Ferris
@im-ferris.bsky.social
I build & scale tech for businesses, from Fortune-100's to startups. Your solutions partner when you want it built right. Follow for learnings from our work at Urban Dynamics!
Managers have asked me a lot about if AI is a problem or not for junior devs to use. Here’s my hot take:
AI is the new StackOverflow. This is not a new problem, just the next evolution of it.
My experience has been the secret to people getting better is frequent, quality feedback.
AI is the new StackOverflow. This is not a new problem, just the next evolution of it.
My experience has been the secret to people getting better is frequent, quality feedback.
May 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Managers have asked me a lot about if AI is a problem or not for junior devs to use. Here’s my hot take:
AI is the new StackOverflow. This is not a new problem, just the next evolution of it.
My experience has been the secret to people getting better is frequent, quality feedback.
AI is the new StackOverflow. This is not a new problem, just the next evolution of it.
My experience has been the secret to people getting better is frequent, quality feedback.
January 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Oreo may have won the grocery stores.
But Biscoff has won the skies.
But Biscoff has won the skies.
January 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Oreo may have won the grocery stores.
But Biscoff has won the skies.
But Biscoff has won the skies.
How is tech still so bad? The airport I’m at just had their power blip for ~2 seconds. Hard rebooted all the self check kiosks for @americanair.bsky.social. We’re at 8 minutes and they’re still not ready for someone to use them yet 🤦♀️
January 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
How is tech still so bad? The airport I’m at just had their power blip for ~2 seconds. Hard rebooted all the self check kiosks for @americanair.bsky.social. We’re at 8 minutes and they’re still not ready for someone to use them yet 🤦♀️
“This is fine 🔥”
Not speaking to this particular deal or any that have come before it but eventually pushing early or growth stage risk into the debt part of the capital stack (especially in illiquid structures) is going to go spectacularly awry.
*DATABRICKS INKS $5 BILLION FINANCING FROM PRIVATE CREDIT, BANKS
*DATABRICKS INKS $5 BILLION FINANCING FROM PRIVATE CREDIT, BANKS
January 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
“This is fine 🔥”
What ever happened to ClubHouse? Is anyone still active there? Haven’t heard about it in forever.
January 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
What ever happened to ClubHouse? Is anyone still active there? Haven’t heard about it in forever.
What I feel when Github Actions starts acting up.
January 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
What I feel when Github Actions starts acting up.
Me: “Has anyone seen my phone?”
Friend: “Did you leave it in the charging toaster again?”
(Read more from @theverge.com here
www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/243... )
Friend: “Did you leave it in the charging toaster again?”
(Read more from @theverge.com here
www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/243... )
This toaster-looking gadget boosts your phone’s battery in seconds
The price of never charging your phone again is... a lot.
www.theverge.com
January 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Me: “Has anyone seen my phone?”
Friend: “Did you leave it in the charging toaster again?”
(Read more from @theverge.com here
www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/243... )
Friend: “Did you leave it in the charging toaster again?”
(Read more from @theverge.com here
www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/243... )
LinkedIn, I know you're rate limiting me to protect yourself... but when that rate limiting kicks in for opening 4 tabs at once, it means you've got some architectural problems buddy.
January 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
LinkedIn, I know you're rate limiting me to protect yourself... but when that rate limiting kicks in for opening 4 tabs at once, it means you've got some architectural problems buddy.
Me: “Somehow I’ve dressed myself today like a nomad web-dev doing soul searching in Argentina.”
Friend: “Why a web developer?”
Me: “Backend engineers know who the hell they are!”
Friend: “Why a web developer?”
Me: “Backend engineers know who the hell they are!”
January 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Me: “Somehow I’ve dressed myself today like a nomad web-dev doing soul searching in Argentina.”
Friend: “Why a web developer?”
Me: “Backend engineers know who the hell they are!”
Friend: “Why a web developer?”
Me: “Backend engineers know who the hell they are!”
Where are the io_uring peeps on here?
January 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Where are the io_uring peeps on here?
Things that did NOT change my life:
❌ AI tools
❌ Crypto
❌ Working at a startup
❌ Reading a book per week
Things that did change my life:
✅ Sleeping 8 hours a night
✅ Traveling to new places
✅ Starting my own business
✅ Owning a rice cooker
Don't worry about missing out on the current trend.
❌ AI tools
❌ Crypto
❌ Working at a startup
❌ Reading a book per week
Things that did change my life:
✅ Sleeping 8 hours a night
✅ Traveling to new places
✅ Starting my own business
✅ Owning a rice cooker
Don't worry about missing out on the current trend.
January 8, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Things that did NOT change my life:
❌ AI tools
❌ Crypto
❌ Working at a startup
❌ Reading a book per week
Things that did change my life:
✅ Sleeping 8 hours a night
✅ Traveling to new places
✅ Starting my own business
✅ Owning a rice cooker
Don't worry about missing out on the current trend.
❌ AI tools
❌ Crypto
❌ Working at a startup
❌ Reading a book per week
Things that did change my life:
✅ Sleeping 8 hours a night
✅ Traveling to new places
✅ Starting my own business
✅ Owning a rice cooker
Don't worry about missing out on the current trend.
Are luxury and tech antithetical to one another?
January 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Are luxury and tech antithetical to one another?
I hath finally gazed upon the iCalendar file format. And I have found it wanting.
This is why we can't have nice things 🤦♀️
This is why we can't have nice things 🤦♀️
December 29, 2024 at 10:37 PM
I hath finally gazed upon the iCalendar file format. And I have found it wanting.
This is why we can't have nice things 🤦♀️
This is why we can't have nice things 🤦♀️
Merry Christmas 🎄 may your prod environments have no alerts!
December 25, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Merry Christmas 🎄 may your prod environments have no alerts!
Wait… is using a reverse proxy not a valid backend-for-frontend design? That was the only thing that made sense to me 😭
i forgot to mention one big thing: if i proxy requests to the PDS, AppViews only gets to see my PDS' IP address (with some headers mixed in ofc)
IMO proxy > BFF, not even a competition
IMO proxy > BFF, not even a competition
i still think atproto oauth legitimizing backend-for-frontend is a mistake and makes it easy to spin up services that are actively hostile to independent clients and appviews being spun up
December 23, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Wait… is using a reverse proxy not a valid backend-for-frontend design? That was the only thing that made sense to me 😭
And for my next trick, I’m going to take this (*gestures to “product”*) and make it fit through this (*points to “market”*).
Now can someone hand me that sledge hammer?
Now can someone hand me that sledge hammer?
December 23, 2024 at 9:46 PM
And for my next trick, I’m going to take this (*gestures to “product”*) and make it fit through this (*points to “market”*).
Now can someone hand me that sledge hammer?
Now can someone hand me that sledge hammer?
Realized I hit 13 followers and am way more excited about it than I should be haha. Somehow feels more real than having hundreds on Twitter / X 🤷♀️
a man wearing a green jersey with the number 13 on the back
ALT: a man wearing a green jersey with the number 13 on the back
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December 23, 2024 at 1:01 AM
Realized I hit 13 followers and am way more excited about it than I should be haha. Somehow feels more real than having hundreds on Twitter / X 🤷♀️
Reposted by Ferris
"Where does opening the Steam overlay go?"
"Please, ISteamUtils, it's got to be ISteamUtils"
"That's right, in ISteamFriends"
"Please, ISteamUtils, it's got to be ISteamUtils"
"That's right, in ISteamFriends"
December 22, 2024 at 1:42 AM
"Where does opening the Steam overlay go?"
"Please, ISteamUtils, it's got to be ISteamUtils"
"That's right, in ISteamFriends"
"Please, ISteamUtils, it's got to be ISteamUtils"
"That's right, in ISteamFriends"
Is there a good website or resource for seeing performance / $ per hour for cloud VMs? I recently had to do a bit of research and was shocked I couldn’t find anywhere that had this info for any single cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
December 21, 2024 at 10:12 PM
Is there a good website or resource for seeing performance / $ per hour for cloud VMs? I recently had to do a bit of research and was shocked I couldn’t find anywhere that had this info for any single cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
Why are more people not talking about AWS EC2 instance perf differences?! I still see t2’s in prod sometimes and somehow c7a.2xlarge’s have a GeekBench score 10,000?!
December 21, 2024 at 1:17 AM
Why are more people not talking about AWS EC2 instance perf differences?! I still see t2’s in prod sometimes and somehow c7a.2xlarge’s have a GeekBench score 10,000?!
How it feels to know modern Java syntax can be a hyperlink 🤯
how it feels to get to write `thing = optional.map(...).orElse(...);` in java
December 18, 2024 at 11:45 PM
How it feels to know modern Java syntax can be a hyperlink 🤯
Today’s highlight: Some unexpected but fun exchanges with @katef.bsky.social 😄 where I also learned about some cool projects on here they’ve done like @happyautomata.com 🔁
December 17, 2024 at 2:11 AM
Today’s highlight: Some unexpected but fun exchanges with @katef.bsky.social 😄 where I also learned about some cool projects on here they’ve done like @happyautomata.com 🔁