Stay-at-home dad, engineer, he/him. Previously: @CaliforniaODI, @USDS, @Google_Surveys, @googlechrome, @firefox. Married to @katherine
san francisco, ca
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Before the Chrome launch, rather than dinners at the office, I remember leisurely walking as a team to Cafe 150 for lunch most days. Sometimes we talked about work stuff, but people also talked about their families and whatever else was going on in their lives. It was good times.
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Thanks @redblobgames for your wonderful page on hexagonal grids. It made today's #AdventOfCode problem very easy!
cc: @ericwastl
redblobgames.com/grids/hexag…
adventofcode.com/2020/day/24
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Thanks for another fun year of #AdventOfCode @ericwastl
See you again next year!
I didn't get a chance to stream it this year, but maybe next year.
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Congrats @danachis!
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"Mozilla is big because your needs are big. Your needs are big because the Internet is big. There are lots of small, lean web browsers out there that, incidentally, do almost nothing useful." - jwz
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Happy anniversary @katherine! I love you more and more each day. Here's to 11 more years! 🎉🎉🎊🎊🥳🥳
ALT Selfie of @katherine and @tony at SF City Hall
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I don't mind having pre-roll ads on @YouTube and it's something I'm willing to put up with for a free service. However, I am tired of all the attempts to get me to subscribe to YouTube Premium. I don't care if I get 6mo free. I'm not interested. Please stop asking me.
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Happy 10th anniversary, @katherine! Back at @SFCity_Hall where we got married. 👩🏼🤝👨🏻❤️🌉
ALT Selfie with @katherine at SF City Hall
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I did a thing! I started a podcast 🎙️ where I interview individual contributors. Subscribe with you favorite podcast app or listen online at individualcontributorpod.com 🎧
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Thank you to everyone who came to my birthday party on Twitch! I had a lot of fun playing games and chatting. I love you all. ❤
We raised $420 for the @sfspca, which I matched. I also completed the remaining goals to become a Twitch Affiliate.
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I wrote a JSON parser in C++ in Chrome (a simple LL parser). I was so relieved when someone who knew what they were doing replaced it. I kept expecting there to be a security exploit in my code, but it never happened.
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Happy #LovingDay ! I'm thankful for those who have made my happiness possible.
54 years ago, we represented Mildred and Richard Loving in the Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia. We won the case and overturned unconstitutional bans against interracial marriage. #LovingDay
ALT Image of Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving with the heading "54 years ago today, the Supreme Court ruled that states could no longer deem interracial marriages illegal.
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So far, I've used Zoom, Google Meet, Cisco WebEx, Microsoft Teams and Adobe Connect for VC meetings. Bingo?
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I'm not sure who the person that "invented" Chrome is in Eric's telling of the story. I remember you, Ben and Brian working on the original prototype.
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Tomorrow, I'm flying to visit my parents. It will be the first time in over a year that I won't sleep in my bed and for wearing pants most of the day (I've been wearing PJ pants for the past year even when working from home).
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The 6th grader I tutor told me to wait while he charges his pencil. He then went to sharpen it. ✏️🤔😂
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Silicon Valley revolt: meet the tech workers fighting their bosses over Ice, censorship and racism theguardian.com/us-news/2019…
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IIRC, the three of you worked on it only for a few weeks before demoing it to the rest of the Firefox team (probably the ~10 people being referred to).
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Not as exciting as last year's SF Mayor's race, but here are the results so far of the SF District Attorney race. This is based on preliminary report 8 on this page:
sfelections.sfgov.org/novemb…
#RankedChoiceVoting
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This is amazing. The whole photo set looks so close to the original anime.
See You Space Cowboy. Meet Spike Spiegel (John Cho), Jet Black (Mustafa Shakir), and Faye Valentine (Daniella Pineda) in Cowboy Bebop, premiering November 19, only on Netflix. @bebopnetflix @netflix @netflixgeeked #COWBOYBEBOP
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I just completed all 25 days of Advent of Code 2019! adventofcode.com/ #AdventOfCode
My solutions at github.com/idealisms/advento… . Didn't make it into the top 100 any day, but found the problems easier overall than last year. Thanks for running it @ericwastl !
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I have missed flying on plane.
Planes, buses, and biking to work/school all make me feel more connected to the people and society around me. Primarily driving for the past year has added to the social isolation.
