Tom McLaughlin (@tmclaugh.bsky.social)

Principal Engineer at @NBCUniversal | AWS Serverless Hero | aspiring Instagram influencer #serverless #devops (he/him)

[Tom McLaughlin (@tmclaugh.bsky.social) @tmclaughbos]

I'm really honored by this. And I think it's a great time to talk about how I got here.

Some folks may have noticed I disappeared from the tech world for a period. This is about what happened and how I recovered.

Going to talk about mental health. 🧵

https://t.co/WoaVjZRlFk

[Tom McLaughlin (@tmclaugh.bsky.social) @tmclaughbos]

If you walk through the Common in the morning and appreciate the daily weather forecast, sports scores, and being wished a good day; this is Gilbert our town crier. #boston

https://t.co/77CCEU21Rh

[Tom McLaughlin (@tmclaugh.bsky.social) @tmclaughbos]

Today is Cinnamon’s Forever Home Day! 9 years with this sweet companion who has so important to me through these past few years. 😻

[Tom McLaughlin (@tmclaugh.bsky.social) @tmclaughbos]

@pinskinator I’ve worked places where your solution could be rejected because it wasn’t good enough. Valid on a technical level but not reflective of the quality bar we expect to present.

[Tom McLaughlin (@tmclaugh.bsky.social) @tmclaughbos]

Does anyone here work in an engineering organization that has a "Definition Of Good"?

There's countless ways to solving a problem that may be technically correct, but not all of them are "good".

I know definitions of done and of ready. But what about good?

[Tom McLaughlin (@tmclaugh.bsky.social) @tmclaughbos]

@pinskinator Say one team thinks their solutions should Just Work OOB for devs and another thinks their services should be a gated service which requires tickets to them.

What do you do when they all have technically valid solutions but are worlds apart in approach?

[Tom McLaughlin (@tmclaugh.bsky.social) @tmclaughbos]

@zack_overflow Loved your city. Want to visit again and see more.

But no thought in my mind of ever living there.

[Tom McLaughlin (@tmclaugh.bsky.social) @tmclaughbos]

@zack_overflow Finally, both SF and Boston having housing shortages. Even I'm being priced out of here. But I can see construction and new buildings going up.

I don't think I saw one crane in SF or new building being built. That made me assume hosuing isn't being meaniungfully addressed.

[Tom McLaughlin (@tmclaugh.bsky.social) @tmclaughbos]

also, only back here because I need actual views. Still haven't put this app back on my mobile devices.

[Tom McLaughlin (@tmclaugh.bsky.social) @tmclaughbos]

I literally signed up for community notes so I could make sure to demonetize dipshits like this.

[Patrick Neve @catholicpat]

Congratulations to America’s first Catholic Vice President

[Samantha Ruddy @samlymatters]

millennial men were too busy quoting anchorman and figuring out new, innovative ways to sack tap each other to get radicalized by the far right and I love them for that.

[Tom McLaughlin (@tmclaugh.bsky.social) @tmclaughbos]

@BanquoDyar @Sussy1917 Nobody even gives a fuck about a police training facility in Atlanta outside of people on twitter.

[Tom McLaughlin (@tmclaugh.bsky.social) @tmclaughbos]

This app for the past day has broken loading my timeline. At a certain noticeable point it just refuses to load more tweets until I restart it.

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

Twitter is worth much more than $44 billion.

Just a matter of time before everyone else realizes it.

[Tom McLaughlin (@tmclaugh.bsky.social) @tmclaughbos]

@devahaz The reality distortion field they live within is easily the scariest thing to me about them.

[Tom McLaughlin (@tmclaugh.bsky.social) @tmclaughbos]

There is nothing like this from the left that can build an alternate reality. It was amazing to me how suddenly half this country thought the economy was good in 2017 with no substantive change.

How do you deal with half the country living in a weird echo chamber?

[Deva Hazarika @devahaz]

6 months from now this site is gonna be full of posts about how amazing egg, bacon, and gas prices are that are exactly the same price as they are now