Thoughtful / neurotic. I work on raising kids at my house, and on raising software at GitHub.

Joined December 2008
"Change starts with what we choose to have for breakfast." - Jerry Weinberg
Happiness, ability, fulfillment, self-esteem... are their own justifications. No, Montessori doesn't design her educational approach for "whatever gives a child pleasure." But it is designed to unlock work, learning, *human life and growth* as the *highest* pleasure.
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Yes. Word processing is bad. Before it, document length was bounded by the human capacity to copy long-form text & about to plateau. After word processing, the tax & legal codes grew without check. And became incomprehensible to anyone but career experts.
Is it possible for advanced technology to actually reduce productivity in certain tasks?
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Intuit TurboTax option to pay your tax bill by watching ads
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My favorite thing about this article is that the guy who wrote it started it on a Monday night at 10pm
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There’s a Slack channel at GitHub with all the Joshes in it. Oddly contains only minimal joshin’.
Woke up to a larger than usual number of unread emails. Did I sleep through a major live site incident? Nope. Someone accidentally(?) added every Mike/Michael at Microsoft to a discussion alias. Here is Copilot's summary of the thread so far:
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This student is destined to be a great mathematician
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I feel attacked
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Once again I find that I'm among the five or six people on a packed plane who care to look out the window at views unavailable to humankind for almost all of our history on earth
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Josh Schultz retweeted
Good: leave something to get you hooked on the next day. But who can just start at next sentence w/o re-establishing context? I can't. Instead, I'd promise myself to "just read" what I'd written the previous day, which would hook me right back into the flow.
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Launching your new devtools product with a Stevey Blog Rant. Top notch.
about.sourcegraph.com/blog/a… I'm excited to announce that Cody is here for everyone. Cody can explain, diagnose, and fix your code like an expert, right in your IDE. No code base is too challenging for Cody. It's like having your own personal team of senior engineers. Try it out!
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As a fourth year I had a rotation with a kick-ass intern. She was ON IT. Communicating, checking tasks off, teaching, following up on everything, etc. I told her how amazing she was and she said “thank you, I’m trying *really* hard.” 1/
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a good software engineer will often debug further up the stack to find a bug in third-party software rather than reaching for the first work around. a great software engineer will debug further up the stack until they realise the root bug is Society
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Josh Schultz retweeted
low self esteem can make you ~meaner than you intend to be, bc you undervalue how much other people would care about how you perceive them like it's easy to miss that ppl would want e.g. signs from you that you like them
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Yeah reporting on progress is cool but have you tried _making_ progress?
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Fun fact: I have told Ops teams before to tune-down their security requirements. Either they would not impede actual attackers, would be actively counter-productive, or take IT time away from improvement work. That's Security as a profession. Not turning everything to maximum!!!
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Bookmarked for future docs.
One more, in case anyone is wondering how to make these :)
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Josh Schultz retweeted
The concept of billions of people having a camera/videocamera in their pocket, documenting everything (and uploading much of it to a global superbrain), is only a decade old. We live in crazy times.
70 years of camera market disruption📱📷
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How the twitter timeline feels recently
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