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.

@flippac I certainly hope so! I’m really not capable of making the judgment on the risk of remaining on ColdFusion, though - it strikes me as probably low probability but extremely high impact?

#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

@flippac It is certainly much less daft than the usual approach to rewrites, though still daft it it’s a big-bang rewrite and not slicing off functionality to do a piecemeal replacement.

I also have a hard time believing that the codebase is the main impediment to MeFi’s success at the moment.

@ratkins @ipsi @nat Oh, wait, I think we had two P5s - forgot that one was hired in at that level.

@ratkins @ipsi @nat Yeah, I’m pretty sure P6 was the highest level, and there were not a lot of P5s in Labs, though it felt like there were a ton in AppTx, which made our office pretty salty since the ones we worked with were on par with our P4s.

IIRC, we had one P5 in our office, and I specifically acquiesced to a practice lead position w/one of our gov engagements to get there.

@nat Depended a lot on the context - my situation wasn’t really terribly normal (though that seems to be somewhat par for the course for Labs), since I was one of the first hires for the second iteration of the Seattle office (or first, depending on how you count). My managers ranged from the OD to the anchor on my first project to effectively an AD to the design lead at our office. I’m not sure I’d consider any a “mentor” as a role, although they all played parts in mentoring as an activity, if that makes sense?

As far as experience level, I was brought on as a “software engineer” - IIRC, Labs only came out with more real levels shortly after I joined. I remember getting a pretty good bump in comp when that happened. My memory of actual promos though is somewhat hazy, but I believe I left as a 5? And I probably had 2 or 3 promotions during my tenure, so seems plausible that I was leveled into a 3 but probably brought on as an expected 2? (Which would make sense, considering my professional experience at that point was SDET at Microsoft for 7 years and then a Ruby dev for 2.)

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

@swachter That pattern! 🤩

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

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

@ratkins Reading the article, it seems like it shouldn’t even have sounded like a good idea for people that are familiar with the context. (And for the record, I was one of those people that did think it sounded like a good idea!)

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

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.

@glyph It’s too late, I’ve now switched to SketchyBar 😬

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!