Jeff Dwyer
@jdwyah.bsky.social
A facility that processes peanuts. Founder at http://prefab.cloud. Thoughts at http://jdwyah.substack.com
Past: Advisor, EIR Reforge, VPE ezcater, Eng HubSpot
http://forcerank.it Kid & code wrangler.
Past: Advisor, EIR Reforge, VPE ezcater, Eng HubSpot
http://forcerank.it Kid & code wrangler.
To whomever decided corepack was a good idea: you were wrong.
October 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
To whomever decided corepack was a good idea: you were wrong.
Free idea: final grades are the absolute value of (100-grade). If you get 100, great. But if you are a kid that overworks and does way too much because they’re stressed about things, then you give them a 115/100 which gives a final grade of 85. They gotta learn not to overwork.
June 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Free idea: final grades are the absolute value of (100-grade). If you get 100, great. But if you are a kid that overworks and does way too much because they’re stressed about things, then you give them a 115/100 which gives a final grade of 85. They gotta learn not to overwork.
Kids put this together this morning. “Arcane Pong” jdwyah.github.io/arcane-pong/
Arcane Pong Battle
jdwyah.github.io
April 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Kids put this together this morning. “Arcane Pong” jdwyah.github.io/arcane-pong/
Reposted by Jeff Dwyer
Video of a student in my town who wrote a political op-ed being grabbed off the street by government agents bsky.app/profile/pale...
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Video of a student in my town who wrote a political op-ed being grabbed off the street by government agents bsky.app/profile/pale...
Reposted by Jeff Dwyer
There were people trying to go along with it to get something out of it, business collaborators, people doing the seig heils ironically. They were people just like us!
April 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
There were people trying to go along with it to get something out of it, business collaborators, people doing the seig heils ironically. They were people just like us!
Chatting with a customer and hearing a complaint about something, when you’ve got an improvement in beta and getting to turn it on for them right then is the best feeling.
April 8, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Chatting with a customer and hearing a complaint about something, when you’ve got an improvement in beta and getting to turn it on for them right then is the best feeling.
actual footage of me coding with cursor yesterday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IFU...
Repairs
YouTube video by Brian Estelle
www.youtube.com
March 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
actual footage of me coding with cursor yesterday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IFU...
Reposted by Jeff Dwyer
Actual numbers on what it took a seed-stage startup to hire their first two founding backend engineers (full-remote)
It's good to know as a candidate: this is the type of competition you might have. And as a founder: this is how much time investment it can take to make a hire
It's good to know as a candidate: this is the type of competition you might have. And as a founder: this is how much time investment it can take to make a hire
March 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Actual numbers on what it took a seed-stage startup to hire their first two founding backend engineers (full-remote)
It's good to know as a candidate: this is the type of competition you might have. And as a founder: this is how much time investment it can take to make a hire
It's good to know as a candidate: this is the type of competition you might have. And as a founder: this is how much time investment it can take to make a hire
March 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Reposted by Jeff Dwyer
Molly White does amazing work. Support it if you have the means.
First, a note about my work. I am entirely funded by readers like you, and your support will be crucial going into what is clearly going to be a very busy four years.
www.citationneeded.news/signup
www.citationneeded.news/signup
January 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Molly White does amazing work. Support it if you have the means.
Child is disappointed because the Snoopy cartoon she watched did not feature the Snoop man (aka the host of the puppy bowl).
January 15, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Child is disappointed because the Snoopy cartoon she watched did not feature the Snoop man (aka the host of the puppy bowl).
Going to the ER is just `sudo healthcare`
January 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Going to the ER is just `sudo healthcare`
Slack huddles are allright, but every time I ask someone to huddle me, my brain feels like I asked them to cuddle.
January 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Slack huddles are allright, but every time I ask someone to huddle me, my brain feels like I asked them to cuddle.
