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I finally got fed up with making work + personal Git repos work on my machine. Ever clone a work repository and accidentally make commits using your personal email? Or forget how t…

The answer to this is to shift left into product/design. Sure, I'm doing less technical thinking these days. But all the hard thinking is happening on feature design. Good feature …

Opencode

Not sure if they're still doing it, but GitLab does the code review interview, and I too really liked it. Before the interview, you clone the repo and get the app running on your m…

Taking it for a spin today

Follow up to a 2020 thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23803539

hey kev quirk i'm tom quirk. great article!

https://gitpod.io

I appreciate your opinion. And maybe there is some truth to your statement. But in the professional context, none of that really matters IMO. If someone in your team is offended (a…

I'm so glad you feel this way! And thanks for your suggestion. I'll definitely do a follow-up post on good alternatives to commonly used non-inclusive phrases. This tweet by the Wo…

So many words! This tweet covers some great alternatives: https://twitter.com/techseowomen/status/1317545475021701126

Hey everyone, OP here. I know this can be a somewhat controversial topic, so I'm keen to hear your perspectives on inclusive language and inclusion in general. Thanks for stumbling…

Someone get me Deadmau5's number! https://music-grid.surge.sh/?fbclid=IwAR3Xc0-eQGjjQxebL2UJW4...

It's interesting that email isn't more common in promotion of OSS. It seems like there's lack of tooling and so people put it in the "too much work" bucket. Email is one of the mos…

Here's a friendly Python library that is ideal for this: https://github.com/tomquirk/linkedin-api

Awesome! Sorry, I was only semi-serious, because my last name is Quirk and it seemed like a good fit :D

Are you hiring? :joy:

There you go! We haven't got the actual model up there currently, but great point - will aim to get an actual demo deployed Thanks for the advice