🧑🔧 Senior Director of Engineering @github 📻 Previously hosted @_bikeshed 👨👩👦👦 "Dad" to two humans. 🔗 @derekprior@hachyderm.io
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Every large engineering org should periodically have a dedicated team of Feature Reapers.
Experts at finding features that that deliver little value relative to their cost in compute, performance, complexity, and maintenance. Empowered to make data-driven decisions to kill.
Derek Prior retweeted
Good progress so far working throws this fall. Down to 1.80 to second. Consistently on the bag in the 1.8s to 2nd and 1.4s to third. Big thank you to @GradyWright2029 and @jedwardsanchez4 for the help.
@CoachReinisch @real_PAbaseball @CoachTrotta @NENorEastersbsb @PBNewEngland
Derek Prior retweeted
Came up a little short losing in semis at the Boston Classic. The team swung it well all tournament though. I hit .500/.600/.917 over 6 games. Home run and a double below.
@CoachReinisch @real_PAbaseball @NENorEastersbsb @PSBaseballScout
Derek Prior retweeted
Want an absolute machine of a human being as your backstop then look no further. Couldn’t talk up a guy more than I do with OP; a class act on and off the field. An individual that makes your program better by simply having him present
A no brainer.
Had a good week with @NENorEastersbsb 15u Runbirds, going 4-1 playing up at the PBR 16u National Championship. Really proud of how we performed as team. Here’s some of my receiving and blocking work behind the plate.
@PBNewEngland @CoachReinisch @real_PAbaseball
Derek Prior retweeted
OP is going to be a stud w/ @real_PAbaseball next spring! As a true freshman he handled one of the best pitching staffs in New England like a savvy veteran. Swings the bat exceptionally well in big spots! @OwenPrior2029
2029 C/OF Owen Prior (Phillips Academy, MA)
BUILD: 5-11, 180 lbs.
60: 7.44
Exit Velo: 95.3
#NewEnglandTPG | @owenprior2029
Derek Prior retweeted
Final line from my freshman season with @real_PAbaseball:
2029 C
10 GP
28 PA
0.500 OBP
0.300 AVG
Grateful for the opportunity to compete this year and work with some elite pitching. Looking forward to getting back at it this summer!
@CoachReinisch @CoachJonMorse @kbarnaby
Hit a tee exit velo PR tonight (wood bat) at 88 MPH.
@real_PAbaseball
@NENorEastersbsb
@mattyfeld612
Derek Prior retweeted
Congrats to my boy Owen Prior for making the New England Baseball Journal Top 30 Prospect List for the Class of 2029. Elite player and elite teammate. Future is bright OP!
@NE_Baseball
@NENorEastersbsb
@real_PAbaseball
I had a lot of fun working on this and I hope you have fun with it too!
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Whether you’re a Galaxy Brain or Pull Shark - we’re celebrating you with Achievements 🥳 Check it out! github.blog/2022-06-09-intro…
I don’t care about the Oscars, but I hope I get to watch a dramatization of the last 30 minutes of this year’s show, written by Aaron Sorkin.
Give me some good control room drama. TV execs being wakened from their beds.
Good advice from Denise.
When reviewing hundreds of applications, the truth is that I start by looking for reasons to reject quickly. If you didn’t spend much effort applying I’m not going to spend much effort reviewing.
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Me at the airport, trying to hustle my family along: “Just because we are 2 hours early doesn’t mean all these people behind us are 2 hours early.”
Elliot (9), taking his sweet time: “Then they’re learning they need to get here before me”
Do I happen to have any followers that work at @reflektive? I’d love to have you watch me try to use your product.
Works great to syntax highlight file previews in FZF. github.com/derekprior/dotfil…
2022 is apparently the year Rust takes over my development tools. nitter.cf/github/status/14887090…
Holy great new tool for your utility belt, Batman!
This `cat` alternative has Git integration, shows non-printable characters, syntax highlighting for Markdown + all of your favorite programming languages, and more!
Take it for a test flight: github.com/sharkdp/bat 🦇
Aaron Rodgers is challenging the result of last night’s game because he was leading and then, once they started counting points from the rest of the game, they lost?
We saw meaningful and higher than expected performance gains when using the after_reply pattern at GitHub for even seemingly fast things like logging all the metrics we record during a request.
Hat tip to @blakeorwhatever for adding after_reply to Unicorn 🦄
maybe_later is a brand-new Ruby gem that I made just for you (but mostly me). Ever want to invoke some slow code without holding up the user's web request? Not worth creating a job queue over it?
Here's a solution in just one line. It seems good, maybe! github.com/testdouble/maybe_…
Every Christmas Eve I spend time updating devices and downloading software for gifts we are giving the kids. Then I meticulously cover my tracks to avoid spoilers. Every year my wife rolls her eyes.
My vindication is a multi hour Nintendo eShop outage today.