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Gary Bernhardt

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Gary Bernhardt

@garybernhardt

Execute Program (learn programming tools quickly); Destroy All Software (dense programming screencasts); formerly Deconstruct conference.

Seattle, WA

Joined March 2007

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Gary Bernhardt
@garybernhardt
Apr 25
evergreen controversial opinion: it is good to care about the quality of your work
Gary Bernhardt
@garybernhardt
Sep 17, 2017
Yes, we could call it "taxes".
Gary Bernhardt
@garybernhardt
Nov 23, 2017
everything on computers is worse than Winamp 2
Gary Bernhardt
@garybernhardt
Mar 4, 2023
1960s: "COBOL will let non-programmers make the software!" 1980s: "4GLs will let non-programmers make the software!" 2000s: "UML will let non-programmers make the software!" 2020s: "AI will let non-programmers make the software!"
Gary Bernhardt
@garybernhardt
Jan 19, 2020
Babies born today will turn 18 on January 19, 2038, the first date when time becomes unrepresentable using a standard 32-bit unsigned Unix timestamp. It's not far off.
Gary Bernhardt
@garybernhardt
Nov 26, 2018
An NPM package with 2,000,000 weekly downloads had malicious code injected into it. No one knows what the malicious code does yet.
I don't know what to say. · Issue #116 · dominictarr/event-stream
From github.com
Gary Bernhardt
@garybernhardt
Nov 18, 2020
I will never get over this
Gary Bernhardt
@garybernhardt
Feb 12, 2019
"Computers will definitely write code on their own soon!" I tell myself as my password manager repeatedly inserts my credit card number into the zip code field.
Gary Bernhardt
@garybernhardt
Jun 29, 2020
if you watch the Internet backwards, the nerds kick the corporations out and simplify the communications protocols until a single person can understand everything at once
Gary Bernhardt
@garybernhardt
May 4, 2019
Windows 95 was released on 1995-08-24. The iPhone was released on 2007-06-29, 4,327 days later. Today is the 4,327th day since the iPhone was released, so the iPhone is now halfway between us and Windows 95.
Gary Bernhardt
@garybernhardt
May 19, 2015
Consulting service: you bring your big data problems to me, I say "your data set fits in RAM", you pay me $10,000 for saving you $500,000.
Gary Bernhardt
@garybernhardt
Dec 30, 2020
Consulting service: Your 25-person company is drowning in complexity with microservice architectures, serverless, and SSR. I say "your app will fit on two Heroku Standard 1x dynos and one Standard 0 database. $150/mo total. Eat the 100 ms of extra latency." You pay me $10,000.
Gary Bernhardt
@garybernhardt
May 8, 2019
Password: "[32 randomly generated letters]" Website: Dear sir, I am sorry to inform you that your password is insecure! Please try a more secure password! Password: "budlight420!" Website: This is the greatest password that we have seen. Sir, thank you, for blessing me with th
Gary Bernhardt
@garybernhardt
Nov 5, 2018
One of the biggest selling points during the rise of dynamic languages was that they lacked complex, fragile build processes. Fast-forward 15 years and the most popular dynamic language has build tooling more complex and fragile than many static languages. Time is a flat circle.