Martin Cross
@franticallycode
"professional" software developer | fixing the broken things and breaking the new things | http://martin.frantically.codes
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Side-by-side comparison: @OpenAI's ChatGPT vs. @AnthropicAI's Claude Each model is asked to compare itself to the machine from Stanisław Lem's "The Cyberiad" (1965) that can create any object whose name begins with "n":
My favorite feeling in the world is "Wait, what day is it? Eh who cares"
built a quick app that uses gpt-3 to convert from English to RegEx so you don't have to waste time on stackoverflow: autoregex.xyz
Nobody will remember: - Your salary - Your fancy title - How ‘busy’ you were - How many hours you worked Everyone will remember: - That you were the on-call - That you applied your SQL fix directly to the prod DB - That you forgot the WHERE clause on your UPDATE
I don't always write bad code, but when I do I merge it myself
Sometimes imposter syndrome is not knowing if you're doing it right...which later becomes "could I have done it better?" And the more I learn: yes, often I could have...but try to remember you didn't have all the information that you now have back then. Judge yourself fairly.
imposter syndrome never really goes away; you just get so busy that you can't pay attention to it as much
quickdatabasediagrams.com is currently giving away free Pro Plans!! Awesome tool to quickly design databases online. I love it! 😍 @quick_dbd
As an engineer with a lot of leverage and influence, one of your primary jobs is to say no to feature creep.
it only took seven and a half years, but you can now set the tab width on github.com. pretty sure this means the last semi-defensible reason for using spaces is gone, and we can all finally recognise the inherent superiority of tabs
Since time immemorial, when a CEO asks a PM at Product Review, “what do you need to 10X users/revenue?”, “what will make you go faster?”, etc the PM steadfastly responds “We need [N] more engineers”. The Eng Mgr nods approvingly. A story thread, with some hard truths to swallow:
"avid collector of dust" feels extra judgmental coming from a computer
I've measured "engineering velocity" for a very long time, but I'm starting to focus more on "engineering drag". These are the things that slow down engineering teams. This includes product discovery, local dev environments, CI/CD pipelines, etc. Reduce drag to go faster.
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