Robert Roskam

@raiderrobert everywhere

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https://robertroskam.com

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2024-06-29 17:27:44

Microservices are not inherently more organized than monoliths.
I’m continually amused that people think if you force network calls that organization will naturally appear.

2024-06-29 16:39:11

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@npub1e7v…flg9 that got dark fast 🫠

2024-06-29 13:55:47

The 100x engineering org formula for annual reviews:
Every engineer will have a 24-hour LeetCode hack day to complete the most questions.
Failure to solve at least 1 will result in termination.
Then retitle everyone according to where they fall on the curve:
0-30%: "Jr Engineer"
30-60% "Engineer"
60-90%: Senior
90-99%: Staff
Top 1%: Principal
The #1 performer is automatically the new CTO.
Oh & put the bottom 10% on a pip.
Meritocracy at its purest.
#CareerEndingAdvice

2024-06-27 13:55:00

"I can sleep when I'm dead." - Me, 2014
"If I can't sleep, I'm dead." - Me, 2024
Work-life balance isn't a luxury. It's a necessity.
Trust me.

2024-06-23 15:06:41

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 binary....it all becomes binary eventually 😅

2024-06-23 15:05:26

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 you can't make me

2024-06-21 05:55:49

Monoliths are cool again 😎

2024-06-13 00:00:45

How do you pronounce nginx?

2024-06-11 16:01:13

The software engineering career ladder by question:
Jr: how?
Mid: what?
Sr: why?
Staff+: really?

2024-06-10 00:00:43

How do you pronounce URI?

2024-06-08 00:00:33

How do you pronounce chmod?

2024-06-07 00:00:14

How do you pronounce www?

2024-06-04 00:17:22

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@npub1e7v…flg9 😑😐😑

2024-06-04 00:01:01

How do you pronounce jwt?

2024-06-03 13:55:48

Discovering that you're wrong & then changing is an underrated superpower. 💪

2024-06-03 02:41:11

Every CPU waits at the same speed.

2024-05-31 17:14:13

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 Panama rec-center

2024-05-31 14:53:47

I was fired from my first dev job.
It was 2011. I was trying to get a proper job after doing a couple of start ups with friends.
After 1 interview with the CEO, I got the job.
I was elated.
It was only part time, 20 hours per week. A lots of people were on vacation in my first couple of weeks, so it was slow to start, but I knew I'd get going there eventually.
45 days in, it was time for my check-in with the CEO. (1/3)

2024-05-22 01:43:57

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@npub1e7v…flg9 I really like this take.
I’d might add a sense for arrays, hashmaps, and structs.
I also know the purely function crowd will add recursion, but I frankly think that’s a bridge too far.

2024-05-22 01:00:58

Coders of all kinds, I have a question.
What is the minimal amount for someone to "know how to code"?

2024-05-16 13:55:31

People over value efficiency & under value 𝘯𝘰𝘵 doing things: when it takes you 0 hours to do something 0 times, because you said “No”, it has an immediate payback period!

2024-05-11 13:55:40

Give me bad advice.
#fortunecookiefromhell

2024-05-08 13:55:40

Spend a day planning. Save a year of coding.
Spend a day coding. Save a year planning.
There is no science to figuring out which case you’re in.
Only art.

2024-05-06 21:07:06

Can you have software without tech debt?

2024-05-03 04:53:03

Please do not roll your own:
- auth
- encryption
- credit card handling
- billing
- databases
- search engines
- file systems
- serialization formats
- date/time handling
- locationalization
- internationalization
- email parsing
- postal address parsing
- software version parsing
- csv parsing
- html parsing
- URL parsing
- ...just stay away from parsing
- floating point math

2024-05-01 05:21:37

Why is Visual Basic 6 the best programming language?
Wrong answers only.

2024-04-30 04:25:46

Is it just or did something flip in Google in the past year or so?
Google seems to be making progressively insane decisions like shutting down their Python contributors along with shuttering Google Domains... while launching stinkers like Google Vids
It feels like they're speedrunning to become IBM.

2024-04-08 20:50:25

#eclipse
My crappy #photography attempt
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/237/097/238/252/863/original/fef71a9bf55c061e.jpg
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/237/097/443/573/304/original/c67ad816a6c696a0.jpg

2024-03-25 12:28:14

Rewrite it in Rust has been gaining steam, it seems.
I came across this linter for Python called Ruff not long ago: https://astral.sh/ruff
What other things have I missed?

