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Nat

@nota_bennett

I like systems thinking, novel sensory experiences, and photography. They/them I also write weekly at https://teapawt.net/t.co/nEOiFGa8eg

 Oakland, CA
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Joined July 2013
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Synthesized some of the reading I've been doing about starting small software businesses They may not be *good* ideas, but getting over the "I want to start a thing but have no ideas" storyline was personally really gratifying & wanted to share simplermachines.com/how-to-g…
How to get business ideas for software engineers

How to get business ideas for software engineers

Stop thinking about generating business or product ideas. Focus on finding people who would be good customers, and talk to them regularly about their problems.

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Oh dang, I'm result #5 for the google search "ActionDispatch::TestResponse" simplermachines.com/a-close-…
A close read of the ActionDispatch::TestResponse class

A close read of the ActionDispatch::TestResponse class

Last week [https://www.simplermachines.com/how-does-anyone-learn-to-test/] I talked about how I didn't know what an ActionDispatch::TestResponse [https://www.simplermachines.com/what-is-an-actiondi...

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Instead of finishing my newsletter or responding to my DMs I am furiously tweeting *sigh*
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Contra my suspicion of rewrites I do agree with this All rewrites are bad, some rewrites are useful
Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン (@rakyll) profile pictureJaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン
@rakyll9 Jul 2021
Unpopular opinion: I don't think the industry understands it enough that good and readable code is the way to retain people. Rewrites are underestimated.
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A lot of the people I know who have experience with rewrites are now tech leads or managers or out of the industry
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I sucked at making my first omelette, too
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In the conversations we have with each other in the dog’s voice, our dog now refers to me and my partner as “the apes” Ex “Door closed! Apes fix! Fix with your ape magic!”
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The whole CF API V2 vs. V3 thing continues to be just heart breaking
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At the very least it’s taught me that if I’m maintaining an API I need to consider clients part of my maintenance surface Systems thinking strikes again, this is a classic example of “you can’t optimize a whole system by optimizing its pieces”
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Variations on that theme happened a *lot* on Cloud Foundry and I should probably write about how & why Because in retrospect: there was a retro loop around each individual *team* but not the whole *system* and duh obviously
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The ability to look at the quote retweets of a given tweet is such an insane thing for Twitter to give us oh my god
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This isn’t a subtweet of anything in particular this is just, like, the discourse
“This is a regency novel about robots! It’s about manners, and using the bathroom!”
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“He’s a robot! A robot from space!” “What if my apartment doesn’t satisfy his lofty standards?”
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We’re reading Isaac Asimov
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