Engineering manager at HashiCorp. Whiskey and cocktail enthusiast.
@railsconf This is the route we did in 2014 https://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/500677504
There is a park not too far from the hotel and we basically ran laps around it. I especially like this because it's harder to get lost and easier for everyone to enjoy their own pace.
@nodunayo Me too 😢
Unofficial @railsconf Atlanta 5k announcement 📣
It is on! The morning of the second day of the conference, also known as April 25. We’ll meet in the lobby of the conference hotel (Westin Peachtree Plaza) at 7a.
This is a casual 5k. No bibs or chips. Feel free to walk, run, roll, skip, handstand, whatever. The idea is to just get outside together.
See y’all there!
@timtilberg This is the only book I’ve written, but I had given a handful of talks and smaller presentations at user groups. I also enjoy writing tutorials. This was essentially a long-form version of all those things.
I always try to meet people where they are so I end up explaining stuff to not take for granted they know, but I also like including some deep cut tips so that everyone can get something out of my talk or writing.
I hope you found that to be the case.
@timtilberg We anticipated it would take a year, I think. I finished a little ahead of schedule, though.
Finding people to help review chapters was hard. I ended up asking for feedback in individual chapters because committing to a full book was a lot of work. This took me a while to figure out though.
@timtilberg I gave a talk at RailsConf called Making Data Dance. Afterwards someone from Addison Wesley came up to me in the hallway to talk. She mentioned that they wanted a book on data viz for the series my book is a part of. I told her I wasn’t really sure there was much of a market for that but I’d be happy to give it a go. I submitted a formal pitch with a rough outline and then got setup with a technical editor and was off.
@timtilberg The book was born out of work I did at GeoForce and Sabre Labs and a couple of talks I’d given on data viz and using your database, including geospatial data. I think the DB concepts still stand. I also included an appendix on joins because I could never remember those. That was some of my favorite work as an IC. Geospatial data is a lot of fun.
@timtilberg I changed jobs around this time and was working on different flavors of problems. I wasn’t close enough to the big shifts in JS to do a decent update. I was also still in the mindset that vanilla JavaScript was preferable to JavaScript frameworks. Truth be told I still think React is unnecessarily complicated, but in fairness that could also be said of Rails.
@timtilberg Oh hai! Thanks for the kind words. The book was a great experience overall. I would be happy to go into thoughts and learnings on the process overall.
On the subject of the timelessness of a tech book, major new versions of Rails and D3 both dropped right after the book came out. That sucked a lot. I updated the companion repos as best as I could.
So I listened to this song performed by several artists dozens of times today.
Rise by Katy Perry is another song that I can never get enough of, and could be an interesting B-side to this song. I especially like this electric guitar cover by Paul Hurley: https://youtu.be/D2UE1g7_TNs
@getalifemike Holy shit. 20% is bananas. One thing that is still top of mind from business school is that price is not a competitive advantage. Anyone can slash prices. You will not win that game.
@searls What would your preference be? I’m no longer chairing confs, but curious.
Sara Bareilles and Brandi Carlile are treasures separately and especially together. https://youtu.be/I1BjwCIXd-0
@shanselman okurrrrrr
I am in love with this bottle: https://crucialdetail.com/products/porthole
I did a tasting menu dinner while at RubyConf and the restaurant served an infused custom vermouth blend in one of these. It was delicious, of course.
I've worked in the software industry for 22 years. Every single team/role structure that I've seen, I've seen fail. There are also successes. But anything *can* fail.
I am starting to think that one surefire way to guarantee eventual failure is to assume that team structure, roles, and responsibilities can or should be independent of the specific people in the roles. Or that roles and structure shouldn't evolve in response to the people in specific roles at the time.
May life treat you the way you treat waiters and animals
An interesting thing I learned from Eleanor Roosevelt's biography is that Hitler used the USA's treatment of black people as justification for his treatment of Jews, and this was widely regarded *in the USA* as a reasonable point and a reason to stay out of the war: "we would have to stop mistreatment of black people".
Hey #DevOps folks... The Phoenix Project is currently FREE! Tell your friends!
