Josh Nichols @[email protected] @techpickles

Principal Whimsy Engineer for myself, Staff Software Engineer for @GustoHQ. Hobby hobbyist, husband, father, noun, https://t.co/9L8pwSaRrY . Opinions are my own. pickles.dev Atlanta, GA Joined June 2007

Tweets

13K
Followers

3K
Following

3K
Likes

13K

LawrenceDCodes @LawrenceDCodes

11 months ago

Stumbled across notes from my first @RenderATL (always keep your notes!). From @kishau : "Don't create glass ceilings for yourself by being an ineffective communicator and not being a good storyteller... If you make a technology choice, be able to talk through the alternatives…

2 4 37 2K 1

Nate Berkopec @nateberkopec

11 months ago

"None of our top 50 endpoints by throughput can have more than 5% of responses be >500ms" This is a good perf goal. It scopes to the most important parts of the app, is set based on expectations of human users (users can feel >500ms resp), and it's usually quite achievable.

1 2 59 3K 37

Xavier Noria @fxn

11 months ago

I just released Zeitwerk 2.7. Now, you can define namespaces with manual constant assignments too (think, Namespace = Struct.new). To the best of my knowledge, this completes the most important goal of the gem: to fully match Ruby. 🎉 Let me elaborate a bit on why…

8 25 191 13K 33

Kelly Sutton @KellySutton

a year ago

We're hiring engineer #4 at @scholarlysoft on-site in Seattle. If that's you, let's chat! DMs are open. scholarly.breezy.hr/p/a8959b02b8bd…

1 7 17 6K 1

Josh Nichols @[email protected] @techpickles

a year ago

Very exited and proud to be sponsoring #railsconf this year. I’ll be at the open source hackday working on singed, a performance debugging tool! medium.com/gusto-engineer…

2 1 6 512 0

Download Image

Nate Berkopec @nateberkopec

2 years ago

I have a long list of ideas I want to work on but not enough time. I do have some money though. Is it time for Speedshop's first employee? If you are: 1. A good writer 2. A solid Rubyist that can build a product from start to finish ... maybe it's you?

8 20 94 16K 9

Josh Nichols @[email protected] @techpickles

2 years ago

We’re at #RailsConf2023! medium.com/gusto-engineer…

0 0 4 581 0

Nate Berkopec @nateberkopec

2 years ago

Our system tests were slow and we couldn't figure out why... turned out it was a 1-line fix! I've written this post for @GustoHQ's engineering blog: engineering.gusto.com/our-ruby-on-ra…

1 10 94 13K 36

Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome

3 years ago

I'm out here saving humanity, and you're are all "scott." smh

14 23 328 30K 5

Download Image

Nate Berkopec @nateberkopec

3 years ago

Gusto's @techpickles has shipped Singed, a swiss-army-knife tool for getting flamegraphs anywhere in a Ruby application: github.com/rubyatscale/si… It slices, it dices, it profiles: * Blocks * Tests * Requests * Controllers * Command line ... all using Speedscope! It's great.

0 8 62 4K 16

Nate Berkopec @nateberkopec

3 years ago

9% faster response times observed too 👍

Ngan @nganpham

3 years ago

9% faster response times observed too 👍

16 9 177 0 21

2 1 35 0 2

Ngan @nganpham

3 years ago

Took us, 3 engineers, about 2.5 months to upgrade from Ruby 2.7 to Ruby 3.1

16 9 177 0 21

Nate Berkopec @nateberkopec

3 years ago

Don't wonder why "some rando in Nebraska" holds up half the internet and then shame them when they don't put out a bugfix fast enough for your liking. We can't narrow the pool of OSS contributors to only people who can put up with this bullshit.

0 3 35 0 0

Shreyas Doshi @shreyas

3 years ago

If you work in a company with many 100s or 1000s of employees, the best networking strategy actually lies in plain sight within your company. Here’s how it works:

54 187 2K 0 2K

Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン @rakyll

3 years ago

When I was in my 20s, I wished I only worked for equity (because I was lucky enough to afford it). This industry taught me that everything you "own" as an employee relies on what your managers think, and it can be lost in a single reorg. And it happens again and again.

5 25 424 0 18

Paul Vick @panopticoncntrl

3 years ago

I realized this morning why the whole "Elon arguing with Twitter devs and firing them" brouhaha of the last few days has hit me on a physical level. It's because, as a senior IC dev, one of the most important aspects of my job is preventing crap like this. (Long 🧵incoming...)

14 152 766 0 116

Josh Nichols @[email protected] @techpickles

3 years ago

My top two are Gentoo Linux and Rails

Lucas Meijer @lucasmeijer

3 years ago

My top two are Gentoo Linux and Rails

26 8 70 0 34

0 0 0 0 0

Danielle Leong @tsunamino

3 years ago

👀 I'm looking to hire mid-senior engineers to come join me at a stealth startup tackling SaaS pricing insights! We're a WOC-founded and led company out of NYC and remote-first. RTs welcomed!

14 127 263 0 42

Josh Nichols @[email protected] @techpickles

3 years ago

Is it me, or is there no actual way to book a Genius Bar appointment online anymore? Every time I’ve tried, I end up in a knowledge-base / online support loop

1 0 1 0 0

Nate Berkopec @nateberkopec

3 years ago

I'm looking to plan my workshop schedule for the first half of 2023. If your company would be interested in bringing me in for a Rails performance workshop, in person or remote, let's do it! I've got hundreds of happy former students and would love to add some more.