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Garrett Thompson

@mynamegarrett.bsky.social
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Garrett Thompson @mynamegarrett.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Grapefruit. If it tasted anything like grapes, it’d be approximately 1,000 times better.
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Garrett Thompson @mynamegarrett.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
When I click the thumbs up on a show I like, how do I tell that streaming service it’s because it’s just a good show and not that I want to be recommended every other show in this genre?
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
On the bright side; now that we’ve hit the Republican president trifecta of creating a recession, significantly growing the national debt and plunging us in a new endless war for oil, the the next administration being Democrats is a shoo-in.
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Garrett Thompson @mynamegarrett.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Hiring is broken
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Artem Zakharchenko @kettanaito.com · 02/11/2025
A common sentiment toward automated testing is that it's extra work. And it is! So is Git. Or data structures. Or system design. Or code reviews. The point is not it being something extra you do. The point is what extra *value* it brings you if you do it.
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Justin Searls @searls.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
A cruel irony of coding agents is that everyone who blew off automated testing for the past 20 years is now telling the AI to do TDD all the time. But because LLMs were trained on decades of their shitty tests, the agents are also terrible at testing.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
The data now matches what I’d noticed anecdotally: job hopping in tech today often pays less than staying put, flipping conventional wisdom for most of my career. It looks like it’s not just tech, the broader job market looks the same. No wonder CEOs are feeling bold.
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Wage growth is doing something odd in 2025 — the last time it happened was around the Great Recession
Job "switchers" generally see wages grow at a faster pace than those who stay in their current role. However, that trend has reversed.
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Laurie @laurieontech.dev · 11/06/2025
If you and your leadership aren’t aligned on what success in your role looks like then you’re unlikely to be successful.
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Garrett Thompson @mynamegarrett.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The hubris is what allowed them to be imposters in the first place.
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Garrett Thompson @mynamegarrett.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
All the Marathon hype & convo has raised an important question: what is the point of an extraction shooter game?
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Garrett Thompson @mynamegarrett.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
That Severance finale was mid
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Garrett Thompson @mynamegarrett.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
OOF
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JLarky @jlarky.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
For everyone saying "but I can create this app in 5 minutes with AI now". You do realize that your competition can just spend 6+ minutes on it, right?
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Garrett Thompson @mynamegarrett.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Oh neat, the Tour Down Under is streaming on Peacock.
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Garrett Thompson @mynamegarrett.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
There’s no greater joy than biking to grab a coffee, pastry, beer, etc.
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Garrett Thompson @mynamegarrett.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Silo S2 ends and Severance S2 starts on Jan 17. I should just submit the vacation day now, right?
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Aaron Patterson @tenderlove.dev · 24/12/2024
If you use cast iron does it lose type information?
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