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Made it into the top 100 for day 13 of #AdventOfCode! 85/86 for a simulation. Solutions at github.com/idealisms/advento…
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"Yet in one corner of the White House, a team of idealistic tech workers established by Obama is helping the Dept of Homeland Security offer asylum seekers better customer service." (I helped with this!)
Obama's US Digital Service Survives Trump–Quietly wired.com/story/obamas-us-di…
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Other tips: make sure to max your 401k and HSA. Do the full charitable gift match for the year (12k?). Leave early in the month because health insirance covers until the end of the month. COBRA is expensive, just get something on the healthcare.gov exchange.
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We went to the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library for story time and they gave everyone a box full of books to keep!
ALT A box full of books including Full, Full, Full of Love, Owl Babies, Besis for Baby, and The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
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I went into a Trader Joe's for the first time in about a year. I saw SF characters that I hadn't realized I'd been missing: women with rainbow colored hair, woman with large Chrome messenger bag, and man carrying small dog with a shirt on. ♥️ Stay awesome SF. 🌉
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Yay! @katherine and I got married at SF City Hall. It's a beautiful building and it makes me happy to see others get married there as well.
ALT Wedding ceremony on the 4th floor of SF City Hall.
People will be able to get married at SF City Hall again!
Appointments here: sf.gov/location/city-hall
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The pandemic has changed me. Even when staying at my parents' place, I now switch to PJ pants (loungewear) as soon as I get home.
Who am I?
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This week I started working with the state to help with the new unemployment insurance programs.
Governor @GavinNewsom announced new initiatives to support the millions of California workers who have lost jobs or wages as a result of the #COVID19 pandemic.#CaliforniaForAll #StayHomeSaveLives gov.ca.gov/2020/04/15/govern…
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Next to the @SFPublicLibrary main branch are the Mayor Ed Lee memorial tree, Pioneer Monument and the Asian Art Museum. Across Civic Center Plaza is City Hall.
I also swung by Outta Sight Pizza, the best NYC style pizza in San Francisco.
ALT San Francisco City Hall across from Civic Center Plaza
ALT Mayor Ed Lee memorial tree
ALT Pioneer Monument: Minerva is the figure on the top
ALT Asian Art Museum
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Skinning a bell pepper may sound daunting (and cruel), but I had experience doing it before!
Once @fakeneildrumm forced me to roast a bell pepper on a gas stove and remove the skin. I now get to reapply that skill in preparing food for the baby.
ALT A bell pepper with the caption: "A cooked pepper half with seeds, pith, and skin removed for babies 6 months+"
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It's an unexpected surprise how Chrome has become the platform that desktop apps are built in. Chromium embedded framework is in almost anything I use. Games, text editors, chat clients, they all use Chrome.
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How SF has stayed ahead of coronavirus curve: slashing red tape, shedding bureaucracy sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heat… via @sfchronicle
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Both teams were working on browsers, but in different decades. Chrome benefitted from employees wanting work/life balance, a company that had many moon shot projects, and former webdevs who made incremental releases of desktop software possible. This removed a lot of pressure.
Chrome was delivered without any sprints at all. The team came in at 9 and left at 5 (figuratively, people actually kept their own ~8h schedules) every workday for a couple years like clockwork. No drama. No broken marriages, no broken families.
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📣Wanted to shout out the joe text editor and ion window manager! I used joe up until I switched to VSCode. In the early days of Chrome on Linux, I made sure that dragging out a tab worked with ion.
Both are mentioned by @apenwarr on the @tailscale blog.
tailscale.com/blog/free-plan…
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It has begun.
I won't be able to go for the leaderboard every night, but I still plan on finishing this year's problem set.
#AdventOfCode
ALT Advent of Code yearly stats. 2 stars for 2022.
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I'm back to wearing a mask pretty much all the time outside my home, even when running. I like wearing a mask because:
• it provides warmth (it's been windy and cool outside) 🥶
• it reduces the spread of covid 🦠
• it normalizes wearing a mask 😷
My interpretation: the risk of getting Covid is related to your vax status, whether you're taking steps to lower risk (masking, etc), & whether you’re exposed to the virus. Even in highly vaccinated SF, the odds of being exposed have gone up ~ 20-fold since June 1. (12/20)
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Why are there so many pilots in Star Wars? Wouldn't self driving spacecrafts put pilots out of a job?
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This is my 5th year doing AoC live, but I went back and did previous years. I get to be in the 400* club.
