Your code doesn’t matter. But your architecture, domain modeling, data structures, and organization do. this isn’t poetry, it’s a 12 book epic saga

And hopefully one that takes < 10 years between releases, too 😂

One fun thing about being a software engineer is that you go to do a bit of quick research on a problem you're trying to solve and then before you know it you're on a Biblical Hermaneutics stack exchange page on whether John the Baptist was a Nazrite. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I had a revelation this week: You're not being challenged if most of the difficulty of your job comes from managing workplace dysfunction. But a lot of workplaces like to frame dysfunction as "challenge" and pretend like nothing needs to change.

y’all wanted the “you do you” approach and now you’re ridiculing immunocompromised people for taking extreme precautions that we have to take because y’all wanted a “you do you” approach?

I don't want to be a staff engineer I want to be a wand engineer with a dagger as backup in case I need to melee

I've said it before and I'll say it again: A staff developer who works in isolation and presents only fully-formed solutions is not a staff developer.

🧵Some legal thoughts • CA state law (The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, "WARN") requires 60 days notice of this kind of mass layoff (for more, please see edd.ca.gov/en/jobs_and_tr…). Violations of WARN can be reported to California Department of Industrial Relations via dir.ca.gov/default.html

I love deleting code

“Work won’t love you back” was a quick and helpful read, too.

How did I miss that Substack is doing a Reader now and has apps? Esp given many “blue check” folks are there already and anyone can get one, is this not a possible #twexodus platform vs. cohost or mastodon? Genuine question, I know little. on.substack.com/p/new-web-read…

It’s really extraordinary how “people” will say right out loud that “great code” should take precedence over product and design. Like buddy, what are you coding, and for whom? That matters way more than your LOC

thinking about what the demographics of hardcoreness will be

One of the most damaging myths in tech is that all you need for good software is a smart engineer and a problem/code base. Context, relevant experience, collaboration and co-learning are so essential for quality work

We can all stop now, this one is perfect

Brandon 🚀 Flightcontrol My test is to ask them a simple algorithm question. Junior: "I don't know" Mid-level: "Oh, I think I know the answer" Senior: "How is this relevant?"

Every year I invite people who are celebrating the colonial holiday to do something in support of Native people. Indigenous people in the U.S. experience some of the worst rates of illness, poverty & unemployment. To make matters worse, Native families are under attack. (THREAD)