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AI @ Meta. ex-Netflix | ex-Spotify
Joined January 2008
Ever wish your code editor could warn you when you're making changes to dangerous files?. BEHOLD!.Code Vibes
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Long-time Spotifiers like me (10+ years) didn't stay because of the pay. We all knew we could go elsewhere and make a lot more. You had the best engineering workforce out there, AT A DISCOUNT, and the culture to support them but that's now ruined.
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Why is it called a pull request?. I'm not requesting to pull anything. Shouldn't it be called a change request or a merge request?.
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Blocking everyone who's overly enthusiastic about crypto is called a blockchain.
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After 10.5 years at Spotify, next week is my final week. Spotify is a deeply special place that I hope you all get to experience one day and I'll miss it greatly. Super excited to join Netflix as a PM developing developer productivity tooling!.
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Man who loses half his staff due to an incompetent bad take says engineers shouldn’t be incompetent.
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A relative of mine asked me to help solve a programming interview question he got recently from a failed interview. I couldn’t. His parents are now, naturally, wondering why a newcomer is asked questions even I couldn’t solve. “Tech interviews suck” was all I could say.
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@minkbazink I respect people that put in long hours, if that's their thing, so long as they don't expect that of others. Gets annoying when they brag about all the hours, the sacrifice, etc. Cool story, I'm gonna take my dogs for a walk and refresh for the next day.
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First day at Netflix tomorrow. I’m definitely not freaking out, YOU’RE freaking out!. Sorry for yelling.
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I deleted my LinkedIn years ago. Twitter has made me so many more connections. I’ve gotten job offers, conference invites, and been informed that my code is objectively shitty all in one place.
4 of my last 5 jobs were all thanks to my Twitter network. It’s a big deal.
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Any react-based repo bigger than a TODO list is virtually unreadable. Want to add a new button? SIMPLE! Just add these 7 files and follow this repos flavor of functional programming. Also use the word context as much as possible. Web is supposed to be easy and now it's just not.
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@burgessdryan Always assume every decision that was made, code that was written, system that was built, was done with the best intentions and built as well as possible at the time. It's so easy to criticize and pick apart things. Not that easy to build empathy.
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The longer FB is down the more likely people will get vaccinated.
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Wanna build some cool Web Infra at Spotify? Come work on my team.
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I am pumped to announce that I'll be joining Meta in a few weeks. I'm joining as a senior PM focused on AI / ML Infrastructure. I can't express how excited I am to dive in to AI / ML with a company doing such innovative things in that space.
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Everyone wants to work in FAANG until you realize that the majority of your time will be spent approving two-factor pushes.
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I contemplated not publishing this. But, fuck it. "You don't need standup" -
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Standups are at best useless and at worst detrimental to morale and productivity. Most do standups just because everyone else does standups.
Time for #DevDiscuss!. Tonight's topic is unpopular opinions. Let's start with some questions. - Do you have any unpopular opinions?.- How do unpopular opinions go over in dev teams?.- How do opinions become popular in the first place?
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@dabit3 Say “code is the documentation” as often as possible. Always have pedantic comments on PRs. Get angry whenever your code gets reviewed. Every complaint eventually leads to you admitting your undying love of Haskell. Never writes tests. Always unapproachable.
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I run a Web Infrastructure team now at Spotify and I'm interested in sharing our work and learning from others. Who would be interested in coming to Spotify or hosting a few of us for an open discussion?.
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Seriously what is the appeal of the "username on one page, password on another" login?. No user in the history of users has ever asked for this or wanted this.
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Today is my ten year anniversary @SpotifyEng . It’s been a massive privilege getting to work with the most talented and genuinely great people. It’s the best working on a product I use every single day. Looking forward to the next ten years!.
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There's no reason why ALL tech companies shouldn't tell their employees to work remotely until coronavirus is under control.
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1985: The best software is built by knowing the most algorithms by heart. 2020: The best software is built by being great at Google searches and working with people. 2020 interviews: Welp. .
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At 36 I did my first conference talk last week at AssertJS. It was a goal of mine in 2019 and I am so thankful I got to speak at the best conference. But it had been an ambition of mine for so long and yet I always felt like I didn't have anything useful to talk about. 1/6.
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Apparently it's trendy to lay off a bunch of people but never once cut executive compensation or tell shareholders to hold off on that second yacht for a bit.
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@dan_abramov Wait. what?! I know London salaries aren't SF/NYC but you're Dan freakin Abramov. You should be making more than double that.
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Congrats on mastering prototypical inheritance before shipping your first website but legitimately no one cares. Have fun and make cool shit. I’m glad you’re joining our industry.
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Am I missing something with the whole mechanical keyboard thing?. Ever since the flat apple keyboards came out (in like 2006/2007?) it's all I've used. They are the perfect keyboard IMO.
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@ken_wheeler Imagine working for FB London and asking for a raise. HR: "Dan doesn't even make that". Engineer: "Well, fuck".
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Sad hearing the news that Spotify is doing layoffs. If anyone needs connections or just wants to chat please hit me up.
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I had a fun idea to program something simple using tech from each year since I was born (1983). Today I made a prime number generator using Turbo C 2.01 in MS DOS.
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Ah now I remember web development. 1. Have a grand idea.2. Spend two hours failing to configure tools.3. Fuck it wasn't a good idea anyway.
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First week at Netflix!. It’s been exhausting but it already feels like home.
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Homeownership is thinking: “once I finish this project I can finally relax on weekends” until you fucking die.
