Tyler Reid
@tyler-reid.com
And yeah, I feel like I totally lucked into being an engineer, which I love, and that to a great extent relied on being a lower middle class white boy who was good at math so didn't have to "prove" that I could handle that first dev job.
December 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
And yeah, I feel like I totally lucked into being an engineer, which I love, and that to a great extent relied on being a lower middle class white boy who was good at math so didn't have to "prove" that I could handle that first dev job.
My version of this is that as a child I learned basic, and naturally wanted to make games. So I looked at an example of a 3d rotating cube in basic, and concluded that I was clearly not smart enough for this programming thing. Then tried to do economics and learned hey I am actually able to code.
December 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
My version of this is that as a child I learned basic, and naturally wanted to make games. So I looked at an example of a 3d rotating cube in basic, and concluded that I was clearly not smart enough for this programming thing. Then tried to do economics and learned hey I am actually able to code.
My hell is traditionally landscape instead of portrait mode GitHub actions. Congrats on making what seems to be decently parallel hell.
December 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
My hell is traditionally landscape instead of portrait mode GitHub actions. Congrats on making what seems to be decently parallel hell.
I listened to thousands of hours of podcasts and audiobooks on this thing. Kept me sane doing janitorial work in the middle of the night.
December 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I listened to thousands of hours of podcasts and audiobooks on this thing. Kept me sane doing janitorial work in the middle of the night.
I had the target exclusive red zune, and it ruled. The PC software was also legitimately the best windows software design UI and implementation at the time.
December 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I had the target exclusive red zune, and it ruled. The PC software was also legitimately the best windows software design UI and implementation at the time.
Zorn and Thorn: Miller and Hegseth
December 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Zorn and Thorn: Miller and Hegseth
My non marketed as fast kia ev accelerates faster than the turbocharged 2002 Subaru I owned, which is crazy. thankfully cars now have a lot of impact warnings and auto breaking, but yeah for a kid-carrier-mobile it's getting wild.
November 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
My non marketed as fast kia ev accelerates faster than the turbocharged 2002 Subaru I owned, which is crazy. thankfully cars now have a lot of impact warnings and auto breaking, but yeah for a kid-carrier-mobile it's getting wild.
Yeah, it's pretty reliable if you can say something funny or point out common ground, if you have to remind some fellow beer drinker that you are in fact a real human like them. Some people have insane parts of their brain that try to take the wheel.
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Yeah, it's pretty reliable if you can say something funny or point out common ground, if you have to remind some fellow beer drinker that you are in fact a real human like them. Some people have insane parts of their brain that try to take the wheel.
There definitely is some Jevon's paradox in this though where we will end up using more compute. But yeah, the demand I don't think is going away, so really a tradeoff of efficient hyperscaler vs some other power/shipping/supply chain waste.
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
There definitely is some Jevon's paradox in this though where we will end up using more compute. But yeah, the demand I don't think is going away, so really a tradeoff of efficient hyperscaler vs some other power/shipping/supply chain waste.
I was going to comment on the quoted post that I had essentially the same experience as you. Really does force you to confront your ideas of self.
November 12, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I was going to comment on the quoted post that I had essentially the same experience as you. Really does force you to confront your ideas of self.
No, Dems just need to alienate their voters by adopting the position that no actually, the super unpopular militarization of police and demonization of immigrants is very good 🙄
November 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
No, Dems just need to alienate their voters by adopting the position that no actually, the super unpopular militarization of police and demonization of immigrants is very good 🙄
Between his cool kid contrarian takes and Noah Smith being... whatever he is now, my mid 2010s enthusiastic follows are giving me some things to reconsider.
November 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Between his cool kid contrarian takes and Noah Smith being... whatever he is now, my mid 2010s enthusiastic follows are giving me some things to reconsider.
That would be really cool. This is the most exciting project for me in recent memory. Just made local development so much better, but I ignored it for a while because I mistakenly put it in the dapr bucket as probably an azure thing I will never care about.
October 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
That would be really cool. This is the most exciting project for me in recent memory. Just made local development so much better, but I ignored it for a while because I mistakenly put it in the dapr bucket as probably an azure thing I will never care about.
What would you want it to do? Build and execute your things outside of a container for debugging? The thing I have really loved about it is that I can just run whatever from it, regardless of language.
October 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
What would you want it to do? Build and execute your things outside of a container for debugging? The thing I have really loved about it is that I can just run whatever from it, regardless of language.
They use dynamodb for distributed locks in ec2 management. This definitely feels like they couldn't make the thing to fix a down service depend on the service, so that tech debt is pushed down the road.
October 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
They use dynamodb for distributed locks in ec2 management. This definitely feels like they couldn't make the thing to fix a down service depend on the service, so that tech debt is pushed down the road.
I was a teenage metal guitarist, and yeah, I wasn't terrible I think, but definitely young and dumb in most ways.
October 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I was a teenage metal guitarist, and yeah, I wasn't terrible I think, but definitely young and dumb in most ways.
As someone who doesn't listen to lyrics at all, and gets new metal recommendations purely from random algorithms, I wonder how many are just terrible people.
October 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
As someone who doesn't listen to lyrics at all, and gets new metal recommendations purely from random algorithms, I wonder how many are just terrible people.
I was trying to think of what an Atlanta is, or the reverse. Haven't been to LA but that description feels right. Lots of fun stuff and friends separated by seas of highway or crazy streets.
October 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I was trying to think of what an Atlanta is, or the reverse. Haven't been to LA but that description feels right. Lots of fun stuff and friends separated by seas of highway or crazy streets.
For me it was a Will/Thomas Riker transporter accident situation. So an exact copy of me got raptured, but I am still sitting here debugging GitHub actions 😞
September 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
For me it was a Will/Thomas Riker transporter accident situation. So an exact copy of me got raptured, but I am still sitting here debugging GitHub actions 😞
So glad @plante.bsky.social had you on and reminded me of the show. I had myself a good laugh when you described podcasts as simulated friendship, because the whole episode part of my brain was feeling 'oh awesome my old friend from GFW radio is here'
September 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
So glad @plante.bsky.social had you on and reminded me of the show. I had myself a good laugh when you described podcasts as simulated friendship, because the whole episode part of my brain was feeling 'oh awesome my old friend from GFW radio is here'
Wow. This paradox rules. This is how I know I am not cut out to be an early 1900s theoretical physicist. I knew of a lot of these facts but never would have thought of this.
September 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Wow. This paradox rules. This is how I know I am not cut out to be an early 1900s theoretical physicist. I knew of a lot of these facts but never would have thought of this.
That sucks. I have just recently experienced chronic pain for the first time, and really the only recommendable part is that I now have first hand empathy. But that's not much of a silver lining in the moment.
August 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
That sucks. I have just recently experienced chronic pain for the first time, and really the only recommendable part is that I now have first hand empathy. But that's not much of a silver lining in the moment.
It's like the meme of adding and removing sleeps to make your boss think you are great, but instead it's just me accidentally swapping the order of nested for loops where that matters, and noticing months later.
August 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
It's like the meme of adding and removing sleeps to make your boss think you are great, but instead it's just me accidentally swapping the order of nested for loops where that matters, and noticing months later.
The name Manwich is also not doing them any favors.
August 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The name Manwich is also not doing them any favors.