Tom Arrell

Staff Backend Engineer @sumup — Lover of Rust and Go, hack around building keyboards when I'm bored

[Tom Arrell @tom_arrell]

@traskjd @phenomnominal I share Craig’s opinion. You should make work life balance top priority for all employees. Otherwise they will quickly become not your employees.

To foster a long productive relationship with someone, their health should be no. 1.

I will also not be considering Raygun.

[Tom Arrell @tom_arrell]

@traskjd @matthewt_nz Then why phrase passion for what you do in terms of grads asking for “work-life balance.”

This comes across very much as trying to hide your true belief, in fear of outing your company as a toxic place to work.

I’m rather sad to hear this coming from my home country.

[Tom Arrell @tom_arrell]

Very pleased, a truly exceptional use of my DALL-E credits #dalle @nocontextmemes

"Monsters Inc photoshoot in Times Square, digital art"

[SumUp Engineering @SumUpEng]

Wondering how to build a healthy culture in dev teams? @tom_arrell takes us through his experience about how decision-making is a crucial part of building a productive team.

#InsideSumUp #Engineering #DevJobs #EngineersLife

https://t.co/pzvGsTQvhZ

[Go @golang]

🎊 Go go1.18 is released!

📝 Release notes: https://t.co/UFumhMjcOL

⬇️ Download: https://t.co/fnDCVVhJXK

#golang

[Tom Arrell @tom_arrell]

Wordle 210 4/6

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[Tom Arrell @tom_arrell]

Some experiments with generative art in #golang. Early days

#generativeart

[Tom Arrell @tom_arrell]

Pretty disappointed you can't deploy more than a single @scaleway stardust instance per org. Would've been a neat, low-cost way to play with distributed apps.

Guess that means sticking with @linode for that purpose

[Tom Arrell @tom_arrell]

Definitely overkill having it deployed to @digitalocean's managed Kube, but hey, it's too convenient

[Tom Arrell @tom_arrell]

Hello darkness my old friend, I've come to talk with you again

New look over at https://t.co/otKACaOgRQ

[Tom Arrell @tom_arrell]

Going live on Twitch streaming the rewrite of my blog from #rustlang to #golang https://t.co/AKHnTBpnbR

[New Zealand 🇳🇿 @PureNewZealand]

It's #WorldEmojiDay and we have something to share... #Kiwiswantakiwi

[Tom Arrell @tom_arrell]

Super glad to be helping organise the Hack Week this year!

[SumUp Engineering @SumUpEng]

Participating in #HackWeek is a fantastic experience, but it also requires a lot of preparation. With SumUp Hack Week 2021 just a couple of days away, we asked our teams for their insights and tips to help you get ready and enjoy the ride 🚀

#InsideSumUp #Innovation #Hackathon

[Tom Arrell @tom_arrell]

@b1quint @codecov If you used their official GitHub action, you could have had secrets leaked. We have rolled everything in GitHub just in case. If you included the GITHUB_TOKEN in the codecov action step, it could have in theory gained access to all repository secrets. Better safe than sorry.

[Tom Arrell @tom_arrell]

Good progress tonight. Both halves wired. Time for some programming

[Tom Arrell @tom_arrell]

Live streaming a build of a custom split keyboard v2, the Dactyl Manuform. Come check it out! https://t.co/0jYgvbgOo5 #electronics #stream #3Dprinting #build #mechanical #keyboard

[Tom Arrell @tom_arrell]

miniqueue now supports DACK's or delay acknowledgements to delay a message from being reprocessed by n time. Great for exponential backoff https://t.co/Zp8pmd151j

[Tom Arrell @tom_arrell]

Just released v0.1.0-alpha of miniqueue. Packed full of... just the basics. Initial benchmarks at ~13,000 publishes per second 🔥 https://t.co/Zp8pmd151j #golang #queue #messaging

[Tom Arrell @tom_arrell]

@SumUp Next hackday @feju?