Jacob Herrington (not verified proceed with caution) ⚠️

Bsky intro time: I’m a mostly-self-taught dev. For years, I worked as a senior engineer in the startup world. Now, I’m building my own startup applying LLMs to a “boring” space broken by compliance and organizational knowledge loss. I love food, shitposting, and tattoos.

hello old friend

today someone sent me an llm generated email i sent one back we’ve truly done it

me: it’s important to write good commit messages also me: git commit -m “FUCK”

andor is maybe the best show ever made? i will block dissenting opinions thank you

google what’s that i only know gogole

agree or disagree there are some great thought provoking ideas in here @bsky.app team has done an incredible job challenging pre convinced notions about social media and imo should keep doing it

most powerful productivity hack of them all alias rpsec='rspec'

pro software engineering tip from @codynorman.com deploy client products at 4:57 pm on april 1st we will pay ANYTHING to go home

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geez guy wouldn't know majesty if it came up and bit him in the face

this is how a well oiled engineering organization gets shit done 😤

Finally a strong rational for choosing Visual Basic in 2025

Raising VC as a technical founder, I’ve learned this: engineers build magic and forget it’s magic. Other engineers learning how to fundraise: don’t forget your investor audience is quite likely *extremely* non-technical. You need to demonstrate how much magic you’ve built. They won’t see it.

what’s great about raising venture capital is the emotional toll

UX designer whose job is to make you book the wrong dates to maximize revenue

Hey friends A local game studio just released their first title If you’re into narrative, suspense games, I’d be psyched if you supported my new indie dev friends by adding it to your steam wishlist or downloading it while it’s on sale store.steampowered.com/app/2828590/...

they’re playing crossfade and creed at my barber shop 🤘🤘🤘 Onw to get some tribal tats

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater Warehouse (2000)

please stop suggesting I solve my problem by changing my behavior. I do not want to do that

After limping my way through the end of last year, I'm coming out of my winter reset and ready to come out swinging in 2025!

I was reminded of Noah Gibbs’ talk on ‘The Forty Year Programmer’ If you have, or are considering having, a career in software then I think this is worth 30 minutes of your time. Lots of wisdom here even for those of us similarly long in the tooth www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPkJ...

Noah embodied a lot of the things I love about the Ruby community. We were very lucky to know him and I will miss him. If you knew Noah please share your memories with his family via @nateberkopec.bsky.social

🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

cat: *filets human hand* my wife: that’s our signal so i know he is done with play time

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hey, I run a little hobby project called #curl

might fuck around and delete the entire front end today

In two Zooms at the same time, one about product and another about protocol, and jumping between them. This is what it means to be in flounder mode

terrifying when you realize you only have 72 hours remaining to buy every single saas (everyone knows black friday only lasts 21 days)

dev tools mantra

I was talking with an engineer at GitHub who told me they learned to love Ruby on Rails. I thought I remembered GitHub used to run on RoR Apparently, it still does! The .com, for sure! (How did I forget about this?)

@nickyt.online recently introduced me to Inertia JS We’re exploring using it in a Rails 8 project (hosted on MSFT wtf) Is anyone using Rails + Inertia + Vite in production these days? Endorsements or horror stories?

Pro Tip: If you remove an unused index, make sure your ORM won't try and recreate it next time you restart the process. In completely unrelated news Discover and other bsky.app feeds should be back online now.

I am once again asking companies to stop restricting internships to college students. There are a lot of boot camp and self-taught folks who could use those opportunities too.

"guy wouldn't know majesty if it came up and bit him in the face"

what in tarnation disconcerting in any nation to be frank

I didn’t realize just how annoying and intrusive the ads were on the other site. I mean, I KNEW. I just thought I was better at tuning them out than I actually was. Hope this place figures out a community-first business model so we can keep it nice!