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David Golden
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Engineering Director @MongoDB. I like building things, solving problems and playing games, occasionally at the same time. Opinions are my own.
@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com

It's arrived! Looking forward to reading it.
November 10, 2023 at 5:24 PM
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Tim Scott mentions that there was a rise in antisemitism in 2017, trying to remember what happened in January of that year, it'll come to me
November 9, 2023 at 1:27 AM
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this must be what they mean when they talk about the “woke mob”
October 11, 2023 at 5:56 PM
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GOP learns the hard way: Turning the base up too high blows out your Speaker
October 3, 2023 at 10:07 PM
That shingles vaccine packs a wallop! I got it Tuesday AM and am still feeling it. 💉
September 14, 2023 at 11:02 PM
Hi, friends. Ms. 12 is looking for teen/women's clothing brands that provide functional pockets. In particular, brands that aren't just athletic wear. Any suggestions?
September 7, 2023 at 12:47 AM
Keep away from other animals
new meme dropped, tag yourselves I’m THICK LIQUIDS ONLY
August 27, 2023 at 4:04 PM
I've wrestled with data corruption bugs where conversion to Parquet gave a different form of NaN than the source data. Were the NaN bits just a coincidence of which language generated the NaN? Or could people intentionally be using different NaN bits to convey semantics that need preservation? 😱
August 25, 2023 at 2:32 AM
Very true!
If you want to support an open-source project but aren't able to commit time/expertise/money, write the maintainers a thank you note. This goes a long way to keeping us motivated.

You can just put it in a github issue, "thanks for making this project, it really helps me."
August 12, 2023 at 7:08 AM
Reposted by David Golden
Wrote up my first week of Raku experiences
Raku: A Language for Gremlins
By Gremlins, For Gremlins™
buttondown.email
August 7, 2023 at 9:41 PM
Social networks are hard. Good stuff here.
Mastodon is easy and fun except when it isn't. Erin Kissane asked folks why they had disengaged from Mastodon; they described reasons like a hostile response from regulars, poor discoverability, and too serious/boring. [read]
July 31, 2023 at 4:27 PM
So on brand though. Slackers!
It’s pretty wild it is becoming increasingly likely US will never a Generation X president.
July 29, 2023 at 10:50 AM
Is Lara Hogan on here yet? I loved this article and suggested it at work as a way to express engineering principles.

https://larahogan.me/blog/even-over-statements/
How to make hard decisions: even/over statements
We face decisions every single day, big and small. Sometimes those decisions have tradeoffs that feel impossible to decide between, which naturally will feel...
larahogan.me
July 7, 2023 at 1:53 PM
With the apparent economic implosion of various social networks, I'm really curious:

Approximately how much am I actually worth to a company per month in advertising?
July 4, 2023 at 12:02 PM
Step 1: Acquire an invitation
Step 2: Rebuild networks
Step 3: Profit(?)

/me waves hello to bsky friends!
July 3, 2023 at 12:16 PM