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Me realizing software engineers wrote software that flew astronauts to the moon and back in the 1960s and I can’t even get Python installed on my machine

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Got a new MacBook Pro, lemme see if I can get Python 3.7 installed

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Lemme tell you about this Haskell library I developed

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Sharing the project I worked on for months on hacker news

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I've struggled with what to say and share and I settled on this.

How Racism Shapes My Habits — Jowanza Joseph

How racism impacts my habits and routines.

www.jowanza.com

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How I look using a service mesh for my two microservices

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@TheDanJimenez Every Tesla a missionary

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Product development at my day job vs product development on my side projects

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Me trying to keep up with all of Amazon Web Services offerings

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Me answering a regex question in an interview

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The greatest minds of my generation are spending 2 hours a week watching Scrum Masters type into Jira

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Trying to hold onto all of my hobbies with a demanding career

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What was a @caferio burrito like in 2009? Millennial Utahns:

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Me trying to avoid the default Python install on my Mac

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Me copying and pasting commands from the README and wondering why the project isn’t building correctly

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1 year

I agree with all of this

Software engineering practices

Gergely Orosz started a Twitter conversation asking about recommended “software engineering practices” for development teams. (I really like his rejection of the term “best practices” here: I always...

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Trying to figure out which platform a show is streaming on

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Recruiters on LinkedIn sliding into your DMs

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Live look at me resolving a merge conflict

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Me studying for leet code interviews the night before

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4 years

Wait, CrossFit is a company and not just a bunch of folks injuring themselves in a warehouse without air conditioning?

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3 years

This is an excellent post about time zones and fallacies related to them

Falsehoods programmers believe about time zones

I decided to make a time zone converter. It had seemed like an easy project, but I was horribly mistaken

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5 years

Lemme try to contribute to one of these 100 Python microservices

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5 years

*Tweets a joke about having difficulty installing Python* My mentions:

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4 years

Data Engineers: 1) If you were putting together a portfolio, what kinds of projects would you include in it? 2) If you have a portfolio of projects your proud of, would you mind sharing it? I'm trying to gather ideas, please RT for exposure.

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4 years

The fact that this is published on Medium is killing me

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4 years

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Buy something from an eCommerce company and get emails 6 times a day for a lifetime.

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4 years

Live look at the memory leak in my production app

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“Hey mom I got rejected from a job because we were too poor to afford books when I was a kid so I didn’t develop an affinity for bookstores until later in life”

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Live look at devs using Vim for the first time

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When my neighbors package is delivered to my address and I have to return it

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$ docker logs

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5 years

Dockerizing my legacy app and deploying it on a managed Kubernetes service

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I moved to Utah in 2009, and it has become my new home. I'm happy to live here and to build a company here. It's not perfect; I miss Caribbean Food and exceptional pizza, but I love the outdoors, family focus, entrepreneurial spirit, and great people.

U.S. News Ranks the Best States for 2024

The newest edition of the Best States rankings project features a repeat at No. 1 and a lone southern state in the top 10.

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4 years

I’ve hit this page 100 times and I’ve closed the window every single time.

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5 years

Using a managed Kubernetes service to deploy my static site

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4 years

I don't write very much Python but I've pair programmed with people who have a handle on the language and read through source code and it's clear that knowing the standard library pays dividends. This is a nice blog post on the topic

Python built-in functions to know

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4 years

docker run springio/gs-spring-boot-docker

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4 years

👋 @reddit , my DMs are open

Alexis Ohanian 🇦🇲

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4 years

I've resigned as a member of the reddit board, I have urged them to fill my seat with a black candidate, + I will use future gains on my Reddit stock to serve the black community, chiefly to curb racial hate, and I’m starting with a pledge of $1M to @kaepernick7 ’s @yourrightscamp

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Whenever I do a pip3 install and it works

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4 years

I've been pair programming for about a year in a professional context. There are some amazing positives and some kinks that can be worked out. This article covers most of them

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5 years

When I try to resolve an issue without appropriate context

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2 years

Impeccable recommender system

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7 years

@billboard @plangeypants She's been killing it almost as long as I've been alive.

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3 years

With a broken heart I share the passing of my mom. She was my biggest advocate and I will miss her dearly.

Remembering Alvernella Berlinda Lawrence

Alvernella Berlinda Lawrence, age 62, died peacefully in Waterbury, Connecticut, on August 13, 2021. Alvernella was born on March 25, 1959, in the Village of Basseterre in St. Kitts and Nevis to Eu

www.colonialfunerals.com

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4 years

That is an intense and unrealistic number of technologies to learn

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2 years

I will say @JonBatiste is a generational artist and I feel very lucky to live in an era where he is making music. This interview is great

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and...

Jon Batiste is an overachiever. Batiste is the bandleader on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and an Oscar-winning composer for the Pixar animated movie, Soul. He also received the highest number...

