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I’d seriously consider paying for Twitter Blue if it allows me to get rid of the “For You” tab.

The content there is days old posts from people whom I follow that I’ve missed (that somehow never showed up on my “Following” timeline ever), or random junk of the lowest quality.

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Given the discourse on this hellsite about DEI, you’d think companies are jam packed with unqualified DEI candidates who’re all getting hired and promoted ahead of more qualified people. 🙄

Is that the case at a *single* corporate organization? Can someone name one? Just one?

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Less discussed are the second and third order impacts of this era. It impacted everything from:

- kind of tech that was built
- the kind of engineering leaders and senior engineers who emerged
- career ladders
- pricing of dev tools SaaS
- workforce composition
- quality of life

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Mission/Mexican hot chocolate in oat milk from Dandelion Chocolate on a cold, drizzly January afternoon is one of the small delights of winter in San Francisco.

Mission/Mexican hot chocolate in oat milk from @DandelionChoco on a cold, drizzly January afternoon is one of the small delights of winter in San Francisco.
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Speaking of the tech job market: people with strong networks, and specifically, strong ties to executives are not having much trouble finding new jobs, from anecdotal evidence. This was always the case, but becomes more brutally apparent during a downturn.

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Being an immigrant tech worker means having decades old paystubs from previous employers, scans of every passport you've ever had (including all blank pages), I-94 records (before it went digital), and more, all tucked away in Google Drive in pdf format for repeated use.

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When I think of “hall of fame” blog posts (had an enduring influence on the industry, made a real difference in the way people think about a problem), I think of:

- use boring technology by Dan McKinley
- being glue by Tanya Reilly (now at @[email protected])
- the engineer manager pendulum by Charity Majors

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Every year I post a “best tech/papers of the year” list.

I try to write a detailed blog post, with a few lines on why I liked or what I learned from each of the items on the list.

Here’s my list for 2023, if anyone is interested. I’ll have the blog post ready by early Jan

Every year I post a “best tech/papers of the year” list. I try to write a detailed blog post, with a few lines on why I liked or what I learned from each of the items on the list. Here’s my list for 2023, if anyone is interested. I’ll have the blog post ready by early Jan
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I distinctly remember 2020 as the year of covid (and the year my dear grandma passed away), but 2021 - 2023 feels like a big indistinguishable blur to me.

It's kind of shocking to realize this blur encompasses 3 freaking entire years!

Really hoping for a more vibrant 2024.

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New blog post, on cache eviction, the SIEVE algorithm, and some variant with interesting properties: brooker.co.za/blog/2023/12/1…

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Amazon microservices architecure - 2008 vs 2023

If you thought old school microservices “death star” architecture was bad, lo, behold, we have now have a “galaxy brain” architecture. 😢

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It’d be nice to have a Twitter clone, but just for tech.

I don’t want to see junk ads, junk trends, random videos, “influencers”, grifters, and just random garbage all over the place, which is what this app has turned into.

It was never great, but it wasn’t *this bad* either.

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Natural language interface for query generators will become the norm for all infrastructure tools that have a custom query language/DSL.

Everything from command line tools to databases to monitoring systems to “data lakes” will have this support.

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We have the new Boomer class in America, and this time around, it’s not characterized by age but by those who locked in ultra low 30 year fixed mortgage rates in 2020-2021 …

… and everyone else paying 7%.

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Sundar and Satya are two contrasting case studies in leadership.

One rejuvenated a moribund company and positioned it as the leader in many emerging fields by making great strategic bets.

The other can’t win at even core technologies the company pioneered in the first place.

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This fucked up notion that if you have *any* kind of immigration struggle, you’re obviously not very good is one of the most pernicious myths that many bozos believe.

It’s not skill, but your country of birth, luck, and timing that contribute most to your immigration journey.

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It seems to be a terrible time to be an immigrant working in tech in 2023.

Apparently many companies have paused PERM applications until 2025. Some companies require VP level approval to initiate new PERM applications, and are asking *employees* to pay for premium processing. 😳

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It’s hard to visit downtown SF and not be dismayed, but *not* for reasons you’d think.

It was so clean and safe today because the city undertook a massive cleanup operation for the APEC conference.

To think it could be like this everyday, but the city leadership chooses not to.

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Deeply unpopular (curmudgeonly) opinion: while there might be gains in software development speed with AI, I suspect quality and reliability will be entirely different matters altogether.

I hope I’m wrong, but I suspect it’ll get worse, before it gets better.

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“Hyperscaler best practices considered anti-patterns for those with more modest requirements and scale” is an infrastructure conference talk that’s long overdue.

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