James Kebinger
James Kebinger
@jkebinger.bsky.social
Founding engineer, Prefab. Ex-HubSpot
Watched @roywoodjr.bsky.social excellent new special a couple nights ago
Me: Roy Wood would be a good porn name
Wife: yeah but the junior ruins it
February 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
RIP Jimmy Carter. I participated in the 2003 habitat for humanity jimmy carter work project in Georgia. I saw him, hammer in hand several times. He was apparently one of the hardest workers on the house he worked on, telling people to get back to work so he wasn’t a distraction.
December 30, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Ask me how much time I've burned through debugging issues with Java virtual threads, google spanner async callbacks and said callbacks just not firing
At this point virtual threads feel like a huge troll
November 26, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Wounded!
This spanner error message gave me a good chuckle and wtf

com.google.cloud.spanner.AbortedException: ABORTED: io.grpc.StatusRuntimeException: ABORTED: Transaction was aborted. It was wounded by a higher priority transaction due to conflict on keys with prefix [...]
November 7, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #789,600!
September 23, 2024 at 11:34 AM