Tom Meadon

Tom Meadon

@meadon.net

Dad, Engineer, CTO

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Tom Meadon
@meadon.net

I’d love to say this doesn’t annoy me, but it really does…. “Login” and “log in” is another example.

Laurie Voss@seldo.com

I'm begging you, begging you to remember that "signup" and "sign up" are different things "catchup" and "catch up" are different things "setup" and "set up" are different things

Tom Meadon
@meadon.net

Seriously, don’t submit AI generated content for a job application. Use it as a tool to give you feedback or prepare for an interview, sure, but at this stage I’d rather have something poorly written than something with the niff of AI about it - at least you know what you’re dealing with.

Tom Meadon
@meadon.net

Good timing. I propose a slight change to the definition: to put everything on hold except Bsky'ing until you've had sufficient amounts of coffee.

Susie Dent@susiedentwords.bsky.social

Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.

Tom Meadon
@meadon.net

A reminder to those working with Azure Blob: explicitly set a start time when generating SAS tokens for immediate use. This stops you from falling foul the default start time being 1s in the future. Ask me how I know.

Tom Meadon
@meadon.net

AI (currently) can’t persevere with a problem or challenge. Or have a solution suddenly appear to them at 3am or in the shower.

Wes Bos@wesbos.com

In the age of AI, short form video and hot takes, the competitive advantage of the future is the ability to go deep, read the docs, build something new, learn hard things that take time.

Tom Meadon
@meadon.net

It’s great having a space where, as a Brit, I’m not constantly bombarded with US voting propaganda. I know it’s a nuanced point, but Elon, I can’t actually vote…

Tom Meadon
@meadon.net

I was watching an interview with DHH earlier and I totally agree with his take on AI-assisted programming. I enjoy the craft of writing code too much to go full self drive on dev work.

Tom Meadon
@meadon.net

Something that’s limited my engagement with social platforms is an internal tendency that I’ve got to get every element of whatever I’m starting on nailed before I’m happy to dive in. Which all too often means I never get properly started.

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Tom Meadon
@meadon.net

In tech, it means that I’m prone to allowing finding the “best” tools and patterns stop me from just starting to build. Yet I tend to avoid overly prescriptive frameworks like Rails - I feel they cheat me out of understanding the fundamentals, which is something I love to do.

Tom Meadon
@meadon.net

This is probably why I love working with @golang.io. You get to see how things work whilst leveraging the “one way to do something” idea to just get started. It doesn’t remove all of the decision fatigue but it certainly helps.

Tom Meadon
@meadon.net

Something that’s limited my engagement with social platforms is an internal tendency that I’ve got to get every element of whatever I’m starting on nailed before I’m happy to dive in. Which all too often means I never get properly started.

Tom Meadon
@meadon.net

With socials it manifests in getting my profile picture, handle, and a collection of “interesting” thoughts right before starting. With exercise, it’s getting the right workout routine, running route, or achieving the best balance between types of exercise.

Tom Meadon
@meadon.net

Joining Bluesky has reminding me why I started engaging with Twitter in the first place: to be able to sit in the same room as the people in the industry that I respect the most. Not to have content shoved down my throat that makes me feel uncomfortable or just outright offended.

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