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This is David Wetterau's blog. I live in New York City and work as a Software Engineer at Airtable. In my time at Airtable, I've worked on new user-facing product features, new product verticals, and on all-sorts-of AI things. For many years, I worked at Dropbox primarily on the distributed systems that store and sync files and folders for millions of users.
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It’s just software, it can change
Early in my career I was working on a project that ran into some undesirable behavior with an upstream service we depended on. My teammate took me over to the team that owned that service and we had an impromptu chat about what the issue we were facing was and why the service had this (in our view) unfortunate behavior.
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Send pulls not problems
I can’t take credit for the origin of this phrase, but I have used it many times. For anyone not familiar with Github’s terminology a “pull” request is (in non-technical terms) a proposed change to some code that a reviewer can choose to accept, request changes to, or reject entirely. A restating of this phrase would be something like: “don’t just complain about something, try to solve it”, but that’s not nearly as catchy.
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Getting value from meetings
Many engineers, myself included, struggle with meetings. Meetings occupy a significant amount of our working lives, and often get a reputation of being a waste of time, or something that impacts productivity in a negative way.
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hello world
I used to imagine that when I started a blog, I would resist the urge to make the first post about starting a blog. Alas, I fell into the same trap.
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