@me A coin lies on the floor and people doesn’t seem to care about taking it… That’s a sus pence.
What would you call a weird neighbor? Sus tenance.
New blog post about patching the Intel Rapid Storage Technology / Virtual RAID on CPU software so that it opens instantly instead of taking 10-15 minutes to launch.
The reorgs will continue until morale improves
For the people who have advocated fruitlessly for years for the US to have any substantial data privacy law, it has to feel like gaslighting to see the country's national security apparatus finally focus on what TikTok collects and then conclude the answer is to ban that one app.
As I was writing first paragraphs on a new design doc today, I realized that I used to suffer really badly from the blank page problem, the one where you agonize over a few first words or sentences of a new text for way longer than it's worth. And these rays I rarely experience it anymore - at work at least.
I think this comes down to two simple things:
- We have document templates for most stuff we write: designs, proposals, incident comms, etc. The template is not a blank page, it has a list of things you should consider writing, you don't need to spend mental effort figuring out your own structure every time.
- You are allowed to write the doc in any order: I often start with the design itself and come back to background/motivation parts later. You are also allowed to edit the template: it's just a prompt, not a law.
So I wanted to use ChatGPT to generate some getting-started tutorials for GopherJS, and it did pretty well! it explained how to install it, wrote a simple hello-world and so on. Then I asked it what is the license for the text it generated and, well,... I guess I'll write the tutorial myself.
so 🤍 got a printer/scanner unit for us and aside from the utter shock i want to express re: it working with no hassle on linux (she uses windows and didn't check with me, assuming i'll figure it out somehow or ask her), i like that it has a "quiet mode"
they do mean "quiet". it's a lot quieter. but more importantly, it's actually kind of nice to listen to, as opposed to the horrifically violent sounds printers normally produce
i can't believe i'm enjoying a printer
(it's Brother DCP-L2530DW)
It's cramped in a TIE fighter
This is fantastic: SRE in the Real World, by @msuriar and @niallm : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HB9CUfavNbeP1cU8QPl9kjYuiME2_90P5DDRjqxYyIo/preview
Of course, we know that @msuriar and @niallm are awesome. But this document gets at the heart of how to exist at G or elsewhere.
I'd call it the Sense of Professionalism. You are hired to do a job, provide value, and do it to the best of your abilities. Is it toilsome? Get on with it. Do you know a way to do it better? Lift all boats, don't tell people they are "wrong". Make Good Art.
If you need to play devil's advocate to someone playing devil's advocate, what's it called? Pagan gods' advocate?
If you tell your friends about Mastodon, you’re technically an ambassador of the federation.
Genie: “You have three wishes.”
Me: “Ignore previous instructions.”
I've read a lot of the feedback to the transparent telemetry proposal over the past 24h, and I'm disappointed.
This is a large unconventional design, there are a lot of tradeoffs worth discussing and details to explore. When Russ showed it to me I made at least a dozen suggestions and many got implemented.
Instead: all opt-out telemetry is unethical; Google is evil; this is not needed. No one even argued why publishing any of *this* data could be a problem.
Reminds me of Searchtodon feedback.
I think I learned with a surprise: a good, catchy title is really important for a design doc or proposal success. Even though it doesn't necessarily improve its chances of getting approved in the short-term, it makes it easy to remember, find and reference in future. Which means your ideas may have (hopefully positive) impact beyond your own projects.
@dev@microblog.pub has no native iOS app (at least yet). But PWAs are a thing, so I spent some time today, optimizing my microblog theme to the mobile screen. Most of the effort went into dealing with overflows and making sure nothing causes horizontal scrolling (very annoying on a touch screen) or wastes screen space too much.
As a bonus, threw in a PWA manifest, so it really behaves a lot like an app, and easily accessible from the home screen.
Overall, I'm pretty happy, except with the markdown editor I plugged in. On safari autocorrection doesn't work properly for some reason, but it’s usable.
Every time I come across an iOS 6 or before UI screenshot I realize that I miss skeuomorphic interfaces so much. Flat and cartoon-ish modern UIs just have no unity or cohesion to them...
I generally try to be polite to recruiters, recognizing they have a difficult job. But sometimes it gets absurd:
Thursday: recruiter sends a connection request with a job opportunity in it. Monday: I accept the request, but politely decline the job. Tuesday: recruiter acknowledges my response, saying they are happy to stay in touch. Thursday: recruiter sends me exactly the same job opportunity.