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A Few Thoughts About A.I.
I’ve been a software engineer for two decades, so the current buzz around AI feels pretty familiar. Every few years, a new technology emerges that brings a mix of excitement and apprehension. As I’ve listened to the different opinions on AI, I believe it’s important to ground the conversation in... Read moreUsing Git Alias To Speed Up Your Workflow
Supercharge Your Git Workflow: A Guided Tour of My Favorite Aliases If you’re a developer, you probably spend a significant amount of time in your terminal typing git commands. git status, git add ., git commit -m "...", git push. Over and over. While these commands are powerful, they can... Read moreMaking yarn and husky hooks work with windows
Recently I was trying to get husky using yarn to work on widnows. While I could directly run the commands for the git hooks from the cli, they would fail when husky would try to run them. Here is an example of the console output λ git cm "test /usr/bin/bash:... Read moreQ4, A TIME FOR REFLECTION
Software development is hard work. A project takes many turns before it’s pushed live, and sometimes you have to work more hours than you wanted and/or cut corners to hit deadlines. At ONTRAPORT, our busiest time is mid-summer into early October when we host ONTRApalooza, our annual user conference. At... Read moreDevelopers Ruined the English definition of Love
A friend of my recently sent me this video It got me thinking about how language is everything when it comes to expression of self. And even more so when it comes to development and code. Which led me to this conclusion. Developers and like minded people ruined the English... Read moreAbstractions
In the past few months, I discovered these quotes "It’s much easier to recover from no abstraction than the wrong abstraction." @sebmarkbage— getify (@getify) July 10, 2015 First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer— Kent Beck (@KentBeck) October... Read more- Previous
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Jesse Baird is a Principal Software Engineer. Who enjoys dry humor, long walks on the beach and deep coversations. more
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- Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast - Thinking About A.I. Haste
- A Few Thoughts About A.I.
- Using Git Alias To Speed Up Your Workflow
- Making yarn and husky hooks work with windows
- Q4, A TIME FOR REFLECTION