George Rodier
@georgerodier.com
JavaScript and Go programmer. Always cooking up something new (usually literally in the kitchen).
Current side project: pullrequestplaybook.com
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George Rodier
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· Jun 2
Pull Request Playbook
pullrequestplaybook.com
I love the pull request process. When implemented correctly, it can help level up teams and increase morale while quickly delivering high quality code to production.
However, too often it’s treated as a rubber stamp process with little value.
So I created a site to help teach how to do it right!
However, too often it’s treated as a rubber stamp process with little value.
So I created a site to help teach how to do it right!
I just got around to watching @scott.hanselman.com Ted Talk and have been thinking about the disappearing third space and AI’s role in accelerating it further. So yeah, I completely agree about the desire, want, and need for more real community.
if the discussions and calls I've been having lately are any indication, we're about to see significant renewed focus on developer communities. reality is setting in and companies are realizing AI is not a miracle; it's a tool, and tools are only valuable if and when people use them to build things
November 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I just got around to watching @scott.hanselman.com Ted Talk and have been thinking about the disappearing third space and AI’s role in accelerating it further. So yeah, I completely agree about the desire, want, and need for more real community.
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The tragic reality of being a parent: all of your precious little free time comes when you are too tired to do anything with it.
November 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The tragic reality of being a parent: all of your precious little free time comes when you are too tired to do anything with it.
Ok, Pluribus, you have my attention 👀
November 8, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Ok, Pluribus, you have my attention 👀
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“I wish we wouldn’t tell people to follow their passion. I wish we’d tell them to follow their curiosity.”
— Astrid Bin
— Astrid Bin
November 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
“I wish we wouldn’t tell people to follow their passion. I wish we’d tell them to follow their curiosity.”
— Astrid Bin
— Astrid Bin
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My favorite quote from Chris in this episode:
“I believe in the power of programmers. I believe in the human potential of people that want to create things. And that’s fundamentally why I love software is that you can create anything that you can imagine.”
“I believe in the power of programmers. I believe in the human potential of people that want to create things. And that’s fundamentally why I love software is that you can create anything that you can imagine.”
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
My favorite quote from Chris in this episode:
“I believe in the power of programmers. I believe in the human potential of people that want to create things. And that’s fundamentally why I love software is that you can create anything that you can imagine.”
“I believe in the power of programmers. I believe in the human potential of people that want to create things. And that’s fundamentally why I love software is that you can create anything that you can imagine.”
This is a super important unlock that has helped me progress in my career!
As an engineer it's not what you do, but what your work does: dontbreakprod.com/posts/show-t...
Show That Your Work Was Useful - Don't Break Prod
Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.
dontbreakprod.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
This is a super important unlock that has helped me progress in my career!
If you try to communicate with people like you do with an LLM (or use an LLM on your behalf, which, ugh, is happening more and more frequently), I know for a fact you're bad with people.
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
If you try to communicate with people like you do with an LLM (or use an LLM on your behalf, which, ugh, is happening more and more frequently), I know for a fact you're bad with people.
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So looks like I’m on the job hunt again😅
Right now, I’m looking for contract/pt work since I have another really huge “project” in the works right now🤭
If you know of any contract/pt roles in dev marketing, technical writing, or dev education, please send them my way!
Please repost and boost!💜💜
Right now, I’m looking for contract/pt work since I have another really huge “project” in the works right now🤭
If you know of any contract/pt roles in dev marketing, technical writing, or dev education, please send them my way!
Please repost and boost!💜💜
November 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
So looks like I’m on the job hunt again😅
Right now, I’m looking for contract/pt work since I have another really huge “project” in the works right now🤭
If you know of any contract/pt roles in dev marketing, technical writing, or dev education, please send them my way!
Please repost and boost!💜💜
Right now, I’m looking for contract/pt work since I have another really huge “project” in the works right now🤭
If you know of any contract/pt roles in dev marketing, technical writing, or dev education, please send them my way!
Please repost and boost!💜💜
I ran my first race today in many years. It was a 10k out and back over the Ben Franklin Bridge and along the Camden waterfront. I gave an all out effort and surpassed what I thought was possible for myself. Super happy with the result!
#DevsWhoRun
#DevsWhoRun
November 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I ran my first race today in many years. It was a 10k out and back over the Ben Franklin Bridge and along the Camden waterfront. I gave an all out effort and surpassed what I thought was possible for myself. Super happy with the result!
#DevsWhoRun
#DevsWhoRun
Happy Halloween and Go Birds!
October 31, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Happy Halloween and Go Birds!
I really like the idea in software of attempting to fix the environment and not the people, because people are the product of the environment.
With that mindset, when someone fails to meet expectations, my first thought is what are the processes that led to this result and how can they be improved.
With that mindset, when someone fails to meet expectations, my first thought is what are the processes that led to this result and how can they be improved.
October 31, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I really like the idea in software of attempting to fix the environment and not the people, because people are the product of the environment.
With that mindset, when someone fails to meet expectations, my first thought is what are the processes that led to this result and how can they be improved.
With that mindset, when someone fails to meet expectations, my first thought is what are the processes that led to this result and how can they be improved.
“Peak toilet productivity”
If you missed last week's episode of The Callback, you missed a certified banger, according to my old coworker.
He doesn't lie, so you should really check it out.
He doesn't lie, so you should really check it out.
