Martin Cross @franticallycode
"professional" software developer | fixing the broken things and breaking the new things | https://t.co/NdAgKJTYSV Tennessee Joined June 2021-
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Side-by-side comparison: @OpenAI's ChatGPT vs. @AnthropicAI's Claude Each model is asked to compare itself to the machine from Stanisław Lem's "The Cyberiad" (1965) that can create any object whose name begins with "n":
My favorite feeling in the world is "Wait, what day is it? Eh who cares"
Historical Dates xkcd.com/2676
built a quick app that uses gpt-3 to convert from English to RegEx so you don't have to waste time on stackoverflow: autoregex.xyz
Nobody will remember: - Your salary - Your fancy title - How ‘busy’ you were - How many hours you worked Everyone will remember: - That you were the on-call - That you applied your SQL fix directly to the prod DB - That you forgot the WHERE clause on your UPDATE
this might not mean anything to most people, but
Sometimes imposter syndrome is not knowing if you're doing it right...which later becomes "could I have done it better?" And the more I learn: yes, often I could have...but try to remember you didn't have all the information that you now have back then. Judge yourself fairly.
imposter syndrome never really goes away; you just get so busy that you can't pay attention to it as much
quickdatabasediagrams.com is currently giving away free Pro Plans!! Awesome tool to quickly design databases online. I love it! 😍 @quick_dbd
Beautiful visualization of this thread by @SachinRamje. Nice work!
As an engineer with a lot of leverage and influence, one of your primary jobs is to say no to feature creep.
it only took seven and a half years, but you can now set the tab width on github.com. pretty sure this means the last semi-defensible reason for using spaces is gone, and we can all finally recognise the inherent superiority of tabs
Since time immemorial, when a CEO asks a PM at Product Review, “what do you need to 10X users/revenue?”, “what will make you go faster?”, etc the PM steadfastly responds “We need [N] more engineers”. The Eng Mgr nods approvingly. A story thread, with some hard truths to swallow:
"avid collector of dust" feels extra judgmental coming from a computer
I've measured "engineering velocity" for a very long time, but I'm starting to focus more on "engineering drag". These are the things that slow down engineering teams. This includes product discovery, local dev environments, CI/CD pipelines, etc. Reduce drag to go faster.

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