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Brandon Weaver

@baweaver.bsky.social

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Senior Staff Eng at Amazon / One Medical, Neurodivergence Advocate. Autistic / ADHD / Depression, He / Him. I'm the Lemur guy. Living and working somewhere about SF.

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“Rails is an opinionated framework, and this is an opinionated book.” ~Introduction

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 1d

I've worked at now 4 of the largest rails monoliths in production and every single one of them hits that problem.

Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 1d

The difference? By forcing choices early users develop their own opinions, and once they hit that scale point they'll be more prepared to switch. Unless you develop a real good off ramp between paved roads and back country there's going to be a giant mess.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 1d

As it turns out strong opinions are great for getting started and great for fomenting a religious war as soon as folks begin to actually use the tools at scale.

I'd bet this is like most of his other creations. Great for 0 to 100 but falls off hard and leaves folks to guess from 100 to 1000.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 1d

That's one of DHH's calling cards. Make a bold, preferably controversial statement, that gets attention but likely doesn't reflect any objective reality except his own.

See also how Rails (mis)handled the emergence of SPAs and JS bundling among a litany of other questionable calls.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 2d

Cheese Plus

Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 2d

Indeed, been a while since I've seen everyone.

Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 2d

We live by that cheese shop you probably like in SF.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 2d

Extra cheese then, hide half of it, pray the remainder is a satisfactory tribute.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 2d

Speaking of, we need to get more cheese. Maybe we get Kevin, some cheese, some wine, and prove it.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 2d

We support you in your cheesy ways.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 2d

As someone who gets car sick fast I've never had that issue in a Waymo compared to some drivers that are ricocheting around SF, and honestly that's worth the extra premium to me.

Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 2d

Great work! I was going for a full marathon program back in 2019 leading into 2020 and certain things happened in 2020 that kinda killed my motivation 😅

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 3d

Adding to that when you have to onboard a substantial number of juniors to the codebase who are just learning <insert language here> and it can become invaluable quickly, especially paired with navigational wisdom for larger repos.

Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 3d

It's a pattern I've found myself following around Ruby-land in what I tend to call "expert MCPs."

Generally how can we condense wisdom, experience, patterns, docs, and other knowledge into tooling. It tends to have a fairly significant gain on correctness I've found.

Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 4d

Good ol Keynes.

Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 4d

When Capaldi was on he was _on_.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 5d

I'm reminded of this famous clip from Dr Who tonight, for some reason:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCYo...

Doctor Who | The Doctor's Zygon War Speech Extract

YouTube video by TheUnknownTechnician

www.youtube.com

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 4d

It's one of his best scenes, bar none, and man does it hit.

Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 4d

What a fascinating point!

Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 4d

Also autistic. Also accused of being AI 😅

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 5d

I'm reminded of this famous clip from Dr Who tonight, for some reason:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCYo...

Doctor Who | The Doctor's Zygon War Speech Extract

YouTube video by TheUnknownTechnician

www.youtube.com

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 5d

I am going to say this very frankly:

Your last two posts radiate _hatred_ and that is not healthy. Not for you, and not for anyone reading it. I am urging you as, I hope, a friend to reflect on this more.

I take no joy in what is happening, to either side, and I would hope you don't either.

Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 5d

Justin, even if everything is accurate in here this is a horrible look. Do better.

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Brandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 5d

I am not a particularly graceful or eloquent person as much as I want people I know and respect to stop waging open war against each other and to sit down and talk already.

How much more bloody do y'all want to make each other before you sit down and do what was always needed:

TALK.

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