Didn't throw away my shot,🎵
Hey yo, I like my country,🎶
I'm kind of old and hungry (for lunch),
And didn't throw away my shot https://x.com/mistersql/status/1384893786556350467/photo/1
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Now that I think about it, about 1/3 of my career I've gone to the office and spent a day at work and interacted with no one. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1384843801479557122
Thinking about this return to office stuff. If in tech, which pivoted to remote (esp remote hiring), if there aren't a critical mass of team members in the office, asking people to go to the office is asking them to go to an empty office.
Will I live forever? I'm not Socrates, I should be safe.
It was worth a try https://x.com/mistersql/status/1384643022869209088/photo/1
Incredible, police aren't above the law and don't have a license to kill without consequences.
tired: removing dead code
wired: removing dad code
Re airtag, I already use 1 Tile, it was useful for finding my keys in the before days when I went outside.
https://www.thetileapp.com/en-us/
Story points of different teams added together. Take a drink.
"Authority should derive from the knowledge gained by showing up at the meetings of the governed, not from job title!" Govtech Barbie
So it isn't just some. Some developers work hours exploded in the switch to WFH. There is no objective level of productivity to expect from software dev. It just expands to fill the time available.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2021/04/15/game-developers-burnout-crunch-pandemic/
[OK, there is one objective measure- 0 time, 0 Lines of Code, 0 commits, 0 tickets, does in fact corresponded to 0 work done. But that is a separate topic about how to measure anything]
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Build scripts written in Microsoft Word https://x.com/ai_memes/status/1382374419666976771
Ekki stressaður, maður, það eru einfaldlega IKEA húsgögn. En það er hræddari en þú.
- Relax man, that's just IKEA furniture and it is more scared than you are. https://x.com/simongerman600/status/1383827828303564803
And also [text][link], [link][text], (link)(text), (text)(link),
(link)[text], [link](text), https://x.com/jitbit/status/1383174569759027201
It is the big bang quality of all this that makes it so unpleasant. It's just physically grueling to smash so many hours of meeting & meeting prep into such a small timebox. No consideration of human factors at all. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1383798379151384587
Scrum: sprint review, retro, planning (16 hours of meeting & meeting prep), covering 3 weeks of work.
SAFe: Scrum, but also 16 hours of meeting & meeting prep immediately after the 16 hours Sprint, covering 12 weeks of work.
So at Program Increment start, 1 week of meetings for 2 weeks of work. Thereby followed by 2 days of meetings per 3 weeks of work.
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What are y'all using to re-run unit tests on change of code for python?
A certain banned previous world leader could buy Twitter if he really wanted to be reinstanted. https://x.com/edsu/status/1383785802136576002
This is cool Libyear (avail for python, java etc) will assign a metric to how stale your dependencies are in "years" and you can fail the build, stop & go update your system when it is over ~10
https://libyear.com/
So my entire app uses
`from a.b.c.d import some_function`
and it seems if that happens first, then it is too late for @ patch to do anything about it
`import a.b.c.d as mod
mod.some_function()`
patching that seems to just work. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1383167883103064070
When you call a webservice & it is down, you fire up a load tester & hit it with the most threads you can manage right? No? You just retry as fast as you can?
(about 19 min in)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0LUi51aCP8
Trying to mock 2 methods in python at the same time. Acts like if anything anywhere imports the second, the mock fails to take.
AS A maven developer
I WANT log flooding, massive log flooding
SO I CAN drown everything in logs
Jira tickets tracks timeshare, & to some extend Scrum tracks things that compete with it via vacation time. But that ignores an equally important thing, mindshare. E.g. if you handling taxes that week, or a move, or adapting to a pandemic.
What personal productivity system y'all using? paper lists? GTD? personal kanban? notion app? TODO comments in source code?
# TODO: we're out of cereal.
watching microservice videos: So if a microservice is going to be independently deployable, it needs backwards supportable versions. But also, you should be able to deploy multiple times per day. This is an explosion of versions. N services * O current & past versions.
The versioning bit sounds like something that is going to just be ignored because it is so hard to think of a solution for it.
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Out of curiosity, not need, looking for battery-powered portable mini-fridges... not in Amazon, so I figure there must be a youtube video explaining why these don't exist. Probably a minimum power to cool vs size of battery problem.
You can date the http://tired.com website just by looking at the source:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Are you tired?</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF>
<PRE>
<CENTER>
Are you tired?
Tell <a href="mailto:tired@tired.com">us</a> why.
</CENTER>
</PRE>
</BODY>
sofware task estimating- some % of problem-solving is done on a background thread, so 2 weeks of occasionally thinking about it, 60 minutes of implementation. So estimating it takes 60 minutes really misses the variance and range of time between now & done.
Really? I've check 3 covid vaccination websites & they want me to poll them for availability. What is this, grocery delivery shopping in March 2020?
So twitter goes down when dockerhub is down. Maybe they should have their own container repos.
So what is the new address? https://x.com/mistersql/status/1382734750675300352
My first thought too.
This site can’t be reached The webpage at https://x.com/home might be temporarily down or it may have **moved permanently to a new web address.**
ERR_FAILED
You can really tell who was paying 0 attention to a meeting by how many people just never drop off a call after it ends.
metaphors for sofware project management- Running metaphors (sprint) work, but it is more like a marathon where instead of running for 26 miles, you run for 5 hours and stop.
(obviously, I'm in the camp of people who think that "Done" is less objective than buyers of software think, that you just run out of time & resources, and *that* means the code is "Done")
♡ 0 ↻ 0I think buyers of software need to maintain the other fiction, lest that people just sit down & not run a marathon for 5 hours.
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client pre-commit hooks are a workflow failure. Repos need something that runs code server side before it is committed serverside (i.e. made visible to anything other than the server side "pre-commit" hook)
IDEA: in addition to "all tech debt" sprints, we should occasionally have "all project management drama" sprints. Everyone gets a ticket to deal with a particular other person drama, both on team and off team.
You know that dog is sitting thru a flash CBT presentation and will need to print out the completion certificate at the end. https://x.com/marianaa_alfaro/status/1381635802560667652
I endorse this packaging tutorial. It doesn't have http://setup.py, nor setup.cfg, nor http://MANIFEST.in in it at all. https://x.com/timFinin/status/1381285265449357315