Michael Cornelius @emdeesee@octodon.social
INTP with an MBA. Lisp, Clojure, C++, FOSS, software engineering and development, teams, leadership, cocktails, cycling. Fights for the users. [he/his]
It's silly to take a quiz designed to show how bad you are at a particular thing, then to feel stupid for being bad at it.
Right? 🙁
Mapping out a list like this makes it much less likely that I'll lose hours to Skyrim.
Driverless cities:
"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transport"
@p_tricio@twitter.com
via @greatdismal@twitter.com
https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/942859041084030976
✅ Feed cats
✅ Feed friend's cats
✅ Work out
✅ Read chapter
✅ Make dinner (in progress)
⬜️ Hobby project 1
⬜️ Hobby project 2
My work out progress has plateaued, but tonight it dawned on me that I'm probably dehydrated when I start, so that's a dial to turn next time.
Good morning.
when you're questioning your life choices because you're the only one of your kind on a cold, snowy island far from home and your friend breathes so loud, you could shoot him in the dark
"According to all known laws of computing, there is no way that #Emacs should be able to edit. Its bytecode engine is just too old to get those fat buffers off the ground. Emacs, of course, edits anyway, because Emacs doesn't care what humans think is impossible."
wow, heckuva week
@seanl @Canageek Parental leave is important, but it doesn't preclude a culture that values sustainable pace.
My kids are way past the parental leave era; that doesn't mean I can safely ignore them. When they're grown, I won't sacrifice my life with my spouse for work hours either.
It's better to pay everyone enough to live (plus, it supports the local economy!) and make sure you never ask so much of them that they need to depend on you as an employer for more than the cash they owe you for your work.
what developing software with mutable shared state feels like
Training video I just watched (for work): "...And you can keep all your personal stuff right in here next to your work stuff. Isn't that convenient??"
Being invested in good software engineering practices while being linguistically descriptivist is an interesting tightrope to walk.
There's really a lot to unpack here. Every time I look I find something new.
One of the podcasts I listen to told me that 63% of Americans can't come up with $400 so that's good I guess?
Soda bread for breakfast
@emdeesee And how exactly is that different from renting?
If you've always wanted to deal with the aftermath of half-assed decisions made decades ago by a perfect stranger, home ownership may be for you.
