Brandon Weaver
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Brandon Weaver
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Senior Staff Eng at Amazon / One Medical, Neurodivergence Advocate. Autistic / ADHD / Depression, He / Him. I'm the Lemur guy. Living and working somewhere about SF.
There's a joke between me and a few autistic friends whenever they start info-dumping on their brand new favorite hobby:

Did you just do an autism to that poor hobby?

Granted all in good fun, and way too much self-awareness of how we curate legions of hobbies.
November 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM
The energy with which I avoid trying new things, _especially_ if I think I'd enjoy it, for that exact reason.

I avoid chess like the plague, that one especially would be ruinous.
November 11, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Bright side? Nose was clear for a few weeks after at least.

Not sure I'd recommend the method but the results were certainly there 💀
November 1, 2025 at 2:46 AM
There was one time I took that blazing challenge at Buffalo wild wings back in college. I don't remember what it was but someone got me laughing enough to choke and propel said sauce out my nose.

Stood up, went to restroom, proceeded to have the worst pain I'd ever felt.
November 1, 2025 at 2:46 AM
That hits hard. A significant portion of my family is conservative with some being very MAGA.
October 31, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I'll let them know to check you all out! Thanks for the info.
October 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
A good pun is its own reword, Jerry.
October 30, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Pretty much. That one's fairly straightforward but I tend to want it on occasion.
October 29, 2025 at 4:45 AM
IRB wise I always like to have a few utilities like deep_merge, deep_group, deep_tally, bury, and a few others. Probably things like that.
October 29, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Any internet strangers say the opposite and we'll have some words with them 🙂
October 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
You made the right call, hold your head high.
October 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The face that launched a thousand Swifts?
October 27, 2025 at 5:41 AM
"Great authors know the difference between when an idea warrants an epic, a story, or a poem and do not try and stretch it beyond its worth."

That idea is very applicable to software as well. Know when a simple solution is correct.
October 27, 2025 at 1:50 AM
One of the wisest quotes I heard was randomly while browsing through the sci-fi/fiction section of Barnes and Noble, and it was a father and a son chatting about what made a good book. Paraphrasing, it was something like this:
October 27, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Starting to feel this more. There's a hotel in Seattle that the front desk folks and coffee bar folks know me by name now 😅
October 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Codemods are dramatically underused for framework upgrades. I remember Ember leaned in hard here too.
October 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM