When i see someone at the loan desk with a stack of malcolm gladwell books

Burnout leave, day negative 13:
‣ Half of me wants to rip myself to shreds with self-criticism for things I could have done better
‣ Half of me resents that, through my life so far (independent of recent events), the world hasn't been the best place for me to grow and be the best person I can be
‣ Half of me wants to accept both of the above and find the most realistic (and inevitably imperfect) path forward (ACT therapy style)
‣ Half of me is grumbling that these aren't independent halves

#BurnoutRecovery

Working with a coworker to understand and then rein in an ancient class hierarchy where much of the naming and documentation are misleading and/or no longer apply, and...

If you have never worked in a large, older codebase that has grown organically, lemme just say that it is an EXPERIENCE.

It's an art as much as a science, and if you don't keep things tidy it's *so* easy to snowplow tech debt.

If you're on here and hearing your friends say they're going to #BlueSky 'cause they're “getting better reach” — remind them what always happens next.

They lure people in with engagement, then shadowban, censor, and sanitize once the politics get too real — especially when it comes to #Palestine.

Investing time and energy into these corporate-lite platforms is a trap. We’ve seen it over and over: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok — now BlueSky. It’s the same playbook with new branding.

Mastodon isn’t perfect, but at least it's not selling you out the second you speak truth.

Tell your people: don’t chase numbers. Chase liberation.
#FreePalestine. Always. 🖤❤️💚✊🏽

https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/bluesky-faces-backlash-over-alleged-censorship-palestinian-voices

As you can see, here in the United States of America we can't even do oligarchy right.

Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’

https://archive.is/IrY3z

What did you expect? Will people who pay taxes sit and watch as jobs are taken away? Are you making your app free? No, you doubled down and increased app prices. I will not pay when you fire tech support and software engineers and replace them with AI.

I post intentionally inflammatory stuff to challenge those with more privilege to think.

Are people in their 40s and up willing to look to people younger, step aside, and allow them to lead, or are they going to be another gentroctacy like the Dems. If you're not willing to consider "maybe the kids are all right and can lead us better than my generation did", they might just run you over and do it anyways, and you won't get to be a part of something cool at all.

To become the Director of Shadow IT, these days, you need a Bachelors of the Dark Arts in IT Management. Odd, I know. But HR departments are strictly enforcing this rule.

Spotted in Mexico: A food cart made from the cage of a Sun Enterprise 10000 Server

https://old.reddit.com/r/retrocomputing/comments/1l1ssoo/spotted_in_mexico_a_food_cart_made_from_the_cage/

Hope everyone see what’s coming because I do.

The people who said “Things are already bad, how much worse can they get with Trump?” are about to go through some things.

First day of hurricane season with no FEMA, a bill will pass Senate and millions will lose health insurance, good paying jobs are going, and the 800 rural hospitals about to close in red states will force rural people in need of care to overwhelm the cities.

Welcome to Trump’s America, where it will definitely only get worse.

Here at Chrchr™ we don't sell indulgences, we help connect people to facilitate their own indulgence sales

you kids today do not know how lucky you are that Linux ate the world. So lucky.

I can't wait for five years from now when there's a massive security incident and the retro boils down to "oh yeah remember that period where our industry thought 'just not caring if your code was correct' was the next big thing?" and we all just sit in embarrassed silence as we try not to think about what that means for our current security and reliability postures.

The LLM flavor of AI is an uncomfortable echo of the USA's culture of disdain for or outright aggression to the idea that there may be experts or that expertise may be valuable.

Wikipedia labors to stay up as tens of millions of dudes look up the U.S. Court of International Trade in order to explain it

Types of codebases my customers send me:

- Enterprise javabean factory factory... on a SIM card

- C# programmer retasked to write an authenticated bootloader in C for an arm platform with no training

- Beautiful well-written, easy-to-read C by an experienced systems programmer, with one mind-blowing 100-out-of-100-risk-severity bug buried in miscutils.c

- There is a hermit monk in a cave in Czechia. Once every three years, he emerges with a new revision of the codebase. It is horrifying spaghetti logic that repulses the human soul, but no matter how long and how hard you look, you can't actually find anything wrong with it

It's probably a good thing that Gen Z will never know what the late 90s and early 00s Internet was like.

They'll never know what we had and what we denied them. They'll never know what we let a few sociopaths turn into a particle accelerator for fascism while we gleefully used their products.