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coworker asked what I would do now that I'm a principal engineer and I said "be dumber in public" going to ask all the dumb questions in team slack so

It seems tech has taken the "CS first principles" side of whiteboarding interviews and applied it to ops roles, where "first principles" means "build an entire monitoring system from scratch"

Whenever I post about D&I initiatives and hiring URMs, people say: but where do I find them?And this is the wrong approach.You are not hunting down and trapping URM candidates.

I saw a tweet float by daring high-follower tech people to do job interviews including all the code challenges and...perhaps they were speaking to white men?because I have _never_ been

TECH: we only hire the best minds, always thinking, examining data, searching for the truthENGINEERS: *have anxiety*TECH: hmm I've had multiple people tell me recently that it's obvious I'm "not

twitter, what is your favorite, metal-free notebook for people who actually use notebooks instead of collecting them to pet at 2am I've been looking at maruman notebooks, but most of

strokes are an incredibly common occurrence that affect many people every day and there are way better ways to challenge someone's ability to perform their assigned duty we literally had

having the humility to admit you don't know something and the stamina to then figure it out is, in my opinion, one of the marks of an excellent engineerI do

I just opened Docker on purpose so the weekend is already going downhill ME: that's enough computers for one dayME:ME:ME:ME: what if I ran Adventure inside a container ME: ooo

I'm waiting for some soup to cool on the stove, so I guess I'll do a thread about gender(no surprise reveal, just some ruminations) my personal relationship with gender has

JK Rowling hates trans people, but I want to talk a little bit about the *way* she hates them so you can recognize it in the wild She says “Dress

Dear white cis men of tech: have you ever had a nontechnical interview turn into a surprise technical one? And then your lack of prep used against you?This has happened