2024-03-24 00:37:10

After applying for a job, have you ever stopped the process before because of something? What was that thing?

2024-03-07 13:31:50

Users do not care whether you code in Python or Javascript or C# or Java or Cobol.
They care about software that solves their problems.

2024-03-05 13:38:48

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@npub1e7v…flg9 The “how does anyone know…” question, that I can answer: talk to your users.
You can send them a survey, but it’s actually better to just talk to them asking them open ended questions like.

2024-03-05 13:23:06

Users do not care about your code quality metrics. If your cyclomatic complexity score is 100 for a particular module, and your code coverage is 5%, they don't know, can't know, and don't care.
They care about software that solves their problems.

2024-03-02 16:25:27

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@npub1e7v…flg9 not a bad take 😅

2024-03-02 13:17:06

What does it mean to "make something real"?

2024-01-31 14:09:20

Got past lesson 500 today in my daily exercise of improving my typing speed.
I think I’m going to continue this for one more month and then take time off from it.
My current is to maximize accuracy across multiple sessions.
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2023-11-27 23:21:43

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@npub1p9k…865w 🤑

2023-11-07 22:53:53

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@npub1pfe…e2dm yes, but I'm over 30...so you know, I'm an old person too...when can I yell at a kid to get off my lawn?

2023-11-01 12:02:08

Always code as if the individual who will maintain your code is a very dear friend.

2023-10-19 02:01:09

What was your first coding language crush?

2023-10-12 03:18:54

Pet peeve: trying to find a source for a quote.
It's far easier to find the quote again rather than the source.

2023-09-28 02:44:59

Doing my part to end a #stigma here.
I had a period of my career early on where an employer paid for me to have business coach. I found the experience initially very strange: I had a person asking me how I was _feeling_ about work, not just thinking. Moreover, I had never had someone both simultaneously validate my point of view while at the same time suggest I might be wrong.
This experience warmed me to the idea of talking to a therapist.
Go to therapy. Become a better version of you.

2023-09-12 02:00:04

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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.

2023-09-12 01:56:32

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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 22:34:06

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

2023-09-06 14:00:53

Systems "SHOULD NOT require memorized secrets to be changed arbitrarily (e.g., periodically)."
Said another way way, if your organization requires regular password changes (every 30 days, 90 days, etc.), then you're making your organization _less_ secure.
This has been a PSA: https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html#reqauthtype

2023-09-02 02:11:34

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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 02:03:01

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

2023-09-02 00:38:09

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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?

2023-08-21 21:54:53

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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 20:30:04

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

2023-08-15 00:17:42

Bat and ripgrep are great.
What other tools have I missed being rebuilt in #rust?

2023-08-10 02:47:40

You don't actually hate #JIRA.
You hate what it represents:
- 100 hours of planning for 10 hours of work
- 10 hours work only because it's 10 tickets instead of 1 ticket and 5 hours of work
- 5 hours of work that you make a thing that won't ship because another thing is "blocker"
- the other thing isn't actually a blocker but it's got the JIRA link that says so
- work that will take 5 hours to redo once it's unblocked in 6 months
That feeling once you've read this all is what you hate.

2023-07-28 20:49:42

Generative AI. Has the hype has died down or not?

2023-07-23 02:39:26

12 hours on the road later--we're at home.

2023-07-20 00:24:47

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@npub1e7v…flg9 there is lots of space on top. Therefore, this is an example of a partially eaten child's portion.

2023-07-17 05:14:17

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 VBA...I have PTSDim from it.

2023-07-08 02:49:51

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@npub1pfe…e2dm Admittedly, I’ve never used Numbers enough to ever notice. Sounds very interesting.
I primarily collaborate with other people on spreadsheets, so Google sheets have been my defacto experience now for at least 10 years.

2023-06-20 19:49:33

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@npub1sys…ckr3 Yeah, that's fine. Kill those.
I'll add that Python's enum implementation is a bit weird. But it's there now. So I'll take it.
It's one of the things I consistently miss over in Golang land.

2023-06-20 17:28:29

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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 14:51:21

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

2023-05-18 22:09:46

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@npub1gfd…7gg6 I like some pepper too
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_(cryptography)

2023-03-13 14:08:01

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#[0] #[1] #[2] it's because the Fed and FDIC and everything else in US banking is poorly understood even by the most well-informed American.