Zach Michaelov

Now: insurtech for catastrophe/climate risk. Previously: managed complexity and features at @twitter cortex.

[Zach Michaelov @zmichaelov]

@amarchenkova Startup HQ (https://t.co/sy51S0r9gO) has single person offices. I’ve been at their 2nd St location for a couple months and am overall happy with the space.

[Zach Michaelov @zmichaelov]

@oznova_ Flexbox Froggy (https://t.co/mHExF7hTK8) is a fun, quirky game for learning the basics of flexbox.

[Zach Michaelov @zmichaelov]

TIL: corgis are a unit of asteroid measurement

[Anastasia Marchenkova @amarchenkova]

Favorite units so far:

"A meteor around the size of a Pembroke Welsh Corgi and weighing around the total weight of four baby elephants struck the Earth near McAllen, Texas last Wednesday, NASA confirmed this week."

https://t.co/gQWFvCcGNi

[Zach Michaelov @zmichaelov]

@JesseFeinman @Obliviusing @jakedonham +1. I had a great experience with Stitch and am bummed it never got open sourced.

[Zach Michaelov @zmichaelov]

This was an eventful commute

[Futurama Quotes @QuotesFuturama]

Don't listen to them. People said I was dumb, but I proved them!

#Futurama

[Zach Michaelov @zmichaelov]

@themitak same here. I discovered this in Slack completely by accident

[Matt Turck @mattturck]

🎯

[Zach Michaelov @zmichaelov]

@bobbydigitales Stephen's Sausage Roll

[Zach Michaelov @zmichaelov]

@kovasb We are all software archaeologists now

[Zach Michaelov @zmichaelov]

@__lucab business hammocks?

[Zach Michaelov @zmichaelov]

@starsandrobots @ASwamy_ That was the worst part for me. The feeling that you’re going to be perpetually at a disadvantage unless you get into the right college.

[Zach Michaelov @zmichaelov]

@sarahcat21 Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (Van Roy, Haridi)

[Zach Michaelov @zmichaelov]

@__lucab “We need more troopers like you!”

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

❗️#Bulgaria Closes Skies to #Russian Aircraft

[Dan Chaon (@danchaon.bsky.social) @Danchaon]

Timelapse of Europa & Io orbiting Jupiter, shot from space probe Cassini

Original video by NASA-JPL’s Kevin Gill: https://t.co/M4KWzRJ677

[Zach Michaelov @zmichaelov]

I feel seen (-2.5 in both)

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

Shout out to all the myopes

[@norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com on Bluesky @norootcause]

As a software developer, you may be called upon to perform some of these tasks in your career.

How well a CS degree prepares you for these tasks (and whether it even should prepare you for these) is left as an exercise to the reader.

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[Zach Michaelov @zmichaelov]

Seconded.

[Zach Michaelov @zmichaelov]

@Madisonkanna Read the version control history to see which files changed to implement certain features/fixes. Use code search tools to find usages, declarations, implementations, etc.