Robert Roskam / is on Nostr

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2025-03-16 17:34:00

The more senior engineering you get, the less your job is about 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 right.
Jr: can you get to a right answer?
Mid: can you get to one of multiple right answers?
Sr: can you ask the right questions?
EM/Staff+: can you start the right conversations?
This shift isn't intuitive. It feels like you're doing less "real work."
But your impact multiplies when you focus on creating environments where good decisions emerge rather than making all the decisions yourself.

2024-08-25 12:00:30

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2024-06-06 22:00:14

How do you pronounce www?

2023-09-12 00:00:04

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@npub1gzc…fsz3 Every single one of those social media tools is shooting themselves in the proverbial foot.
If the primary thing of value you do is let people create and share valuable ideas, and then you say, “nm…you don’t need to think any more”, then you devalue everything that everyone is doing in that pool.

2023-09-11 23:56:32

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@npub1pfe…e2dm I’m hoping that in context there were some other non-working things, and this was just triage talk. “That thing is broken, but this thing, it’s just a quality-of-life issue.”
Otherwise I completely agree. This phrase could be applied to anything.
Food available to eat? QOL Issue.
Running water? QOL Issue.
Safe place to sleep? QOL Issue.

2023-09-06 20:34:06

I think DHH is trolling everyone at this point: https://world.hey.com/dhh/turbo-8-is-dropping-typescript-70165c01

2023-09-02 00:11:34

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@npub1e7v…flg9 Does this help?
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/992/653/923/598/210/original/63b65a875bfed2a4.png

2023-09-02 00:03:01

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@npub1e7v…flg9
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/992/620/322/011/751/original/811fdd1a549bbab6.png

2023-09-01 22:38:09

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@npub1e7v…flg9 I know where you’re coming from. But operations on x mutate in place.
So I had a choice of either showing the mutation line after line, which is how I thought people would read it.
Or I had to explain that I’m resetting the value of x back to x = [1,2,3] after each mutation.
Is there some way I could make it clearer for you?

2023-09-01 02:35:55

What do you all think of this cheatsheet for #python?
Should I do more of these?
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/987/559/237/056/255/original/ce3845d73be08217.png

2023-08-21 19:54:53

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@npub1e7v…flg9 I think I'm missing which role is the big picture, both architects and astronauts seem to be Big Picture to me.

2023-08-21 18:30:04

What does "all strategy and no tactics" mean to you?

2023-06-20 15:28:29

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@npub1sys…ckr3 I’ve long joked about Python being the decorator crab of languages.
But I feel like it’s getting excessively true at this point.
So I agree with deleting features, but you can pry enums from my cold dead hands.

2023-06-20 12:51:21

Not entirely sure how I feel about #python getting structs:
https://snarky.ca/proposing-a-struct-syntax/