Johnathon Wright @mustmodify

Experienced freelance web engineer. Ruby, Rails, React. I care about good interfaces and good process. Formerly ThoughtWorks, NASA. Loves the word 'Awesome'. mustmodify.com Asheville, NC Joined May 2009

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Johnathon Wright @mustmodify

2 months ago

Sometimes I notice that not even Google has their UI act together in terms of two features conflicting. It really _is_ complicated. :)

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Johnathon Wright @mustmodify

2 months ago

Asked GPT why "You are a teacher" is important. Surprised to get a response which will require research before I can get meaning. Paraphrasing: "it activates submanifolds, shifting which latent concepts are relevant in the embedding space." Oh. I ... see? 🤷‍♀️👨‍💻👨‍🔬👨‍🏫

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Johnathon Wright @mustmodify

2 months ago

I want to post about something that seems too nerdy for LinkedIn so I'm back here. Still refuse to call it anything other than Twitter. Like some resident of NYC who is angry that buildings change name when they are bought.

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Johnathon Wright @mustmodify

10 months ago

I have just reached the pinnacle of my career. I just created a temp file called html.html. Then... html = File.read('html.html') I am a 10x dev.

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Johnathon Wright @mustmodify

a year ago

People are "so* against classes in JavaScript but they work really well in Ruby. I'm wondering if this is a cultural issue or due to javascript classes being not-fully-baked.

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Johnathon Wright @mustmodify

a year ago

Recently I have learned that one of the most important skills and qualities that you need to intentionally keep sharp as a developer and a human is CURIOSITY. It can be easy to lose on accident. Particularly when you think you know the answers.

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Johnathon Wright @mustmodify

a year ago

When I'm working in JS, I really miss Ruby. Paticulaly: mixins, array conveniences (yes, there's _some_ progress with enumerables), and, to a lesser extent, blocks (I understand arrow functions are first-class and I see that value. But blocks are just a little more intuitive.)

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Johnathon Wright @mustmodify

2 years ago

I'm working on a new talk on engineering and product management maturity. Tell me your worst and best experiences with engineering getting requirements from a product or upper-management team!

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Johnathon Wright @mustmodify

2 years ago

Wait, the C is soft in decided but hard in decoded? It's just off by one vowel... #englishIsWeird

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Johnathon Wright @mustmodify

2 years ago

In Ruby, return statements are not idiomatic. I'm sorry but RuboCop is just wrong. It encourages ugly code by discouraging else statements.

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Johnathon Wright @mustmodify

2 years ago

What are people using instead of Twitter? (I'm not using the new name, as I won't say "the artist formerly etc" except in jest.) I'm not SURE it's going to hell, but I'm leaning that way. I treasure Musk as an engineer but am skeptical of his social media/marketing leadership.

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Johnathon Wright @mustmodify

2 years ago

So much good content in this video. 'definition of a legacy system: lost knowledge. We don't know who built this, or how, or why." And I would add, "we aren't sure we know exactly what was built." #lessonsLearned youtube.com/watch?v=LLEXAd… cc: @mgarfinkart