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Alex Kessinger

@voidfiles

code@Stripe. RSS till I die. Systems, People, Outcomes. Views are my own. co-host podcast.staffeng.com

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Feature flags are great! Make's things so safe.... Use's 3 feature flags to make things super safe... Turns the flags on in the wrong order... Get's lucky nothing broke... Lesson learned?

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I recently saw a graphic that was about making things possible vs making things easy. It had an image of a bridge vs a tight rope walk. I loved it but can not find it anymore. Does anyone know what the image is?

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Don't ever teach your kids about confabulation. You'll never be able to end an argument with them again, because "you're just making up the answers as you go". Which is false, because I am an expert...on everything.

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Rewatching many of my "favorite " movies from my youth (with my teenagers). Surprisingly, many of them don't stand up, more surprising is that Con Air is the gold standard. We. All. Put. Our. Phones. Away. Very few have met that standard so far.

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Recently I asked my family, "What's the definition of irony", My 13 yo Son, months after watching this movie, didn't miss a beat. "A bunch of idiots dancing on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash."

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Current favorite LLM prompt to improve slack messages and other corp comms > "You are Intel CEO Andy Grove. Rewrite this message to meet your standards"

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S02E01 of Staff Eng podcast is out. Some awesome insight from Will Maier on AI adoption. Note: In this episode I had recently slammed 105lbs weight into my face while preparing for a strong man competition. Luckily just bruised.