Liberal Wombat 

@[email protected]
338 Followers
385 Following
80 Posts
From NY, living in TX. Liberal and proud of it. He/him. #BLM
Politics junkie, computer nerd. I design systems for money.
Supporter of the right to yeet your fetus.
PoliticsDemocratic socialist
LocationTexas
OccupationSoftware engineering
HobbyShitposting
Liberal Wombat Jan 25, 2023

Had an interesting conversation in one of my (many) interviews that's stuck with me.

As a senior engineer, I can help at most 2-3 other engineers to achieve their potential and push the whole project forward.

As an engineering manager, I could help 8-10 other engineers achieve their potential and push the whole organization forward.

This may seem obvious, but nobody has ever put it in those terms for me and it resonated.

It's got me rethinking future roles

Liberal Wombat Dec 29, 2022
Chris H #ChoirsForClimateDec 29, 2022

A quick summary of the #AndrewTate news (toxic masculine social media celeb, kickboxer, twat); he posted a tweet taunting Greta Thunberg, she responded with "small dick energy" (low blow but justified imo), he replied with a video in which a Romanian pizza box was visible...

AND ROMANIAN POLICE ARRESTED HIM FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING, which they had been aiming to do for a while, but they couldn't raid his house until they confirmed he was actually in the country. It's beautiful. And he deserves it.

Liberal Wombat Dec 18, 2022
Show threadPwnallthethingsDec 18, 2022
Also, even if you're not there substantively anymore, a good time to rerun Fedifinder (or similar tools) to see how many folks have transitioned since you last checked, since those tools will likely be *much* harder to use reliably very soon https://fedifinder.glitch.me/
Fedifinder

Fediverse accounts of your X/Twitter followings

Liberal Wombat Dec 18, 2022
Gwen Snyder is uncivilDec 18, 2022

I'm going to say this as nicely as I can:

A lot of the people yelling at marginalized people for "supporting fascism" because they're slow to leave hard-won community space on Twitter...

...are also people who never showed up for those marginalized communities when they were being targeted by fascists.

It's not a good look.

Liberal Wombat Dec 18, 2022

Leaving this note for myself: if you, from your logged in server, click on a hash tag from the profile from a user from another server, it opens a new window on that user's instance, which you're not logged into, instead of taking you to the search feature on your instance. Seems like an unintended behavior

#FediTips #Feedback #Fediverse

Liberal Wombat Dec 17, 2022
Dan GillmorDec 17, 2022

I don't think journalists (in general) -- and certainly not the organizations they work for -- fully understand the threat Musk represents to the future of free expression and journalism itself.

Begging him to reinstate the banned accounts is pure folly. It is bended-knee supplication to a sociopath who now controls a powerful media company. But the power of his company depends in no small degree on keeping journalists there.

Leave. Now.

Liberal Wombat Dec 17, 2022

I know Mastodon doesn't have a timeline algorithm, but I kind of wish it did, at least to some degree.

High-volume accounts (whom I still want to follow!) can just completely overwhelm the timeline and make it hard to see the less frequent posters (whom I ALSO want to see!)

Any tips? #FediTips

Liberal Wombat Dec 17, 2022
Judd LegumDec 17, 2022
UPDATE: Linette Lopez, a journalist who has produced important reporting on @[email protected] for years is still suspended
Liberal Wombat Dec 17, 2022
PwnallthethingsDec 16, 2022
FDA looking at the application for Elon to put microchips in people's brains and then at his Twitter account and then back at the application
Liberal Wombat Dec 16, 2022

In non bird app news:

I had 4 interviews today (two screens, two panels) and have SIX tomorrow (three screens, three panels)

So far, most are moving forward to the next round! It will be interesting to see who makes an offer first and who is most competitive!