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How proficient do you rate yourself in your most coded language?
  • I've learned a lot by breaking things. By making mistakes and watching other people make mistakes. I've writing some blog posts that make me look real smart.

    But mostly just bang code together until it works. Run tests and perf stuff until it looks good. It's time. I have the time to write it up. And check back on what was really happening.

    But I still mostly learn by suffering.

  • "Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely
  • I think blind itself drives some interesting bias. The public posts are pretty incel. You need a critical mass of folks at your company to have a company private board so it attracts folks from bigger companies. It doesn't seem to represent average folks well. Unless I have no idea what average is.

    I'm not sure what to do with that instinct. The overall results say a thing I wanted to hear. It all feels weird.

  • Julia Evans' Git cheat sheet
  • I've stopped using stash and mostly just commit to my working branch. I can squah that commit away if I want later. But we squash before merge so it doesn't tend to be worth it.

    It's just less things to remember.

  • 60% of Open-Source Maintainers Are Unpaid: It's Concerning & What We Can Do About it
  • I think lots of the kernel folks are paid to contribute full time. For a while I was paid a full time maintainer on some apache licensed search stuff. Before that web stuff.

    I guess the demoninator in that fraction is low.

  • Stack Overflow Survey: 80% of developers are unhappy
  • I'm just a hacker. I'll never be a thought leader. But I am passionate about my work. And my kids.

    I love solving the problems. I have a few posts on the company blog but they put a chat bot on it a while back and didn't care that it felt offensive to me.

    But I'm here, reading this. Maybe I'm grey matter.

  • I've gotten my work to pay a "Neovim subscription" for two years
  • Many years ago the Unicode Consortium has a fundraiser where you sponsored and emoji. Someone at my company sponsored one and posted to the internal mailing list. Short story short a couple dozen of us sponsored stuff and the company paid us back and wrote a cute blog post. Cheap marketing. Felt good.

  • Do aliens exist in our planet?
  • I like this explanation. I don't think we can do a lot better than this one at this point.

    I think a fun next step is "forget what's real, I want to write a story with humans interacting with aliens that's consistent with what we see now." What do you have to invent to make it work? Nothing really works for me. But stuff like the dark forest is good. I can suspend disbelief enough to enjoy it.

  • “If Young Voters Voted at the Same Rate”
  • The key got cut off I think. 538 has a standard key for predictions. Darker colors are "lean" and lighter colors are "solid". So it's confidence. Looks like I'm this example there are no states with the medium style of confidence for Republicans.

  • sffjazz top 100
    scifilists.sffjazz.com Sci-Fi Lists - Top 100 Sci-Fi Books (Pre-2000)

    Top 100 lists and reviews of the all-time top science fiction books, films, television shows and short fiction.

    I've always loved this list of sci-fi books. The 2000s web design compells me.

    A while ago I tried to read the ones I hadn't. It was a lovely tour. My biggest surprise was enjoying Childhood's End.

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