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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

I just used Chat GPT to write code that calls the Chat GPT API in order to generate more code. I'm both impressed and appalled at myself.

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 29/05/2024

[gets rejected for a job] uh excuse me but i have 30,000 followers on the website blue sky? oh you havent heard of it? its like an early retirement home for 30-somethings who wish twitter clout still meant anything

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 27/04/2024

45 degree angle. Marriage is all about compromise, even when it doesn't make much sense

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

If you care about privacy or good business practices you have the wrong printer brand, by a long shot ;)

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

Anyhoo, just a bit of early morning appreciation sent forth into the world. If you're not going to conferences, you're missing out on some life changing opportunities!

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

3rd place is the feedback workshop @arthurdoler.bsky.social gave at KCDC. Amazingly practical stuff on giving and receiving feedback that has made a huge impact on my career as a leader. (In fact, this thread was inspired by the process of reflecting on & unpacking feedback I'd received recently!)

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

2nd place is the speakers workshop by Josh Holmes at #codemash a year or two later. He said that you have 60 seconds to lock in the audience's attention, so skip the "about me" slide and come out swinging. Demonstrate your bona fides through stories and confidence. I follow that advice religiously.

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

1st place is the guy who wasted my time at #codemash so many years ago. I had paid $600 of my own money to attend & he gave a half-assed 30 minute talk. I was so pissed that I paid to attend & he was there for free that I was motivated to submit next year, got accepted, and began my speaking career

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

Was reflecting this morning on the three most impactful conference sessions I've been to over the years and thought I'd push my appreciation out into the ether. So here goes....

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

Mitch Hedberg (RIP) had a great joke about baked potatoes. He would have loved 3d printing.

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

"Hey Bob, how are sales?" "Terrible. A bunch of toothbrushes had a security hold and now they've turned into a massive botnet that's taken the site down." This is why cloud connected devices are often a bad idea www.tomshardware.com/networking/t...

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Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks — botnet causes milli...

Dental IoT devices caused millions of Euros in damages for Swiss company, says report.

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

My new home automation concept is a sensor that detects a door opening within 10 seconds of a toilet flushing and announces WASH YOUR HANDS in a loud voice. I think they'd sell like gangbusters to parents

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

Back to work for the first day since 12/20. There's not enough coffee for this. Like, I mean in the whole world

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Nearly $750 for an average car loan payment is nuts.

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Thankfully it's just for today and I get to go back home.

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

First time in a cube in 15 years. Thanks! I hate it.

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karanormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

my favorite holiday meme

a letter-board sign that reads, "mary, exhausted, having just gotten jesus to sleep, is approached by a young man who thinks to himself; what this girl needs is a drum solo"

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

I'm feeling pretty good about this #codemash session on authentication. I've continued to tighten it up and have made some significant improvements since Momentum. I think it's really solid. So, I look forward to the day after CodeMash when I suddenly realize all the ways it still sucks...

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

AI: "You're trying to implement a complex algorithm in an unfamiliar programming language, using random types you described in poorly written English? I got you, boo." Also AI: "You'd like me to create a story problem illustrating a simple 6th grade math equation? Allow me to show my ass a bit..."

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

Me, in the summer: I'm gonna submit talks I've already written to #codemash, so that I can spend December chilling out and not stressing over prep. Me in early December: this talk is garbage, I'd better overhaul it. Me in late December (probably): that was stupid

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

My black cat is 17 pounds and likes to lay on my chest while making biscuits with his knife fingers. I need multiple layers to avoid scaring. I'm glad he's happy and all, but it makes sleeping a bit tough ;)

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

Shout-out to the guy at my @momentumdevcon session who asked a question that momentarily stumped me. You, sir, are the impetus for a few new slides that will make it into my CodeMash deck. Gonna go ahead and clear up that confusion head-on.

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

I'm team #MallowsOnSweetTaters and #TeamPineappleOnPizza I think I may have suffered brain trauma as a child

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

This OpenAI drama is interesting. Looks like the board maybe tried a power play and is now in the FO stage of FA,FO?

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

Been studying nosql one-table design patterns as I prepare to start our first cloud-native project. I think I get it, lay things out in NoSQL Workbench, and then try explaining it to someone and realize nope, I still don't totally get it. Getting closer though.

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Jen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

I have a joke about legacy code, but there's probably only one person out there who truly understands it

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

I miss it too. Dunno why it lost it's draw

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Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 30/10/2023

Protect your kids this Halloween

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

Mike Pence should be forced to carry his Presidential campaign to term.

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

It used to be that Windows was frequently unstable and rebooting fixed everything. These days, my computer runs perfectly stable UNTIL I reboot, at which time Bluetooth, camera, and audio settings randomly change or devices stop working. Forced nightly windows updates are great fun.

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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

we all thought Twitter’s collapse would be swift and sudden like the fall of the Roman Empire but instead it’s been a steady, irreversible decay like the fall of the Roman Empire

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Also, consider engaging a resume consultant. My wife used one recently when leaving a job she'd held for 15 years. Fee of 2500, I think, covered resume, social (eg LinkedIn review), and 4 mock interview sessions for practice. She had great results, but of course YMMV

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

I'd be happy to review your friend's resume and cover letter template if the opinion of some rando from the Internet would be useful. I don't claim to be an expert but I've interviewed probably 100 people at this point, FWIW

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

If you: 1) Use an editor like Confluence 2) Leave documents in edit mode while you step away from your desk 3) Find random "asdfasdfghadsgfa" type garbage in your documents at some point in the future ... then you might have a cat.

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

As a hiring manager I always appreciate a cover letter, especially if it's tailored to my company and protectively addresses potential concerns like this. What have they done to refresh their skills, how quickly could they get back into the grind, etc

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

And then every floor, the elevator makes a harsh buzzing sound. Again, made me wonder if I'd done something wrong with my floor selection. Design of everyday things matters!

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

1st session at #Momentum makes me think of how poor the UX is of the elevator at the Holiday Inn I'm staying at. You have to scan your room card to choose a floor. When you scan it you get a green light. But when you choose a floor, it lights up red. I thought my floor selection was invalid...

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

On the road heading to my first Momentum conference. Looking forward to tomorrow!

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Statistically, I think LEAST is one of the best. I used ADIEU for awhile, but settled on LEAST as being pretty solid. Just gotta watch out for hitting a __A_E pattern on guess 2, at least on hard mode, because you can get stuck with too many possible words and not enough guesses to try them all

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

You have a preferred starting word yet?

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

I'm on a year long winning streak in Wordle hard mode. Anyone else still playing?

Histogram showing a 365 game winning streak in Wordle

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Twisteddoodles @twisteddoodles.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

Hey Autumn!

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

I can't attach a photo to a skeet without the app crashing. But there are fewer nazis and idiots here, so I guess that's still a net positive

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Jessica Kerr @jessitron.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

a metric is a signal to do a qualitative deep dive to generate insights, not an insight on its own. - Fred Hebert

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Seth Petry-Johnson @sethpetryjohnson.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Tomorrow night at COJUG I'll be giving my "Practical Auth for Developers" talk. If you get all twisted up over the difference between OAuth and HMAC and JWT, or how API Keys relate to passwords, then now's your chance to get straightened out! www.cojug.org

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Central Ohio Java Users Group (COJUG)

COJUG (Central Ohio Java Users Group) is a group for anyone interested in discussing Java technology, JVM languages, frameworks and libraries in the Java space. COJUG provides a meeting place for Java...

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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Personally, if I applied for and was rejected from a promotion 15 times before they begrudgingly gave it to me, only to last 24.5 Scaramuccis, I would not keep going to work.

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