The longer I’m a programmer the more I’m realizing I’m paid not to code.

As my code volume goes down my pay goes up. Year over year. Instead of hiring for a “principal level engineer” companies should advertise for a “liability generator that minimizes their output.”

For part of my HCI course I had to pick a “good” interface and a “bad” one to compare them to. I picked Heroku scaling dashboard versus AWS elastic beanstalk scaling page. To do this I had to actuall soon up an elastic beanstalk instance, something I’ve never done before.

I’ve spent the last 6 years writing about performance and making Rails and Sprockets faster. If you can do better, give me a PR and not a put down on twitter.

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Sam Saffron is an amazing person and contributes to the Ruby performance ecosystem in spades. I’m happy for his critique and his presence in the community. Jeff has done nothing in this space and by this tweet appears to know even less.

Don’t whiteboard interviewees. Use something else instead. If you must have them write Code, have it be on their computer with their preferred toolset. Alternatives: print out some code from an actual internal PR. Explain the problem and ask them to tell you why it works. Ask if there are alternative ways to do the same thing.