"Tell my wife I love her very much, she knows"
Work
I'm currently working as a DBRE at Life360
I've created a short page for recruiters too, and here's where I keep links to some of my presentations.
Random list of things I've done professionally:
- MySQL performance analysis and optimization (independently, at Percona, and at Pythian)
- Tooling for MongoDB and MySQL
- Rebase work maintaining private MySQL branches for the DBaaS product of a Cloud vendor
- Programming work in Java, C, C++, Ruby, Go, and Python
- Private benchmarks
Emacs
The journey to emacs proficiency is a lifetime one, and it includes developing the skill of knowing when you've customized it enough.
My first recommendation is to read the book Mastering Emacs and to make it a habit to check Sacha Chua's blog, which is a treasure trove of all things Emacs.
My second recommendation is that you try org-mode, as it's one of the best text-based knowledge organization and task management software out there.
Always remember emacs is programmable and you don't need to use the builtin key bindings. For years (more than a decade actually) I used evil-mode, which gives you vim key bindings on emacs. I'm now mostly using the default ones for simple things, but otherwise my setup is heavily customized. You can read a list of posts on this topic at the following links: