Ben Hughes @schleyfox Twitter profile

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

1 year

At @Airbnb , while we appreciated the flexibility of Ruby on Rails earlier on, it absolutely became unsuitable at scale (both traffic and organizationally) and we had to work miracles while replacing much of it with java microservices.

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1 year

Gotta love the pivot from "it doesn't scale" to "you can't write real systems without types" as the new ding-dong argument against dynamically-typed languages like Ruby (and vanilla JavaScript and Smalltalk and...).

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

1 year

Ruby’s still the language that I know best, and I have nothing but respect for how Rails completely changed the game on web dev (and it’s still a great way to get started quickly on a project). Other langs are more cost efficient and types make working on a large team better.

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

6 years

I’ve spent this year working on @AirbnbEng ’s Node Server Side Rendering configuration. We just published a blog post on what we found.

Operationalizing Node.js for Server Side Rendering

As Airbnb builds more of its Frontend around Server Side Rendering, we took a look at how to optimize our server configurations to support…

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

8 years

@ISI @evanphx They certainly made the best of a tense situation.

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

5 years

Can we go ahead and cancel SantaCon? Just to be safe

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

6 years

In your software projects, please leave clues as to where things came from for those who come after you. Was that config generated by a script? Did we pull that .deb from a PPA or is there a build? Where was this docker image produced?

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

8 years

Truly proud to work with amazing and conscientious people. Working on this was an honor #NoBanNoWall

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

2 years

@MarketUrbanism The dig at wealthy people living in florida for tax purposes is also a reach. The waterfront condo (at any price) is irrelevant to the maneuver…

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

9 years

It's a bad sign if there are boxes of ear plugs everywhere at work and you work in an open office and not like a shooting range.

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

1 year

@skevy @mjackson @spikebrehm The fallacy is thinking that you can create a service so small that you’ll never have to talk to another team and no external event will ever ruin your day.

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

5 years

Conference mics should immediately cut off when someone asks a question that includes the words “have you ever thought of”

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

9 years

Wordpress: the blog engine for people writing about errors establishing a database connection

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

7 years

It's remarkable how quickly I came around on carrying coins in Japan after I started thinking of them as drink tokens.

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

1 year

@spikebrehm @mjackson I think the real nightmare is scaling development to thousands of engineers (but an important one, involving different tradeoffs than for small teams). We definitely made many mistakes and had a lot of chaos with microservices, but the status quo was also unstable.

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

5 years

Service discovery is service disco now.

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

4 years

YG might earn upwards of $5 today from Spotify

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

8 years

I saw the best minds of my generation waiting for the nokogiri gem to install.

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

5 years

Tech workers are a lot better at credit card points than philanthropy.

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

4 years

Lot of people learned to estimate 6’ from tinder it looks like

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

7 years

I’m getting delivery but because of santacon, not because of the snow

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

6 years

Bars need to stop getting cutesy with bathroom markers. Parsing gender is exhausting even when sober.

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

2 years

@Carnage4Life I’ve heard that it’s good for people who don’t drink since people don’t bother them about why they’re only drinking water.

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

5 years

And now time for America’s favorite gameshow, “Is your friend’s new boyfriend a Republican?”

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

2 years

I’d go, but my group can’t reach consensus

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

7 years

I dunno why I spent so much time arguing against creationism in HS. Bros citing evolutionary bio in conversation is the actual worst

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

6 years

me reading dr. bronner’s label: that’s weird, but sweet me reading lululemon bag: what the fuck

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

3 years

@eigenhector Some of us really prefer them and the lifestyles they allow. Pre-pandemic I went remote at my job so I could leave SF and go to an even more crowded city.

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

8 years

If I had a brewery, I'd immediately start working on Perjury: A Sessions Lager

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

7 years

I wonder if I'll get to engage with any brands today

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

6 years

My hot takes business is finally “taking” off!

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

9 years

Lord, grant me the serenity to not engage with libertarians I went to high school with on Facebook

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

7 years

True detective season 2 is my least favorite Lana del Rey album

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

2 years

If I were iowa, I’d do a tourist campaign to rebrand as iowasca

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

8 years

Last Christmas is the only good holiday song.

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

11 years

Man, mesos is cool: http://t.co/RV5ZZKmUWk

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

2 years

I just want someone to love me as much as Japanese ski resort designers love putting uphill climbs between series of lifts

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

4 years

@helloderekb They refuse to stop when I say when!

