I do some work for a non-profit. I love what I do.
When I'm stressed, I put in some extra hours that I don't bill them for because it gives me something to focus on to get me through.
I realize this means that I am Not Good At Capitalism but it's sure good for my heart.
I’m hearing from my laid off #Disney friends that their jobs are being refilled at a level lower making them ineligible to apply.
Meaning filthy rich #BobIger destroyed 7,000 lives while relaxing on his yacht to replace older workers with young, cheap labor.
#DisneyMagic
abolish résumés. abolish cover letters. ask me whatever questions you need to ask in the job application and in one interview maximum and leave it at that.
Bramley was with a dog sitter today while we played D&D and he got to play with other dogs and some kids and now he's passed the fuck out as he's so tired :D
When I was little (in the 90s) and the radio was my only source of music, I used to get really annoyed when they played music I didn't like at the time. One of them was Alanis Morissette because it was always on.
Anyway... I was a fool. It's so embarrassing to admit that I am only now appreciating her songs.
On the other hand, if I had known about "You Oughta Know" many years ago when I had a heartbreak, I probably would have embarrassed myself on social media at the time. 😂
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/
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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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/)
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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
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GitHub is "The AI-powered developer platform".
Not the "Build software better, together. Powerful collaboration, code review, and code management for open source and private projects." we signed up for years ago. (github's main page from webarchive).
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.
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.
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
Type safe enums for Go without code generation or reflection - GitHub - orsinium-labs/enum: Type safe enums for Go without code generation or reflection