Tim Pote
@potetm
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Consultant. Pragmatic, Idiot-Driven Solutions. It's a neighborly day in this beauty wood. Creator of Fusebox: https://t.co/jhwpvOxr0T ꙮ
Nashville, TN
Joined April 2009
in fairness we don’t actually have a cd player in the house. we have to use the car.
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we just bought brandi carlile’s new cd. my son saw it sitting on the counter. “Is that some kind of disc? Why do you have a disc when you don’t have something to play it on?”
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found my first major discrepancy between models. claude sonnet is WAY better at explaining cryptographic concepts than chatgpt or gemini.
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one of the many great examples of how something seemingly frivolous (an industry focused on “make car go fast”) led to lives being saved once you really internalize the implications of this, you never dismiss anything as frivolous ever
The best F1 partnership ever was when the Ferrari pit crew team helped a UK Children's Hospital improve its ICU hand-off process in the 1990s. A new protocol dropped the error rate from 30% to 10%. How? After reviewing surgery operation footage, Ferrari F1 advised: ▫️a new
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if you ever think someone isn’t creative you should look at their excuses
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nobody owes you anything more than what you’ve already agreed to. if you want more, it’s on you to make it happen. (it’s totally possible to do btw)
The moment you start thinking you’re not valued enough and deserve more, is a start towards a very depressing journey. X should pay you more. Your job should pay you higher. Your partner should pay you more attention. And so on. The truth is, the world is not fair. Some have
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exactly. the *proper* solution isn’t a linter. it’s to take better care of your fucks.
People saying to use a linter or something don't get it. The problem is that you care at all about this fluff
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the problem with having a name for a thing is that it endows you with a false sense of understanding. you need to be able to describe things *without* using a name.
"scope creep" is a real thing that should be considered, but anyone who uses the word "scope creep" in a tech discussion is full of shit.
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"scope creep" is a real thing that should be considered, but anyone who uses the word "scope creep" in a tech discussion is full of shit.
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clojure
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ok but an overengineered s3+cloudfront blog is actually really nice tho
going to start a blog. should i use kubernetes?
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Life is infinitely interesting. There is always further you can grow in depth and wisdom. Don't be afraid to hold others to high standards and share those depths you have gained. Don't be afraid to seek out depth and challenges from others. Herein lies the meaning of life.
Extraordinary video. Too many extraordinary things to count. Most won't understand
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"maintainability" is a real thing that should be considered, but anyone who uses the word "maintainability" in a tech discussion is full of shit.
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there are good reasons to make a "service" in your system. but if your goal is "microservices," you definitely lost the plot.
s/ at startups//g
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tale as old as time...
At a past company, the head of engineering and the principal engineers decided to break our Ruby on Rails application into a Go microservices mesh. They created very detailed design documents and architecture diagrams. They went all out and used Kubernetes, gRPC, service
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