Freddie Carthy
@freddiecarthy.bsky.social
Software Engineer @Netflix. PDX. Lover of aphorisms, drinker of coffee. Prev @Spotify @Twitter v1.
Saving this for when I have to teach someone this lesson for the hundredth time.
nate moore@natemoo.re · 3mo agobabe is everything okay? you've barely touched your five mutually exclusive boolean props that should have been a single enum.
YouTube keeps showing me old @theonion.com videos and I am not complaining.
Parenting Expert Has Nerve To Tell You How To Raise Your Own Goddamn Kids
YouTube video by The Onion
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I’ve been out of the Bluesky game for a while. Who should I follow!? Preferably non-tech!
“Ironically, what I’ve gained from AI is a deeper appreciation for human communication, in all its messy imperfection.” ky.fyi/posts/ai-bur...
Do I belong in tech anymore?
On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.
ky.fyi
Recently switched from the audience targeting team to the ads UI foundations team. It’s been tough, but getting to learn a ton of new tech and work with a ton more cross-functional teams. Definitely an uncomfortably exciting role 🧠
Took the plunge with a Switch 2. Never owned a switch before. Got the Mario Kart bundle and TotK. What other games should I get? I’m a very passive gamer.
Recently found Nils Frahm and has become an instant favorite open.spotify.com/track/7zz9W3...
Spells (Paris)
Nils Frahm · Paris · Song · 2024
open.spotify.com
“The university’s subversive mission to empower the public with knowledge and to encourage our students to think for themselves has been suspended indefinitely.”
McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 2y agoEffective immediately after this sentence, the university will no longer use the word “trans” since that’s not really a thing. (The history department has informed us that [REDACTED] people do exist and always have.) The history department has been dissolved.
The book bans should have been among the first signs we were in trouble
Flashbacks to my time at Twitter when everyone was laid off then they scrambled to rehire so many engineers when they realized they made zero plans and impacted every core service.
The world is a lot right now. Can we talk about what’s good for a min? What’s something you’re pumped about??
Yearly reminder to create your Brag Book to increase your chances of getting promoted, having more meaningful review cycles, or just lifting your spirits any time you feel "I haven't done anything!". When you have an impactful win, add it to your Brag Book.
Recently upgraded my desktop speakers to the Kanto YU6. This was me all day..
a skeleton is sitting in a chair with a lamp on top of his head
ALT: a skeleton is sitting in a chair with a lamp on top of his head
media.tenor.com
I’d be hard pressed to think of a piece of software that induces as much frustration as Workday.
First rule of Thesaurus Club: You don't talk, converse, discuss, speak, chat, deliberate, confer, gab, gossip or natter about Thesaurus Club.
So many good ones here. For me, the feeling of using a stick shift and pressing play on a cassette Walkman. What’s yours?
Erin McKean@emckean.bsky.social · 2y agowhat’s your favorite instance of haptic nostalgia—the poignant memory of the physicality of an obsolete thing—like dialing a rotary phone, shifting gears in a manual transmission, opening a soda can with a pull ring?
An encyclopedia of unknowns. Pretty neat! wikenigma.org.uk/start
A Catalyst for Curiosity
wikenigma.org.uk
I’ve started going down the hifi audio rabbit hole. Someone help.
