Jesse Sutherland

New grad students often adopt a stance of hypercriticism as a shortcut to seeming savvy.

When I was one, Nick Salvatore told us he didn't like "shit-on-the-book seminars" so we would instead spend our time talking about what *worked* in various texts to see what we could learn from other authors.

Hell yeah! Lol my last employer literally had me do the same. Clown stuff! So glad I'm not working with them anymore. Lines of code is a simple approach, useful sure but only to a simpleton.

Which is another way to say that you need managerial courage and leadership qualities to say no and the managers in question, specifically my last one, had none of the above. And yeah I'm salty about it, guy was a first class idiot and is running the organization into the ground.

To be fair, since we didn't have data you could argue I was unsupported in my claims. But given these were features that were to be added the burden was on the stakeholders to prove we needed em. Anyway, hours and days lost and careers diminished because of timidity and acquiescence of manager. 😓

Ding ding ding! This is so true. One of the most annoying parts of my old job was that we didn't really track any user data effectively and thus when I said "take it out, nobody will care" all I ever got was pushback. We spent months on features that data finally revealed were hardly ever used. 😵‍💫

I dunno, I used to think I need to finish every book I start. Not worrying about that anymore is liberating. There's so much to read that using your time to read whatever way works best makes most sense to me now. Correlation: "you gotta quit while you're ahead"

Carlyle Bay, Barbados. Sunset on a beach with people enjoying the view.

Barbados! What a place! Had the time of my life the last week or so. Very lucky to have had the privilege. 🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧🇧

That was great! Good story too, really enjoyed the journey around Wulffleet!

This was so fun! I got down to 1300 okay. I understood a portion of 1200 and the last two got me. When I was in college one of my classes was translating Beowulf from Old English. I *loved* it and this was a bit reminiscent of doing that.

I could do this.

I'm sorry it took so long for this excellent joke to get a like and reply. 👌

Holy shit, really hit me. Damn man. Need to course correct.

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Came here to say the same - S. will keep them well supplied for quite a while. Book mainly of lists of names.

Well we know how the ED-209 board meeting turned out.

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10 years ago, trans people were finally allowed to change their gender on birth certificates in Saskatchewan. 4 years and 3 days ago, Saskatchewan said trans people could have their proper gender on their drivers licenses. #Sask #SkPoli #Trans

...quiz yourself way earlier than you want to, and do it more frequently than you feel like doing. People spend too long passively reading/consuming instead of actively practicing/retrieving. Integrate that into your day just a couple times? You are ahead of many!

Whole timeline is state of the Union dumpster fire or some of the most promising (non AI) dev stuff I've seen in a while. Strange dichotomy. And if you want a break from AI hype, check out atproto hype! 😀

The latter is so much more encouraging than the former to say nothing of the SotU bullshit.

Yeah exactly. Told on himself. Good overall description of his period of rule really.

Love this idea. I'd be happy to check it out/contribute when the time is right. Fits in well with my new patent pending Personal Design Systems idea I've got kicking around. Really appreciate the CSS first aspect here too.

Apt choice. Good movie and book, worth thinking about

Or start thinking of jays vs dodgers pt 2

not only do you not have to watch

you can log off and not read any of the posts about it

you can read a book about wizard detectives bake a cake hug your dog paint a picture go to bed early get a drink with a friend plan your garden start a jigsaw puzzle knit a scarf do some stretching take a bath

On the one hand I'm pretty sure I'm gonna end up using AI for an ATProto project and otoh I'm very sure I'm going to use zero AI for an HTML project. I wonder which will be more fun/useful or rewarding? I wonder if not using AI explicitly will have value sufficient in the future. Hope so.

I think AI is gonna make dev more vernacular and ironically more like some older modes of creation. Somewhat chaotic. Versioning software will mean less and less and copy+paste (you or an agent) gonna make a huge comeback vs npm install. Otoh git commit graph gonna explode and become meaningless

Ring out baby!

Definitely first Tekken Trump take I've seen. Now contrast with Blanka from SFII because that's a button masher that can win!

Bingo. I simply can't imagine going back there now.

Glad you're pushing 👍