@alvincrespo

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This is an excellent read on resource management at large and small companies and how different metrics impact perception of resource management.
https://ntietz.com/blog/why-do-companies-hire-people-to-be-idle-a-lot-of-the-time/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter
Why do companies hire people to be idle a lot of the time? | nicole@web

Successfully cleared out my email inbox for the end of the year. Feeling good! 😎
Max Payne 3 Official Soundtrack

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Working on cleaning up my 10k email backlog today. Yay! 😱
Cancelled my Playstation Plus subscription. A 33% price hike is way too much. I get it, it's expensive to maintain these systems - but I can't just absorb those costs either.
Ruby Outperforms C: Breaking the Catch-22

YJIT’s ability to improve performance by adapting to run-time behavior can increase the speed of our code in a way that dropping down to C can’t. As such, I think we should reconsider the common wisdom that “rewriting our Ruby in C” is the ideal path to performance optimization and take a serious look at “rewriting our C in Ruby” instead.

Rails at Scale
Working on a post to release next week around conducting thorough code reviews. It'll be my first substack post and definitely worth checking out. Will post here when it's ready. 😀

😭 Such an epic role and played by one of the most memorable voice actresses from my 90's childhood. RIP.

https://www.ign.com/articles/death-of-arleen-sorkin-original-voice-of-harley-quinn

Death of Arleen Sorkin, Original Voice of Harley Quinn, Mourned by Mark Hamill, James Gunn, and Fans - IGN

Arleen Sorkin, who brought Harley Quinn to life on Batman: The Animated Series, has died. Mark Hamill and James Gunn was among those who mourned the voice actress, who was partly credited for serving as the inspiration for the now iconic character.

IGN
Using ChatGPT to code is fantastic. I was able to get a lot done this weekend setting up a project with Docker, Tmux and Yarn using a bash script to automate starting this application. Now running `./bin/dev` starts up this entire application without have to know the internals. Pretty great feeling to get to this point!
It's hard to post on social media after being away from it for so long. What am I supposed to do here? 😅