Ben Serrette

We're wrapping up the semester with THREE OSoMe Awesome Speakers!

📅 November 12 @ 12 PM ET
Petter Törnberg, University of Amsterdam

📅 November 19 @ 12 PM ET
Michelle Amazeen, Boston University

📅 December 3 @ 12 PM ET
James Evans, University of Chicago

Register: osome.iu.edu/events/speak...

It's been a long Monday, and somehow it's still Monday.

I'm not behind at work this week. I'm just ahead of schedule on next week's stress.

Being an extrovert with social anxiety is wild. I crave people, then panic the second I find them. Thank God for drugs. Prescribed legally, of course...

#mentalhealth

Airports work not because of control, but because strangers choose to collaborate (and usually complain together).

Good teams don't run on fear. They run on trust, curiosity, and shared purpose. Fear might get obedience, but trust builds results that actually last.

Collaboration is king because dictators make poor project managers.

Friday is the weekend's boss fight. Now is the time to use all those elixers you've hoarded over the week.

#protip: Before you return your nice new TV because the HDMI eARC doesn't work, make sure that you're using a 2.1 HDMI cable.

After many years, it FINALLY stuck that a 2x4 was actually 1.5x3.5 and that a 1x2 was actually .75x1.5

Then I had to do something with a 1x8 and the process started all over again.

That process started with a bunch of cursing and an extra trip to the hardware store.

Mondays are the tutorial level for the rest of the week.

Is it still a snack if it's the size of a full meal but eaten standing up in the kitchen?

Vote for me on buzz comix.

You better get around the sun fast, then. It won't be there for long.

Unfortunate future if O'Brien still has to carry his passport around. Did the Federation get infiltrated by parasites again?

Friday's code: more bugs than features, but at least it compiles. Maybe I'll deploy before I head out. Try to make my Monday more interesting.

Every project has a "quick fix" that lives in production for the next 5 years. If you're lucky.

Every project has two codebases: the one in GitHub, and the one in everyone's head. Only one of them ever compiles. I'll give you one guess as to which one that is.

Debugging isn't just for code. Broken CSS and broken communication both require the same thought process: what changed, what's the state, how do we fix it?

Damn it. Now I'm going to have to rip all my CDs again. And then buy more CDs and rip those.

What's your portable player of choice?

Tech debt is like credit card debt. Except the interest rate is your weekends.

Patrick Warren OSoMe Awsome Speaker

🚨 First OSoMe Awesome Speaker of the year! 🚨

📅 Sept 12 | 12pm ET
🎤 Patrick Warren (Clemson University)
📍 Zoom

Measuring the Impact of a Large State-Sponsored Narrative-Laundering Campaign: The case of the Storm-1516 attack on Zelensky

🔗 Register: iu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We’re kicking off this year’s OSoMe Awesome Speakers with Patrick Warren!

📅 September 12 | 12pm ET
🎤 Talk: Measuring the Impact of a Large State-Sponsored Narrative-Laundering Campaign: The case of the Storm-1516 attack on Zelensky

🔗 iu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I like to think web development trained me pretty well for management. After all, both involve duct tape solutions and last-minute fixes.

Burnout isn't solved by free snacks. It's solved by saying no.

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Based on taking my own advice from yesterday... I'm now incapable of reading anything that has a smart quote in it. AI slop is real.

Wish I had gotten there first for the easy money/clout. 😭

If wasps didn't sting us all the time, maybe we'd like them more.