Mike Chelen 🐌 (he/him) @mchelen
Open source software engineer at your friendly neighborhood @USDS + @DeptVetAffairs. All posts personal opinion. #CivicTech #OpenGov #OpenData mchelen.com Washington, DC Joined September 2008-
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Me: a web developer My doctor's health portal: here is 6mb of background images #HealthTech #webdevelopment #programmer
@mchelen @editingemily Good engineering is not just when a system functions, but when the system naturally reflects the inherent complexity of the problem in a way that makes it easier to adapt over time. So you can’t know software is written well unless you understand where the complexity arises.
Incredibly disappointing. Supporting home rule by definition means allowing the D.C. govt to make its own decisions even if you disagree—just like every other city in the country. It is simply antidemocratic to overturn the will of D.C. voters and their elected representatives.
Incredibly disappointing. Supporting home rule by definition means allowing the D.C. govt to make its own decisions even if you disagree—just like every other city in the country. It is simply antidemocratic to overturn the will of D.C. voters and their elected representatives.
WE SOLVED CLOUD!!! Just kidding, but we did have some great questions and answers, like "How can we provide cloud-native access without having users hard-code physical storage locations? Once an s3:// path is in user code, if we move data, it breaks" (Read on for more q and a's)
WE SOLVED CLOUD!!! Just kidding, but we did have some great questions and answers, like "How can we provide cloud-native access without having users hard-code physical storage locations? Once an s3:// path is in user code, if we move data, it breaks" (Read on for more q and a's)
McPherson Square | “Instead of finding solutions for homelessness, we’re doing this kind of action, which is myopic at best.” — Donald Whitehead, Exec. Dir. of the National Coalition for the Homeless (@NationalHomeles) @wusa9
We are live at McPherson Square this morning where NPS plans to clear out the encampment at 10am. National leaders on homelessness and affordable housing are expected to be here later today. @7NewsDC
On behalf of Karon Blake’s family, please consider supporting as they plan to honor his life. gofundme.com/f/karon-blakes…
Black youth: YOU deserve to live!!!! We are in solidarity with all those calling for transparency, accountability and support regarding the recent killing of #KaronBlake. Here is our full statement.
A Washington, D.C., man shot and killed 13-year-old Karon Blake — who he accused of breaking into cars. His school’s principal described the Black middle school student as a “quiet and inquisitive scholar.” The man has NOT been identified or arrested — this is outrageous!
Please don’t make this career mistake I made. Parking my empathy cost me countless opportunities. Something I repeatedly did early in my career was to become frustrated by leaders. I couldn’t understand why they didn’t address the problems that were so apparent on the ground.
The Progressive Caucus’ failure to extract concessions from party leadership isn’t so much the fault of the right’s relative boldness as a sign that the Democratic Leadership sees its left flank as a guerrilla insurgency whereas the right see’s its discontents as a vanguard. 1.2
It feels like true entry-level dev jobs (with literally zero work experience) are hard to come by. If you successfully got yourself a zero-work experience entry level dev job, where did you find it? How'd you get it?
Great reminder for folks to switch any AWS actions you perform from CI/CD to use OIDC role assumption instead of static IAM user credentials. Then even if an attacker stole all your secrets they can't do anything in your AWS account: circleci.com/docs/openid-co…
Great reminder for folks to switch any AWS actions you perform from CI/CD to use OIDC role assumption instead of static IAM user credentials. Then even if an attacker stole all your secrets they can't do anything in your AWS account: circleci.com/docs/openid-co…
2023 hot take: "Views" is a garbage metric and it's polluting my timeline. #HappyNewYear
I once worked with a manager who asked “Why do we all need these SREs when the site never goes down?”, and I think about that a lot.
This is ongoing cringe. For anyone interested in the subject though, and as someone who has been junior, senior, lead and EM, the role of EM is to ensure engineers have the tools, support, and guidance to write good code. Adding other tasks detracts from this. #coding #programmer
This is ongoing cringe. For anyone interested in the subject though, and as someone who has been junior, senior, lead and EM, the role of EM is to ensure engineers have the tools, support, and guidance to write good code. Adding other tasks detracts from this. #coding #programmer
Shed some light onto your project’s charts and insights with our quick walkthrough. 🔦 youtu.be/Iq6uHf6oBhM
Hi @letterboxd, 2023 called, it's time to catch up and acknowledge TV shows as short-form movies.
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3K Followers 276 Following I mostly tweet about software, data, and the difficulty of changing our opinions based on what the data tell us.One of the workers, Zach, says he and his colleagues have repeatedly ask for raises, individually and collectively. He says owners never agreed to meaningful raises. “We can’t afford to regularly eat the $17 sandwiches we make,” he says. He earns $17.50 an hour.
Now they are outside Compliments Only chanting, demanding their bosses (two who are inside making sandwiches) recognize their union and pay them a livable wage. “More than compliments”
Some Compliments Only workers walked out because management didn’t immediately agree to recognize their union.
Workers of beloved DC sandwich shop, Compliments Only, ask management to formally recognize their union. They demand union recognition and a $21 hourly wage. Second time asking. Management did not say yes.
@AnnapolisOEM Caught it on camera. !
@editingemily I was only deeply involved in the beginning as I co-authored the reimagine DevRel strategy + “Dream Team” recruiting, but a post-mortem/Lessons Learned would be fascinating as I only know why some folks left (for very good reasons)
So HBO decided to make me download a new app instead of swapping out some logos? Am I understanding this correctly?
@mchelen @editingemily Good engineering is not just when a system functions, but when the system naturally reflects the inherent complexity of the problem in a way that makes it easier to adapt over time. So you can’t know software is written well unless you understand where the complexity arises.
@Aur0rab0realis9 Certainly did not help them, especially that Twitter was a major distribution platform of theirs before.
@GergelyOrosz Also twitter rolled out spaces which i think fucked Clubhouse big time..
@GergelyOrosz Wasn’t it clear from the get go that this app is built on a feature? Like Snapchat, anyone can replicate them entirely on their own app.
@harsh_language Snap, however, became a business of its own right. Rejected the $3B aqusition offer, kept growing, and was worth $30B years later. Even today it's around $15B. Clubhouse hoped it could do what Snap did. If anything, the question is how Snap was able to execute like that.
@GergelyOrosz Like Slack Huddles did to the virtual office, Twitter Spaces was good enough and had more reach
@08crowdVinegar @mobileraj @GergelyOrosz I'd rather jump on a quick huddle than hours of async back and forths or jumping to zoom just for a 5 minutes discussion. It's more of a team dynamic thing, and up to the parties involved.
@ASpittel It’s all bait and fake equivalence, Ali. I’m #RatVerified and it’s worth every penny, a superior product to any of the sleuth of emojis sold here. Btw, congrats on the 👶!
@ASpittel If Twitter can give me another season of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. I’ll give them $8.
It's not at all the $8 (I paid for the old version of Twitter blue!)
Also, "you liked this platform under previous management, let's change everything up in a bad product direction, and bonus now you get to pay for it"
Here's the biggest difference: I'm not doing any work for Spotify or Netflix. They're just providing a service to me. Twitter is saying "Hey thanks for providing content and keeping people engaged on our platform, now pay up so they see that content"
I find it funny how people will pay $9.99 for Netflix, $9.99 for Spotify and $14.99 for Amazon Prime without a second thought but are so against paying $8 for a platform they spend most of their day complaining on because Elon Musk is pro-Free Speech.