Software engineer at @color, formerly @chanzuckerberg, @bolt, @twitter. Not leaving SF.
Joined November 2006
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New blog post– theryanking.com/post/retweet…. Read a bit about building the original native-Retweet functionality.
I would say that the most surprising benefit of being un(der)employed for the last month or so has been not being on Slack all day.
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Missing from the discussion about SF crime rates and fears or crime is the idea that high fear of crime might be leading to low crime rates. You can't conclude that a low crime rate means there is a low threat-of-crime.
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Just marked something off my todo list that has been there 7 years. Anything is possible.
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I am not an expert in banking, but I am pretty sure the last thing you want to hear from a bank CEO is "stay calm". techcrunch.com/2023/03/09/si…
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What I love most about Python type checking is that you are promised that you can choose which one to use, but at any reasonable scale and complexity you have to support all of them.
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Hmm, over-confident rationalizer approaches a complex system to make an "obvious" change.... 🍿
Billion dollar SaaS idea: shared calendar system for a team, where people can't accidentally edit the shared event from everyone's calendar.
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@githubstatus is there an incident related to pushing to some repos? our team is totally blocked on pushing to one of our repos right now
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My greatest recent accomplishment as a Principal Engineer is creating slack channel to celebrate deleting dead code.
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