Given the choice between hiring a big engineering school grad who can't write well and a well-lettered liberal arts grad whose school isn’t well-known for its CS program, I'm choosing the liberal arts grad ten times out of ten. Good writing is crucial to success in software engineering.
The hostile takeover that appeared imminent less than two weeks ago at the National Archives appears to be going from bad to worse following the termination of Dr. Shogan. I've been receiving heartbreaking reports from friends who work at the National Archives in the last couple days about the cascading resignations and now, widespread terminations that are taking place across the agency.
Xylem? I hardly Phloem!
Just a lil hop away from Cancun 🌞
What kind of world is it when the de facto leader of the Jewish people doesn’t stand up against actual antisemitism? First they came for…
https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/netanyahu-claims-musk-falsely-smeared-over-claims-he-made-nazi-salute/
Cool, can it happen faster please?
https://apple.news/A2xtMX6cmRfq1dy8L52MU7g
These jibronis are really out here using classic dystopian novels as guidebooks.
Somehow linked my Mastodon to Bluesky, I think… is this thing on?
Here's my hot take of the evening, courtesy of a decade in the biz:
Your git history should be messy and reflective of increments large and small of work being done. Merges are good. Rebases are bad. Force pushing should be punishable by the full extent of the law.
Once your code leaves your machine, you have to respect and expect that others may be working on top of it, and pulling the rug out from under them is a dick move.
Decided I'm going to spout my loud voice into the fray here more.
We're in the end game now
The UPS live delivery tracking map is infuriating. I know rationally that of course the truck has to weave all around my neighborhood making other deliveries, but it just feels like it's TEASING ME!!!
Web devs, I'm begging you to semantically link your <label>s to your checkboxes!
In this age of AI-based assistants with web search capability, why and how has the Ask Jeeves brand not been resurrected?
Terraform is so cool. It’s a shame you really need to dive headfirst into production scenarios to understand it properly imo. All the guides out there just can’t match real world situations.
I am begging Apple PR to understand that absolutely nobody is insane enough to put a fucking iMac on a kitchen island while you are cooking. end the madness
The new macOS Aerial wallpaper/screensaver combo is sooooo smooth and I love it
Criticizing Hamas doesn't mean you hate Muslims.
Criticizing the Israel govt doesn't mean you hate Jews.
Criticizing the Trump administration doesn't mean you hate NASCAR fans.