A dragon sighed a wall of fire. Your entire crew and all NPC are toasted. You have been un-eQIPed. You have respawned in front of a federal building with none of your previous inventory or cloths. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1171118229034549253/photo/1
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Sign here.. wait don't sign here. (UI elements as sort of a message board for UX folk and other stakeholders) https://x.com/mistersql/status/1171115740533075970/photo/1
1st missions
1) Draw the magic runes with your fingertips
2) Deliver this scroll to the lost room
3) Choose five golden questions to eQIP yourself with more magic
IDEA: Spongebob Square Pants, but everyone is Latino & Señor Plancton is trying to get the secret mole recipe for the empanada del mar.
Hollywood, call me so we can do this reboot.
Best book I've ever read about software development management/tech leadership/being a team lead: "Managing the Unmanageable"
What is your favorite book in this space?
https://smile.amazon.com/Managing-Unmanageable-Insights-Software-People-ebook/dp/B009CFV8BY/
Some of the best weather we've had in half a year this morning.
Watching a thread about SAFe & someone says, something like, well if folk only tried harder & didn't screw it up, SAFe would work. I know nothing about SAFe, but isn't that what they say about ITIL, SDLC, etc, etc.
In history, they got this controversy about if something happened because of great men (i.e. history is bios of kings & presidents) or because of big systems (i.e. fedualism->capitalism->etc) Imho, it is both. A methodology isn't enough you need the right folk to pull it off.
♡ 1 ↻ 0Great people wrote apps under SDLC which is shit-sandwich. A clown show won't be able to ship notepade.exe, not with Scrum, nor Kanban, nor SAFe.
♡ 1 ↻ 0Great people will naturally notice that chaos isn't serving anyone and adopt some sort of process. Imposing process on a clown show can't make clowns ship code.
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Reading up on Elasticsearch's election of master nodes.
I think this could be improved with the addition of primaries, parties, etc. No node should be elected until it composes a speech at the convention & nltk rates it for persuasiveness.
Howard Schultz will not run for president & all the staff at Starbucks take a sigh of relief as their brand will not be demonized by half of the country for four years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-starbucks-chief-executive-howard-schultz-announces-he-will-not-run-for-president/2019/09/05/230b0fa2-d046-11e9-87fa-8501a456c003_story.html
TIP: When they say you need an escort to get in a federal building, it turns out that is *not* what they mean.
Drawing pizza with TSQL https://x.com/SlavaSQL/status/1169571092316479489
I can't find the original parable of throwing popcorn at a dog.
Throw 1, 2, maybe 3, it can catch 1 or 2 pretty reliably.
Throw 5, 6, 7...etc, it will catch 0, 0, 0,... etc.
ie don't overwhelm your or other's attention or try to multitask, we don't do it very well. Nor do dogs
BUG REPORT: MS Teams conferencing/screen sharing is missing the 1.25x speed setting. Also 1.5, 1.75, & 2x https://x.com/mistersql/status/1169310973523628032/photo/1
Everyone is getting robbed and hiding under the bed today. Be safe out there.
In two weeks I'll be working for** Library of Congress. I wish this was my office, probably the only open layout office I will speak positively about.
** via a contracting company https://x.com/mistersql/status/1168888332346109959/photo/1
Authentication systems are capable of dealing with human life spans. I'm trying to recover/delete a blog I had from 20 years ago- but all the questions the help desk ask are surreal because it was 20 years ago.
shoot. *are not capable*. I hate when I leave out *not*
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Hilton Hotels is still booking rooms for the Bahamas tomorrow. I wonder if they use any weather info to decide if they'll be open tomorrow. A combo of all the tourist companies' booking sites could be better than the Waffle House Index.
Is whiteboarding (writing code puzzle solutions on a whiteboard) a DC thing or is that a westcoast thing? How often are you called on to whiteboard *in* DC interviews?
