Geert Gerritsen @gehgerritsen

Freelance backend developer, tweets about software, productivity, distributed systems, and others. Likes @golang. Ex-@ridefelyx/@eBay/@Marktplaats. He/him/his. linkedin.com/in/geertgerrit… Amsterdam Joined August 2011

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v @iavins

8 months ago

SQLite is so fast, they compete with `fopen`. For some use cases, you can use SQLite instead of a filesystem, that can be 35% faster.

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Lars Tactiek Blog @lars_Tactiek

10 months ago

Iets later dan gebruikelijk, maar dan toch nog even een draadje 🧵 over de prachtige overwinning van Ajax tegen PSV, waarin ik weer een aantal details uitlicht over de tactische keuzes van deze wedstrijd

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Sam @Sam_Wenmakers

11 months ago

Heel Nederland zou dit stukje moeten zien om te begrijpen dat Kabinet-Angstzaaien 1 helemaal niks oplost met die spierballenpolitiek-asielplannen. Ik zeg: Delen maar! #asieldeal #asielbeleid #PVV #Wilders #noodwet #noodrecht #NSC #asielzoekers

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Sergio Pereira @SergioRocks

11 months ago

I have these 5 questions as sections of a Notion template. Some rules are: 1. We can only define the "What" after we understand the "Why". 2. We can only plan the "How" once the "What" is clear. 3. Defining the "How" implies discussing tradeoffs that affect "Who" and "When".

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Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4

11 months ago

I just found out that Bill Watterson (the genius behind Calvin and Hobbes) gave a commencement speech in 1990 and it's incredible 1/2

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Ans @Ans__AMS

11 months ago

❌❌❌ En alweer 6 jaar geleden 🥹 #ajax

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Geert Gerritsen @gehgerritsen

11 months ago

So, American citizens can get summoned for jury duty without registering, but voting? Nah, better make ’em jump through hoops for that. 🧐 #Priorities #DemocracyFail

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Geert Gerritsen @gehgerritsen

11 months ago

Startup dev: “I implemented a new feature and pushed it live today.” Corporate dev: “I wrote a 5-page doc explaining why we won’t implement that feature. It’s still in draft.” 💼🧑‍💻 #TechLife #CorporateVsStartup

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Swizec Teller @Swizec

11 months ago

My fav anti-under-engineering trick is to use timestamps instead of booleans in the database. that way you know when it was set to true super useful for debugging later

David K 🎹 @DavidKPiano

11 months ago

My fav anti-under-engineering trick is to use timestamps instead of booleans in the database. that way you know when it was set to true super useful for debugging later

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Riley Walz @rtwlz

11 months ago

I installed a box high up on a pole somewhere in the Mission. Inside is a crappy Android phone, set to Shazam constantly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It's solar powered, and the mic is pointed down at the street below walzr.com/bop-spotter

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Josh Pigford @Shpigford

11 months ago

so. i just launched a thing. revise.dev — ai automated code/error fixing. some are saying it'll be worth hundreds of millions. i don't know who. but people say that about a lot of things, so i figure someone could have said it about this.

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Dr. Thrasher @thrasherxy

12 months ago

Class time: Let's use the Overton Window to discuss how pagers-as-booby-traps is really bad for humanity, and how journalists are already failing at this basic test of ethics and morality.

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Dr. Thrasher @thrasherxy

12 months ago

And as the late, great @WHarkavy taught me when Trump was emerging on the national scene as a long shot (but firmly inside the Overton Window) presidential candidate circa 2011, nothing good happens when existentially bad ideas come into the fold. We all lose, then.

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Kriss Berg, etc. @KrissBergTweets

2 years ago

Some people on here have been talking about adult loneliness. This hits home for me, big time. See in 2018 my wife tried to throw a birthday party for me. She could not get one single person to show up. Not. One. Person. One of the saddest days of my life. Now, this year…

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Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers

a year ago

Perhaps men are too emotional to be President.

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@levelsio @levelsio

a year ago

🇪🇺 eu/acc A few weeks ago Mario Draghi asked my recommendations for his report that came out today about European competitiveness I had a call with him and summarized my problems with doing business in the EU I wrote this which is included in the report presented to the…

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Dimitri Bonthuis @DimitriBonthuis

a year ago

Mooi interview met Nathan Rutjes in het AD. Een trainer die het bij Sparta Rotterdam compleet anders aan durft te pakken en daar de ruimte voor krijgt. Benieuwd naar de resultaten op de lange termijn. Het zou wel eens heel goed uit kunnen pakken. #Sparta #Rutjes #voetbal

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LaurieWired @lauriewired

a year ago

terminal tip: whenever you need to type a simple command like "ls", just hit the up arrow like 40 times instead

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nolen royalty @itseieio

a year ago

At the height of One Million Checkboxes's popularity I thought I'd been hacked. A few hours later I was tearing up, extraordinarily proud of some brilliant teens. A thread about my favorite story from running OMCB....