for the future of AI and media.

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

Boeing just cut healthcare coverage for its 33,000 striking workers. Healthcare being tied to employment is simply another means for control. It needs to end.

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

If you don’t have the stamina to run for President, you don’t have the stamina to be President

[Fearghas Kelly @FearghasKelly]

I better go superviral for this...

[Steve Pember @svpember]

@testthesoftware I'm ... Tempted. Is it good?

[sophie @netcapgirl]

idk what’s worse, that crowdstrike has kernel access to basically every system in the world or that airlines run on windows server

[Steve Pember @svpember]

I haven't had a chance yet to post about it, but thanks again to @spring_io for having me. It's such a great ... event... and I was honored to be a part of it!

[Spring I/O @spring_io]

🍃 Creating Future-Proof Spring Applications with Event Sourcing by @svpember @ Spring I/O 2024

▶️ Video: https://t.co/4Ys8zfqxPn

🔗 Slides: https://t.co/G53TKiRGMA

🛠️ Repo: https://t.co/h1sIQe2vpl #springio24

[Spring I/O @spring_io]

🍃 Creating Future-Proof Spring Applications with Event Sourcing by @svpember @ Spring I/O 2024

▶️ Video: https://t.co/4Ys8zfqxPn

🔗 Slides: https://t.co/G53TKiRGMA

🛠️ Repo: https://t.co/h1sIQe2vpl #springio24

[Steve Pember @svpember]

@salaboy You as well!

[Steve Pember @svpember]

It was amazing running into you all! An absolute delight!

[Maciej Walkowiak 🍃 @maciejwalkowiak]

I had great time with these wonderful people @nele_lea @alina_yurenko @vitalethomas @salaboy @svpember

[Steve Pember @svpember]

@rieckpil @maciejwalkowiak @nele_lea @alina_yurenko @vitalethomas @salaboy I know and I feel terrible, but hopefully we all had great nights?!
Tomorrow we can absolutely tie one off, 3 sheets, etc 😁

[Steve Pember @svpember]

At a talk on High Performance Java : " logging is slow. Don't use it. In fact, all logs can be replaced with metrics and counters" 🔥 love it .

#springio

[Steve Pember @svpember]

@ilopmar Completely understandable!
I'll try, haha. Hope to see you in the future!

[I Am Devloper @iamdevloper]

When the code you've written runs perfectly on the first try, it's not a miracle. It means the Universe is playing a prank on you and the real bug is hiding somewhere, plotting its grand entrance.