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

8 years

Prestigious publications are shocked to hear that there is fake news on the internet.

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

7 years

Oh no webex, stop trying to be hip

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

5 years

new yorkers are COOKING because of this. Cooking!

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

4 years

Lotta white guys (me) gonna come out of this thinking they’re fuchsia fucking dunlop

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

12 years

"I already feel like I am part machine. When wikipedia went on strike, I felt like my brain went on strike" - Ray Kurzweil #SingularityU

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

5 years

There’s literally a congressman ryan in this debate

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

4 years

Sink florida sink (and the rest of the discography)

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

5 years

Why is the two screen login a thing (first your username, next, then your password)?

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

2 years

The best premium credit card benefit would be a card that doesn’t embarrass me by requiring a signature in Europe.

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

8 years

Wow, I made it 3 days into this month before getting my first warning about being almost out of data.

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

9 years

Omg, stop retargeting me for things I already just bought.

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

5 years

I think I’ve finally ditched all of the annoying semi-British affectations I put on during high school except for shed-yule

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

4 years

Big “whomst among us” energy from a lot of male journalists today...

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

6 years

I had to delete the contact for someone I haven't spoken to in probably 10 years because my iPhone keeps trying to autocorrect ever-ything, ever-yone, ever-y, etc. to their name.

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

6 years

@helloderekb Are you ok? Any injuries?

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

7 years

Was spin class even possible before Pony?

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

3 years

All technical docs should specify which definition of upstream/downstream they are using

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

2 years

I’m only just now realizing the genius of my parents telling me to keep my gameboy on mute to save batteries.

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

6 years

Eight years on, I really have no idea how I managed even a B- in linear algebra.

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

7 years

I’m starting to think that wireless charging may work better in houses that don’t vibrate when upstairs neighbors walk around and where the floors are more or less level.

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

4 years

Trying so hard not to eat the fly with his lizard tongue

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

2 years

@heyardit @SwiftOnSecurity Bogleheads is a good resource for one philosophy:

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

5 years

May have just yelled “come on out you petitgrain little fucks” while trying to use the last bits left in my Aesop soap.

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

7 years

This is not what I wanted at all!!

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

2 years

@MarketUrbanism I mean, NYC is only just now getting comfortable with garbage disposals sometimes.

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

5 years

The hardest escape room to escape from is the karaoke room

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

6 years

@eigenhector Yeah, I hate it when the systems in fiction work consistently without anyone cursing about ulimits or misconfigured logs that take everything down.

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

7 years

@techemployee If you do then you deserve to get a wedgie.

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

8 years

Really hoping for a debate question submitted through social media from a Mr. Johnson, "What's a leppo?"

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

12 years

Any discussion of genetic determinism or IQ should probably mention Feynman's score of 125. #SingularityU

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

3 years

It all makes sense if you think of a request as a salmon.

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

14 years

Dune was wrong. Fear is not the mind killer, XML APIs are.

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

9 years

"None of these billboards in Alabama are helping me solve my cloud based HR platform problems" - @Knawder

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

8 years

Is Trump on the record, one way or another, about the separation of church and skate?

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

9 years

Champagne Alarm Clock

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

8 years

@gtank__ @FiloSottile I know a guy who is fond of saying "AI is easy. AV is hard"

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

8 years

richwhiteguysdiagnosingthemselveswithaspergers. tumblr. com

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

3 years

@ndyjohnson Hahaha, the editor also clearly replaced “fourth-year” with “senior” throughout

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

10 years

I don't pray, I près

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

5 years

The answer is always “socially liberal, fiscally conservative” 🙄

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

8 years

Are you even famous if you don't die in 2016?

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

9 years

@tholex based on your latest tweets, did we go through a wormhole and travel 6 years back in time?

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

6 years

My phone just tried to correct “op ed” to “op Edward” and I think it may be right

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

5 years

*working on my Utah comedy set* Hey, anyone notice how Brigham Young was like “This is the place” But David Byrne was like “This must be the place (naive melody)”

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

1 year

One of the adorable New York things I do is when I return to the city I dump out any water in my water bottle from elsewhere and fill up with NYC tap.

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

5 years

Oh fuck off chuck todd

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Ben Hughes

@schleyfox

11 years

"Why does this box have swap? It's called memcached not swapcached?"