Jessica Joy Kerr
@jessitron
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Symmathecist, @honeycombio. Tweets are mine, license CC0. @[email protected] pronouns=she/her “There is always more to discover if you pay more attention.”
St. Louis, MO
Joined November 2006
I don’t wanna “build software” so much as . build understanding and express it in software.
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What distinguishes humans from smart animals like apes, dolphins, octopuses?. Maybe it’s our need to be superior to them.
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I generally notice that AI is significantly more useful when you already know what you’re doing. - the teenager.
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FYI to @caranddriver (is that the right handle? who knows. It has a blue checkmark which means nothing). I wanted to buy my kid a print subscription, but the parts where auto-renew is mandatory and the way to cancel is hidden behind a login (even after I created an account). NO.
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RT @honeycombio: This Week: @jessitron and Mei Luo will show you how Honeycomb for Log Analytics and Honeycomb Telemetry Pipeline bring a f….
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The corporate website is called "the marketing site" for reasons.
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RT @DeadCodePod: 🧐 Ever heard of symmathesy? In this Dead Code episode, @jessitron introduces this concept from Nora Bateson—where systems….
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new post: as an engineer at a software company, if you care about delivering value, then sales & marketing are on your side.
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in five hours (2:10pm Eastern), I'm presenting about OpenTelemetry at @JavaOnConf - you can watch live on YouTube here:
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sometimes I can make the world respond the way I want it to.
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RT @honeycombio: At All Things Open, @jessitron shared her thoughts on building a Developer career in the GenAI era, "We can use the AI to….
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"One of the life choices that I have regrets about.is how much time I spent being angry about dashboards." @mipsytipsy . It's only static dashboards that are painful. and only for engineers, who need more interactivity.
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I love this episode. It is about combining automation with human intervention. This concept is even more important when AI is part of the automation. This video explains the concept at its simplest.
New video up for subscribers!.
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I'll be at @AllThingsOpen week after next, and I get to panel about the future of development:
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This makes repetition feel satisfying to me, instead of tedious.
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Ease comes with momentum. Momentum comes with repetition.
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really sharp people state the obvious. Only it wasn't obvious until they said it. At a time and place where everyone can nod and run with it . Which they helped create.
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In the medium to long term, getting better is more important than being good.
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