Tony Tam
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At 51, Hawaii calls
We have bought a 2nd home in Hawaii! My wife and I have decided to not wait until we retire or until it’s the “perfect” time. There really isn’t the right time to make a life altering move, might as well take the step and see where
link: Tracy Chou : Inside the life of a tech activist: abuse, gaslighting, but ultimately optimism – Fast Company
Very inspiring profile of Tracy Chou’s journey to build Block Party tool to combat online harassment. https://www.fastcompany.com/90686948/inside-the-life-of-a-tech-activist-abuse-gaslighting-but-ultimately-optimism
Thrive-WiSE Q3 Micro Conference Cheryl Ainoa’s Keynote Session (2021)
Cheryl Ainoa’s talk https://vimeo.com/628586581 I love how she goes back and forth between management or IC looking by evaluating what gives her energy.
Computer Programming is art, don’t overplan it
I've argued that building software is much more of an Art than Science. The teams who follow the agile manifesto strictly over plan this artistic endevor of birthing software from nothing with T-shirt sizing, rule of thumb and or fibonacci numbers in 2 w
link: Protecting a tech company’s most valuable resource
See this post from Casey Newton’s Platformer newsletter about Twitch engineers leaking the entire source code. I wonder if there any effective way to prevent this from happening?
Link: Web Developer Learning Path
I wanted to share a great visual diagram of the learning path of a web developer. click through for the original image https://www.ladybug.dev/episodes/web-developer-learning-path
Contributor to AntennaPod podcast app to keep podcasts more open and free of ads
I spend a lot of my weekend time working on improving the AntennaPod podcast app to contribute features and bug fixes in order to help make my own podcast listening experience better. Also it helps me learn Android development. That was WHY I started cont
Coding At Home
Music stand for my laptop that I move around for Zoom meetings and I can stand or sit. Double monitors Art for inspiration 2 Pots of flowers to keep my happy Books to keep me learning A garden to keep me grounded
The beauty of being older at 50
Being older feel like I have spent a long time with the people in my life consistently, spending 30 years honing my engineering craft. I have internalized more of this world and becoming a little more wiser. I have built small but tight communities around
Unknown Unknown problems
We don’t even know this problem exist. How do we know it is even needed? How do we get to a better state with these unknown unknown problems? My co-worker Michael L. wrote an internal page about how he thrives on these type of Unknown Unknowns probl