ludicity

ludicity, 21 days ago to random

Great news everyone! I just wrote 7000 words on Runescape because I'm a loose cannon, a free man, a gun for hire, a fucking nerd!

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/reflecting-on-years-of-runescape/

ludicity, 28 days ago to random

I've just invented a new way to filter out employers that haven't done any diligence:

https://github.com/Nikhil-Suresh/did-you-actually-check-my-github/tree/main

ludicity, 1 month ago to random

Intrusive thought:

Can someone smuggle me onto a Google campus so I can try and pick up a can before the normal cleaning staff can get to it? I want to add:

"Worked alongside Google staff on developer environment improvement."

to my CV.

ludicity, 1 month ago to random

Just read through this very thoughtful piece from @lkanies on why large companies are painful to work at, and I highly recommend it!

https://lukekanies.com/writing/why-we-hate-working-for-big-companies/

"Even thinking about it now, my reaction is, “How would they know what my goals are?”

That’s the kind of question you can only ask in an authoritarian state, not in a free market economy. My goals became my company’s goals, and the only real way to ensure people worked toward them was providing a plan."

ludicity, 1 month ago to random

Great news everyone! I finally snap and consider looking for my day-to-day income from outside the tech industry, but first talk about how dumb all my interviews have been for the past few months:

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/most-tech-jobs-are-jokes-and-i-am-not-laughing/

ludicity, 2 months ago to random

Great news everyone! New blog post! I talked to someone about marketing strategy and it has hopelessly corrupted my brain! Thankfully none of you can kill me until you find my phylactery (okay, it's actually about me grappling with whether studying more software stuff is actually a smart way to improve people's lives including my own).

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/does-a-software-engineer-have-scorpion-nature/

ludicity, 2 months ago to random

Great news everyone! Local energy vampire is no longer anonymous:

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/the-controlled-detonation-of-my-anonymity/

Enjoy my last post before I am murdered in my sleep by someone that works on MongoDB.

ludicity, 3 months ago to random

FIAT currency is worthless and you should all buy my cryptocurrency. You can tell it's useful because it's worth so much FIAT currency. ♾️

ludicity, 3 months ago to random

Great news everyone! I've channeled a lot of repressed trauma and delivered a back-to-back post.

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/flexible-schemas-are-the-mindkiller/

xahteiwi, 3 months ago to random

If you can't manage people without daily standups, you shouldn't manage people.

ludicity, 4 months ago to random

This is going to be a hard one to explain tomorrow during standup.

ludicity, 4 months ago to random

This is very important.

Everyone I have said the word "Scrumlord" to has loved it, and I want the internet to remember me as that guy when it takes off. This is going to be my legacy when I'm off having my last retro with St Peter.

ludicity, 4 months ago to random

This describes every interaction I've ever had with enterprise security teams, and if you replace the word "security" with "data", it almost describes them too. And most importantly, it is filled with the seething invectives required to keep my heart pumping:

https://crankysec.com/blog/shite/

ludicity, 4 months ago to random

Great news everyone! I wrote a gigantic piece on how my company earned its first real paycheck, totally bootstrapped, along with hopefully replicable steps for anyone wanting to do the same thing:

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/my-company-has-earned-its-first-paycheck/

Disclaimer: All advice contained therein was written by a man that has been identified as "angry blog guy" on three separate occasions. Consume at your own risk.

ludicity, 4 months ago to random

Why would you write this commit message? Why would you bother incrementing the numbers but only sometimes? What was going through his head?

WHY?

developerjustin, 5 months ago to CSS

Thanks @dennisl for sharing this great primer on the “HTML First” approach to the web. I try so hard to instill this in developers that I work with. I've interviewed dozens of developers churned out of these “learn to code" bootcamps who have all built these over the top React CRUD apps in class but have no idea how #CSS selectors or <select> tags or even <img> tags work. It's nuts how many developers working today barely understand #HTML at all.

https://html-first.com/

#webdev

pkw, 5 months ago to random

What the 10x programmer myth actually means:

I will break things so fast that by the time you understand how bad my code is I will have been promoted or hired out and not have to clean up after myself or explain my code.

From the outside I will look super productive. The only people that actually see my code, are beholden to not complain because then they will look bad as maintenance programmers.

ludicity, 5 months ago to random

Great news everyone! I've written some thoughts on the last year, including my exit from the corporate world, saying no to exorbitant oil megacorp money, improvisational theatre, and my pet rabbit:

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/merry-christmas-ya-filthy-animals-2023/

That's me for 2023, but I hope you all have awesome holidays, and I'll see you in 2024!

ludicity, 5 months ago to random

Great news everyone! Nothing infuriating has happened to me in two weeks, so I've written something with no cursing in it and meant it. We're SFW and ready to maximize interdepartmental synergy in 2024!

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/performing-technical-responsibility/

ludicity, 6 months ago to random

I've reached the natural end point of my career in tech.

We had a five hour retrospective on the year, and I had the horrific realization that I can no longer keep the smirk off my face when certain people start talking about what our engineering strategy should be.

This sounds funny, but the result is that I am constantly offending the most important idiots around me, and I ACTUALLY can't stop. The slightest lip-twitch is just so visible.

Remember me fondly after the execution.

ludicity, 6 months ago to random

Great news everyone! I'm straight up just daring management to strike me down so that I can become stronger than they could possibly imagine now, in a display that my friends have described as "UNSEEN LEVELS OF SNARK":

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/tech-management-has-bestowed-glory-upon-me/

ludicity, 6 months ago to random

Great news everyone! I've gone off the deep end and written Warhammer 40K meets Agile fanfiction, and I am being entirely serious: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/praise-the-machine-spirit/

ludicity, 6 months ago to random

Management has brought a consultant in to interview the staff to determine what's going wrong with our "ways of working".

I've prepared a three page document that starts with "management didn't know how to diagnose this problem themselves when it's literally their only job".

I've legitimately started optimizing for funny blog posts over job security, and it will culminate when they gloriously restructure and decide my position is redundant.

ludicity, 7 months ago to random

RH: What kind of runner can run as fast as they possibly can from the very start of a race?

[Audience reply: Sprinter]

RH: Right, only somebody who runs really short races, okay?

[Audience laughter]

RH: But of course, we are programmers, and we are smarter than runners, apparently, because we know how to fix that problem, right? We just fire the starting pistol every hundred yards and call it a new sprint.

[Audience laughter and applause]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPT-DuG0UjU