I almost never get called on to whiteboard in an interview. (take home puzzles, yes)
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Did some whiteboarding recently
1) Felt nothing like writing in an IDE
2) Wow, I really lean on the IDE
3) Writing code without running it is 100x harder
It is a dad joke, but from a son, my whole world is upside down. https://x.com/ba66e77/status/1167876883846811653
The original internet moved books from the Library of Congress to congress via a literal tube. (bandwidth == 1 book in 600 feet in 60s)
Library of Congress used to read (or archive) every single tweet until they snapped and I think they now only keep the Dad jokes.
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MS Teams has a great "meeting notes" feature. I think it says "You don't have access rights to these notes," so this is not a way to collaborate but to remind folk that if you stick your foot in your mouth, someone took notes on that. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1167153779327868928/photo/1
For your next must-succeed software development project's methodology: choose Spotify.
Tune it to the Ozzy Osbourne channel and crank out code, man. https://x.com/spoonstein/status/1167090519807287296
Here is my boarding pass for Mars! It has my name on it. That means, my name is going to Mars.*
Maybe I'll be able to afford a trip to Maine this way.
* u can too https://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/mars2020/ https://x.com/mistersql/status/1166841914286587906/photo/1
This is some by ref, by value joke from the good folk at NASA.
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KATA: Query google for how to make money literally, i.e. to make the images of money & print out money from the printer. It all MMF links for miles.
IDEA: make a notepad clone, call it "formatting code stripper" and sell it for $20.
Good tweet-essay. I'd say recreational programming still exists in programming languages like Lua, which are too small for enterprise work, but big enough to do cool things, especially when scripting some other large monolith (e.g. WoW scripting). https://x.com/Sean_McBeth/status/1166556619829915653
TOREAD: https://k8s.af/ - a collection of case stories where k8s blew up. Makes sense I guess, k8s will heal a failing node, but k8s itself is complex enough that mistakes will take down a cluster, the equivalent of a whole datacenter.
"In Mexico every software developer is senior"
(ref: no deep links to youtube comments...) https://x.com/mistersql/status/1166513969005309952/photo/1
@Akido37 - text analysis of your tweets, I think the algorithm just read your bio https://analyzewords.com/index.php fwiw, it said I was depressed.
Google maps, I think all restaurants in China are Chinese restaurants https://x.com/mistersql/status/1166338398367420416/photo/1
What staff want: to not be stuffed into a crowded, loud, windowless office
What staff get: a building with a gym that they can't take advantage of because of schedule constraints https://x.com/amitmawkin/status/1166322622260568064
That's how organizations roll, unless an esoteric security flaw that will probably lead to the whole user database being dumped to the web with plaintext passwords was discovered & added to the backlog by the non-technical product owner, it just isn't a priority. Know your place https://x.com/webjedi/status/1166184073603309569
Software developer with popular youtube channel got fired from Facebook for having a popular (monetized) youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pIJoPkh9IU
If you click "remember me" on the login screens all the single-sign-on systems will attend your funeral.
IDEA: Extension to HTTP, codes for Response to Response.
Request: GET http://opinions.com/index.html
Response: HTTP 200,<html>....
R2R: HTTP R800, "Everything on this page is wrong, the author is a nitwit"
To go from Takoma Park to Greenbelt station, just take the bus, the train, then fling yourself via a catapult to Greenbelt.
Google Maps has a sense of humor about how bad transit is around here. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1165269618358984704/photo/1
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If you have a problem, yo, I can't solve it
Call the help desk they can resolve it
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Dockers are an excellent container for feet. They're likely to be superseded or enveloped by K8s Shoes,
ref - https://www.aliveshoes.com/-k8s
Don't forget to go anonymous online.
(What happens to people with these mustaches- does no one ever recognize them?)
Anonymizer - http://funny.pho.to/hipster-glasses-mustache/ https://x.com/mistersql/status/1164961985223675907/photo/1