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thirstybear

@thirstybear@agilodon.social

Software delivery coach, personal coach, mentor, developer, mogfather, diver, biker. Less Certified, more Certifiable. Dodgy taste in music and shirts

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matthewskelton, to random
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"Surprisingly, our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308716997_Gender_bias_in_open_source_Pull_request_acceptance_of_women_versus_men

🤬

thirstybear,
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@matthewskelton @tdpauw That fits with my subjective experience over my career. Women engineers I have worked with, with a few exceptions, have tended to be highly competent and collaborative.

Arguably the exceptions were showing learned toxic behaviours that they developed working in a system where the odds were heavily stacked against them 🤷‍♂️ (not an excuse, but a possible reason)

nixCraft, to random
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> asteroid the size of 16 washing machines
Are we doing science reporting or what? What kind of reporting is this and the unit? Please stick to measuring space objects in meters or kilometers and not this washing machine as a size unit.

thirstybear,
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@nixCraft Personally I prefer the badger as a unit of measure. It has potential.

For anyone struggling, with the conversion, one washing machine is roughly 16 badgers.

revk, (edited ) to random
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I love the idea (OK not really, it is cruel) that people that do not have an internal monologue are in fact NPCs... 🙂

I have an internal monologue, but also have other mental processes - seeing (computer) code in my head in, sort of, multiple layers, and debugging code in my sleep. My monologue comes in writing and reading, and planning what I will say/type, but I also am able to come up with ideas out of thin air without "wording" them through in my head.

You? (ya, why not boost, etc)

thirstybear,
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@revk I tend to talk things over with the cats. Or the (teddy) bears.

Annoyingly, they tend to be right and win the argument….

thirstybear, to random
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Too good not to share

thirstybear, to random
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Everyone who is involved in software delivery needs to watch this and internalise what @jasongorman is saying here. He talks sense.

It resonates with my first hand experience working in teams too. A small, experienced, well rested team talking to customers will often massively outpace larger, less experienced teams with unrealistic, made-up requirements and priorities. Which ultimately means better bang-per-buck 🤑

https://youtu.be/0s_eFummPQE

thirstybear, to random
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What is it with everyone desperately wanting to scale project delivery when they cannot even deliver with a single team?

Slow down, folks! Get it right first then scale up slowly. Frameworks ain't going to help any more than reading a book about Formula 1 will make you a racing driver. Only dedicated, progressive training and learning will get you there.

thirstybear, to random
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Heard today: “LLM powered scrap heap programming” (ie automated cut-and-paste programming)

thirstybear, to random
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Current status: trying to work out why my MBP M1 is suddenly so slow logging me in. Seems to be doing a credible impression of Windows (5 minutes from password to usable desktop) 🐌

thirstybear, to random
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Hey folks👋 I am available to hire!

TL;DR Developer & Agile Coach who can help your teams with the processes & practices needed at every stage of delivery

http://www.linkedin.com/in/chrispitts

Agile Tech Coach, UK based. Mostly JVM based, Java, Spring etc, also Kotlin & Scala (rusty but could resurrect it). Dabbled in C#,JS and other langs/frameworks but always end up in Java world somehow🤷‍♂️

Heavily test driven at all levels, and knows what real CI looks like. Been there, done it, lived the dream 🙂
#jobs

thirstybear, to random
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Ok Masto-hivemind - I am in the market for a desk mat. Like a mouse mat, but bigger. Preferably with an image on it (amusing, sci-fi, cats 🤷‍♂️). What do folks recommend? What’s out there? Everything I am finding seems so dull.

thirstybear, to random
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The MacBook music app pauses music whenever a message comes in on the iPhone 🫤.

WTAF? This can't be correct behaviour, surely? (I know: “Don't call me Shirley”….and no, the phone isn't in Airplane mode 😉).

Anyone out there with a fix? It's annoying AF.

thirstybear, to random
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My VPN is up for renewal. So what are folks using? I currently use Tunnelbear - easy to use, convenient, and excruciating bear puns. But they’ve now been bought by McAfee.

So, what’s out there? Looking for secure networking on the road (hotel & other public wifi), and preferably true privacy (no logs/no tracking). On my radar are Proton and Mullvad. Or roll my own.

Thoughts?

thirstybear, to random
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Are there any decent scripts/apps to analyse code churn out there? Or do I need to analyse the git logs myself?

thirstybear, to random
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Another day, another “Code faster with AI” advert.

For the umpteenth time, with feeling: SPEED OF GENERATION IS NOT THE ISSUE. Coding is not “just typing”.

thirstybear, to random
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This must be stopped right now. We are one small, dangerous step away from autonomous weapon targeting of humans. With flawed, biased AI.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai-database-hamas-airstrikes

coldclimate, to random
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Geeks, any thoughts on home mesh #wifi kit?

  • I don't want anything that has a SAAS component/subscription to it
  • I've a 3 bed semi - does not need to smash through lots of walls
  • Ideally the mesh points would hve USb so I can power other things off them and reduce my plug us.

What's all this 4/5/6/7 stuff about?

Follow up - is this article https://www.tomsguide.com/us/best-mesh-router,review-5191.html full of shit of should I just buy their best value recommendation the TP-Link Deco XE75?

thirstybear,
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@coldclimate @RonJeffries I run Devolo Magic2. So wifi mesh and powerline connectivity. Seems to work pretty well.

thirstybear, to random
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Bubble go pop in 3…2…
https://indieweb.social/@jbz/112569149096572468

matthewskelton, to UX
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Opinion: the presence and quality of just two mundane features acts as a reliable "tell" for the entire SaaS product: billing emails UX 💳✉️ and administrator UX 🧑‍💻🔐.

Why? I think it's because if the SaaS company cares to make boring things like billing emails UX and admin UX actually good, they probably have everything else sorted too.

Examples: Stripe, Miro, Trello.

(By "billing email" I mean the option to specify an email address to which proper PDF tax invoices will be sent)

#UX

thirstybear,
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@pauldyson @matthewskelton But equally, if the product is difficult to manage then it won’t deliver value.

So it’s a trade off - some investment for the paying end users, some for the administration users making it an amazing proposition for the paying users. I can think of at least one company where the difficult to use (and broken) billing system probably contributed to its demise.

thirstybear, to random
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This is my experience too. I reckon it is something to do with the cognitive dissonance of admitting that they are not as good as they can be. In many corporate cultures, this is considered a show of weakness, and effectively career suicide🤷‍♂️
https://toot.cat/@plexus/112563939849255563

revk, to random
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I dipped in to Twitter. I don’t do it often.
Couple of comments on my circuit board, nice.
And shit loads of “seriously designed to wind me up” shit. Mainly total morons responding to cyclists posts. Took me a moment to realise I was sucked in to hell and get out.
And, relax!!!

thirstybear,
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@revk Welcome back. I drop in to that Hellhole less and less often.

Fire This Is Fine GIF by MOODMAN

claresudbery, (edited ) to random
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    thirstybear,
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    @claresudbery The Japanese have a name for that. Tsundoku 📚 🙂

    (I suffer from it too!)

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-44981013

    jasongorman, to random
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    Being schooled in why conversations in dev teams should be time-boxed, by the "Global Head of Agile" at a company with 1 employee. (I'm especially impressed by the certification he's given himself.)

    thirstybear,
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    @jasongorman
    <Best Yorkshire accent>
    "When I were a Developer, I used to work 26 hour days in a cardboard box under t’motorway, typing perfect code so we din’t need to write tests, on two keyboards one for each hand and always delivered the project early….. " 🙄🤦‍♂️

    thirstybear, to random
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    <sigh>
    How many more times? Your key players have options. They provide huge value. If you force them back to old ways of working you will lose them to anyone who needs their skills and is prepared to accommodate their preferences. And many will take you to court first for unfair dismissal before leaving.

    Remote working works. But adapting to it is entirely optional. Much like survival 🤷‍♂️🦕☄️💥

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/04/employment-tribunal-cases-remote-working-from-home-office

    thirstybear,
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    I’ll add something else here. As an employee it will be unlikely that you can take on a large corporate employer with a well funded legal team.

    So JOIN A UNION.

    They will have clued up legal folks on standby who can advise and act as appropriate on your behalf.

    Your employer doesn’t need to officially recognise a union to join one. Nor can they penalise you for joining a union either. (Disclaimer: UK law)

    Just do it. YKIMS!

    https://www.tuc.org.uk/joinunion

    jasongorman, to random
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    It seems blindingly obvious to me that the UK government's Rwanda policy was never about refugees. It's designed to precipitate a legal stand-off over human rights. And it's not the human rights of asylum seekers that they have in their sights.

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/23/council-of-europe-human-rights-watchdog-condemns-uk-rwanda-scheme

    thirstybear,
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    @jasongorman also summarised in The Grauniad:

    “We should always watch how politicians treat refugees, Neal Ascherson once wrote, because that's how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1999/apr/21/features11.g23

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