I think I’ve always used args and params interchangeably; TIL parameters are what the function accepts and arguments are the values passed in. For example in Elixir:
def my_func(name, age) do
...
end
# above name, and age are parameters
# then at the call site:
my_func("Travis", 34)
# "Travis" and 34 are arguments
Just read the term “React Engineer”, I know it’s cliche but I need to scream into the void on this: there is no such thing as a “React Engineer”; engineers are licensed professionals and highly regulated, slapping components together to “make the graphql look pretty” is not an engineering job.
I get that these terms are conflated, but I never call myself a “software engineer” because I didn’t do an engineering program.
Whenever I get a spammy text my first move is to run:
loadtest -c 50 -n 1000000 --rps 10000 https://spammy_url.com
They generally don’t use beefy servers so it’s fairly easy to crash them at least for a few minutes. Thinking of creating background script to run this constantly for any spam texts I get, might be enough to spike a Lambda or Vercel bill a bit.
I’m a firm believer that 40-60% of jobs in the modern world do not need to exist. AI is driving those jobs out of existence, unfortunately it is not doing so by creating a simpler more utilitarian world, instead it serves as a multiplier for that waste and will likely create even more layers of pointless abstraction.
I’m a firm believer that 40-60% of jobs in the modern world do not need to exist. AI is driving those jobs out of existence, unfortunately it is not doing so by creating a simpler more utilitarian world, instead it serves as a multiplier for that waste and will likely create even more layers of pointless abstraction.
Last week I added internationalization to an large B2B app I’ve been working with for the past 6 years. It’s pretty gratifying to see this app that dozens of employees and hundreds of customers use every day now in Italian, Spanish, German, Polish and Dutch!
I was thinking of embedding Calendly directly on my website so people could schedule meetings with me but it drops 3 cookies and makes about 11 network requests on page load… That’s a hard pass.
We’ve moved on from the “Israel has a right to defend themselves” phase to the “Israel has a right to develop beach front real estate” phase and still most world leaders are silent about this.
This week I started getting back into some serious work for other clients. My schedule is kind of weird, I’m a consultant working 50-50 for two different companies (~20 hours each), so in a way I have two clients. However; one of the companies is an agency so I contract for them and then I contract for additional clients through them. I have two clients I bill but three or four clients I work for.
I’m happy to get back into agency work, it’s a lot of fun flitting from project to project. This is an overview of my week:
Version record into a nice “log” I’m just trying to query them and display them with some filtering by date. This was part of a larger sprint this week and last which was all-hands on (about 8 developers).Remember when the tech world solved racism by renaming master to main branch?