ALT Advent of Code yearly star stats. Total stars: 400*
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Updated SF mayor's race ranked choice Sankey diagram (data through June 9: sfelections.org/results/2018…). Breed is now in the lead.
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I just completed all 25 days of Advent of Code 2020!
Thanks @ericwastl for another year of fun puzzles! Competition was much more fierce this year, but I'm also getting rusty. Made it in the top 1000 most days & my best day was 157 place.
adventofcode.com/ #AdventOfCode
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The problem is that it will disproportionately hurt low income groups more. Students and families without home access to laptops or wifi or childcare will miss out on education and job opportunities.
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(on our way to Chipotle)
me: Are you going to try the new Carne Pollo?
k: You mean Pollo Asado?
me: Oh yeah, I pulled a Cinco de Cuatro 🤦🏻♂️
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The sun shining bright on the first weekend of Pride month in San Francisco. 🌞🌈
We went to a drag story hour in the Mission. I was a fun time for all.
dragstoryhour.org/
ALT Rainbow bridge in Dolores Park
ALT 🗼Sutro Tower from Noe Children's Playground
ALT Sanchez St at Elizabeth St looking south
ALT Sanchez St at Elizabeth St looking north
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Surprisingly @BayAreaClipper understands me pretty well. Yes, I would like a commemorative TransLink themed card sleeve! 💳😍
I waited on hold with customer service for 90min so I could get the card sleeve and transfer my balance.
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Post-vaccination checklist:
✅routine physical 👩⚕️
✅indoor gym and pool 🏊🏻♂️
✅boardgame night with vaccinated friends 🎲
🔳haircut 💇🏻♂️
🔳fly on a plane ✈
🔳visit vaccinated family 👨👩👧👦
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Fun fact: flexbox behaves in reverse for RTL languages and also works for vertical text flows (e.g. Japanese flowing from top to bottom).
Ojan and I spent a lot of time writing test cases to make sure it worked.
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Made it into the top 100 for #AdventOfCode today! 🏆 Number 98 for solving both questions: adventofcode.com/2018/leader…
My solutions: github.com/idealisms/advento…
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Another beautiful day in San Francisco
ALT San Francisco Main Library
ALT Van Ness and Market
ALT Market and Franklin
ALT Civic Center Plaza
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A new sliding block puzzle by the author of Jelly no Puzzle!
Remember when @evmar made a web port of the game and we all played it at work?
Yugo Puzzle is now available.
Move jellies left and right and join them with the same color.
It looks easy, but it is actually a challenging puzzle game.
Enjoy the variety of unique puzzles.
Steam:
store.steampowered.com/app/1…
itch.io:
qrostar0.itch.io/yugo-puzzle
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I filed taxes yesterday. We had an effective federal tax rate of 1.57% and a CA tax rate of 3.04%. That's way too low for an income of about $120k. Long term capital gains tax is a tax break for the rich. #TaxTheRich
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I suspect the poor review had more to do with being an inexperienced intern host. The first time I was an intern host (2009?), I was a terrible host too, resulting in my intern failing to accomplish much. There should be intern host training, like manager training.
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It's been 10 years since @superamit was diagnosed with Leukemia. Thankful that he's still with us today.
If you're in the US and haven't registered with @BeTheMatch, now is a good time to sign up and possibly save a life. 💪
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Want to be better at algorithms? Jeff Erickson at UIUC wrote a book based on his lecture notes (I took the class in 2002): jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teachi…
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Today was an overcast morning in San Francisco.
The Republic watches over the DMV across the street. 🗽
Grove St is an appropriately named street with it's large trees. 🌳🌲🌳
ALT William McKinley Memorial on the eastern edge of the Panhandle. It's been there since 1904!
ALT Lyon St looking north. This is a slow street.
ALT Grove St at Lyon looking west
ALT Grove St at Lyon looking east
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One game that my niece (5yrs old) likes to play is having everyone take turns and say something they are going to do, followed by "just kidding" or "not kidding." For example, "I'm going to pour this water on my head! Just kidding!" She forces everyone to play during meals.
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Dolores Park and Dolores St are looking beautiful today ☀️🌴🛝
ALT Dolores Park at 19th St
ALT Looking downtown from "the beach" at Dolores Park
ALT Dolores St at 17th St looking south
ALT Dolores St at 17th St looking north
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Wordle is a game of consonants, not vowels.
I play a lot of wordle with @katherine and this is my main takeaway. It's better to have guesses with one vowel and 4 consonants because not knowing the consonants is how you lose.
octokatherine.github.io/word…
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Live now!
