Ryan Magoon
@Ryan_Magoon
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moving fast and breaking nothing @ paypal credit 🤟🏻
Raleigh, NC
Joined January 2012
hard ownership boundaries inside eng orgs is such a dumb concept to me
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@AdamRackis my spitball take: agents and developers are more ergonomic in typescript. bun is fast. if i wanted to build an agent platform, id pick bun.
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Its extremely demotivating to be someone who puts in the time, just to have others around you not do it. Its even worse if your manager doesn't recognize and act on the concerns. High performers ultimately want to work with other high performers.
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every company is hiring if you’re talented enough
i get messages every single day asking if we're hiring yes we are but we're not gonna interview you or make a role - we're 100% oss, figure out what we need and solve our problems it's how everyone who works here got their job
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One of my favorite things is to sit in a room with cracked engineers and work until a problem is solved
It was pretty fun. No planning, no Jira tickets, just got in a room and fixed stuff for a week.
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if you have ever shipped anything at all you are in the top 2% of software developers
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"Did you know you can do this in code?" Senior devs: "Cool, today I learned" Junior devs: "The cognitive load of this code is unbearable; it is unfamiliar and therefore terrible"
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People can work surprisingly hard without burnout as long as they feel like they’re winning.
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Lots of talk about working too much hurting your mental health. Not working enough can do the same
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Strangely, the more I screw up my algorithm, the more thirsty I get for bangers, and the more time I spend digging for treasure.
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Imagine that, a few years ago, you got tired of build steps and checks in your codebase, so you remove TypeScript. That one (seemingly) small decision just made it so no AI agent can reliably contribute code in that codebase. Great work. I bet you feel smart now.
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Perplexity was my travel concierge the whole time I was in Japan on my honeymoon. Worked amazingly well
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the max traffic you'll put up with isn't 0 - it's some amount that is frustrating but not impossible this is why when highways add capacity traffic can stay the same - they fill up until we're back at that threshold this happens in software too - you'll put up with some level
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The discourse around this reminds me that most people don't think high achieving disabled people exist and also do not understand how they use assistive tech in a realistic scenario. The cultural infantilization of the disabled is the biggest thing holding back accessibility
Apple has released a new ad highlighting Magnifier, coming to Mac with macOS 16 later this year
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in every industry it gets harder to enter into it the more mature it is apple's initial products were handmade at home - you're not entering the PC market today with the same level of product for some reason we refuse to believe this about software
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