@solderandchaos cheese and a castle, this sounds like a perfect conference to me.
@jon I think my ideal would be a mechanism via which I can limit how long per-hour I can spend to a fairly low number to interrupt the loop of looking at different things.
I really need to find a way to effectively back off social media use for a while. I just spent 90 minutes doing nothing but rotating between apps, when I’d been about to go to bed and read instead. Recommendations would be very welcome, I’ll be starting with some decent screen time restrictions, which currently only apply to Twitter.
@theverge.spaceNearly 800,000 Maryland license plates now advertise an online casino.
Back in 2012, the state of Maryland decided to commemorate the War of 1812 with a license plate that displayed a URL. (Once upon a time, I had one of these on my own car.)
Motherboard reports that Maryland no longer controls the URL, and all of those license plates are now linking to an online casino in the Philippines. Oops!
I saw a lot of awesome things today, but the most metal by far was a Kenyan community group describing how they protected their forest by destroying the equipment of charcoal producers.
The forest is still standing today.
I demand to know why we live in the boring cyberpunk future, rather than the fun one where we're all running around with these bad-boys on our wrists. ://vi.aliexpress.com/item/1005003
Me: `mkdir -p /path/to/directory`
Computer: `/path/to/directory: No such file or directory`
I think I might just give up on today and skip straight to the week off.
@james fair point. I (somewhat ironically) meant being able to write prose which clearly communicates a message clearly, in whatever language your team communicates in.
@james how to write in English. Technical documents, Slack messages about something being broken, emails, meeting agendas. Being able to clearly communicate what you intend to do, or what you have done and need help with, is a skill that too few developers seem to focus on developing.
Zelda has achieved the impossible by presenting me with two boss fights in a row which I not only didn’t hate with a passion, but even quite enjoyed. 10/10.
Woke up this morning after a dream with a head full of things that needed doing at work. Sat up, then realised it was 6am, and I no longer work at the company I had a head full of things that needed doing for.
Genie: I’ll give you one billion dollars if you can spend 100M in a month. There are 3 rules: No gifting, no gambling, no throwing it away.
SRE: Can I use AWS?
Genie: There are 4 rules.
@Scarlet@queer.af hey, I've seen that episode of Stargate. It was a good one.
@nach I fear the word community is being poisoned by all the companies/YouTube channels/games/cryptoscams that claim to be built around The Community, when in fact they mean they're building a ponzi scheme.
@CatherineFlick this is every DIY project ever. I go in full of enthusiasm, and the view that it can't be that hard, then eight hours later I'm sat on the floor surrounded by a random assortment of tools and happy to concede at "well, it's only slightly worse than it was when I started".
@Edent that man is a writing machine, could have sworn Kaiju only came out last week.
So far I've been given advice on mental health by [checks notes] an IT recruitment agency, and a co-working space.
Oh good, its mental health awareness week. Brace for a week of being told how doing a bit of colouring in and listening to recordings of waterfalls will solve all your ills.
@SamLR job ad code for "tech bros only" is getting ever more obscure as automated filtering flags the obvious ones.
Just got a promoted tweet announcing the product I'd been working on before leaving my last job (in itself, a rebrand of what I'd been doing for years before that). Really weird to see something in the wild I was once so deeply involved with, and yet am now almost completely disconnected from.
Is there any greater feeling than when you first see a system you’ve been working on for an extended period working end to end?
Can we do away with quiet coaches on trains and instead have one or two dedicated to the people who are going to spend the whole journey loudly having boring phone calls so the rest of us can avoid them?