Whenever I hear about some FAANG layoffs, I keep coming back to Gergely Orosz's discussion of 'peacetime vs. wartime' companies.

I'd posit that many big tech companies that have been in peacetime mode **for most of our entire careers** are now in wartime mode.

Nature is beautiful

Out walking the dog and my neighborhood smells like magnolia, honeysuckle, and jasmine. Fuuuuuck I love North Carolina.

my mom is holding the baby and the baby just slapped her, and if you have a desi mom you know this is called KARMA

If you think this great try having kids. You’re priority maxxing every day. Up with the sun, down at 9:30 pm latest. Wake up and tell yourself in the mirror that the 529 is not going to fund itself. 5 yo keeps you humble, kids outgrowing shoes keeps you hungry. Highly recommend.

npm-check-updates is one of my favorite tools and I have nobody else to blame for when I tell it to upgrade every single dependency to the latest version

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only downhill from here

What am I supposed to answer to these DMs? I guess conservatively speaking… 1 billion dollars would be nice?

What is the deal with these messages anyway? Are they offering to do my marketing? Because yeah I’d pay you to do that for me.