🇻🇪 #Venezuela was lovely! As was meeting my fiancé’s family, and the beautiful island of Coche. Long flight home, but totally worth it 😊

I'm hearing that @linuxfoundation@social.lfx.dev made staff cuts today. #HugOps to all the #OpenSource people now finding themselves out of work during the holidays.

She: “have you eaten food today?” Me: “Technically, yes.”

Content warning: Shameless bragging (really, absolutely shameless)

Zoom Recording Sharing Service We’re distributed by design, which means our company policies and values revolve around how to best work when Elasticians are spread around the world. One consequence of this design is that communication is challenging - getting everyone on the team across 14 time zones on a call regularly is not reasonable. We counter this by taking things async when possible but acknowledge that a synchronous video call has its place. In many ways this is even an advantage, a...

Elon Musk being a complete wanker and Tesla being a nightmare of quality issues and lies about functionality aside The Cybertruck really is a fucking HIDEOUS vehicle

bifurcate (bi·fur·cate) Otherwise-straight woman crushes on her friend Kate. #UxbridgeEnglishDictionary

Little harms your professional growth more than being a big fish in a small pond for too long.

I just love waiting 20 minutes (and counting) for #AWS EKS to delete a namespace ... I feel so productive.

I know we’re supposed to forgive people and let stuff go now, because everyone has decided that that’s productive, but in this case: No. Fuck Drew Barrymore forever.

“stop beating yourself up” NO If I did that then I’d have waaaaay more time on my hands and then I’d just beat myself up for not utilising any of it

The neurodivergent nerd instinct to work at startups so the job burns out before you do. Note: I’m fine — or at least operating within normal parameters — it’s just a stray thought.

I just meowed at Tyler as he walked by and he stopped in his tracks, turned around, and looked at me with an expression that says I must have said the most offensive thing imaginable.

Merge vs. Rebase vs. Squash. Anyone who says "100% of the time you <merge/rebase/squash>" is wrong and I'm strong in that opinion. I'm asked about this pretty regularly, so I decided to take my copy paste answer I always use and put it in a gist. 🍿 https://gist.github.com/mitchellh/319019b1b8aac9110fcfb1862e0c97fb

Trans women shouldn’t compete in The Hunger Games because they have an unfair advantage

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im not a bottom im just tired

Nice post from my boss about why we're giving Basecamp the heave-ho: https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2023/11/30/why-were-dropping-basecamp/.

All set up for Advent of Code tomorrow! https://github.com/mrwilson/advent-of-code-2023 I'll be doing it using jq, but this time I've written a little test framework in rust on top of libjq (called jqunit, obviously) to make it easier to stage out the functionality in later, trickier puzzles. I'll be tooting my progress on here, and posting my solutions each day. #AdventOfCode

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