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An abstraction having a property of being indeterministic cannot be an abstraction.
If an abstraction is flaky (different from leaky) it pulls you back into the details to understand if it abstracted the thing in the way it should've abstracted.
A old advert that has the words What the heck is Electronic Mail? With a man looking very scared by a sparkling trail flying around his desk
The first two hours this morning
Watch software developers. I mean *really* watch them.
When they say they spent an hour "writing code", they've actually spent most of that hour *reading* code and *thinking* about it.
Wanna boost your dev productivity?
* Write code that's easier to understand
* Get better at understanding code
obviously not the major driver of his health concerns but it is very funny to read A Christmas Carol as an adult and realize that when tiny tim first says "God bless us, every one!" he's a severely malnourished child and they've given him a cup of hot gin
One of my best work achievements this year was convincing book club to read a book about a struggling manufacturing plant in the 80s
We discovered how the lessons they learned translate to software development.
Everyone in tech should read The Goal
If only the radical left had been more respectful, they deserve this. 🙇♂️
YAGNI is too often a plague infecting otherwise good software design. It's a knee-jerk reaction to "I don't have a clue, so I'll ensure that I don't need to have a clue."
It's Mental Math Monday! What goes on in your head when you're mentally calculating 45% of 40?
Only started just under 2 years ago. Mostly just target archery AGB. Bowmen of Darenteford! Probably a bit far away to have a little competition :)
Congratulations on meeting the weird niche of software developer and archer on Bluesky. I don’t think our community is very big 😂
I’ve tried field but prefer target
Another test
Target archery!
Testing
Very mature software engineering
“Teslas aren’t woke” insists UK Tesla rep and urges us to stand up for Elon Musk youtu.be/kuY_ywICSZs?...
Katie Leonard (one of our eng managers) recently wrote a 🔥killer🔥 piece on the current obsession with cutting middle management in the name of "efficiency".
"Efficiency is not the same as effectiveness. An org running at 100% capacity is brittle, not agile."
www.linkedin.com/pulse/cuttin...
Have to do a presentation about engineering culture in a few weeks. Thought I'd spend a bit of time making some very business-serious slide images
From your friendly, wealth-creating geniuses. Please don't tax them, otherwise they wont be able to bring so much prosperity to society.
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
H.R.1161 - To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland as "Red, White, and Blueland".
JFC
list of banned keywords
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
Learn Go with Tests: Working without mocks
quii.gitbook.io/learn-go-wit...
#golang #tdd
(not new, but I re-read it, thought I did a good job!)
I am tempted to adopt this formula across the widest possible range of topics
"Regardless of whether one thinks that's a realistic option - which I do not - should we not have the courage to ask these questions?" - Suella Braverman
What might we call these?
A 'Braverman conjecture"?
funniest possible end game event has entered the field of play
