Rob Story
rob-story.bsky.social
Rob Story
@rob-story.bsky.social
Software Engineer in Portland, OR. Former Stripe, currently at Netflix, probably talking about MotoGP, F1, and riding motorcycles more than software
I've been feeling the pull to write lately. So, in this time of technological upheaval, I have chosen to write about...going to the Medieval Times show in suburban Florida:

stacking-frames.ghost.io/suburban-cam...
Suburban Camelot
The Orlando Medieval Times sits across a four-lane suburban artery from a MEGA SMOKE SHOP that lost the M and the E and never replaced them; it's not actually in Orlando, but in Kissimmee, a city prim...
stacking-frames.ghost.io
June 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Inside of you there are two wolves. Inside each wolf there are zero, one, or two wolves. Write a function to rebalance an arbitrary wolftree B such that it has minimal depth. The function should execute in O(logn) time. Show your work.
January 14, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Some buddhists believe you will be reincarnated forever until you finally understand them.

This is like a monad: see, each individual life is like a container of an immortal soul that gets conditionally passed along, with some transformation during its lifetime…
December 30, 2024 at 5:49 PM
November 26, 2024 at 3:38 PM
@spannersready.bsky.social

I realized listening to the pod today that there are 3 canonical Spanners:

1. Missed Apex: Moderator, Referee
2. Ringer: Funny British F1 Expert & Dad
3. Friday Patron Pod: Unfiltered/Unhinged

All three are great, would love more Friday patron pods!
November 23, 2024 at 1:15 AM
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November 19, 2024 at 7:03 PM