One common hangup I've encountered when discussing #marketing my work with other engineers is the notion that the work was easy or trivial to implement. That's not the important part! What the org cares about is impact. Tell a good story!

To be good at #marketing yourself, you need to be good at communication, both written and verbal. Don't be afraid to talk about your work, either to your manager, your skip level, your users, an email list, or the company all hands meeting.

As an engineer, I care very much about #marketing myself, my team, and my work. I am of the impression that my work does not speak for itself, I have to speak for my work. Being high impact means making sure the org knows it, too.

The game that I'm working on is punchtop https://github.com/lopopolo/punchtop #win #rust #powerhour

Making a mental note that I've decided to go static with hyperbola. Not sure when this project will get done, but here's to 2019. I have dreams of a custom #webpack and #markdown generator, S3 and CloudFront for distribution.

I made a small #rust crate called stream-util for a game I'm working on. https://github.com/lopopolo/punchtop/tree/master/stream-util allows graceful drains of tokio mpsc channels or canceling a futures Stream. Clippy pedantic and fully documented #win

I implemented a #rust client for the #chromecast protocol for a game I'm working on. I collected a fairly exhaustive set of protocol documentation: https://github.com/lopopolo/punchtop/tree/master/cast-client

The most expensive part of hyperbola's #aws infrastructure is the SSM PrivateLink endpoint in 3 AZs #fail #cost

First #rust #patch accepted https://github.com/asomers/futures-locks/pull/10 closing out 2018 with a bang

Optimizing #react bundle ... cut bundle size by 72KB. Biggest wins are turning an image into CSS + an emoji, removing unused deps, enabling mini-css-extract-plugin in release builds #win #webpack index.html is 333 KB

Took 4.5 years but I've finally started to learn #rust: https://hyperbo.la/lifestream/298/. I'm implementing a power hour game that plays to a #chromecast with a #react webview UI.

Been using #ack for almost a decade. Installed #ripgrep today. Wow it's so fast! #win

I've now over-engineered an iTunes library integrity checker by turning a script into a module #win https://github.com/lopopolo/dotfiles/blob/e810a83/scripts/music-integrity-check.rb

Just accidentally truncated my .bash_history. Restored from backup but the latest was 55 days ago. #fail

I had a #patch accepted to an Ansible role I use in my Vagrant environment https://github.com/mprahl/ansible-role-lets-encrypt-route-53/pull/14

I promised a postmortem: https://hyperbo.la/w/secrets-in-parameter-store-postmortem/

I was hard down for ~5min last night while rolling out secrets in parameter store. 0.149.0, 0.149.1, 0.149.2, and 0.149.3 were bad releases #fail. 0.149.4 is stable: https://github.com/lopopolo/hyperbola/compare/v0.148.0...v0.149.4. Postmortem pending.

41-commit weekend 🤩Feel much better about my #webpack , #ansible, and #packer code #win

The computers did exactly what I told them to do 😕 #fail

Add in some manual #terraform state edits and deleting things in the #aws console and we're recovered #fail #win