Weekend with Cat
Cat Last Tuesday, I got a message from a friend of mine, who I met while I was an intern at Hootsuite. He asked me if I had any plans for the weekend, and I...
Iterating
Remember what I wrote in last week’s newsletter? If I’m being honest, I’m not sure if this idea is fully-formed yet, but I might as well write it down so I...
Honing In
It's another cloudy Sunday (classic Vancouver), and I'm back at the usual cafe I go to. There's a staff member that must have overheard me speak Korean one...
First Week Madness
It’s been a bit of a wild first week back to school, as I am sure other people have had as well. A little over a year has passed since I’ve started writing...
Back to School
Sunday September 5, 2021 11:38am Overcast, 18 °C Last week was the first time in a while when I'd had a pretty long stretch of "downtime." I foolishly didn't...
Retrospective
Friday was my last day at Twitter, bookending a series of events that began back in January of this year. I’d honestly never expected to work at a large tech...
Winding Down this Summer
On about Monday or so last week, I was taking a shower when I felt my stomach drop; I forgot to write a newsletter for last Sunday! There goes my supposed...
Questions
Last week, I half-jokingly added the tweet below to my list of "thesis ideas" that are more a collection of jokes than actual ideas for my thesis: "Search...
Minecraft, U-Haul, and The Green Knight
10:38PM It's a bit of a late newsletter, considering I usually write + send these at around noon. I'm usually sitting at the same place at the same cafe,...
Trusting Software and Developer Workflows
This past week, I estimate that I spent about 3-4 hours trying to make sense of some strange behaviour that I've been seeing in some code. I'm currently...
Presentation
When I was in elementary school, I had a teacher who taught me a pretty important lesson that I still think about to this day. I should note that elementary...
Lab Work
When people hear the words "lab," especially with respect to the sciences, images of beakers, fume hoods, and glassware strewn about often come to mind. I...
Consistency
This is the 44th time that I am sitting down and writing something on a Sunday. If nothing else, I think I’m a pretty consistent person; I’ve been...
Hard is Concurrent Programming (fuck, it's hot)
12:22 PM. I'm sitting outside on a cafe patio. Depending on what app you ask, the temperature ranges from a breezy 28 °c to 34 °c. Vancouver is in the midst...
Documentation is my Passion
Sunday, June 20th, 2021. 3:40PM I've had a beer, and I'm definitely feeling it right now. It's surprising how buzzed I can get on a 4.67% sour from Taylight...
Week 1 🐦
Last week was my first week at Twitter. I spent most of it setting up my development environment and not doing much else. There were a bunch of corporate...
Cats, Cats, Cats!
This week was supposed to be my first week at Twitter. Unfortunately, there was a shipping snafu and my laptop ended up getting delayed by a week. This meant...
Scala 3, Pisco Sours, and Twitter
Scala 3 The past week was mainly filled with me pouring over the language reference for Scala 3. It was initially supposed to be released sometime last fall,...
Update
I am pretty exhausted, and I don’t think I’ll have enough energy to write an entire newsletter today. I’ll keep it brief with some point-form notes: Last...
My name is
James Yoo. That’s what my friends know me as and call me. Various legal documents know me as Jun Sung Yoo, and somewhere in a database in some lonely data...