Vijay

Reminder: if you haven’t yet read “The Mythical Man Month,” buy two copies so you can read it faster.

06.03.2025 06:57 — 👍 621    🔁 93    💬 29    📌 5

Among the complexity curse that is destroying software in recent years, surely "cmake" has a nice spot in this whole mess.

08.02.2025 12:37 — 👍 31    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

The remote work debate was funny because it forced the question "Is a job something valuable you do or is it a place you go to be watched like daycare" and the answer for a lot of them was yeah it's the daycare thing now come on inside recess is over

27.01.2025 15:25 — 👍 32553    🔁 5797    💬 430    📌 162

The entire tech industry right now

25.01.2025 16:30 — 👍 4183    🔁 1272    💬 62    📌 78

kyle_maclachlan Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn't recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision. What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to. Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I'd ever met. David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath. While the world has lost a remarkable artist, l've lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own. I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We'd talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh. His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other. I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he's gone. David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything.

This is a beautiful tribute.

16.01.2025 21:01 — 👍 28399    🔁 6732    💬 235    📌 410

The trademark of a good teacher or a good tech documenter is that, no matter how far away in the experience ladder they are, they naturally remember how it was.

You sharply distinguish what you know from what the student knows, you orderly fill the gaps. Same with docs and helping in forums.

03.01.2025 16:17 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Couple of years away from Twitter, and now trying out Bluesky! Let's see how this goes.

03.01.2025 09:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0