So, today I was here. This was one of the most unusual historical marker signs I have ever seen.

Charming. Serious. And #NinjaTurtles. #TMNT
#DoverNH

I’m for the most part a Forgetter and it always impresses me how some people I’ve worked with can pull out such detailed memories of things they’ve done in the past, but my memories of such are generally pretty spotty.

https://www.thecut.com/article/memory-people-who-remember-vs-forget.html

One of the best parts about living in the city and having hyperlocal community is how often we run into friends when we’re out and about.

#Seattle - if you are interested in:

* Stranger Things walkie talkies
* Retro tech
* Radio waves what even are they
* The sun & how it creates a charged layer in the ionosphere allowing us to bounce messages off it like skipping stones on a lake

Then I have good news for you! We just spent the day putting up some GIANT #hamradio antennas in a field & we're inviting Seattle to visit this weekend as part of the "open house" that is #FieldDay http://www.seattleradiofieldday.org

pic: 1 of 7 masts going up

I’m watching a skateboard vert competition and it’s sponsored by the document destroying company Shred-It and damn if that doesn’t make perfect sense whenever it shows up in the background

Yikes, MeFi is doing a rewrite? I’m sorely afraid that’s going to be the end of the site. I very much hope not, but given how most rewrites wind up…

https://metatalk.metafilter.com/26454/MeFi-Site-Update-June-19th

All models are wrong. But some models are wronger than others.

OH: "/api/v1 is an emotional support api prefix"

I hadn’t thought about Lambda School in a long time, but what a read: https://www.sandofsky.com/lambda-school/

"Philip Hazel was 51 when he began the Exim message transfer agent (MTA) project in 1995, which led to the Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) project in 1998. At 80, he's maintained PCRE, and its successor PCRE2, for more than 27 years. For those doing the math, that's a year longer than LWN has been in publication. Exim maintenance was handed off around the time of his retirement in 2007. Now, he is ready to hand off PCRE2 as well, if a successor can be found."

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/978463/608c876c1153fd31/

I dunno, but I have a feeling that the normalization of automatic updates has relieved developers and their clients of having to consider a user's needs to a large degree. Software change is now something you do to your users, not something you persuade your users to accept.

This is a remarkable graph.

You might have heard that "EV sales are slumping", "people are starting to avoid EVs", etc.

That's not what's happening.

What's happening is "Tesla is cratering so hard that it's skewing the aggregate market data."

Or, put differently, "Tesla is failing harder than the entire rest of the market is succeeding, combined."

git status is now taking half a second, which is apparently the point at which I get annoyed at it. Probably time to prune my submodules.

merge conflict tips

(this is #bonuscomic #5 for "How Git Works" https://wizardzines.com/zines/git/, with things that aren't in the zine)

I've been breaking my usual "don't write about things I haven't tried" rules for these bonus comics, but other people suggested these and maybe they'll be helpful!

I’ve been told to stop referring to the git commit history as “the public chronicle of our errors”

the job hunt continues but it has brought me this actually quite good job requirement

@nat One comment on your draft on management at Pivotal:

But Labs still needed mentors to help develop new consultants – so you see this very mentorship-focused management system develop.

Not sure if my experience was out of the ordinary here, but I didn’t really think of my manager as being there for mentorship. Some did wind up being mentors in some form or fashion, but they were generally too far removed from the work and I received more mentorship from more senior engineers on my team.

Looking forward to the revised post on this, also - will be great to have a resource to point people to when I talk about the Pivotal [engineering] management structure.

This is really good.

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2024/06/succor-borne-every-minute