jmoiron plays the blues

@jmoiron @satnam6502 No order: 1. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain, beautiful, painful, raw emotion 2. Jimi Hendrix - Killing Floor (BBC Sessions), epitome of blues rock, guitar like a freight train 3. Django Reinhardt - I'll see you in my dreams / Night and Day (1953), playful/inventive/virtuos...

@jmoiron @JackMurphyRGR @BeijingPalmer How are these two things related?

@jmoiron @ian_sportsdev The flip side is that outcome requirements can stifle innovation by making everyone risk averse. Since promotions are so individualized, I think it's fine to have a nuanced approach.

@jmoiron https://t.co/CeJAzxUMaT https://t.co/0NBGIHyKzk

@jmoiron This is patronizing, but I think it's also wrong? Product failures are complicated. Was it a bad idea, bad execution, bad marketing, bad timing? Judging outcomes is a cross-org process, like looking at outages. Promotion is scoped to one person's impact. https://t.co/kSw6MWQ5bK

@jmoiron The eclipse from NYC https://t.co/bBz2GBNZXw

@jmoiron @bryanl @bria_sullivan People (relatives) always ask me why I don't start my own business, and I just can't figure out how I could come out ahead of a good tech salary out there on the open ocean. That said, 200k in the bank every year gives you a long runway to find success.

@jmoiron I think Python is very good within its niche, and its value as a way to get non-software professionals into programming (eg. biologists, etc) is very under-appreciated by SWE. But perf matters! That niche is vulnerable; modern Python tooling is increasingly written in rust.

@jmoiron I think about this when I see perf come up in the Python community; it's always downplayed. It's circular logic. Python is too slow for eg. a db implementation, so you write that in something else. Then they look around and think "look, nobody is writing databases these days." ...

@jmoiron He still had so much more to give. https://t.co/45mapy25p9

@jmoiron That said, delivering the rugpull+layoff message with the tact and humility of Lord Farquaad is optional. Surely they could have ditched hobby and pivoted their awesome team toward profitable use cases ages ago.

@jmoiron For saas infra products w/o direct network effects, free tier traction is fool's gold. Most free tier use cases can't justify $500 ARR, but they will anchor your pricing at 0 and skew support/feature reqs, potentially leading to feature dev that doesn't affect your bottom line.

@jmoiron @buckwilson got a bunch of thoughts on this particular layoff, but yeah there are some unsettling parllels in the messaging

@jmoiron @jasonhevans @tenzin_rose Good thing about TCP/IP jokes is they reliably deliver.

@jmoiron @stephxsher let me recommend to you some better restaurants

@jmoiron.bsky.social After a month away, first thing I hear in America is an announcement on the proper procedure for transporting your firearm on a plane.

@jmoiron @elithrar without the bunnings i would totally believe this was america somewhere

@jmoiron @ibuildthecloud @adamhjk I'd love to never touch k8s again, but even when that's a goal it's difficult to achieve because at the end of the day there is no environment where logic can be expressed; you're forced to declare everything the way k8s expects.

@jmoiron @eatonphil Went to this area 2 years ago and highly recommend it.

@jmoiron Great thread on perf. Very relevant to Charlie's work, if go fmt was not fast, we probably would not have code formatters in every major language's toolbox today. https://t.co/QDTHJFBfFM

@jmoiron @copyconstruct @hynek Companies no longer need to show off their projects on blogs to attract talent and top engineers are looking for good companies not good blogs.

@jmoiron @dmtrubman @worsematt I do think the city could do a better job, but it doesn't make sense that housing units could scale based solely on residents, ignoring density, and the population density in Manhattan is ~7000x that of North Dakota.

@jmoiron Was clear there was something special about these two. Great for the fox to get his first major tonight. https://t.co/1gyE3n0YrN

@jmoiron I'm (very) sympathetic to the idea that modern tech stacks are more complicated than necessary, but there's something about the way people throw around "ZIRP" that rubs me the wrong way.

@jmoiron Can't think of a more vibrant time period for new datastore development than the last 10 years.. I think the industry noticed. https://t.co/2O4CZSMWI4