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Exiting the phase of my career where I realize everything is a compiler problem and entering the phase where I realize everything is a dependency management problem.
Tom Dale
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- Watching Elon operate in a domain I have some familiarity with has put me off ever wanting to own a Tesla.
- As a senior engineer in a new role, it's tempting to focus on bold, sweeping changes that justify your lofty title. This is a mistake. Your first order of business is building trust with your team. Nothing erodes that trust like revisiting plans they're already executing on.
- 39-year-old with 9 direct reports at a big company: Engineering Manager 22-year-old with no direct reports at a startup: Senior VP of Enterprise CSS and Cloud Strategy
- I still believe in HTML and CSS.
- I ate something that didn’t sit well and it made me a full-stack developer, in the sense that I’m now struggling on both the frontend and the backend.
- I wanted an iPad with the longest battery life so I bought a Tesla.
- I've been using OS X for over 15 years and I just figured out how to remove a saved color from the system color picker.
00:00 - Here’s my take on UI as pure functions vs. embracing the mutability of the DOM… No one gives a shit. People use what’s easy to adopt and makes them feel productive. Everything else is a mythology you build up around your project to make its success seem more profound than that.
- They should have used Node.js to build the Suez Canal because it’s non-blocking.
- Pretty sure Mariska Hargitay is shooting a scene outside my house rn??
GIF - I'm hearing that tickets to AWS re:Invent will be free this year; there is only a charge if you want to leave.
