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@laurieontech.dev
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Developing software one mistake at a time. LEGO obsessed.

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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 08/09/2026
Officially a Staff Software Engineer at Netflix 🎉 …the same title I had 5 years ago at Gatsby. So friendly reminder that titles are made up and inconsistent!
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 05/09/2026
Not being able to paste in the password field HARMS security!!! Who came up with this horrid UX pattern?!
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 14/08/2026
A large number of my colleagues in Netflix games were layed off yesterday. If you know of open roles please let me know, I’d love to connect some great people.
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 15/06/2026
Quick little set of brickheadz
LEGO figures of Toy Story characters.
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 12/06/2026
Uhhh, I don’t think the trackpad is supposed to look like that
Trackpad back panel splitting apart as glue gives out.
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 22/05/2026
One person getting AI to write quality code when they know how to build what they’re building is doable. Consistently getting AI to do that at scale for a whole bunch of people who don’t know how to build what they want? Totally different problem.
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 18/05/2026
The bar for changing your app icon, even temporarily, needs to be higher. Unless you’re a game! Seasonal launch, etc But for everyone else? Stop it!
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 14/05/2026
3 days in a row of poorly designed experiences for sites that are gating behaviors until a specific point in time (enrollment, sales, etc). THERE ARE SOLUTIONS TO THIS! Use them!
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
OUT: tech bros inventing the bus IN: tech bros inventing employees
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 22/04/2026
New post on operational debt and how you identify and tackle it! leaddev.com/technical-di...
leaddev.com
The operational debt your expertise is hiding
A practical guide for staff engineers and tech leads on identifying, confronting, and paying down operational debt.
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 22/04/2026
New post on operational debt and how you identify and tackle it! leaddev.com/technical-di...
leaddev.com
The operational debt your expertise is hiding
A practical guide for staff engineers and tech leads on identifying, confronting, and paying down operational debt.
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 22/04/2026
I know that’s right! Yes for Virginia!!!!
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 21/04/2026
Anytime you worry that the public policy space has no experts to meet this moment in technology do not fret! It’s worse than that. They have Palantir!
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 16/04/2026
Don’t mind me. Just spending my whole day tailing logs.
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 15/04/2026
Sure, why not. www.wired.com/story/allbir...
wired.com
Allbirds Is Pivoting to AI Compute. Sure, Why Not
Once a $4 billion apparel juggernaut, Allbirds will rebrand as NewBird AI, a “GPU-as-a-Service” company. Hey, if you can't beat ’em, join ’em.
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 11/04/2026
Did I miss something? When did LinkedIn become a common place for ICs to pontificate.
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evelyn @evelynwebsite.com · 05/04/2026
I think one of the things about bluesky is that for a lot of its users, it represents a kind of retirement from social media. Like I’m tired and I want to get out of the game
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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This is so, so well-articulated.
People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 03/04/2026
Can’t believe I’m celebrating 5 years at Netflix 🤯 Working here has truly grown me as an engineer in ways I never anticipated. Technical challenge coupled with endless opportunity to identify and solve problems. Don’t get me wrong, it’s been a wild ride, but a rewarding one.
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 01/04/2026
Love burning multiple hours trying to tune an alert just realize it can’t be done with the data available 😭
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 01/04/2026
Happy stay off the internet day!
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 31/03/2026
January, February, UConn, April
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 18/03/2026
Codesandbox, the end of an era.
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 30/01/2026
New article! I know AI content is everywhere, but this is fully informed by my recent ramp up into a new team. leaddev.com/hiring/does-...
leaddev.com
Using AI to improve developer onboarding
AI's strengths extend to smoother onboarding processes – but to what end?
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 25/01/2026
We’re not cold, we’re not afraid, Minnesota taught us to be brave
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 04/01/2026
What a great build
Completed gameboy Lego build
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 03/01/2026
This build is going to be nostalgic
Game boy Lego set
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 25/12/2025
Merry Christmas!
