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

@b0rk Yes, but in college over 20 years ago, so… confusing. 😆

@ethanschoonover Oh, I’d love to see/hear those opinions too!

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

Woo, finished a Tuesday #NYTXW downs-only!

@fasterthanlime For some reason, it breaks my brain that the {} is in the front instead of the back.

@norootcause @dymaxion I remember hearing something like, "Your users are already testing in production. The question is: are you looking at the results?"
If only I could remember who said it, I'd give proper credit.

I haven't seen anybody mentioning it or even noticing it, like it's just the water we swim in now, but this month marks the fiftieth anniversary of the release of what would become a seminal, and is arguably the single most important, piece of social software ever created.

Written by Douglas McIlroy and James Hunt and released with the 5th Edition of Unix this month in 1974: diff.

https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V5/usr/source/s1/diff1.c

Fully endorse this rant on USB-C. https://blog.doismellburning.co.uk/usb-c-a-rant/

I don’t know how more people aren’t running into the issues that I encounter with power negotiation in particular.

Dang, this is so true.

RE: https://circumstances.run/@hipsterelectron/112622973211647891

Bring Back the Corporate Death Penalty: https://neuburger.substack.com/p/bring-back-the-corporate-death-penalty

@ethanschoonover That reminds me that I have a Flume sensor that I really need to install…

Charity Majors writes a lot of bangers, but I especially liked this one a lot on engineering experience and generative AI: https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/06/10/generative-ai-is-not-going-to-build-your-engineering-team-for-you/

Surprised a few of my coworkers last week when they found out I was 40 (from being grandmasters-eligible).

Perplexity AI Is Lying about Their User Agent https://rknight.me/blog/perplexity-ai-is-lying-about-its-user-agent/

Shocking absolutely no one an AI company, Perplexity AI, isn't sending the correct user agent string they say they will and they completely ignore robots.txt

When it comes to the efficiency-thoroughness trade off, we reward efficiency (ability to execute) and punish absence of thoroughness (post-incident: why didn’t you do more testing?) without explicitly acknowledging that the trade-off exists.

Have you ever had an experience like, you're walking down the street, there's a piece of litter, and you kind of like, kick it by accident, your foot grazes it, and suddenly you feel a compulsion to pick it up and put it in a trash can? This is litter, it wasn't your problem, but then you accidentally touched it and it Became your problem, somehow the act of touching it tagged it as "yours" and now the superego says you're obligated to deal with it?

That's what open source contribution is like