Dave

Show That Your Work Was Useful - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

As an engineer it's not what you do, but what your work does: dontbreakprod.com/posts/show-t...

Way to commit on the facial hair.

The Bay Area is a parody of itself.

Dinosaurs Eat Everybody :: Random Thoughts About AI

Just what the world needs, another software engineer pontificating about AI! dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/random-...

Dinosaurs Eat Everybody :: Just Use a Laptop

New post about not using a phone for everything: dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/just-us...

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Prioritize Ruthlessly - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Reaching for increased effort or pushed timeline is often a crutch to avoid the important work of prioritization. Prioritize Ruthlessly: dontbreakprod.com/posts/priori...

My ability to get sucked into things like Cookie Clicker ( orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/ ) is probably one of my biggest failings as a human.

Introducing: Postwave Postwave is for people who want to build their own website... And post things to that site... And...

Ok, I'm trying out @dev.to for posting about some tech things. I just wrote something about Postwave: dev.to/dorkrawk/int...

I finally put together a site (and example implementation) for the blog engine I've been working on, Postwave. It's ready for people to start playing around with. Check it out at postwave.blog

Find Good Problems - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Find good problems: dontbreakprod.com/posts/find-g...

Lately I've had the strong urge to work on small tech/programming projects that nobody is likely to care about but me.

Truly humanity's greatest threat!

This is the AI that's going to take over humanity? Call me when it can do some basic tasks 🦖...

Dinosaurs Eat Everybody :: Playing With Linux

I wrote a bit about how it's nice to have things both configured and configurable after playing around with #omarchy for a while: dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/playing...

Handle Feedback Productively - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Get good at getting feedback: dontbreakprod.com/posts/handle...

Installing Omarchy on an ancient (2012) MacBook Air has led me ordering a replacement battery to address the horrible battery life. For about $30 this laptop that was gathering dust will be a very usable little machine.

Dinosaurs Eat Everybody :: now

Now: dinosaurseateverybody.com/now

Whoa, LocalSend ( localsend.org ) is incredible for moving files around heterogeneous devices (iPhone, Macs, Linux, Windows, etc.). It just works! No setup, no accounts.

So I dug up an old 2012 MacBook Air and installed Omarchy on it. I guess now I'm spending my night messing around with Arch and Hyprland?

Communicate Early and Often - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Bad news doesn't age well: dontbreakprod.com/posts/commun...

We feed our leopard gecko live crickets. There is one remaining cricket in his terrarium that has been chirping all day for the past few days. Come on lizard! Just eat him, he's driving me nuts! 🦎

Dinosaurs Eat Everybody :: Another And Or Not Record

I wrote a blog post about writing and recording my last solo record: dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/another...

Hmmm... I bet my website ( dinosaurseateverybody.com ) is awful on mobile...

Happiness Should Be a Career Goal - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Be happy. dontbreakprod.com/posts/happin...

I'm almost relieved that Omarchy doesn't support dual booting. Now I can stop thinking about replacing my Omakub setup. For now.

I KNOW I don't have the free time to start playing around with Arch, but Omarchy ( omarchy.org ) does look kind of cool....

Oooof. Too real.

It's been a while since I've spent some time shuffling around webpage layouts to match a mock up. It's both really frustrating and kind of rewarding.

Stereoscopic, by And Or Not 3 track album

I'm finally putting out a new EP by my noisy bass-driven solo project, And Or Not. It's called Stereoscopic. Check it out! andornot.bandcamp.com/album/stereo...