This content type is full of IndieWeb post types, which are all content types which allow me to take greater ownership of my own data. These are likely unrelated to my blog posts. You can find a better breakdown by actual post kind below:
At Christmas my mum was talking about her neighbours in the street. About one of them: “He’s apparently a detective in the police, which surprised me because he always seems so dodgy”.
So close to having a revelation.
1000 richest people are approched. "The end of the world is here. Time to go to your doomsday bunker", they are told. The billionaires nodded. They knew this was coming. They were prepared.
So they gathered their loved ones and locked themselves in luxury bunkers. No contact to outside world.
10 years later they emerge. The world has healed. The air is breathable, people are happy. "What was the catastrophy?" they ask the first person they meet.
She screams: "THEY GOT OUT!!!"
#microfiction
When straight men say that they are feeling uncomfortable in the presence of gay men (because they assume the gays will be ogling them or chatting them up, even if the gays don't do anything remotely like that), the only thing I can think is this:
The straight guys are basically assuming that gays will behave in exactly the same creepy and unacceptable ways in which they themselves tend to behave towards women (or people they think are women).
But in my experience, the gays usually do not. So, sorry, straight guys, you still have the monopoly on creepiness 😜
I’ve been building out a Calendar section for my #IndieWeb blog, listing out events I may be going to over the next year, so friends (old and new) can get in touch if they want to join me!
Being able to post even my potential physical location online is a privilege, but one I’ll happily invest to foster a more connected 2024 😊
Testing out the first few here: https://www.byjp.me/calendar/ (or /ipns/www.byjp.me/calendar/ on #ipfs)
It says a lot for my emotional state that my wife bought me a weighted blanket to help during my autistic meltdowns and I'm too afraid to try it out because I'm close to crying already and I know it'll cause a dam burst meltdown and I don't want to do that on Christmas.
Trans. People. Don't. Owe. You. Anything.
They don't owe you tiptoeing around your "concerns" about women in restrooms or girls in sports or women's prisons or trans kids who might detransition or someone "having it too easy".
They don't owe you dressing or performing their gender in any particular way. Not masculinity nor femininity nor androgyny.
They don't owe you "passing" or information about their bodies or surgeries or stories about what signs there were when they were young.
They don't owe you being courteous and graciously accepting your apologies when you hurt them by misgendering them or deadnaming them.
They don't owe you gratitude for "being so understanding".
Trans. People. Don't. Owe. You. Jack. Shit.
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Merry COVID Christmas! I’m with the family (through a window) and riding out rain in the tent. Whenever the rain pauses my family pass gifts and mulled wine out the window! Good enough. Should be allowed inside tomorrow. 😬
I don’t mind flying under the radar. There are benefits for a product to start small and grow slowly. But I’m still kind of puzzled why Micro.blog is rarely mentioned when articles talk about platforms that support the fediverse. We first added ActivityPub in 2018. Must be doing something wrong.
The great dirty secret of the software industry is that an awful lot of the work that is critical to sustainably build and maintain a software system/product/whatever only happens in the wild because one person with a little extra care and a little extra time decided "I'm not going to wait for this to get priority. I'm not going to wait for permission. I'm just going to do this because it should be done, and damn the consequences."
Ha, did not realize that with Microsoft's acqi of GitHub, they pushed it into so many government and enterprise spaces a lot more quickly. Probably why the leadership team there caved to Microsoft, it was more money.
Just because you love what you do doesn’t mean it’s not work.
It doesn’t devalue your work or time.
I know we’re so used to it because of capitalism, but work doesn’t have to feel bad, tiring and draining all the time.
It can feel good and still be work.
On 17 September, I made a choice. Waking up from 15 hours of lost time, at a friend’s house, when I should’ve been home the day before. I had clarity. Enough. I’ve shared before a…
I have interviewed 100s of candidates for software engineering positions.
I’ve done take-home tests, in person challenges, pair programming with the candidates.
All of them were awful experiences for me and especially for the candidate.
I can only think of a single instance where a code challenge exposed a poor software engineer and I could definitely have made the same assessment just by talking to them.
Lately I’ve stopped doing any software or mental puzzles.
I don’t do any of that when I interview designers or QA people or HR people, so why would I be particularly toxic towards software engineers during the hiring process?
Instead, I actually read their resumes (which is significantly quicker than doing interviews, asking them to repeat the same information), and then I ask them questions like:
- Where do you get your tech news?
- How do you learn about new technologies?
- What do you most appreciate in your coworkers today?
- What is a perfect workday like for you?
I specifically avoid trap-style questions like “what is your greatest weakness?” or “why are you leaving your current job?”
I recommend that you make a plan for what you want to learn about the candidate, e.g. “are they good at acquiring new skills?” or “do they share the same values as the team?” and then structure the interview around that.
Be a non-toxic manager. Make your company look good during the interview process. Get better candidates.
#jobs
Newsletter subscribers might be surprised to see a slightly new design. I’ve moved away from Substack and back to Buttondown, an indie mailing list service. Every email will be free from now on; paid …
ADHD is not “can’t sit still disorder”
ADHD is “posting in 10 group chats, subreddits and other posting platforms, never using the search function to see incidents of the same question being raised, asking for tips on how to do complex things like feed yourself and do one task. Upon discovering that you just sort of have to do the thing, you close all the tabs. You ignore your previous attempts to find an answer and do the same post a week later in the hopes that someone has come up with the perfectly suited to you way to do one task. You feel shame and embarrassment and anger and often nothing at all, whilst neurotypical people tell you that it’s easy to do one task you just have to want to do it. You want to do a lot of things but even the things that give you joy are insurmountable” disorder
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Multifactor auth factors:
* something you are
* something you have
* something you know
* something you feel
* something that has been revealed to you
* something always known, but not by the conscious mind
* something hidden in the space between moments
* something dreamed about, unremembered
*"no one ever got fired for choosing React"* is, AFAICT, not true today, and never has been.
I've witnessed entire teams get flushed and VPs get unceremoniously booted on the other side of grand React redesigns tanking revenue and conversions.
None of those folks talk publicly about how it went down because doing so would simultaneously devalue the thing they've invested in and hurt their own employability within that world. And so we bumble on, omerta in tact.
Hi. Can I have a word?
When you use a #Hashtag could you capitalise each word please? That way, people using screen readers will hear each individual word, which means they'll get more useful context as a result.
When you don't capitalise hashtags the words string together and make no sense.
For example #ThisIsHow would read as "This Is How" while #thisishow would sound something like "thissy show". A small change for you but a game changer for many people.
Be nice; get good karma. Thanks.
If you want to become rich and powerful you’re part of the problem.
The problem isn’t that some other people are rich and powerful and you’re not. The problem is we have a system where some people are rich and powerful while others are denied even basic human dignity.
Jamie Tanna
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