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Spotify used to give signed guitars to everyone who reached ten years at the company. Now they give a plaque. I can’t wait to get my… plaque… in less than a month.
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Every company that did layoffs stock price went up. I hate everything about that.
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Just attended my first standup in 2.5 years. They are still horrible. Do not recommend.
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Today I weighed in at 199.8 pounds. First time under 200 pounds in 6 years.
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@dan_abramov After so many years programming full time I missed when programming was just a fun hobby. Becoming a PM has helped to get me back to that mentality and be excited about coding again. Career change is healthy.
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I've gotten to know Henry personally over the past few years and he is constantly working on Babel. Extremely dedicated and hard working and I have never questioned this. Looking simply at Github activity is a slap in the face.
Henry didn't have to do this. Maintaining Babel has inflicted huge stress on him. He could've easily looked for a *much* higher paying full time job but he decided to stay and try because he felt it was the right thing to do.
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Hearing rumors that Spotify obliterated almost their entire platform / infrastructure organization (along with many other teams). Good luck with that. FTP'ing straight to prod now ya'll.
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If you count my days editing PHP on production using an FTP client, I've been continuously deploying for like 15 years.
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I stopped being excited by new tech years ago. Plenty of amazing tools out there a lot of which I know nothing about. But given enough time and energy I know I could build whatever I want to. No need to keep up on the latest & greatest. Impossible task anyway.
"What are you excited about in tech?". Me: *Silence*. I actually cannot find the energy to keep "up to date" in tech. and I wouldn't be able to say I'm "excited" about something right now. I'll learn a technology if I need it for work, but I won't learn it for fun 🤷♀️.
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@rickhanlonii "I can't think of a better default app to open my markdown files" - no one ever.
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@AdamRackis I don't think they are directionless. They just see their potential future and collectively say, "Not good enough". I love gen-z. Keep it up.
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Shout out to developers who submit a github issue and then also submit a PR fixing it.
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I will never understand the ~monthly logouts for online apps. Like what are you preventing exactly?. Someone could steal my entire life in a month before you've done anything, so this is just a needless inconvenience.
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Got a jira ticket assigned to me today from my old job to my personal email. What do you think the likelihood of me doing that is? 😆.
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You may not know that Jest transforms test files before execution. When debugging tricky mock situations or otherwise it's often useful to examine the transformed test. After executing a test open the cache dir and have a look. yarn jest --showConfig | grep cacheDir
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I had a few zoom meetings today. Was definitely in the correct meeting. The best meeting.
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@Maton_Anthony @jesslynnrose In my experience companies typically only hire seniors because they have a dumpster fire of architectural issues and no documentation.
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@jamesqquick You are not a failure and you are good at what you do. Tailor your resume for each role. Don’t spray & pray. Get interviews under your belt to build confidence. Interviewing is now your full time job.
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Why do people still listen to this toxic fucking moron.
The police are not the problem. The police were never the problem. Defunding the police is a terrible policy that will put hundreds, if not thousands, of lives at risk.
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I'll say this again. None of these companies give a shit if you work remotely. They do this so people quit and they don't have to pay severance.
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@rickhanlonii The magic happens when teams continuously do this and add more automation for issues not caught.
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If you voted for Trump you can fuck right off. I will never care about your feelings.
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@AdamRackis Most companies interview process: “we only hire engineers that never write bugs. Here, prove it.”. Day 1 at said company: “Fix these 37 bugs”.
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Things you'll hear in your engineering career and their translation. Anti-pattern / Code smell: I don't like this but can't define why.Simple / Lightweight: not as many features as the other thing but I wrote it so it's simple.Standup: I don't trust you what'd you do yesterday.
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@VicVijayakumar I’ve had hundreds of millions of records in a relational DB completely unoptimized before I noticed any performance drop. For most situations relational dbs will work fine lol.
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Twitter (the product) is, “I see what my friends are doing in real-time along with what’s trending”. It’s not, “I see what random ass people think and like sometime in the last month”. So what is the deal with “For you” being default and all the “you might like this” bullshit?.
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I really don't understand how or why movie theaters still exist. I would so much rather watch a recently released movie at home on a shitty tablet than a crowded theater with the worlds most expensive food.
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Spotify tells employees to buy CDs.
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If NFTs aren’t complete BS then Imgur and Giphy are the richest companies on Earth.
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First day in years not having meetings start at 7am. Got my computer all ready to go and had time to water my whole lawn while drinking my coffee. This is going to be a great day.
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Why do people hate cubicles? I’m genuinely curious. My first job I had them and they were wonderful. Environment was quieter and I had a ton of personal space and storage. Now it’s all open offices, no space, no storage, and usually loud as hell. Bring back cubicles.
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@rickhanlonii My favorite are the companies where tenure is either six months or 15 years and almost nothing in between.
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So sorry to my Spotify friends who were let go. Please reach out to me if you want to chat, want help with interviews, connections, etc.
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Amazon when I'm buying $200 of random shit: Buy with one click. Amazon when I'm renting a movie for $2.99: INTRUDER! LOGIN AGAIN! WHAT'S THE CODE?!!.
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@AdamRackis @DanaWoodman If this is true it is deeply ironic given that he falsely accused the babel maintainer years ago of embezzlement.
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Evolution of every platform team:. 1. We should use yaml.2. There are now 37,000 yaml files.3. All these files should be more similar.4. We shouldn't need yaml at all.
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