Reposted by Jeff Dwyer
What if we all get a fever but the doctors don’t have enough cowbells
December 30, 2024 at 7:27 PM
What if we all get a fever but the doctors don’t have enough cowbells
Got a new computer setup and pretty sure I didn't swear even once. Personal growth is possible. Digging fish. Mise is pretty nice so far. Couldn't quite get it to go the distance with op for env vars, but looks like that's actively in development. github.com/venkytv/dire... did the trick for me.
December 30, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Got a new computer setup and pretty sure I didn't swear even once. Personal growth is possible. Digging fish. Mise is pretty nice so far. Couldn't quite get it to go the distance with op for env vars, but looks like that's actively in development. github.com/venkytv/dire... did the trick for me.
Reposted by Jeff Dwyer
I propose we replace semantic versioning with pride versioning
December 21, 2024 at 7:07 PM
I propose we replace semantic versioning with pride versioning
I'm sure using iPhone mirroring to use my 2FA generator without searching for my phone is wrong, but if it is please don't tell me.
November 14, 2024 at 6:27 PM
I'm sure using iPhone mirroring to use my 2FA generator without searching for my phone is wrong, but if it is please don't tell me.
I put together this post on how we use Spanner and am super excited that Google put it on their eng blog. Spanner is very cool, but I think pretty under the radar. If you love Postgres, but have a huge table you may be surprised at how affordable Spanner can be and the performance is pretty amazing.
How Prefab scales with Spanner’s PostrgeSQL interface | Google Cloud Blog
Drawn by its uptime, strong ACID transactions, horizontal scaling, and
PostgreSQL support, Prefab uses Spanner as a datastore for a variety of uses.
cloud.google.com
November 8, 2024 at 3:55 PM
I put together this post on how we use Spanner and am super excited that Google put it on their eng blog. Spanner is very cool, but I think pretty under the radar. If you love Postgres, but have a huge table you may be surprised at how affordable Spanner can be and the performance is pretty amazing.
Postgres is amazing. But sometimes you have a table that is just unbounded in how you expect it to grow. Is there a way to have postgres experience with truly limitless ability to scale? We did some benchmarking of Postgres vs Google Spanner and were super impressed. cloud.google.com/blog/product...
How Prefab scales with Spanner’s PostrgeSQL interface | Google Cloud Blog
Drawn by its uptime, strong ACID transactions, horizontal scaling, and
PostgreSQL support, Prefab uses Spanner as a datastore for a variety of uses.
cloud.google.com
November 1, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Postgres is amazing. But sometimes you have a table that is just unbounded in how you expect it to grow. Is there a way to have postgres experience with truly limitless ability to scale? We did some benchmarking of Postgres vs Google Spanner and were super impressed. cloud.google.com/blog/product...
Just launched zombie detection for feature flags. prefab.cloud/blog/feature...
Feature Flag Cleanup & Hygiene (with Zombie-detection) | Prefab
Stay on top of your feature flags with a tool designed for cleanup and organization. Our feature flag management solution includes zombie detection and intuitive flag tagging to keep your codebase lea...
prefab.cloud
November 1, 2024 at 9:36 AM
Just launched zombie detection for feature flags. prefab.cloud/blog/feature...
It’s just ridiculously easy to spin your wheels doing marketing. Here’s my top tips:
erm…. I don’t actually have tips yet. Send halp.
erm…. I don’t actually have tips yet. Send halp.
December 1, 2023 at 2:47 PM
It’s just ridiculously easy to spin your wheels doing marketing. Here’s my top tips:
erm…. I don’t actually have tips yet. Send halp.
erm…. I don’t actually have tips yet. Send halp.
Wrote some words about some mistakes I made: jdwyah.substack.com/p/how-to-act...
How to Actually Grow in Your Organization
Part 1: Digging a leadership reputation hole 😬
jdwyah.substack.com
September 19, 2023 at 12:29 AM
Wrote some words about some mistakes I made: jdwyah.substack.com/p/how-to-act...
Trying to start conversations on the Internet is like trying to start a fire with flint in a hurricane.
September 10, 2023 at 12:16 AM
Trying to start conversations on the Internet is like trying to start a fire with flint in a hurricane.