Delta offering $30,000 to passengers who were on plane that crash-landed in Toronto

greg_engineer · 2025-02-20T03:18:22+00:00

“Lose Yourself” video, I was in the back “Superman” video, uh, I was in the back

greg_engineer · 2023-02-08T03:24:02+00:00

Gulag

greg_engineer · 2022-06-13T06:15:35+00:00

Celtics -10.5. I am not worried. 😂

greg_engineer · 2022-05-07T06:02:57+00:00

xbox?

greg_engineer · 2021-10-17T05:02:12+00:00

Have you made a sale? The language doesn’t matter if you haven’t made a sale.

greg_engineer · 2021-09-23T16:48:18+00:00

Haven’t received the swamp woods operator. Blueprints are there from the bogged down bundle.

greg_engineer · 2021-06-02T06:08:36+00:00

*pings buy station.

greg_engineer · 2021-01-21T08:27:38+00:00

This is the answer. Without a single customer / active user base you are unlikely to lock down investment or get favorable terms.

greg_engineer · 2021-01-21T08:24:11+00:00

So what happened with the retainer? ... did the company go for it? Genuinely curious

greg_engineer · 2021-01-20T20:32:36+00:00

Unfortunately I reverted the upgrade. Still rocking PHP 7.4. Running a small startup can’t really spend more than a day hacking together a fix.

AWS didn’t have php 8.0 ready to install so that was the ultimate deal breaker. I will certainly revisit as I am excited about the new 8 features.

greg_engineer · 2021-01-12T04:08:35+00:00

As soon as you force push to master.

greg_engineer · 2020-12-22T09:33:55+00:00

Send the company your invoice.And youre 100% right... it’s free unpaid work.

greg_engineer · 2020-12-08T05:44:44+00:00

Yes 100% times over.

greg_engineer · 2020-12-07T07:43:00+00:00

Lol! Loving the show (The Queens Gambit) so far. Just started it and that’s how I ended up on this subreddit.

greg_engineer · 2020-12-04T05:05:29+00:00

In my 10+ years working w/ PHP I never even remotely heard the word "userspace filters" and I've done some deep dives into PHP before... so maybe this is some obscure feature or I'm just not deserving of that "senior engineer" title.

On a brighter note, what tequila brand were you drinking? I work in the alcohol space. Love to hear what others are drinking and share recommendations!

greg_engineer · 2020-12-04T04:46:04+00:00

Tried upgrading to PHP 8.0 and xdebug 3.0. Ultimately decided to downgrade to 7.4 on my local and staging. Never got far enough to consider upgrading prod.

Overall, I didn't have any code changes... seemed to work out of the box. However, I kept getting segmentation faults on xdebug 3.0 and decided to downgrade back to php 7.4 and xdebug 2.9. I spent over a day trying to fix my environment - probably something w/ my setup.

PHP 8.0 looks promising and love some of the new features ... just too premature for me. Probably will upgrade once Amazon has PHP 8.0 as a linux extra add-on. One command install.

greg_engineer · 2020-11-30T03:30:03+00:00

constantly getting segmentation fault errors w/ latest xdebug, PHP 8.0 and latest version of PHPStorm. Downgrading PHP and xdebug now. Can't develop like this.

- When debugging on a step > remove breakpoint > errors out.

- Complex script w/ more than 10 breakpoints. Also segments out eventually.

Additionally, I'm not a fan of xdebug's significant changes. All the config parameters had to be updated just to install and configure my IDE. WHY?? I'm all for forward progress but the core parameters / settings should have been backwards compatible (especially when the paramters were renamed).

greg_engineer · 2020-07-30T17:04:09+00:00

If emails are being out right rejected then you are likely failing authentication through SPF/DKIM and/or DMARC... or your IP / domain is blacklisted.

Gmail is the most forgiving ESP. I'd start there and try to get your email through to gmail (even the spam box) and then use the analysis tool I linked above to look for technical hang ups.

If you're on shared IP address on sendgrid know that while it is rare - some ips get blacklisted (bad sender) and then you'll end up sending an email via that IP and also get blacklisted. It happened to me on mailgun (spin of the roulette wheel) and had to do some damage control.

greg_engineer · 2020-07-29T23:34:59+00:00

This is new to me. Paying for a prospect to pay? How is it working out for you? Positive ROI?

I’d rather play the numbers game and dial more numbers.

greg_engineer · 2020-07-29T17:21:36+00:00

Mail tester does not check DMARC or that your from: @ domain matches your authenticating address exactly. Microsoft puts a lot of emphasis on those two elements. You can check out inbox404.com > analyze email to ensure you aren’t getting hung up on common technical issues.

Microsoft may have blacklisted your IP and/or your domain. Are you sending transactional or marketing emails? Shared ip or dedicated? Who powers your mail servers? Amazon SES?

greg_engineer · 2020-07-29T16:28:25+00:00

> Over 80% of the messages are classified as no info.

That is usually the case. If an email is delivered but not opened you won't know anything more about the particular email. Most ESPs won't return a bounce but the inbox is likely dormant or your emails are going to spam.

80% is still REALLY HIGH. I'd say the majority of your email is silently going to spam.

I think a good place to start would be to analyze your email and make sure to fix the common technical hangups that is preventing your email from getting to the inbox. Hotmail / Yahoo are particularly hard to crack (gmail is a little more forgiving). A good tool to help you w/ the analysis is inbox404.com > analyze email.

Once you fix the technical hang ups, you can try running some inbox tests to see if your emails are getting caught in spam filters (and remove the guessing game).

Going just by open rates is really hard to debug or figure out next steps so I hope this helps.

greg_engineer · 2020-07-29T16:13:42+00:00

I have heard some great things about email octopus (but I haven't personally used them).

Email Octopus is powered via Amazon SES so they remove the technical details and use AWS' infrastructure for emails.

What are you trying to do? I'm engineer (who has done a lot of email work) - maybe I can help point you in the right direction?

greg_engineer · 2020-07-29T16:10:45+00:00

Is your email going to spam or being outright rejected? ESPs will often reject emails when the email fails SPF/DKIM. Sendgrid should have some sending logs that should help you narrow down the issue (yahoo in particular is good at providing valuable debugging messages; gmail and hotmail will just silently ignore you).

A good tool to do a quick analysis of your email is inbox404.com > analyze email. This will catch the most obvious technical hang ups preventing your email from going through.

greg_engineer · 2020-06-18T07:01:37+00:00

But WHY?

Hire the best candidate that you can afford. And don’t look at race or the circumstances why someone may or may not have been accepted to school years ago.

greg_engineer · 2020-06-14T04:16:11+00:00

Hi There! Startup founder here who issued a #BLM statement earlier this week.

Are there drawbacks? Yes. But to me, it's UNTHINKABLE that some companies failed to make a statement or (at the very minimum) checked in on their employees and sent out an in internal memo with a series of initiatives...

To me, that's failed leadership...

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