Brandon Weaver

@wired.com this type of article is beneath you, do better. I'm considering canceling my subscription if this is the standard your journalism is held to.

Getting a paper like screen protector was easily one of the best improvements for my iPad for art use cases.

@martin.kleppmann.com is a machine on stuff like this. Met him back in 2014 before I joined Playstation via a friend, Conrad, and he was already talking about a lot of db theory.

Black to the Future?

Make failure cheap and easy to recover from, or the fear will eat your team alive.

Had this referenced today in a talk at SF Ruby.

I mean we love to share and go diving down rabbit holes with folks.

It's at the point that I wonder if the plural of autistic folks is a Discord.

But for real, even we autistic folks have a rolodex of other autists across other hobbies and interests we reach out to all the time.

....you didn't have to do us all like that Jerry, too far man.

There's a joke between me and a few autistic friends whenever they start info-dumping on their brand new favorite hobby:

Did you just do an autism to that poor hobby?

Granted all in good fun, and way too much self-awareness of how we curate legions of hobbies.

The energy with which I avoid trying new things, _especially_ if I think I'd enjoy it, for that exact reason.

I avoid chess like the plague, that one especially would be ruinous.

Slack went boom, here we go

Add destructuringWrap option for multi-line destructuring patterns by baweaver · Pull Request #18155 · prettier/prettier Description Adds a new destructuringWrap option to control whether multi-line object destructuring patterns are preserved or collapsed to a single line. Motivation: Issue #2550 (open since 2017) re...

Don't suppose anyone has connections to folks that work on Prettier?

Seeing if I can get a PR in to make it less collapse-happy on destructuring and multi-line calls:

github.com/prettier/pre...

Bright side? Nose was clear for a few weeks after at least.

Not sure I'd recommend the method but the results were certainly there 💀

There was one time I took that blazing challenge at Buffalo wild wings back in college. I don't remember what it was but someone got me laughing enough to choke and propel said sauce out my nose.

Stood up, went to restroom, proceeded to have the worst pain I'd ever felt.

That hits hard. A significant portion of my family is conservative with some being very MAGA.

I'll let them know to check you all out! Thanks for the info.

Anyone have connections to urban planning, especially around housing and transportation, in NYC? Have a senior engineer I know looking to get their foot in the door.

A good pun is its own reword, Jerry.

Pretty much. That one's fairly straightforward but I tend to want it on occasion.

IRB wise I always like to have a few utilities like deep_merge, deep_group, deep_tally, bury, and a few others. Probably things like that.

GitHub - baweaver/bw: Personal utilities Personal utilities. Contribute to baweaver/bw development by creating an account on GitHub.

On the list of petty things I have done is grabbing the `bw` gem entirely for vanity, but also to start putting all the little tools and snippets I keep on collecting into one gem that I can just install and have a kit to play with:

github.com/baweaver/bw

(It's empty now, mostly parked name atm)

Any internet strangers say the opposite and we'll have some words with them 🙂

Give @lorencrary.bsky.social some love, PSF made a hard call, but they made the right call:

pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...

If you have the means consider a donation as well.

You made the right call, hold your head high.

That's how you lead with integrity.

YouTube video by Confreaks Rocky Mountain Ruby 2025 - We Who Remember Magic by Brandon Weaver

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQQt...

My keynote, "We Who Remember Magic", from Rocky Mountain Ruby just posted.

The face that launched a thousand Swifts?

"Great authors know the difference between when an idea warrants an epic, a story, or a poem and do not try and stretch it beyond its worth."

That idea is very applicable to software as well. Know when a simple solution is correct.

One of the wisest quotes I heard was randomly while browsing through the sci-fi/fiction section of Barnes and Noble, and it was a father and a son chatting about what made a good book. Paraphrasing, it was something like this: