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Jeff Dwyer

@jdwyah

A facility that processes peanuts. Founder at http://prefab.cloud. Thoughts at http://jdwyah.substack.com Past: Advisor, EIR Reforge, VPE ezcater, Eng HubSpot http://forcerank.it Kid & code wrangler.

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To whomever decided corepack was a good idea: you were wrong.

01.10.2025 14:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Right now there’s no feedback that a kid has done more than they need. If the kid really want that A, they go full throttle. And feedback is β€œgreat!” But they don’t know that they’re overdoing it.

06.06.2025 21:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Free idea: final grades are the absolute value of (100-grade). If you get 100, great. But if you are a kid that overworks and does way too much because they’re stressed about things, then you give them a 115/100 which gives a final grade of 85. They gotta learn not to overwork.

06.06.2025 21:42 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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one of those days

07.05.2025 18:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Arcane Pong Battle

Kids put this together this morning. β€œArcane Pong” jdwyah.github.io/arcane-pong/

19.04.2025 18:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Thank you!

18.04.2025 18:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Video of a student in my town who wrote a political op-ed being grabbed off the street by government agents bsky.app/profile/pale...

27.03.2025 16:10 πŸ‘ 6575 πŸ” 1420 πŸ’¬ 172 πŸ“Œ 51

There were people trying to go along with it to get something out of it, business collaborators, people doing the seig heils ironically. They were people just like us!

10.04.2025 23:23 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Chatting with a customer and hearing a complaint about something, when you’ve got an improvement in beta and getting to turn it on for them right then is the best feeling.

08.04.2025 23:20 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Repairs
Repairs YouTube video by Brian Estelle

actual footage of me coding with cursor yesterday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IFU...

13.03.2025 17:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Actual numbers on what it took a seed-stage startup to hire their first two founding backend engineers (full-remote)

It's good to know as a candidate: this is the type of competition you might have. And as a founder: this is how much time investment it can take to make a hire

08.03.2025 10:43 πŸ‘ 96 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 4
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OMG www.sesame.com/research/cro...

Me right now:

03.03.2025 18:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Molly White does amazing work. Support it if you have the means.

24.01.2025 19:19 πŸ‘ 89 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Child is disappointed because the Snoopy cartoon she watched did not feature the Snoop man (aka the host of the puppy bowl).

15.01.2025 00:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Going to the ER is just `sudo healthcare`

06.01.2025 18:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Slack huddles are allright, but every time I ask someone to huddle me, my brain feels like I asked them to cuddle.

06.01.2025 15:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

What if we all get a fever but the doctors don’t have enough cowbells

30.12.2024 19:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Only note on scratch is that there are a ton of really dumb games on there so you need to watch them like a hawk so they don’t end up playing PizzaClicker3000 when you think they’re learning.

30.12.2024 21:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Got a new computer setup and pretty sure I didn't swear even once. Personal growth is possible. Digging fish. Mise is pretty nice so far. Couldn't quite get it to go the distance with op for env vars, but looks like that's actively in development. github.com/venkytv/dire... did the trick for me.

30.12.2024 20:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Diagram with large number: 2.7.123
First β€œ2” is commented: Proud version. Bump when you are proud of the release
Second β€œ7” is commented: Default version. Just normal/okay releases
Third β€œ123” is commented: Shame version. Bump when fixing things too embarrassing to admit

Diagram with large number: 2.7.123 First β€œ2” is commented: Proud version. Bump when you are proud of the release Second β€œ7” is commented: Default version. Just normal/okay releases Third β€œ123” is commented: Shame version. Bump when fixing things too embarrassing to admit

I propose we replace semantic versioning with pride versioning

21.12.2024 19:07 πŸ‘ 2551 πŸ” 744 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 52

I'm sure using iPhone mirroring to use my 2FA generator without searching for my phone is wrong, but if it is please don't tell me.

14.11.2024 18:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œIt’s not what you say, it’s what people hear”. I wish I’d heard/internalized that earlier.
I mused a bit in jdwyah.substack.com/p/how-to-act... as well. β€œInessential accuracy” feels like something I wish a boss had drummed into my head earlier.

08.11.2024 16:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How Prefab scales with Spanner’s PostrgeSQL interface | Google Cloud Blog Drawn by its uptime, strong ACID transactions, horizontal scaling, and PostgreSQL support, Prefab uses Spanner as a datastore for a variety of uses.

I put together this post on how we use Spanner and am super excited that Google put it on their eng blog. Spanner is very cool, but I think pretty under the radar. If you love Postgres, but have a huge table you may be surprised at how affordable Spanner can be and the performance is pretty amazing.

08.11.2024 15:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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06.11.2024 18:55 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How Prefab scales with Spanner’s PostrgeSQL interface | Google Cloud Blog Drawn by its uptime, strong ACID transactions, horizontal scaling, and PostgreSQL support, Prefab uses Spanner as a datastore for a variety of uses.

Postgres is amazing. But sometimes you have a table that is just unbounded in how you expect it to grow. Is there a way to have postgres experience with truly limitless ability to scale? We did some benchmarking of Postgres vs Google Spanner and were super impressed. cloud.google.com/blog/product...

01.11.2024 13:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com !

01.11.2024 09:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Feature Flag Cleanup & Hygiene (with Zombie-detection) | Prefab Stay on top of your feature flags with a tool designed for cleanup and organization. Our feature flag management solution includes zombie detection and intuitive flag tagging to keep your codebase lea...

Just launched zombie detection for feature flags. prefab.cloud/blog/feature...

01.11.2024 09:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s just ridiculously easy to spin your wheels doing marketing. Here’s my top tips:

erm…. I don’t actually have tips yet. Send halp.

01.12.2023 14:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How to Actually Grow in Your Organization Part 1: Digging a leadership reputation hole 😬

Wrote some words about some mistakes I made: jdwyah.substack.com/p/how-to-act...

19.09.2023 00:29 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Trying to start conversations on the Internet is like trying to start a fire with flint in a hurricane.

10.09.2023 00:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0