A stranger things ugly Christmas sweater
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 19/12/2025
Such a shitty start to the holiday break thanks to @playstation.com support. Charge me for the game? Yup! Give me the game? Nope! Support response? That’ll be one to two business days for us to review your refund. Wtf?!
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 08/12/2025
I know people put a ton of work into this, but I’m sorry, I hate the glass iOS UI/UX so much 😭 I don’t care if my phone looks like it was made in the future. I care that it’s easy to focus my eyes!
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 08/12/2025
Klaus truly is one of the best holiday movies ever made. Makes me smile every year.
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 02/12/2025
It’s a tough job market, but given that I recently transitioned roles after more than 4 years it was on my mind. New post for the lead dev is live! leaddev.com/career-devel...
leaddev.com
The questions you need to ask before quitting your job
Once you know that you’re ready to move on from your job, how do you actually take the first step?
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 26/11/2025
Today’s the day!
Me wearing a stranger things shirt with the outline of the mind flayer and all the kids.
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 13/11/2025
Go play some games! Boggle is my favorite 🎮 www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...
netflix.com
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 06/11/2025
Just here, doing my daily duty, of ruining my workplace 😎
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 05/11/2025
I’m convinced, at this point, that about 90% of the things in tech look hard because you aren’t in the details. Once you dig in it’s a permutation of patterns that aren’t too complex. The other 10%, ya, I’m not smart enough for that shit.
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 05/11/2025
Way to go Virginia!!! Was busier than usual at the polls when we went this morning. Glad to see that was a good omen.
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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 29/09/2025
tired: it's always DNS inspired: ICANN feel it coming in the air tonight
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 21/10/2025
My first ever full time developer job was working in the DNS domain. It’s the backbone of the internet so it is both an unbelievable footgun and incredibly resilient to change. Yes, both can be true at once!
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 20/10/2025
It's always DNS. Except when it's AWS. (In this case, it was both.)
techcrunch.com
Amazon DNS outage breaks much of the internet | TechCrunch
The outage affected websites like Coinbase and Fortnite, and disrupted services like Signal, Zoom and Amazon's own products, including Ring.
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GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
A variation on XKCD's "compiling" comic:

    The #1 Programmer Excuse for Legitimately Slacking Off: "US-East-1 is down."
    [Two programmers are sword-fighting on office chairs in a hallway. An unseen manager calls them back to work through an open office door.]
    Manager: Hey! Get back to work!
    Cueball: AWS is down!
    Manager: Oh. Carry on.
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 20/10/2025
Today is great! Something working slowly or not at all? Definitely AWS’s fault! Nothing to see here 🎶
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 20/10/2025
I wonder how many utilities won’t be built because of AI. Quick scripts that format data, or automate other mundane tasks that folks won’t bother to write.
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 20/10/2025
Where in we learn that a us-east-1 outage teaches us a lot about what systems just went with the default 😅
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 20/10/2025
The more systems I explore/learn the less time I have to overthink different permutations of their architecture. I have yet to determine if this is a pro or a con!
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sarahquaint @sarahquaint.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
While providing tech support for my FIL: FIL: What's that screen? ME: The terminal. You should never use it. FIL: Never? ME: So you know how I'm allowed to watch you open the electrical panel and swap out breakers, but I'm not allowed to ever open up it myself? FIL: Ah! I understand, thank you.
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 09/10/2025
Guess now is as good a time as any! After 4.5 years in Platform I’ve embarked on a new adventure in Games Platform 🎮 Excited to get closer to Netflix customers and learn a different domain. Oh, and… about.netflix.com/news/level-u...
about.netflix.com
Level Up Your Holidays With Party Games Coming to Netflix on TV - About Netflix
Netflix is leveling up your living room. An all-new slate of party games is coming soon.
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 17/09/2025
Underwatermelon is far more addictive of a game than it should be
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 14/09/2025
I used to sit down to draft blog posts in one sitting. That doesn’t happen anymore. I didn’t realize how much practice and repetition had made things easier.
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