@ardouglass gimmie a pager that buzzes every time a review is needed

I've worked with a few people who could just chew through doing reviews. Not in a shoddy way, but in a constructive, critical, useful way. And they were always willing.

Those people were amazing teammates.

+2,512, -945 line PR
"Could somebody review this?"

[🦗 crickets]

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+1,-1 line PR
"Could somebody review this?"
👍 👍 👍 👍 👍
[thumbs up from every member of the team]

@db ok, you got me. this is an acceptable answer.

When you see a co-worker using the default slack theme, do you judge them?

- [ ] Yes
- [ ] Yes

📝 Getting the LLM to write a quick n' dirty script for me worked quite well.

Turns out, storing my data as JSON files on disk under git control (instead of in a database) wasn't such a bad idea.

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/files-on-disk-scripted-with-ai/

@peter Oh wow, it’s in their own guidelines? I didn’t realize that!

@midknight sometimes just feels like we’re like “I do design so I can’t _just_ use words!”

@lucaslove part of the reason I’m always advocating against this approach tbh

Link via https://buttondown.com/ericwbailey/archive/sc-244-almost-forgot/

@danvpeterson well at least it’s not a lonely island

@pointlessone yeah I could see how color would help over time. but agree, my brain does “foreign text first and visual cue last”

@tuomas_h preach!!

Designs systems can’t get funding because they struggle to demonstrate understandable ROI.

Meanwhile:

> the AI industry needs to make $650 billion in annual revenue to deliver a 10% return on investments

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/usd650-billion-in-annual-revenue-required-to-deliver-10-percent-return-on-ai-buildout-investment-j-p-morgan-claims-equivalent-to-usd35-payment-from-every-iphone-user-or-usd180-from-every-netflix-subscriber-in-perpetuity

Is this what "i was wrong" looks like? ha

idk if i'm the minority in this, but i never liked the "icon for every item in menus"

it's extra noise to me.

Apple always felt like one of the hold outs on this. I could always reference them when I had this design argument.

But now with tahoe, they gave in and I feel increasingly isolated on my island of "exclude icons in context menus"

@davatron5000 damn you’ve been on a tear lately Dave. This one was my fav

📝 A wild fourth post appears! Precious Plastic, open source for plastic recycling.

https://daverupert.com/2025/11/precious-plastic/

@davatron5000 sooo cool — also I can totally foresee the origin for my personal domain being chock-full of messy side project data lol

@gedeonm we killed the 1's in Monopoly when I was a kid, so ahead of the curve I suppose ha