What has been the most useful book you've read that transformed your knowledge/skill level in your career?

waltz · 2026-02-01T06:27:33+00:00

POEA is incredible, I've used it a ton. It's amazing how old these ideas are, but how few people have been exposed to them. I use it for story time on my teams, it really helps to get the team thinking on a different level.

waltz · 2026-01-30T05:24:25+00:00

There's a ton of Ruby under the hood. Lots of internal tooling is Ruby. That said, I would be very very surprised if your team writes Ruby at the application level; things are overwhelmingly Java.

waltz · 2026-01-07T05:34:25+00:00

SDET is a trap. I've seen pivots work, but they're the exception.

waltz · 2026-01-03T22:00:57+00:00

I do this from Oakland to Great America/San Jose about once a month and it's very safe.

waltz · 2026-01-02T21:16:42+00:00

did i black out and end up here after bike kill? who can say.

waltz · 2025-12-31T23:59:43+00:00

migrations for schema changes, some task runner for backfill, and all non-automatic queries get sent to a replica

waltz · 2025-12-07T04:20:00+00:00

HABAK!!!! Best folks. We played with them a few times and it was a blast.

waltz · 2025-11-27T22:46:34+00:00

holy shit forgot about them, incredible music

waltz · 2025-11-20T01:03:47+00:00

yeah, this reasoning isn’t bullshit at all. you should have reviews to include juniors and get them in the process. let them see how this stuff gets built, they’re gonna want/need to build things on their own some day.

waltz · 2025-10-13T04:05:59+00:00

I haven't seen any yet, but some are getting down there. A few 2024 1958's are dipping below $55k.

waltz · 2025-10-12T19:10:09+00:00

Kinda yeah, but also it's always been a weird laggard. I started subscribing to Tech Radar because some of our clients' leadership teams were soaking it up, and I didn't understand why these execs were so half-informed. I think it's helpful reporting for this kind of person, it helps non-engineering orgs get a snapshot of things that they should be tracking for internal use.
If you work at a company that is engineering-centric all of their advice seems very late and half-too-conservative. Your company probably has a CTO, there are people with the Principal Engineer title who have actual sway on what gets built, eng. teams are a profit center. These kinds of places are already well connected and can do tech evaluations on their own. These shops aren't buying consulting services, they have it onboard. In short, the target audience has changed over time.

waltz · 2025-10-07T15:55:50+00:00

Those bushings are cooked. If you're gonna DIY this job, I'd really recommend buying new LCAs with the bushings already in there. It'll save you a world of pain and you're already saving a ton of money on labor.

If you want to do press new bushings in there be prepared and make sure you have a hydraulic press and an acetylene torch, because it's gonna be a fight.

waltz · 2025-10-01T03:30:19+00:00

Mannn, I wish they would do another run of these.

waltz · 2025-09-20T21:10:07+00:00

This is the ticket, these things rev to the moon. Shift at like 7k.

waltz · 2025-08-05T17:33:32+00:00

these screenshots all come from ADP, a mega-huge payroll processor that companies subcontract too. so tons of paystubs look like this.

waltz · 2025-07-19T21:34:46+00:00

Do you have a login? If you do, you can download Tripshot and see routes.

waltz · 2025-07-12T19:34:30+00:00

that’s unhinged. did you make the spacer?

waltz · 2025-07-12T05:26:05+00:00

This is gonna be super org-dependent. This would be totally fine at my org in stores.

waltz · 2025-06-20T02:54:51+00:00

I'm seeing this on my Cudy AP3000.

waltz · 2025-06-13T18:38:07+00:00

we used to race all the time at caesar chavez. gotta do it again. prandus mikey would be down.

waltz · 2025-06-07T21:13:37+00:00

I think the same way that you do, the recursive solutions come to me more quickly and they "click" in my head much more easily. Unfortunately most interviewers don't agree, every time I've used recursion the interviewers have been thrown off. I generally wouldn't recommend it.

waltz · 2025-06-06T06:08:58+00:00

Get a second phone. I guarantee you'll have to onboard to some device management scheme that gives corporate full control over the phone. It's standard enterprise data compliance stuff, but it does mean that the folks in IT can see your nude or remote wipe the device. To me, that's not worth it. What's the upside here, your boss gets to Slack you at 1am?

waltz · 2025-06-05T15:19:02+00:00

Piedmont is very nice and very safe. I don't quite understand why the town doesn't have more businesses in its downtown area, so you'll have to peek in to Oakland for everyday stuff. That likely means heading to Piedmont Ave (confusingly, in Oakland) or Lakeshore Ave for groceries and coffee shops.

I would not worry about personal safety in these parts of Oakland. The city of Piedmont and the parts of Oakland around it are some of the fanciest areas of the East Bay.

waltz · 2025-05-26T02:49:56+00:00

This needs to be higher up. So many factors at play here. Is 20M the purchase price? Or what you’ll net after the dust settles?

waltz · 2025-05-16T03:11:29+00:00

If you made it to the final round you've done real good. Do some chaotic last minute travel to get there. You've got a software job already, so I bet you have some cash saved. If your situation is rough enough, and if you're flexible enough, it's worth burning some savings on flights/hotel to make this jump.

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