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Billy Teng
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Senior Software Engineer at Maxis | Foodie | Photographer | Super Street Fighter, too | prev: The Sims 4, The Simpsons: Tapped Out, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Ultima Online
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New books have arrived.

One of them describes the staff engineer, a role that isn't commonly defined in the games industry.

The other is chef Edward Lee's book about his travels through American cuisine.
The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change. Written by Tanya Reilly. The Staff Engineer's Path A GUIDE FOR INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS NAVIGATING GROWTH AND CHANGE For years, companies have rewarded their most effective engineers with management positions. But treating management as the default path for an engineer with leadership ability doesn't serve the industry well-or the engineer. The staff engineer's path allows engineers to contribute at a high level as role models, driving big projects, determining technical strategy, and raising everyone's skills. This in-depth book shows you how to understand your role, manage your time, master strategic thinking, and set the standard for technical work. You'll read about how to be a leader without direct authority, how to plan ahead to make the right technical decisions, and how to make everyone around you better, while still growing as an expert in your domain. By exploring the three pillars of a staff engineer's job, Tanya Reilly, a veteran of the staff engineer track, shows you how to: • Take a broad, strategic view when thinking about your work • Dive into practical tactics for making projects succeed • Determine what "good engineering" means in your organization Tanya Reilly has over twenty years of experience in software engineering, most recently working on architecture and technical strategy as a senior principal engineer at Squarespace. Previously she spent twelve years at Google, responsible for some of the largest distributed systems on the planet. She's an organizer and host of the LeadDev StaffPlus conference. Originally from Ireland, she now lives in Brooklyn. Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef's Journey to Discover America's New Melting-Pot Cuisine. Written by Edward Lee. American food is a story of mash-ups. Immigrants arrive, cultures collide, and out of the push and pull come exciting new dishes and flavors. But that surprising first bite is only the beginning. What about the people and traditions behind the food? Driven by deep curiosity and a lively appetite to explore new food and talk to the people who make it, chef Edward Lee spent two years traveling across America to visit the front lines of our ever-changing culinary landscape. The result—in sixteen vibrant chapters that trace his journey from a working-class town in Massachusetts to Galveston Bay to the far reaches of Seattle-is a fascinating and ever-evolving picture of American cuisine. Plus forty recipes, created by Lee and inspired by the people he met around the country and the food they served, that bring these stories right into our own kitchens. EDWARD LEE is the author of Smoke & Pickles; the chef/owner of 610 Magnolia, MilkWood, and Whiskey Dry in Louisville, Kentucky; and culinary director of Succotash in Washington, D.C., and National Harbor, Maryland. Find him on Instagram and Twitter at @chefedwardlee.
June 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Unicorn chaser.
Gustave from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 A teen and their doggo from To a T.
June 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Giant pigeon sculpture standing on the High Line overpass overlooking the New York City street.
May 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Insert rainy day lofi beats.
May 12, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Turtles catching rays. 🐢
May 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Anime fighters: But you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it.
UNIEL Wikipedia page: A further update to the game entitled Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st] 14 was announced on May 15, 2015.1151 Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st] was released on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in Japan on July 20, 2017,161 and in North America and Europe on February 9, 2018.!] Arc System Works later published this version on Steam for Microsoft Windows systems on August 20, 2018. 17) A final revision of the game, entitled Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[cl-r] (181 , was announced on August 3, 2019 at Evolution Championship Series. It was released for the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch on February 20, 2020 in Japan and North America and February 21, 2020 in Europe.[19]
March 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Grackle gracklin' in front of the book truck.

