jakevoytko

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by jakevoytko 2y ago
Coders at Work has an interview with a pretty comprehensive backstory of his time in the tech industry. If you want to get more of his vibe, he's also in the documentary Code Rush.
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Rust for Linux still contentious after 5 years(clientserver.dev)
3 points by jakevoytko 2y ago|0 comments
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by jakevoytko 2y ago
I used to have the problem where all of my posts would be 2000-3000 words, or more likely I would never finish them. So I started a newsletter in November. I committed to publishing every Monday and Thursday. Furthermore, since I have a wif
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by jakevoytko 2y ago
My wife is a professional translator and both revises others' work and gets revised. Based on numerous anecdotes from her, I can promise you that "single correct translation" does not exist.
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Write better comments by removing "we"(clientserver.dev)
3 points by jakevoytko 2y ago|4 comments
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Create-react-app is a zombie application(clientserver.dev)
7 points by jakevoytko 2y ago|1 comments
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Salesforce Bets on Storytelling over Engineering(clientserver.dev)
2 points by jakevoytko 2y ago|0 comments
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by jakevoytko 2y ago
I believe that this game is an artistic masterpiece. On the first playthrough when I woke up with amnesia, I simply played a cop with amnesia in all of my responses. It was goofy, I annoyed Kim for fun, I beat the game, etc. On the second p
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The coolest Advent of Code 2024 submissions(clientserver.dev)
1 points by jakevoytko 2y ago|0 comments
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by jakevoytko 2y ago
If you keep the offline support, you'll eventually uncover even more fun cases. "I started working on this on an airplane where the wifi was down. But then decided I didn't like the direction it was going and just closed the
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by jakevoytko 2y ago
I was at Etsy after Dan left, and I think it scaled pretty well from the few hundred engineers when I joined to closer to 1000 when I left. Etsy's engineering culture had a lot of problems, but they weren't caused by empowering pe
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by jakevoytko 2y ago
> I never understood why landlord brokers are even a thing in a market like NYC. NYC is all about optimizing the grift. Imagine a small-time landlord that owns six 20-unit 6-story buildings across Queens. When 1/3 of their inventory
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by jakevoytko 2y ago
This statement is pretty representative of how she presents her ideas.
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by jakevoytko 2y ago
At the moment, BSKY has an enormous “rich get richer” problem caused by starter packs. If you get into starter packs made by influential people, you will get an infinite number of followers for free. If you’re bootstrapping your presence fr
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by jakevoytko 2y ago
The language doesn't force it but some common tooling does. They probably are using something like staticcheck in their setup and conflating it with the core language.
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by jakevoytko 2y ago
The first video I saw was the tape measure trick shot debunk. I immediately subbed when I noticed he was inserting himself *into the footage he was debunking* to prove his point. I don't follow another YouTuber that has such dedication
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by jakevoytko 2y ago
This is the most "damned if you do, damned if you don't" part of testing. I've found so many coding errors that weren't obvious until you looked at the day 2 or day 3 test results. "Hm, that's weird. Why i
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by jakevoytko 2y ago
On a big open-source project like Kubernetes, they're probably happy with the tradeoff between "some exported names have inane and obvious comments" and "our linter requires open-source contributors to document their exp
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by jakevoytko 2y ago
My wife found a workaround for it, which is when she realized she didn’t want to continue her PhD she landed the UN internship and used her stipend money for that year to live in Queens off the 7. It paid off in the long run since it gave h
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by jakevoytko 2y ago
This was my experience too. I haven't taken German in 20 years but I can still understand some things tourists say. I studied French 5 years ago with the help of my wife (fluent in French, professional translator) and even doing hours
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by jakevoytko 3y ago
I’ve been building small web UI applications. I’m a backend developer who has been curious about people claiming that web components are all you need for UI. So I’ve been finding out how far I can get with rollup with only the Typescript pl
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by jakevoytko 3y ago
I think he believes he’s the ultimate unblocker. Just find all the points of friction and wave a wand and cut through the bureaucracy, force supporting teams to help, force facilities to fix weird problems, etc. A tiny example I heard: he o
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by jakevoytko 3y ago
Absolutely. The entirety of Google’s consumer footprint was leveraged to try to make Google Plus a success. And that was just the first example I saw when I joined.
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by jakevoytko 3y ago
Scrum (and similar processes) are usually better than the absence of process. Sure, occasionally you have lightning in a bottle and have 5 proactive self-organizing engineers that are pro coordinators and communicators, or you have a team w
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by jakevoytko 4y ago
You can just donate labor to something you like or believe in. A friend of mine has done free sysadminning for a small summer camp for like 20 years. Just runs the website, does some light account management, and makes sure all of their sof
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by jakevoytko 4y ago
My NYC co-op is going through this now. All of your guesses are basically right. We're having separate systems installed for replacing in-unit hot water and in-unit heating and cooling. I believe the new electric hot water system is be
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by jakevoytko 4y ago
I think you're forgetting how computer science programs operate. You're listing a bunch of specialty skills that are likely covered once in a topic class and never again. You said "I don't mean data structures and algori
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by jakevoytko 4y ago
First, the most obvious: bang the drum in your network to see if anyone you know is hiring. Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. Just post everywhere. If that doesn't work, you'll need to go through application processes. Smaller companies ar
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by jakevoytko 4y ago
A shortcut that I use for learning new technologies is to learn their pitfalls and tips. For example: I want to learn the PostGIS PostgreSQL extension. I install the extension and make a sample database with PostGIS datatypes. Then I will m
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by jakevoytko 4y ago
"Death by a thousand cuts" doesn't show up in a spreadsheet because each cut is hidden in a different cell. We've all worked in the industry long enough. We know that if you approach the PM and say, "man, I watched

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