Jeffry Gonzalez

Jeffry Gonzalez

@jeffrygonzalez.dev

Programmer. Cloud Native, TypeScript, Go, C#, Kafka, JasperFx. Meditation. Electronic Music. Cleveland, OH. "fashioning of the complex conceptual structures that compose the abstract software entity" for a living.

397 followers967 following439 posts

Life in Cleveland. Seeing Primus at Jacob's Pavillion with my son. The first time I saw Primus was at this same venue in 1993. For some reason the most intense moment was seeing Sean Lennon rocking out next to Lar LeLonde.

Today is my birthday. I just now realized that a certain segment of my friends send me greetings early in the day. Perhaps out of worry that later in the day they may be prone to forgetfulness. 4/20.

Not loving how most discussion of software is now "This new github repo has 29 billion stars and will change your life!" and it's like a 50 line markdown file.

Feels weird that my house shook and windows rattled this morning. And then finding out so did most people’s across the northern part of Ohio. And the “oh, it was just a 20 ton meteor, no biggie” says something about the state of the world.

"Act as if all your words will be used to train LLMs over and over again, eternally." - Nietzsche, maybe. "Act only according to that maxim by which you could simultaneously will that it become training data." - Kant, maybe.

Took my son last night to hear the Cleveland Orchestra perform Beethoven's 9th. We were right up front. I'd prescribe that for anyone that needs a joy injection. Which is about everyone, I think. So priveleged to live in Cleveland and have this available.

See young people? This is what you get if you wear the right clothes to the meeting and show proper deference. I guess. A wasted year and so many lives.

CNN@cnn.com

JUST IN: President Donald Trump says Ukraine is in a position to "fight and WIN" back its original borders, an abrupt shift from his bids to broker peace in Russia's war in Ukraine. https://cnn.it/46EIKYt

Had a consult with a surgeon for a minor outpatient thing. He said post-op I could alternate Advil and Tylenol. I gave him a grin. He said “I’m not getting political but JESUS CHRIST THAT GUY!” Hired. Cut me oh woke surgeon.

Jeffry Gonzalez reposted

If a Democratic governor talks about punching people in the mouth, he is obviously filled with insatiable bloodlust. If a Republican president talks about punching people in the mouth, you’re the violent one for thinking he was being serious.

buff.lyHow to Tell the Difference Between a Lone Wolf and a Coordinated Effort by the Radical LeftIf a Democratic lawmaker and her husband are gunned down, it’s an isolated incident carried out by a lone wolf. If a right-wing activist is gunned ...

Jeffry Gonzalez reposted

As we all know, the United States is the only country on the planet where these drugs exist. It definitely has to be the drugs that we alone use. Can’t be something else.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

RFK Jr on the mass shooting in Minnesota: "We're launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence."

The new DEVO doc on Netflix is so good. I grew up in Akron, OH in the 70s and 80s and it was weird seeing them get popular as a sort of "novelty" band. People would mention the whip, the "flower pots" and miss the whole point. DEVO were more "punk" than the punks, more to say than any other band.

I teach and mentor software development teams. Have been since ~1995. I swear the whole "AI" thing is the most uncomfortable topic I've ever had to face. There are some that are so optimistic that *any* skepticism at all is met with vitriol. And it is always, it seems, the least skilled developers.

There is a sense that this is THE technology that will allow them to finally be as good as they always thought they were. If it wasn't for, you know, having to know how to write code.

Jeffry Gonzalez reposted

Finally finished The Brutalist last night. Beautiful film, great acting - but I just didn't like it. It reminded of that Tar film from a couple years ago. I just don't like fictionalized morality tales of things we actually have plenty of "real" examples of. Just me?

Jeffry Gonzalez reposted

Building a Debugger is now officially released! It guides you through building a whole native x64 debugger from scratch, dispelling all the magic and teaching you a ton about operating systems as it goes. Even if you don't care about building a debugger, you can read it to your cat.

Decades of coding and I've once again spent a day writing the coolest abstraction that turned out to be completely the wrong abstraction. I think the key to being a good programmer is taking the "L" here and not doubling down on a bad idea.

Spending the day building an app with Marten 8.0 and Wolverine 4.0 - a "BFF" for an Angular SPA. I'm convinced there isn't a better stack (backend) for CI/CD with .NET. The *next* feature is always way easier than you expect, even when you don't see it coming. #eventsourcing #dotnet