Bill Amberg

Software engineer obsessed with speed and stability. BBQ aficionado. Striving to be happy, happy with the struggle.

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@geytkeypur Welcome back! How can folks support you? Patreon? It's been a bleak three days without your loops at work.

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@geytkeypur is back! 😌https://t.co/nznbuJfW3U

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Anybody know what happened to the Getkeypur Youtube channel?
https://t.co/xvslzGl6lE
None of the videos appear in my history. It's like the channel never existed.

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Does the channel's creator have a Twitter account? Email? I'm looking for anyway to contact them.

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nvim-treesitter. Curious about it? Watch my first 30 minutes of playing around with installation and testing https://t.co/CHF41CDGdZ

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I'm going to get past all the "@" and "//:" strings this time and learn to love Bazel 💚

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The world would be a better place if @JCutrell created a "So, you have a disagreement..." course. @DeveloperTea has so much to say about resolving differences. Listen to today's episode on Local and Global Rationality for one of the lessons https://t.co/m7RPRH6qYN

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Steel yourself, "why?" is a long game.

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Tech debt is a symptom. Look to the causes.

- Feature addiction
- Inefficient processes and prioritization
- Understaffed (use with caution, it's too easy to stop questioning here)

To name a few. Find your causes and ask "why?"

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@Geek_Manager I love the idea of career vectors presented at LeadDev. Thank you! Have you published your radar charts for different roles anywhere?

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My first OSS coding livestream was a lot of fun: https://t.co/7ECxiqqS5p

Maybe I'll even post to social media *before* the next one 😅

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Y'all, zero knowledge proofs are going to change everything. *goes back to watching anime vtubers*

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HugOps to the @hbomax engineers. We’ve all been there 😂

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Interestingly, the opposite holds true too.

Illusion of No Control:

- I underestimate my ability to control events
- I overestimate the influence of Luck

Something I'll keep in mind the next time I feel like I can't affect a situation.

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Illusion of Control:

- I overestimate my ability to control events due to my Overconfidence Bias
- I underestimate the influence of Luck

Check out #HowToDecide by @AnnieDuke to recognize the trap and adjust.

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This is definitely something I recommend folks try 💯

I was self-conscious of my mistakes in the moment, but I think there could have been a *lot* more.

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Public speaking experiment: I asked attendees to mark a piece of paper each time I said "um/uh/like", telling them I'd donate the tally amount in dollars to @TrevorProject

Final score: 17 marks in a 30-minute tech talk 😂

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I know, I know, don't chase the new shiny, but I'm excited about astro's framework-agnostic approach https://t.co/URspsC6gCW

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Thinking of Twitter as a place for reflection may actually make the platform tolerable.
https://t.co/O5GeJ4A47h