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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-sort-of-things AI. 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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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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