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Ty Smith @tysmith.me · 13/12/2024

and the new Elden Ring trailer!

Ty Smith @tysmith.me · 13/12/2024

Washing clothes at the hotel and buying necessities > packing for “just in case”

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Was bummed to miss this since it conflicted with our vacation.

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Proton is pretty solid these days. Been running it as my primary all year and played everything I wanted to (Many new releases) on highest settings on enthusiast hardware, without really much tradeoffs.

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Benefit of Linux gaming.

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Sharky 🦈 @sharky.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

lucked out that the Metreon still has plenty of availability next week. And I found out Chloe has never seen it, so her first time!

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Will I understand Luigi's Manifesto if I haven't played Luigi's Mansion?

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 09/12/2024

Of course archive.org has it and the worse offender is … United Healthcare. archive.is/czb76

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Ty Smith @tysmith.me · 08/12/2024

You’re telling me I don’t have to write my code in a basic text editor!? 🤯

Ty Smith @tysmith.me · 08/12/2024

I don’t mind a bit of each of these, and some diversity in the opinions I see in my feeds. The problem is so many of these topics create tribalism, obsession, and the discourse overwhelms everything else.

And is a standard requirement in modern dominant languages

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My personal opinion is that even if competing editors popped up publicly, it would be a net positive, because folks will stick with editors they know over trying new languages. So a gateway for more to try Kotlin and graduate to IJ. A bigger ecosystem gives them more TAM, even if it’s not 100% of it

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It has not been a priority for them yet. Their stance has been to make IntelliJ the best standalone experience. We don’t see them as directly competing, just a protocol for many tools to interact and use it. One of those could be other editors, but that’d need to be built & would have less features.

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Editors and tooling integrations. The existing one is a great start as a POC, but a wrapper on the cli won't scale, so need a first class one built into the compiler like other languages have. Would be great for the overall ecosystem to grow too, but we have tactical need Internally.

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Stopped using bartender the day of the acquisition and switched to ice.

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And that might suck if you’re the only person in the office. Keep in mind that I’m in favor of remote work and autonomy in how to work, just recognizing it’s not universally a good thing for companies.

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I don’t think it’s entirely about drive, that’s one part, but dismissive of other environmental factors that are especially prominent in high cost environments, like lack of good home working space without distractions.

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The majority opinion seems to be negative on RTO. For many, I think it's about being forced losing autonomy vs them making decisions on what works for them. I'm split on it now, there's obvious value to both, and while some folks are responsible with autonomy, some abuse it. Hard to scale, I guess.

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Before Uber had an RTO stance, my home team, which is split across regions but has a core group in SF, went into the office regularly. It was very energizing, since most of us worked together for years then and had a strong socially culture. Most of engineering didn't do that, and was later forced.

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Having leadership that you can brainstorm technical details with and can shortcut laymen explanations with is an amazing efficiency add and trust builder for organizations.

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The trick for me was submitting to a large international conference under my company as a forcing function, and then doing many more talks over years until it became comfortable. Happy that I had a great dev rel friend there to help guide me through the process.

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