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I’m a Ruby programmer and CTO at https://www.firmhouse.com. Addicted to reading and instantly applying small Ruby and Rails tips.
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I'm looking for my next full time engineering role. Do you need an awesome senior/staff platform/devops/infra engineer, with strong technical and sociotechnical skills?

I like
* dark haunted codebases
* building the tools, automation and capacity for frequent deploys to prod
* mentoring jr & mid-lvl engineers into leaders

I'm looking for:
* kind & respectful teammates
* remote
* lots of async collaboration
* good benefits
* a do-great-work then go-have-family-time culture

pls boost

I strongly believe that any software engineering methodology where one set of people makes tickets and a different set of people executes those tickets is deeply flawed.

This only makes sense for super straightforward IT or operational tasks.

PMs and Product people will proudly proclaim they are insulating dev from boring ticket work when they are really distancing devs from delivering value. Sometimes so they can claim that success themselves.

RT @[email protected]

The only way ChatGPT will take your job is if your job is being a boring copywriter who also writes buggy code.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TheJackForge/status/1619443480480354304

Jack Forge on Twitter

“The only way ChatGPT will take your job is if your job is being a boring copywriter who also writes buggy code.”

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Setting up Buildkite. I always find myself in the situation where the setup is slightly different from the ideal path and/or what’s available in the standard docs.

Makes for good SEO when writing a blog post 😅

UPDATE: Here's the latest chart.

We're now at 14,000 new users joining per hour.

By the end of the night, we might have 7 million Mastodon users.

It's (almost) time to say goodbye to Bootstrap at Firmhouse. It served us well, especially in the beginning years when our platform was basically in prototype stage.

We've done Bootstrap, we've done BEM. Now it's time to go full Tailwind 🎉.

I wonder what similar PR we might ship 5-7 years from...

In every startup I worked in the past, the same question came up: Where to host the application?

My answer is always the same: Build a monolith and host it on a PaaS (Heroku, Render, etc.) until you have enough people to maintain your own servers in the cloud.

Do not overthink this. Once you outgrow PaaS, the switch is likely not that hard. We just migrated our whole infrastructure in just one week (planning + execution). With <15 min downtime.

#RubyOnRails #PaaS #Infrastructure

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