davidcel.is

Amateur pizzaiolo and engineer.

About me

Hey there, I’m David! I’m a Principal Software Engineer at FireHydrant (where I write APIs) out in Portland, Ore. (where I drink IPAs). I write about tech (rarely), food (often), and whatever else is on my mind.

Work

Company

FireHydrant

Role

Principal Software Engineer

Date

2021 Now
Company

Stripe

Role

Staff Software Engineer

Date

2019 2021
Company

HashiCorp

Role

Senior Software Engineer

Date

2017 2019
Company

GitHub

Role

Software Engineer

Date

2016 2017

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incredible. Apple is truly at the top of their game

A screenshot of a macOS alert dialog titled "Force Quit Applications" that says "Your system has run out of application memory. To avoid problems with your computer, quit any applications you are not using" followed by a list of applications and their memory usage:

Code (paused): 7.25 GB
Discord (paused): 1.18 GB
Mail (paused): 425.1 MB
Messages (paused): 137.25 GB
Reeder (paused): 567.5 MB
Safari (paused): 8.26 GB
Terminal (paused): 756.1 MB
Finder: 652.7 MB

Messages is highlighted because that is an absurd amount of RAM for an application that just sends and receives text messages.

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