One of the things that’s always struck me as broken in big tech companies is how often there are products that millions of people use that deserve continued improvements that no one cares about while there are so many hot new projects with no meaningful shot at as much impact with dozens, hundreds or even thousands of people working on them. By the way Microsoft is pulling Wordpad from Windows because no one is working on it. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-is-killing-wordpad-in-windows-after-28-years/

Right now I’m a 10 Unfortunately that’s on the pain scale

A fun thing about covid reducing our visits to the U.K. to once per year is that it’s broken the frog-in-boiling-water-ness of it all and now every time I go back I’m shocked by obvious signs of decline

i don’t go to therapy to become emotionally healthy i go to therapy to fix my self esteem so i can be a findom and therefore afford to be a lady of leisure

The great thing about measuring developer productivity is that you can quickly identify the bad programmers. I want to tell you about the worst programmer I know, and why I fought to keep him in the team.

Every so often my brain reminds me of a conversation from long ago. Sometimes I’ll go for months without thinking about it, but then it’ll trigger, and I can’t stop thinking about it. It happened this week. Many years ago I taught technical courses for SAP in their London training centre. There’d often be moments during the day when the students were busy doing exercises and off-topic conversations would start. Here’s how one went down.

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Attached: 1 image This whole Church of Scientology freaking out over how right to repair will force them to open up how their e-meters work thing is my favourite current side plot. 🍿 (Edited to add link because this went wider than I expected lmao: https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/01/right_to_repair_scientology/)

@www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me @Colarusso Open RSS provides mastodon RSS feeds with boosts. https://openrss.org/blog/mastodon-rss-feeds #RSS #Mastodon

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Docker is not just a way of running programs on Linux without a virtual machine. Docker is 4 things.

why does everyone want to own the libs as an open source developer i own multiple libs i would happily pay people to take them from me you do not want to own libs. its so much work

If somebody asks you to take part in an icebreaker game, your only responsibility is to make them regret it

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I'm just a boy, standing in front of a software manufacturer, asking you to just write down the instructions instead of recording a video tutorial. Please. I beg.

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Attached: 3 images Nope. Got enough shit to deal with lol. Now not the AI munching, code forge vacuuming org coming on here

TIL the % of humans that are intersex is about the same as the % of humans that are red-headed. Yet, most folks don’t even know about the first group. And some US states are writing laws that erase that group. Imagine no public bathrooms for red heads - that’s how dumb your laws sound.

Oh no I’ve come out of vacation and there’s DevRel discourse happening

I sometimes wonder if the agile/trunk-based/no-code-review/DORA4LIFE crew actually use software where "value is shipped constantly to the customer” because I am just so fucking tired of random UI changes. I honestly do not mind if someone thinks a thing through before shipping it. I am OK if that makes them not an "elite team" or if they have to "collaborate and critique" their work before shipping it. There are things in life more important than some programmer closing a JIRA ticket

The amount of internal tooling built at this job is unreal Even the internal tooling is multiple times bigger than anything I've worked on before 🤯