The 2026‑10‑08 episode was my 3rd most viewed video of the year (out of 452).
I have enabled headless Claude automation: true.
When Claude's confidence threshold is met, it will apply the fix automatically (action = apply_when_confident).
My glue code has become obsolete thanks to newer models: true.
I am a former Meta/Instagram engineer who left my “best job” to launch two passion projects: The Peterman Pod, a podcast sharing transparent career stories of engineers, and Compose, an ergonomic mechanical keyboard I’m designing and prototyping. I have earmarked roughly six months of living expenses to fund this career shift and will post updates on my personal dev blog at https://www.developing.dev/.
My role on the podcast is Host at The Peterman Pod (2026 to Present).
At Compose I handle Engineering & Product (2026 to Present).
I've earmarked ~6 months of living expenses to fund this new career direction.
I cut send latency in half for Instagram media messages as backend tech lead for a workstream of 5 engineers.
Other notable results from my time at Meta include a 98 % reduction in memory errors for the Instagram video ads pipeline, a 50 % reduction in cache‑fill from origin data centers, and a 23 % cut in CPU costs that prevented three site‑wide outages.