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Brian Holt
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🐘 pm @microsoft azure postgres 👨‍🏫 @frontendmasters @vetswhocode 👨‍💻 prev @stripe @netflix @neondatabase 👨‍🎓 @seattleu mba ⚽️ investor @cagliaricalcio
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    Brian Holt
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    May 19
    Just shipped: Complete Intro to Databases v2 on @FrontendMasters. 6 hours, fully hands-on. Postgres v18, MongoDB, Redis, Neo4j, DuckDB — plus a deep dive into pgvector and RAG for the AI folks. This is the database course I wish I'd had. $10 off month one:
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    Brian Holt
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    Mar 24, 2018
    “Fullstack” developer.
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    Brian Holt
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    Aug 28, 2020
    I got promoted! Officially a principal program manager at Microsoft now. 🎉
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    Brian Holt
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    Oct 10, 2018
    You don't need a food science degree to be a great chef. You don't need a computer science degree to be a great developer.
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    Brian Holt
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    Dec 13, 2021
    Welcome to the world, Reid Edgar Holt (I’m a dad???)
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    Brian Holt
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    Feb 24, 2019
    Wait, we don’t like .reduce() now? I loved using reduce. Man, Twitter, I just got done refactoring all my code to hooks, binary templates, and async/await and now this. Twitter-driven-development is hard. 😓
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    Brian Holt
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    Mar 18, 2019
    Excited to announce my next career move: I've decided to move from @Microsoft to … 🎉 Microsoft! 🎉 I'm going to be a senior program manager focusing on @code, Node.js on @Azure, and @Azure SDKs. _Stoked_ to be working on an amazing editor and making using JS with Azure a joy!
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    Brian Holt
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    Jun 8, 2021
    Today is my last day at Microsoft. It's been the highlight of my career to work with the @azureadvocates and then on @code and @Azure. I learned an incredible amount from a wonderful cast of people. I'm taking two weeks off before I start the next thing 🥲
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    Brian Holt
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    Apr 3, 2019
    You're not a real developer unless someone else has told you you're not a real developer.
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    Brian Holt
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    Sep 1, 2018
    Clinging to "master/slave" terminology is the software dev equivalent of flying the Confederate flag.