Working on a comparison of bike navigation assistance options for Seattle in 2023. Google Maps has continued its long decline in quality, so it seems time to revisit the options. Let me know your favorites. There are two basic categories: 1) Reference tools (like a bike map, a route heat map, or a route advice forum) and 2) A-to-B routing (select destination, get a route to follow turn-by-turn). I’m interested in both kinds. Can be Lo-Fi or high tech. #SEAbikes

HEY EVERYBODY! 🎂🎂🎂Next week is Seattle.rb’s TWENTY FIRST BIRTHDAY!!! 🎂🎂🎂 Seattle.rb can legally drink! 🥃 🍻 You should all come out and celebrate!

*describing a piano* well see; it's a mechanical keyboard that uses non-clicky, linear switches, but it's got this really unique row-staggered key arrangement where the upper row omits a bunch of keys

the layout takes a lot of getting used to; VERY different from Qwerty, but at the same time also different from Colemak; technically it's a distinct kind of chording system, probably most similar to a steno?

anyway I'm going to try running it as my daily driver for a day or two next week to put it thru the paces since it sounds like a lot of people really like it; will let you know how that goes!

Did someone say "AIOps"?

This book is hilarious. Feel like it could have alternately been titled “writing printer firmware : my nightmare”

https://twitter.com/dogisabot/status/1627447766179020801

Submissions are currently closed. It shouldn't be hard to guess why.

Although I’m in general very tired of LLM discourse, as usual, @bretdevereaux@historians.social’s post on it os very good.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/users/hazelweakly/statuses/109899466768596312

Happy #Sunday

The less documented fourth stage of the Pioneer/Settler/Town Planner development model is "Survivors living in the Ruins" which we can see playing out on Twitter now

Medium article: "Coding won't exist in five years. This is why."

First paragraph: "once upon a time, in a world not too different from ours, handmade clothing was the norm."

Comrade. Friend. I really need to tell you that clothing is still hand made. We just exploit people in the global south to make tons of it cheaply.

A medium-read on the Studio Ghibli theme park: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/14/magazine/hayao-miyazaki-ghibli-park.html

Ah, homebrew finally outgrew using a git repository as the index for the core formulas.

https://brew.sh/2023/02/16/homebrew-4.0.0/

“If you do arithmetic in JavaScript in this way you wouldn't ever think to write arithmetic, all of the common JavaScript VMs slow down. Here’s how to avoid this ‘VM de-opt’!”

A reminder to software folks that information like this is just fun trivia, not performance engineering. You build fast software by carefully considering overall architecture and then profiling user-visible slowdowns to pinpoint and fix an exact cause.

Thinking about introducing some new software development methodologies —

Fragile: agile, but every sprint is slightly overbooked so if anything takes too long, project’s fucked

Waaahgile: agile, but everyone complains about the documentation so much there’s no time to do the work

Tragile: retros are funerals

Holy shit, somebody told me about one of the questions they ask when interviewing at a tech company and it’s so good.

“Walk me through the process of expensing a $50 book”

RT @sebastian_paul
Best security quote I heard this week:
"Do you want to mitigate against an auditor, or against an attacker?"

Wait, what - cars crashed into buildings in Seattle twice a week in 2022?!

https://www.thestranger.com/politics/2023/02/13/78859842/seattle-is-dying-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-cars-frequently-crashing-into-small-businesses

Techdirt's @mmasnick reports that US Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna is spreading a kooky conspiracy theory about...

*drum roll*

Jira!

That's right! What looks like a mere bug tracker is actually a tool used by social media companies to communicate with the Deep State!

She even made a chart to prove it!

(Note: this is silly on so many levels. Especially when Trello is so much better for collusion 😉)

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/15/extraordinarily-confused-congressional-rep-thinks-social-media-companies-are-secretly-communicating-with-govt-censors-via-jira/

A "software supply chain" story:

Google Chrome has been trying to delete the old versions of their Certificate Transparency log list .json file for about a year. They announced it on a mailing list (that no one outside the industry reads).

There's an Android CT library that uses one of the old URLs by default. Its last commit was in June. There's an open PR.

Google recently started nagging app developers with a big warning at the top of the app developer website.

After many delays, the files were deleted today.

The mailing list is full of posts saying "my app with millions of users is broken, my business is going to be destroyed, our users can't such-and-such, please put the files back."

Google is putting the files back.

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/ct-policy
https://github.com/appmattus/certificatetransparency/issues

Gave git worktree a spin. Very promising, but does not interact nicely both with my preference for per-project (i.e., per-directory) configuration as well as manual configuraiton that my work repo requires. More reason to look into dev containers, I suppose.