Likes from 19 March 2024

I’m a strong believer in automated tests - and a moderately disciplined author of them. Software engineering is exceptionally hard to get functionally correct, and even harder to avoid regressing later. As my wise teammate Dave says, “Legacy code is any code that doesn’t have a test.”

Exciting times as we hike the W, and visit Torres del Paine.

Management's role isn't necessarily to break unions but to keep workers compliant with company objectives. If the company is open to a union, they'll only impede it (and keep lower management out of the loop) so much so to make it a burden for workers to manage. If they're more offensive, they'll do what Apple, Trader Joe's, GM, Microsoft, Walmart and other conventional businesses do: take a complete about-face from whatever purported values the company is about and use their own legal prowess to weaken the constitutional rights workers have (it's only a crime if you're tried and sentenced when it comes to companies weakening unions).

the small child in front of me peeked through the chairs and asked me why I was wearing a mask, has this kid never seen a mask before on a plane?

me: i'll have the house wine please waiter: sorry we've only got techno wine *techno wine marches in coked off its face* techno wine: WHISTLE CREW MAKE SOME NOOOOIIIIISE

Ran past a man walking 3 pugs today. As I overtook, the pugs thought I was racing them and ran after me, which made me think I was being chased by angry pugs. It was an arms race in which everyone involved was stupid

I'm sorry I referred to my jizz as 'streaming content'

The greatest lie ever told in work: “I just have a quick question”

How it often works is DevEx & Marketing push out some half-baked thing as a free service driving to drive adoption and generate interest. Generally there aren't many Engineering or Ops resources assigned to these things. Monitoring is next to nothing. No one even thought to consider fraud prevention measures. Many times InfoSec isn't informed at all. When a free service that allows arbitrary hosting, or arbitrary email/SMS content goes out, the first ones to adopt it are often criminals. The end result is you're playing catch-up for months to years to get the proper level of resourcing dedicated to closing the exploitable holes. No one wants to do that for a product that isn't directly generating revenue. The thing is, if you can't afford to assign resources, you should never deploy it. If it's connected to the Internet and connected to your brand, you're going to suffer reputation loss when it's abused, and it WILL be abused. Once I got a free service (temporarily) shut down because I showed our CMO how many complaints we were getting about it from people targeted by abuse. You'll have a hard time convincing random PMs or DevEx folks to limit the project they're working on for their quarterly goals/promotion opportunity. Marketing and Legal leaders will definitely care about reputation damage if you can make a strong, evidence-backed case.

Attached: 1 image My wife sent me this screenshot today from her Facebook feed. It depicts a "remember 17 years ago" flashback featuring a friend of hers. The "then" image shows his face while the "now" side is blank... Because he died a decade ago. "Technically Wrong" came out in 2017, filled with numerous accounts of similar situations. This isn't new, but tech giants still continue to roll out this kind of half baked crap with no care for how it might impact the people using their products.

nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: moon's horny nasa employee: what? astronaut: *grabbing condoms and getting back on the rocket-ship* moon's horny

Content warning: uspol, if you wanna defend any politician in my mentions then how the hell did you even see this post

@www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me I described that in my thread? blocks of contrasting colours to break up the flat plain. not just white text on a very dark background

I have a picture of @Quinnypig@awscommunity.social giving bedroom eyes and it is too powerful to release to the masses

My parents cut part of my dick off when I was a baby and now I tuck it between my legs voluntarily to wear certain pants and that’s a HUGE issue for them. Very normal

Datasette authentication using IndieAuth and RelMeAuth - simonw/datasette-indieauth