Laurie

Hey All 👋🏻 I’m Laurie, I’m a Software Engineer at Netflix working on a kotlin, graphql, typescript, react stack. I’ve written and developed a lot of content in the past, but admit to being delinquent these days 😅 laurieontech.com

You’ll laugh! You’ll cry! You’ll dance! You’ll cry some more! youtu.be/3TNpOD6bov8?...

Officially a Staff Software Engineer at Netflix 🎉 …the same title I had 5 years ago at Gatsby. So friendly reminder that titles are made up and inconsistent!

Not being able to paste in the password field HARMS security!!! Who came up with this horrid UX pattern?!

A large number of my colleagues in Netflix games were layed off yesterday. If you know of open roles please let me know, I’d love to connect some great people.

Quick little set of brickheadz

Uhhh, I don’t think the trackpad is supposed to look like that

One person getting AI to write quality code when they know how to build what they’re building is doable. Consistently getting AI to do that at scale for a whole bunch of people who don’t know how to build what they want? Totally different problem.

The bar for changing your app icon, even temporarily, needs to be higher. Unless you’re a game! Seasonal launch, etc But for everyone else? Stop it!

3 days in a row of poorly designed experiences for sites that are gating behaviors until a specific point in time (enrollment, sales, etc). THERE ARE SOLUTIONS TO THIS! Use them!

OUT: tech bros inventing the bus IN: tech bros inventing employees

New post on operational debt and how you identify and tackle it! leaddev.com/technical-di...

New post on operational debt and how you identify and tackle it! leaddev.com/technical-di...

Anytime you worry that the public policy space has no experts to meet this moment in technology do not fret! It’s worse than that. They have Palantir!

Don’t mind me. Just spending my whole day tailing logs.

Sure, why not. www.wired.com/story/allbir...

Did I miss something? When did LinkedIn become a common place for ICs to pontificate.

I think one of the things about bluesky is that for a lot of its users, it represents a kind of retirement from social media. Like I’m tired and I want to get out of the game

This is so, so well-articulated.

Love burning multiple hours trying to tune an alert just realize it can’t be done with the data available 😭

Happy stay off the internet day!

January, February, UConn, April

Codesandbox, the end of an era.

New article! I know AI content is everywhere, but this is fully informed by my recent ramp up into a new team. leaddev.com/hiring/does-...

We’re not cold, we’re not afraid, Minnesota taught us to be brave

What a great build

This build is going to be nostalgic

Merry Christmas!

I know people put a ton of work into this, but I’m sorry, I hate the glass iOS UI/UX so much 😭 I don’t care if my phone looks like it was made in the future. I care that it’s easy to focus my eyes!

Klaus truly is one of the best holiday movies ever made. Makes me smile every year.

It’s a tough job market, but given that I recently transitioned roles after more than 4 years it was on my mind. New post for the lead dev is live! leaddev.com/career-devel...

Today’s the day!

Go play some games! Boggle is my favorite 🎮 www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...

Just here, doing my daily duty, of ruining my workplace 😎

I’m convinced, at this point, that about 90% of the things in tech look hard because you aren’t in the details. Once you dig in it’s a permutation of patterns that aren’t too complex. The other 10%, ya, I’m not smart enough for that shit.

Way to go Virginia!!! Was busier than usual at the polls when we went this morning. Glad to see that was a good omen.

tired: it's always DNS inspired: ICANN feel it coming in the air tonight

My first ever full time developer job was working in the DNS domain. It’s the backbone of the internet so it is both an unbelievable footgun and incredibly resilient to change. Yes, both can be true at once!

It's always DNS. Except when it's AWS. (In this case, it was both.)

Today is great! Something working slowly or not at all? Definitely AWS’s fault! Nothing to see here 🎶

I wonder how many utilities won’t be built because of AI. Quick scripts that format data, or automate other mundane tasks that folks won’t bother to write.

Where in we learn that a us-east-1 outage teaches us a lot about what systems just went with the default 😅

The more systems I explore/learn the less time I have to overthink different permutations of their architecture. I have yet to determine if this is a pro or a con!