#photography #fujifilm #x100vi
Grackle sitting atop a shrub, peering into the book truck.
March 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Some incredibly good tacos.
A plate of tacos wrapped in double layered corn tortillas. From right to left: brisket, beef cheek, pork stomach, pork, Mexican chorizo, mushrooms in adobo. Dressed with onions, cilantro, and lime. There is a mild green sauce and spicy red sauce.
March 2, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Today's reading during the long haul flight. Found it more entertaining than the in-flight offerings. #booksky
Starter Villian, by John Scalzi
February 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Other creatures found along the way.
Several coin op animal rides. The one in the foreground is a light brown alpaca. There's also a squirrel and a rabbit in the background. A large teddy bear sitting at a picnic table looking through a menu. There are flowers and plates on the table, and a several bottles of Stella Artois. In the background is the restaurant, styled like a streetcar with a sign, "Hot Shock Streetcar, No. 109".
February 15, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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A stroll thru the park to see some pigeons and the Lord of the Undead Scourge.

📍 Calligraphy Greenway, Taichung City, Taiwan
#warcraft
A pigeon and the Lich King in a park. A statue of Arthas in full Lich King gear, pointing Frostmourne to the distance, and cape flowing in the same direction. Plaque reads: Dedicated to creating the most epic entertainment experience... ever. Followed by a logo of Blizzard Entertainment. There are leaves and leftover rain water covering the plaque.
February 15, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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More photos taken along the way.

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Trees at the edge of a wall with their exposed roots lining down the wall. Perpendicular to the wall is a stairway. Graffiti art of a rooster jumping. The style is simple cartoon line art. There is another smaller figure sitting on its leg waving. Various dim sum offerings displayed in bamboos steamers sitting in a dim sum cart at Lin Heung Lau. Hong Kong skyline at night. The city skyscrapers light up the water and the sparse clouds.
February 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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📍 Upper Lascar Row, Hong Kong

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Market alley in Hong Kong. There are buildings surrounding both sides and another high rise building in the background.
February 14, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Found a place to sit down and have a latte. The cup design is pure nostalgic feels.

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A latte with fancy latte art. The cup and saucer have vintage Chinese designs used in bowls and plates. The cup has a blue and white porcelain design while the saucer has a red ornate pattern.
February 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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If they can do the vice versa of this:

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To make this work, Flashes simply filters Bluesky's existing timeline fo posts with photos and video posts. (In the future, Vogelsang also plans to add metadata to Flashes' posts so Bluesky users would have a way to keep their feeds on Bluesky's main app from being flooded with photo posts it that became a problem.
February 9, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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#photography #fujifilm #x100vi
A tiled plaque embedded into the wall of Houbi Train Station. The tile had a child's drawing of a figure with a cape, holding a sword, wearing some cool shade, and what looks like a blue butterfly sitting on its head.
February 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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#photography #fujifilm #x100vi
The entrance to Houbi Train Station. It is a small one-story station with double doors wide open and a view to the boarding platform.
February 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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📍Houbi Train Station, Tainan, Taiwan

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Overpass view of the Houbi Train Station, an outdoor station with two rails extending into the horizon. On both sides are the station platforms.
February 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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#photography #iphone
Two large emoji balloons in the foreground. In between them is a wall mural of an astronaut floating in space holding a cup of coffee.
February 7, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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#photography #iphone
A blue smiling seat with eyes closed. There are raindrops under its right eye. A green seat with a neutral expression and eyes opened. There are raindrops under its right eye.
February 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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#photography #iphone
A row of colorful seats with simple facial expressions drawn on. A red smiling seat with eyes opened, yellow smiling seat with eyes closed, a blue smiling seat with eyes closed, and a neutral green seat with eyes opened. The seats are accompanied with long desks. The seats and desks sit outside, in front of a closed storefront with security shutters pulled down.
February 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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The street of an old residential area in Taipei. There is light rain with overcast skies.
February 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Ready to get lost in the world of #StarWarsOutlaws
Protagonist staring off into the mountainous desert fields.
January 31, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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From the morning walk.

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A radish painted onto a blank wall. The radish is drawn in an outline-style using strokes of red paint. Photographed using a Fujifilm X100VI.
January 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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From the morning walk.

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Black and white photograph of the trails near Colorado River in downtown Austin. Taken with a Fujifilm x100VI.
January 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM