Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 06/11/2025It is, at our advanced age, a Deep Pull, but an absolute classic. 010
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Some qualities of good software: complete, accurate, fulfills a real user need, has a UX that delights users, and is extensible. 000
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 16/09/2025You are leaving the widening economic inequality in our society out of your analysis. 000
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 04/09/2025I think @jeffatwood.bsky.social (Coding Horror) is a good dude with a good heart. Much respect to a person who did well with honest and hard work and wants others to have the same opportunity. 000
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 26/08/2025"Zhu told TechCrunch that he credits his early interest in venture capital and startups from ... Discord group chats he joined in 2020, when he was 13, that included people like Sam Altman." Very normal stuff. I'll bet @bcantrill.bsky.social would have an opinion about this.techcrunch.com17-year-old Eric Zhu's startup was built in a high school bathroom — now it's raised $2.3M and is emerging from stealth | TechCrunchAviato is looking to build a private markets database that includes an analytical layer to help investors make decisions. 010
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Rest in peace, Sly. Truly one of the greatest to ever do it. 000
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Have they tried improving people's lives by creating universal benefits? They're actually pretty popular! 000
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 21/05/2025This is an insane tax policy and they should've voted no. It favors one segment of lower-wage earners (who get tips) over another (those who do not). Get ready for tips to be a part of your checkout process literally everywhere. The right policy is MFA and a raised minimum wage, a universal benefit. 110
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 19/05/2025You can be mad at all of these: - The information environment - Macroeconomic trends (wealth inequality) - A feckless D party that can't figure out what it believes - NGOs and non-profits that advocate for dumb stuff - People falling for Trump's con - Malice and cruelty from some of the electorate 000
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Although posting this made me wonder if it would be viable to use them to create single room occupancies, which are rapidly disappearing. 020
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Conversion of commercial property to residential property is often not economically viable because of the plumbing work (going from large shared bathrooms to individual bathrooms) or ensuring that every unit has windows. 210
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 19/05/2025It's just like a having a union! Except that the CEO actually *can* shut it down whenever they like, and indeed they *do* in order to curb the power of labor in the workplace. If actually you want to secure the *right* to work remotely, you need to organize to secure that right. 010
Reposted by Josh KodroffHoneycomb @honeycomb.io · 05/05/2025🚀 Just launched: the Platform Engineering Workshop Series by @pulumi.com Join experts from Pulumi, Docker, GitLab, Temporal, and our team at Honeycomb for a free 6-part workshop series for platform and DevOps engineers. 🗓️ Runs May-July 🔗 buff.ly/BRE4Z3W #PlatformEngineering #DevOps #PulumiUP 061
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Given the current levels of wealth inequality, I don't blame them this time, but as you may recall post-9/11, our citizenry was called to exercise our patriotism by going to the mall and buying stuff. 000
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 01/05/2025It's horrific politics, and it's inaccurate - there's stuff we do need on those ships in addition to a lot of stuff we do not - but the thing that is concerning is that in all the different climates in which it has been said, Americans never react well to calls for material sacrifice post-WWII. 110
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Sorry, buddy. You are too valuable to the organization for us to let you leave. 020
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 01/05/2025My impression is that Bukele is kinda selectively authoritarian. He used to be in a straight up leftist party when he entered politics. 000
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 01/05/2025My APN blog post on how @pulumi.com ESC tool can help your organization improve its security posture (while making your developers and ops folks happier) is now live! aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/ho...aws.amazon.comHow to strengthen Cloud Security with Pulumi ESC and AWS Secrets Manager | Amazon Web ServicesModern organizations face challenges managing secrets across multiple environments, leading to security risks and operational complexities due to secrets sprawl across various storage locations and sy... 011
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 01/05/2025I might quibble with this definition somewhat: I think a product *mindset* (customer focus) is absolutely critical, but I don't know that you necessarily need PM or designer specialists for the scale of most of the orgs I've seen. If you're mega-scale, then yes, you do need these specialists. 000
Reposted by Josh KodroffVikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 30/04/2025AGI is coming for all of us. It will write symphonies, direct movies, and author the best novels. The only thing it won’t be able to do is VC investing, which must be reserved as a task only for the most-special people 4504687770
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Her best performing ads were the ones that spoke about economic issues. She stopped running them pretty quickly in order to double-down on different issues and trying to run the table on suburban moderates and Republicans. 000
Reposted by Josh KodroffJon Kuperman @jonkuperman.com · 17/04/2025ChatGPT is like the British Museum of the internet. 57015
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Much like your codebase, if the most common tasks need to span multiple groups (folders in code), especially if you have to do a "rainbow" way up the org chart (directory tree) and then back down, you should consider a reorg that makes those tasks more "ergonomic". 010
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Employment isn't the issue IMO: It's attainability of a decent life with decent economic security for the majority of people. I still believe that left economics first is the way to political victory, or at worst an honorable defeat. Mealy-mouthed centrism is ineffective and morally indefensible. 020
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Despite being a software engineer for the first dozen years of my career, I'm clearly more of an SRE bent of mind in this respect. 020
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Jeff Atwood is a good dude. I learned SO MUCH from StackOverflow, and his recent activism to fight wealth inequality and charity to support the public good is so obviously heartfelt. He starts speaking around 25 min: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...youtube.comRebuilding The American Dream : A Path ForwardYouTube video by The Cooper Union 061
Reposted by Josh KodroffV to the H to the A and a Junior @superpixels.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Kafka is for closers 1265
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Gonna be weird RSVPing on Partyful for community events. 110
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 26/03/2025It's so great all these generous people giving away MacBook Air's on various Meetup Groups. Really restores my faith in humanity. 100
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 26/03/2025This picture is not a significant departure from the history of the United States, at least since the Gilded Age. Do you know why Hawaii is a US state? 000
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 24/03/2025I've done this and would gladly recommend. The quality is far less questionable than its donor thinks. 110
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Our current level of incoming *illegal* immigration is clearly a problem to me. How much legal immigration one wants to allow and what path to citizenship to offer for the undocumented people already here is a different issue altogether. 100
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Really? You think Bernie is big on US imperialism? 100
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Java and .NET is either an exception to this, or a perfect example, and I honestly don't know which. Personally, I thought the Visual Studio experience (especially with ReSharper) was magnificent, but "user experience" might also include "having to run on Windows for many years", so idk. 010
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Generative AI is most useful for 2 things for me: 1. Summarizing content (when precision is not of paramount importance) 2. Creating refined content for public consumption from detailed notes that include clear goals/structure of output 000
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 21/03/2025YES. This is what you want in your company culture, or really any important relationships between people. 010
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Pickles (and even mustard) on pizza are surprisingly good (think Cubano ingredients as toppings), and I say this as something of a food purist. 010
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Is it fair to say that being a successful manager requires a certain capability for egolessness? I'm thinking in particular about the coaching aspect of management. 000
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 14/03/2025One of my favorite things about your perspective is how you have this grown-up sense of compassion that treats people with respect, but without coddling them. 140
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Is there some fantastic tool out there that lets OSS companies link GH issues to paid customers? Has to be a common problem. 000
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 12/03/2025You cannot treat people whose votes you need in order to win with contempt and expect to be victorious. You must instead address their legitimate concerns with words and actions. Saying the electorate is not smart enough is by definition anti-democratic (and elitist)! 100
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 12/03/2025These are different things you list here, but: - Biden's own public performance was not helpful - MAGA crazy stuff is not disqualifying to average voters. You need to accept that truth. - "Our country is being stolen" only works when people aren't getting a fair economic deal, which they are not 100
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 10/03/2025And why are the Democrats losing ground with Black voters? That would've been unthinkable at any other point during my lifetime. You must address economic inequality (i.e. class) first and foremost, which you don't do by doubling down on college-educated upper middle class voters who vote D anyway. 110
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 10/03/2025The messaging was first and foremost about how Trump was an existential thread to "democracy". People read that as "the status quo", which they did not see as being worth defending. Some of them with very good reason, as their standard of living is only going down. How will you win those votes back? 100
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Yes, they thought he would be better for their material conditions. Obviously. That's why they voted for him. I know what Trump stands for. I don't like it, did not vote for it, think it's immoral, but I know what he stands for. I *canvassed* for the Harris campaign and I still don't know. 100
Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Trump won the popular vote and the electoral college, yes - his messaging was more effective. Obviously. He won. Despite many voters' reservations. Bias may have played a role, but it was not why she lost. She lost b/c the party messaging and policy priorities are not what the electorate wants. 100
