My second time going through this process at Deliveroo. This time I'm in a union and I am eager to organise and help at risk workers.
Fuck the profit motive.
#layoffs #engineering
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/02/09/deliveroo-lays-almost-one-ten-staff-tech-job-cuts-continue/
One nice thing about organising all of the at risk Deliveroo employees and getting them onto a separate slack workspace is I've gotten to speak to hundreds of new people over the past day.
More than I can say I've spoken to in the 5 years I've been with the company.
#layoffs #engineering
idk who needs to hear this but fanhouse is the only web and mobile subscription platform that has unique watermarks on content to prevent leaks AND trace back leakers, fine them, and permanently deactivate them, and a team that helps with DMCA takedowns and removal of content
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Updated my personal site a bit today. Cleaned up the landing page a little, added a /now page like all the cool kids have.
I’m very open to constructive criticism, I’m still miles away from being satisfied with it. Especially style-wise, I have a lot to fix in the CSS, particularly just moving away from the Publish basic template.
Feels good to have done all this on an iPhone though. Working Copy and WorldWideWeb are really useful apps.
A year on from my abortion, I'm accompanying my partner to his vasectomy.
I thought I'd reshare my blogpost around why my abortion was in fact a "pro-life" choice
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Elon Musk, some free advice: generally when asking for money for a product, the product should work better than — or at least as good as — when the product was free.
Hope this helps!
Personal news: after 10 years, I'm leaving GDS. I've had a brilliant time here and am proud of what I and we have achieved. I'm planning to write a personal retrospective on my time here.
In the meantime, I am looking for a new role. I'm an engineer with >10 years experience, with particular strengths in infrastructure and security engineering. I'm available from March onwards. Let me know what you have!
As someone who like, consults on continuous delivery for a living, and who is watching with glee as Musk burns his own fortune, this is extremely funny to me.
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£65,738 -MP salary in 2010
£86,584 -MP salary in 2023
If rail, teachers, nurses, firemen, ambulance staff, bus drivers, had the same rate of increase, there would be no strikes.
Also was complimented by 2 people today on my ability to get other engineers excited about upcoming work thanks to my leadership 🥰
And feedback on how my approach “we face unknowns together as a team” on a project has been working out well!
In the first installment of our new column about the tech workforce, Jennifer Riggins asks if we really need all those standups and status updates. Is there a better way? #management #scrum #engineeringmanagement #ITmanagement
SCOOP: Elon has emailed staff following the Twitter outage.
“Please pause for now on new feature development in favor of maximizing system stability and robustness, especially with the Super Bowl coming up.”
AWP is one of the greatest features ever created on Android
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In an era where so many of us find out difficult to disconnect, I'm grateful for my @MSIntune powered Android that turns off ALL WORK APPS with a single click. #familytime#roadtrip
I know the right likes to point at the queer/trans community, and say that we censor things we don’t like, but here’s the thing:
We may be asking you to stop buying books (or video games) written by awful people… but we’re still not trying to ban them.
I think that says a lot.
“This thing is harmful to me; please don’t support it” is not, and never will be, the same as “I don’t like it so I’m going to make it impossible to access.”
And they know it.
Please, please stop using pictures of polar bears to talk about the climate crisis.
Climate change is happening right here, to humans. People need to see that to care.
ADHD is the most poorly-named affliction ever. like hi do you have a profound physical inability to accomplish your goals specifically because they're your goals and also the thought of your friends not liking you makes you want to die? you may have Trouble Sitting Still Disorder
Mom and I chatting and in true ADHD family style we have at least two distinct and coherent conversation threads intermingling in the chat box bound by mere earthly concepts of causation and coherence.
"Pussy Ass Bitch" is now in the Congressional Record.
Acyn: I just woke up and Twitter is telling me "You are over the daily limit for sending Tweets". So things are still ...
I'll be abandoning Twitter soon. Join me on Mastodon: @jwz@mastodon.social
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this is why i don’t mention the companies i’ve worked for by name. in tech it gets you some clout but clout ain’t worth getting stalked ^_^
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my job is really cool and i'd like to share a lot more cool stuff from it but i can't bc then i tun the risk of someone figuring out where i work and calling my boss to try to get me fired, which someone tried (and failed) to do to me at a different job like 6 years ago
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