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4 years

git reset --hard

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4 years

Took my 3-year-old out for a rocket launch... Only problem is I grabbed the wrong engine and this thing only got about 30ft off the ground and crashed before the parachute could deploy. Her review: “dad, I’m very disappointed the rocket didn’t launch high and land safely”

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When you finally get the HAProxy config just right

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Me trying to follow the README for my own project

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Toddlers be like "I know a spot" and they show you where they hide their weeks old honey-nut cheerios and pepperidge farm goldfish

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4 years

Them: “Getting started in easy with Jupyter Notebooks” Me getting started:

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4 years

child_process.fork()

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5 years

Me practicing my skills from the Intro to Kubernetes course

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4 years

For the first time in my life, I've been happy on Father's Day. I wrote a little bit about why on my blog

From Pain To Joy — Jowanza Joseph

I can finally celebrate Father’s Day.

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5 years

*Speaking to a Haskell programmer* Me: Can you explain in as simple terms as possible the benefits of functional programming? Them:

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4 years

Someone said “ORMs are the cauliflower rice of programming” and I’m in pieces.

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4 years

Carried my 3-year-old in a hiking backpack for 2 hours yesterday

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3 years

I usually stay away from this kind of personal content, but something about posting this is meaningful to me and I hope is meaningful to her too. ❤️

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4 years

The best minds of my generation spent their careers crafting OKRs.

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4 years

Had some cilantro going bad so I decided to make some salsa.

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2 years

I will be sharing a thread of my favorite books that cover Black historical figures or important moments for Black Americans in a thread for this month. Only sharing books I read and recommend.

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5 years

Every time I see the term “full-stack data science”

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Great quote

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pip install <any package>

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4 years

Me showing off my home automations to holiday visitors

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5 years

YAML, Slack, Chrome and IntelliJ. Sup homies?

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3 years

Me explaining the difference between at-most-once, at-least-once and exactly-once delivery guarantees

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Cycling and Southern Utah is very good

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*Interviewing at a startup* Recruiter: We can do another $20K on the base salary or $40K in options Me:

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2 years

About 2 months ago I went to review a product I bought from Amazon and I ran into this message

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5 years

Better Call Saul

CHO 👨🏽‍🦱

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Which TV series is this ? 😍

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Undefeated Father’s Day gift

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4 years

Got home from a long ride and this ruined my day

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4 years

Me changing my variables to more descriptive names in my poorly constructed code

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3 years

I put a habanero pepper in the garbage disposal and that was a critical error.

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4 years

When you use Scala to write a simple script

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@OnlyHipHopFacts Sing About Me / Dying Of Thirst

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3 years

Today is a rough one. My mom taught me to believe in myself, holds my head up when I fail and is the first one to celebrate me when I suceded. Watching her health decline suddenly and dramatically over the last 12 months has weighed heavily on me.

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On-call rotation - Not glamorous - Annoying - Leads to burnout Incident Response Management - Sounds professional - Can write about it on a resume - Can speak about it at a conference

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7 years

This post on “toxic experts” is really good

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3 months

My bike is finally repaired 😭 see me soon on a road near you

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5 years

When I accidentally send an email without checking for typos and it’s all good

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4 years

This is the best awk tutorial I've ever seen. Also, one of the best tech blogs I've seen

Enough AWK to get by

I’ve been using AWK for ages to pick out specific columns in lines of text. However, I recently wrote a tiny AWK program that looked so obscure that it tickled the part of me that loves esoteric...

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Escaping the event after pretending to be an extrovert

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4 years

Made some fried chicken with a chili sauce + homemade fries. Gotta eat all those calories I burned this week 😅

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3 years

Think I will die if I say the words “stakeholders” again

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5 years

*visiting friends in LA* Them: It’s so expensive here! I pay $3000 a month for a studio. Me: Move to Utah, it’s beautiful and much more affordable. Them:

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When you use SMS for 2 Factor Authentication

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I’m learning that web apps I signed up for 10 years ago and haven’t provided me any value since care about Black issues and share their care in thoughtful emails.

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4 years

Went back out today with a smaller rocket and had a great launch. “Dad, I’m so happy” was the review.

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3 years

If my twitter feed is any indication HBO Max is a healthy business.

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4 years

Had the first person DM me and say they "disagreed" with me on "this." How can you disagree with someone telling a story about their life?

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4 years

I've struggled with what to say and share and I settled on this.

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Trying to get 2 children ready to leave the house

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4 years

I started bringing my own markers the last time I was on the market because I interviewed somewhere with bad markers and didn’t end up finishing my algorithm implementation when the interviewers spent 5 minutes looking for markers and didn’t get the job.

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I interviewed a candidate today who brought their own whiteboard markers. Shots fired.

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4 years

Can’t even express the joy I feel about this gift.

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2 years

Today is the day I finally learn what dbt is.

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Using Apache Pig for the first time in years

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I’ve been lower energy than usual, and I thought I was sick or something. Then I remember I lost my mom just a few weeks ago and it’s probably okay to nit put my foot all the way to the ground on the pedal just yet .

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