This is performance art, not a real voter profile that campaigns should shape their strategies around www.instagram.com/ronbarba1/?h...

fun news! I was laid off from Twilio.

going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week.

if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along!

reposts from tech folks appreciated <3

Today marks 8 years since I started at Dropbox. It's a really interesting experience working on the same codebase for that long. Seeing the long-term impact of my own technical decisions and investments has helped me grow a lot as a software engineer.

In case you were looking to backup your kindle books (since Amazon is removing the option to download them on the 26th), this script works quite well in minimizing the click-pain of downloading them individually:

gist.github.com/spf13/1fee1e...

In past years I've used Advent of Code to get more comfortable writing Rust.

This year my theme is "father of three with no spare time" aka "the laziest node scripts you've ever seen"

@taylorlorenz.bsky.social are you aware of the "optical illusion porn" genre of AI slop? I'm kinda curious to see a tech journalist cover the phenomenon. I can link some examples on Facebook, but don't want to send them to you unsolicited given the subject matter 😅

I like the @bsky.app experience so far, but I wish the website used pushState when I view a piece of media, so the back button didn't navigate me away from the website 🙏