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Engineering leader/exec, currently at https://t.co/qkTOSWohBj. Talks about software engineering, UX, games, bikes. @[email protected] (he/his)

Mystic, CT
Joined January 2008
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Kent Quirk
3 years
Ok, given the apparently inevitable demise of this bird site, I’m now on Mastodon @kentquirk@hachyderm.ok too.
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2 years
I stopped posting a while back. And I stopped reading regularly a few weeks ago. It’s now time to delete the app. Bye, all. I’m on M and T.
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2 years
RT @honeycombio: Missing out on crucial errors? Try ✨ Dynamic Sampling! ✨. Some methods miss vital events. Dynamic sampling adjusts in real….
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2 years
I doubt my followers care since I have hardly been posting, but I’m finally done here. Not even gonna open the app to read any more. It’s gotten too unusable.
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2 years
RT @MisterABK: I found a pub with an inverted normal map. If you understand what this means, you have to retweet.
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2 years
It’s apparently impossible to use the Dunkin app to order accurately. This morning I sat in my driveway for 5 minutes so I would get it right. It’s still wrong. From now on I’ll just order at the drive through.
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2 years
RT @mipsytipsy: Speaking of generative AI, AIOps etc. This was a super fun conversation. We chatted about why so much AI stuff is crap, t….
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Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors isn't a fan of most AIOps tools, but she says natural language queries using the GPT API have unique value for observability.
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2 years
RT @lochieaxon: you may not like it but this is what peak UX looks like
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2 years
This. A thousand times this.
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2 years
Fighting hard over on Facebook to be honest, concise, and represent my opinions about AI image generation to a group of former coworkers 💀
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2 years
RT @ErnestBorgTen: @GhastlyH "Mansplaining as a service".
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3 years
One of the clearest explainers I’m privileged to know is @jessitron, and she’s got a great one here. Fetchez la vache!.
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Jessica Joy Kerr
3 years
Story points and velocity: the spherical cow of software.
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3 years
I just turned 2 billion seconds old (yes, really). I don’t feel a nanosecond over 1.9.
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3 years
RT @PeterCawdron: This is the only real time travel paradox
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3 years
RT @Get_Flanked: Watching Elon struggle with Twitter is the closest we will come to knowing what would happen if gamers took over decision….
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3 years
RT @PuckPuck: Earlier today, a @honeycombio solution architect was in a meeting with a new customer showing off some new product features u….
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3 years
What are you doing, ⁦@expensify⁩? I said stop!
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3 years
The common misspelling of “rouge” when someone means “rogue” has amazing potential for making punny tweets that no one will appreciate. I have just barely enough self-control to resist.
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3 years
Just took my first dose of Paxlovid. We’ll see.
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3 years
Tested positive for COVID this morning (argh) but I guess I can use the downtime to move over to the new phone.
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3 years
RT @seldo: Dear Cloudflare: if AWS can figure this out at scale and still be gigantically profitable, you're not taking a principled stand,….
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