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Sometimes, executive dysfunction/ADHD lies to you about a task that will only take an hour at best to make it seem like a huge, multi hour thing Today, I am finally cleaning/organizing my desk. ADHD was not lying 🥲
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Sometimes, executive dysfunction/ADHD lies to you about a task that will only take an hour at best to make it seem like a huge, multi hour thing Today, I am finally cleaning/organizing my desk. ADHD was not lying 🥲
Folks may be interested to see that I've now got an RSS feed for my salary page, which is also on the Fediverse via @www.jvt.me.salary in case y'all wanna know when there are any updates to it 👀
Ngl I hate that "build this from scratch" is common as part of interviewing. In 5 years of working as a software eng all I ever did was contribute to large codebases and build on top of existing code. Closest to that is prototyping for a tech design but even then you're not building in isolation...
A reminder for these times.
I was… probably not gonna last much longer at NPM. I was doing really poorly just trying to do what was apparently needed. I wasn’t on a PIP but I was very close to it. And then I was just… given free rein and that’s when cacache/pacote/NPM5 & 6 happened It was kind of incredible [contains quote post or other embedded content]
Hey did you know that the two most productive people I have ever had on my teams have been people I was told to fire for performance reasons? This is why it’s so important to: 1) hear context from previous managers but not anchor to it 2) give people clear feedback and give them a chance
Between and I took 6963 steps.
To those who are also looking for engineering roles, what websites are you using? I know I've been relying on DiversifyTech, LinkedIn & TechLadies. Any other notable ones I should add to my list?
For the past year, David Crawshaw has intentionally sought ways to use LLMs while programming, in order to learn about them. He now regularly use LLMs while working and considers their benefits a net-positive on his productivity. David wrote down his experience, which we found both practical and insightful. Hopefully y...
Apparently my model of dishwasher goes on strike if you neglect it and refuses to run any cycle but Machine Care until you descale and put salt in it And you know what? I respect that
Heather Meeker joined the show to talk about open source licensing, why open source licenses are historically significant, how much developers really need to know, and how much developers think they know. We also talk about mixing commercial and open source licenses, and how lawyers keep up with an ever-changing landsc...
Not since Prohibition have so many Americans wanted to commit the same crime at once
Jessie Frazelle joins us this week to talk about being an open source maintainer, Docker's pull request acceptance workflow, dotfiles, getting started with public speaking.
Between and I took 7522 steps.
As I sit home with a terrible cold, I can’t help but be pissed that we decided as a society that we’re just cool with getting sick. We applied technology to water-borne and food-borne illness, and you generally don’t get sick that way anymore. But airborne? Nah, let’s keep getting sick.
Between and I took 5800 steps.
I’m really happy to see companies starting to open source more games that they’ve ~sunset. between this and Valve open sourcing the code for TF2… I’m weirdly hopeful [contains quote post or other embedded content]
Yup. Its pretty easy to put dots together when the meeting labels arent hidden for calendars of others
Between and I took 11526 steps.
The hardest part of rewriting the Go map implementation was getting the tables in this blog post to render correctly. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
I can't find the right words for how disgusting this is [contains quote post or other embedded content]
🛡️ Security pre-release announcements, update on Monday, Feb 24golang.org/x/oauth2golang.org/x/cryptoBlog: State of the startup and scaleup hiring markets by Gergely Orosz – as seen by recruiters (Partial paywall)Blog: Testing concurrent code with testing/synctest by Damien NeilProposals🤝 Likely...

Redundancy came for me at the end of 2024, which I guess means I should be proud: I can cross one of the clichés of working in the software industry off my l...
slides.su8.run/241129-sdd/ REST APIの型安全を目指したスキーマ駆動開発に関する発表資料です。 Go言語とOpenAPI、oapi-codegenなどのツールを用いた開発手法や、そのメリット・デメリットが解説されています。 型安全なAPI開発、スキーマ駆動開発に興味のあるエンジニアにおすすめです。 https://slides.su8.run/241129-sdd/
oapi-codegenでOpenAPI specification からGo のサーバコードを生成するのを調べながら試してた。 https://github.com/oapi-codegen/oapi-codegen
Between and I took 4025 steps.
I will be attending
I break this prime directive constantly on accident. It’s just … if you and I ✨ vibe ✨?? Well… You are (also) some flavor of mentally ill. Which is fine! Ideal, even. We might not know what flavor yet, but if you hang around me long enough, we will figure it out eventually
More people should talk about this - how to negotiate and price your work.
*me thinking about how we should have groups of people who negotiate for their friends* *me realizing that I just invented unions*