October 31, 2025 at 2:18 PM
“Peak toilet productivity”
Hire Josh!
I am looking for a full-time job.
Being independent in open source for 3.5+ years has been wonderful. I've gotten done most of the high-level goals I wanted to, and miss having people & structure around me.
If you know of a role for a staff-level TypeScript+web developer, let me know! 🙂
Being independent in open source for 3.5+ years has been wonderful. I've gotten done most of the high-level goals I wanted to, and miss having people & structure around me.
If you know of a role for a staff-level TypeScript+web developer, let me know! 🙂
October 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Hire Josh!
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October 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Next day homemade chili verde is one of the finer things in life (even if it doesn’t aesthetically photograph well)
October 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Next day homemade chili verde is one of the finer things in life (even if it doesn’t aesthetically photograph well)
I’m not the first person to say this and won’t be the last, but Bluey is the perfect kids TV show. I find myself laughing and being more engaged than my son and nephew whenever it’s on.
October 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I’m not the first person to say this and won’t be the last, but Bluey is the perfect kids TV show. I find myself laughing and being more engaged than my son and nephew whenever it’s on.
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quick (re)intro: I'm Jason, I make tv for developers at @codetv.dev & I love teaming up with devtools companies and individual devs to make unique, memorable projects
- custom video
- event installations
- devrel / marketing strategy & campaigns
I want to work with you! details:
jason.energy/links
- custom video
- event installations
- devrel / marketing strategy & campaigns
I want to work with you! details:
jason.energy/links
Jason Lengstorf
Jason has 20+ years of developer experience, which he combines with stage and video production expertise to help companies tell better stories.
jason.energy
October 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
quick (re)intro: I'm Jason, I make tv for developers at @codetv.dev & I love teaming up with devtools companies and individual devs to make unique, memorable projects
- custom video
- event installations
- devrel / marketing strategy & campaigns
I want to work with you! details:
jason.energy/links
- custom video
- event installations
- devrel / marketing strategy & campaigns
I want to work with you! details:
jason.energy/links
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Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
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"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."
October 17, 2025 at 4:32 AM
"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."
Mentoring junior developers as a senior has become so much harder when so many are making confident knowledge assumptions based on incorrect outputs from LLMs because they haven’t understood the problems to provide the proper context.
While I’ve seen some success with senior developers, putting an LLM in the hands of a junior developer at best delays feedback loops and slows iteration. More often than not it introduces more bugs and, without someone with appropriate knowledge and oversight, halts a junior devs growth potential.
October 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Mentoring junior developers as a senior has become so much harder when so many are making confident knowledge assumptions based on incorrect outputs from LLMs because they haven’t understood the problems to provide the proper context.
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For the most part I find focusing on being a web developer and knowing JavaScript, HTML, and CSS are still the best things to do for hireability
I personally really don't like that people hire for React/Next.js developers
I can't change it, but anyone who listens to me that's the advise I'd give
I personally really don't like that people hire for React/Next.js developers
I can't change it, but anyone who listens to me that's the advise I'd give
October 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
For the most part I find focusing on being a web developer and knowing JavaScript, HTML, and CSS are still the best things to do for hireability
I personally really don't like that people hire for React/Next.js developers
I can't change it, but anyone who listens to me that's the advise I'd give
I personally really don't like that people hire for React/Next.js developers
I can't change it, but anyone who listens to me that's the advise I'd give
I don’t know if anyone else feels this way, but to me it’s very clear when your blog contains a keyword article meant to drive SEO rather than something of high quality that tries to help. Major turnoff.
October 14, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I don’t know if anyone else feels this way, but to me it’s very clear when your blog contains a keyword article meant to drive SEO rather than something of high quality that tries to help. Major turnoff.
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Frontenders, I am *begging* you to earn whatever pride you take in your work. How? By testing what you make on the devices and networks most people have. It's not hard, doesn't take long, and there are great automations like webpagetest.org that can make it even simpler.
webpagetest.org
October 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Frontenders, I am *begging* you to earn whatever pride you take in your work. How? By testing what you make on the devices and networks most people have. It's not hard, doesn't take long, and there are great automations like webpagetest.org that can make it even simpler.
While I’ve seen some success with senior developers, putting an LLM in the hands of a junior developer at best delays feedback loops and slows iteration. More often than not it introduces more bugs and, without someone with appropriate knowledge and oversight, halts a junior devs growth potential.
October 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
While I’ve seen some success with senior developers, putting an LLM in the hands of a junior developer at best delays feedback loops and slows iteration. More often than not it introduces more bugs and, without someone with appropriate knowledge and oversight, halts a junior devs growth potential.
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Good morning, America 👋
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PPP discounts available (and often cheaper) too!
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The amount of effort and experience packed into this course is unbelievable and we know you're going to love it and super-charge your career.
PPP discounts available (and often cheaper) too!
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A high quality, expansive written course that will elevate your JavaScript skills to a level you never thought was achievable.
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October 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Good morning, America 👋
JavaScript for Everyone is now available to…everyone!
The amount of effort and experience packed into this course is unbelievable and we know you're going to love it and super-charge your career.
PPP discounts available (and often cheaper) too!
JavaScript for Everyone is now available to…everyone!
The amount of effort and experience packed into this course is unbelievable and we know you're going to love it and super-charge your career.
PPP discounts available (and often cheaper) too!