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.@katherine and I have been going about once a week (on a weekday) to run and walk. It would be a shame to lose access to this public space.
Thousands of people walk, bike, roll, and play on Great Highway each day and @D4GordonMar is taking that away in a matter of days instead of waiting for the outreach plan to decide the future of this park. #carfreeGH
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I was a nice day at the San Francisco Botanical Garden @sfbgs
ALT The Great Meadow in the SF Botanical Garden
ALT A large tree in the Great Meadow in the SF Botanical Garden
ALT Bamboo forest in the SF Botanical Garden
ALT Moon Viewing Garden in the SF Botanical Garden
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I'm going to be volunteering at the @sfbike booth. Swing by and say hi!
#SundayStreets is coming to the Mission this Sunday 7.15 😁! Stroll down Valencia street from 11am to 4pm for tons of great activities and fun 🤪. #sundaystreetsSF #SANFRANCISCO #SF #openstreets #ciclovia #livableoffice
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These are some of the lives being saved by wearing a mask and staying at home.
In all the data and health metrics, it's easy to lose sight of the individuals who have been largely isolated in order to prevent an outbreak there.
For people like Bernadette Yee and Jasper Harris, this is the beginning of the end of this pandemic after months of sacrifice.
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I'm a bit shocked that there are so many packages using no version control, but at least it's going down over time.
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a friend of mine: I'm interviewing for a job
me: oh yeah? where at?
friend: it's a fruit company
me: ah, there's always money in the banana stand 😏
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A graph of my shower times (water running) over the last 680 days: goo.gl/5npPe1
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This movie is amazing and the most unique film I've seen in years. There are so many unexpected turns and the humor, satire, and social commentary is great.
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I learned about this during my time in DC last summer. The real victims are the clients who were only doing what their lawyer told them to. Some of them end up getting deported after being in the US for years.
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#BikeToWorkDay is this Thursday! 🚴 I'm going to be working at the 7th & Folsom energizer station from ~8:30a-10:30a. Swing by to get a free tote bag and say hi! 👋
Thanks @SFBART for donating round-trip free weekend tickets for ALL #BikeToWorkDay bags. Pick yours up at an Energizer Station on Thursday, May 10.
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I was vaccinated at Moscone North and it was a similarly smooth experience. Everyone was social distancing and the space was wide open. The volunteers and staff made me feel safe. They were also very helpful to a visually impaired woman getting vaccinated.
I wrote about my experience today at the Moscone South vaccination site, mostly to reassure anyone (like me) who was wary of going into a big space full of people. It was fine, and quick. 48hills.org/2021/03/moscone-…
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Beautifully shot film about loving San Francisco and the difficulties of living here.
sfgate.com/entertainment/art…
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My first time going to Mountain Lake Park and playground located on the southern edge of the Presidio.
A Portal fan left a message on the playground's chalkboard.
ALT Mountain Lake Park Playground
ALT Mountain Lake in the Presidio
ALT Ducklings! 🦆🦆🦆🐥🐥🐥
ALT Chalkboard with the text, "The Cake is a Lie."
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but you don't have to take off your mask to talk on the phone. The person can hear you just fine even with your mask covering your nose and mouth.
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Can you simulate Homer Simpson arguing with barak Obama over who gets the last donut?
#ChatGPT
ALT Sure, here is a potential conversation between Homer Simpson and Barack Obama over who gets the last donut: Homer Simpson: Hey Barack, saw that there's only one donut left. I claim it! Barack Obama: Sorry, Homer. saw it first. It's mine. Homer Simpson: But I'm starving, Barack! I need that donut to survive. Barack Obama: I understand, Homer. But I have a meeting with world leaders in a few minutes and need a quick energy boost Homer Simpson: Can't you just have a salad or something, Barack? Barack Obama: Believe me, Homer, I would if could. But have to make a good impression and show them that I'm a strong leader. And a donut is the perfect snack for that. Homer Simpson: Oh come on, Barack. That's not fair! Barack Obama: I'm sorry, Homer. But as the leader of the free world, sometimes I have to make tough decisions. And this time, the donut is mine.
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There was some fog this morning on the way to the Duboce Park playground.
ALT United States Mint, located behind Safeway
ALT Sutro Tower covered by fog
ALT Duboce Park with the Harvey Milk Center for the Arts in the background
ALT Duboce Park off leash dog area
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