Todd C. Harris

Software Developer. Ohio born. Human parent. Cat roommate. Not the sports guy or dentist. (he/him)

[Todd C. Harris @ToddCHarris]

Yes. It is I. I promise you. Believe me, no one would want to impersonate me.

[Todd C. Harris @ToddCHarris]

To everyone upset that Dune II has been delayed and needs to find out what happens, I'm here to help you out:

https://t.co/dKffckz6o6

[Kelly Vaughn @kvlly]

You heard him.

[Todd C. Harris @ToddCHarris]

A very happy birthday to everyone's favorite cowboy, Clint Eastwood!!

[Matthew Hope Eland @integerman]

Catching @cassandrafaris talking about #purposefulpersonbrand at @CONDG / @improvingOhio tonight! Really interesting and relevant topic.

[Katelyn Bowden Ⓥ @medus4_cdc]

Well, it’s out!!

https://t.co/z4C0N7jNKa

[Todd C. Harris @ToddCHarris]

@_CalvinAllen Accessible in what way?
It's certainly not to people with various disabilities. The image has no alt text and the text is made up primarily of special characters that a screen reader can't parse.

[Todd C. Harris @ToddCHarris]

@elchefe I don't know what you're talking about. This is great advice. Everyone fights better when their pants are falling down.

[Todd C. Harris @ToddCHarris]

@IanColdwater as you wish

[Todd C. Harris @ToddCHarris]

I'm not really looking for a new role, but I always talk to recruiters when they contact me because it's good to know the market.

And it's really weird to get recruited for jobs paying less than I make.

They look at my LinkedIn and think "There's a guy we can lowball."

[Todd C. Harris @ToddCHarris]

Two days at school and my kid has COVID. And that's with a small classroom where some kids are masked.

CodeMash is going to be a bloodbath, folks. I hope you all have good PTO policies.

[Todd C. Harris @ToddCHarris]

It was very striking to me the first time I went to a tech conference and almost all the men wore t-shirts, hoodies, and cargo shorts, while the women were dressed in traditional business professional attire.

[michael wave @michael___wave]

i don’t disagree but it’s interesting i think that by this point this isn’t a man dressed badly in a professional space, this is a man dressed in a particular business uniform that communicates certain values precisely the way a suit would in another context

[Todd C. Harris @ToddCHarris]

I would pay not to have a checkmark before I would pay for one.

[Laurie @laurieontech]

Am I wrong that, at least within tech twitter, most of us would pay for a no ad experience before we’d pay for a check mark?

[https://gerardkcohen.me @gerardkcohen]

Along with me, my entire engineering team has been let go. Before I get into my own thoughts, I want to honor them. If you are looking to hire some brilliant accessibility engineers, keep reading.

[Todd C. Harris @ToddCHarris]

This can't possibly be real, right?

I mean, I can believe it, but also, I don't want to.

[Todd C. Harris @ToddCHarris]

@polotek @mysticl That's such a funny thesis. When is another occasion that we base our judgement on the decisions that 22yos make?

I wouldn't buy a car or choose a job just because it's the most popular with wealthy young adults.

[Todd C. Harris @ToddCHarris]

@StevenGreen31 The vast majority of development does not require being creative. On the contrary, most of the time it requires NOT being creative and instead employing known best practices. It's not exciting, but it is effective.

[Todd C. Harris @ToddCHarris]

I don't know if this is true or not, but it sees plausible to me.

[Jason Lengstorf @jlengstorf]

might be a nuclear take, but I’d wager more harm is done by devs who love to code & treat their job like a hobby (where they solve fun code puzzles instead of solving their users’ immediate needs) than by devs who do it for the paycheck

[Cori Drew @coridrew]

Lol at my on-prem (client) vs public @github profiles

[Zahra 🤍 @by___zahra]

An observation:

Out of the countless interviews I’ve had so far, not once have I been interviewed by a woman on a technical live-coding interview.

Is this not a problem???

[Todd C. Harris @ToddCHarris]

I have been on the internet with developers long enough that I cannot tell if this is a joke or not.

[A Guy Who Codes @browniepoints]

Interviewed a full stack developer and he couldn’t even construct a UDP frame to establish a TCP connection for his HTTP request. I mean come on. He’s so dependent on the socket api he was totally lost without it.