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This is a fantastic insight, and speaks to what I see as a wider cultural yearning; many of us want our interactions with technology to be...

This is a fantastic insight, and speaks to what I see as a wider cultural yearning; many of us want our interactions with technology to be _more_ transactional, not less.

We want to pay for products, get the product, and not have ongoing tracking or data scraping. We want our decisions _in specific_ to be monetised, not our behaviour in aggregate.

Reverting to environments where this is enforced, like the terminal or even the Fediverse, is one way that can be expressed

https://linuxmom.net/@vkc/114163298596135685

Testing out using Mastodon via a CLI client - this is my first post from a terminal, how ...

Testing out using Mastodon via a CLI client - this is my first post from a terminal, how exciting!

https://github.com/ihabunek/toot?tab=readme-ov-file

“PECS fields are differentially losing more competent women in exchange for less competent...

“PECS fields are differentially losing more competent women in exchange for less competent men.”

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/math-intensive-fields-have-a-gender-problem-the-men-are-worse-at-math/

“Observability 3.0 will, more than anything else, be measured by the value that **non-engineering functions** in the business are able to...

“Observability 3.0 will, more than anything else, be measured by the value that **non-engineering functions** in the business are able to get from it”

👏👏👏

https://hazelweakly.me/blog/the-future-of-observability-observability-3-0/

I love Mastodon. It’s like a little island of positivity in my internet, filled with caring nerds who inspire me to go do more and better....

I love Mastodon. It’s like a little island of positivity in my internet, filled with caring nerds who inspire me to go do more and better. Y’all rock.

Test reply. Please... display?

Test reply. Please... display?

Test toot, please ignore.(If you must know, I'm trying out https://github.com/dpecos/mastodon-comments?tab=readme-ov-file, which is...

Test toot, please ignore.

(If you must know, I'm trying out https://github.com/dpecos/mastodon-comments?tab=readme-ov-file, which is hella cool, and needs a toot to point to as the comment thread base)

Anyone used a good tool for visualising Github Action build chains across many repositories?I think my team is about to be asked to roll our...

Anyone used a good tool for visualising Github Action build chains across many repositories?

I think my team is about to be asked to roll our own, and feel like this must be a solved problem already, for a non-exorbitant price.

Why is this so hard to understand? Nobody questions it for UX designers, whose bosses are usually not in the software org structure, but...

Why is this so hard to understand? Nobody questions it for UX designers, whose bosses are usually not in the software org structure, but start moving devs outside of their line manager’s team and everyone goes nuts!

My current tech team peeve is not understanding the full implications of the term “cross-functional team”.Like, yes, I know Janet...

My current tech team peeve is not understanding the full implications of the term “cross-functional team”.

Like, yes, I know Janet reports to the head of infra, and usually her tickets live in a different board, but right now she’s working on this product so she’s part of the product team, and her work is visible here.

And yet I have never once had anyone react with anything other than bug-eyed astonishment when I say I think Git could use some...

And yet I have never once had anyone react with anything other than bug-eyed astonishment when I say I think Git could use some improving.

https://hachyderm.io/@recursive/113137225813996745

No matter how often you try.

No matter how often you try.

If you can’t do that you won’t persuade me of your supposed brilliance.

If you can’t do that you won’t persuade me of your supposed brilliance.

Tell me what you’ve seen that’s worked. Tell me what you’ve built your proud of. Tell me who you’ve worked with who inspired you....

Tell me what you’ve seen that’s worked. Tell me what you’ve built your proud of. Tell me who you’ve worked with who inspired you.

And for fuck’s sake, do it without shitting down from your high horse in other people.

There’s a certain class of technologist who only wants to talk about how everything they see is shit; all the teams, all the devs, all the...

There’s a certain class of technologist who only wants to talk about how everything they see is shit; all the teams, all the devs, all the practices (except their ones, of course), all the tools (except their ones, of course), and the products (even their ones, often, unless they’re selling coaching)…

I find it best to mute those people.

I’m always amazed how much of getting things done in a large organisation is the ability to show your working. Being able to being people...

I’m always amazed how much of getting things done in a large organisation is the ability to show your working. Being able to being people along for the ride and explaining your thinking in response to a problem or situation is the biggest superpower.

Continue to be childish. You have the rest of your life to grow up.

Continue to be childish. You have the rest of your life to grow up.

One of the major benefits of moving to a “configuration-as-code” setup, is it encourages the same testing standards of your config as...

One of the major benefits of moving to a “configuration-as-code” setup, is it encourages the same testing standards of your config as your application.

Don’t be #crowdstrike

Test your config.

https://overmind.tech/blog/inside-crowdstrikes-deployment-process

“I firmly believe AI cannot be fully autonomous … there’s always going to be humans and machines working together and the machine is...

“I firmly believe AI cannot be fully autonomous … there’s always going to be humans and machines working together and the machine is augmenting the human’s capabilities”

👏👏👏

I love the above comparison, because a word processor doesn’t remove the need for the author to know what and how to write. Copilot etc...

I love the above comparison, because a word processor doesn’t remove the need for the author to know what and how to write. Copilot etc also do not remove the need for the developer to know what a good solution in code looks like.