Adam [ 🎹 🥘 🧑‍💻 🏒 ♟️ 💞 ]

@armurray
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Software Engineer developing tools to enable evolution, collaboration, and design (esp as pertains wicked problems)
I like motion graphics and films on parallel universes and time travel
LocationPacific Northwest 🇨🇦 🇺🇸
Character classNeutral Good Tinker
Personal interestsNature, chess, piano, opera, hockey, UXM, virtue, imagination, learning
Early SE influencesTimothy Lethbridge, Steve McConnell, Mary Shaw, Grady Booch, Barry Boehm, Linda Rising, Tom DeMarco, Scott Ambler, Margaret-Anne Storey, Kent Beck, Erich Gamma, Watts Humphrey, Fred Brooks, Michael Bennett
Adam [ 🎹 🥘 🧑‍💻 🏒 ♟️ 💞 ]May 29, 2025
Thom, exceedingly pureMay 29, 2025
My start-up's business model is taking one million euro from every billionaire, every year. If this is made illegal this whole industry will die.
Adam [ 🎹 🥘 🧑‍💻 🏒 ♟️ 💞 ]May 29, 2025
Ah that’s what we were missing, more comments per PR, phew
https://mastodon.social/@andrewnez/114587253607341928
Adam [ 🎹 🥘 🧑‍💻 🏒 ♟️ 💞 ]May 28, 2025
Neil BrownMay 28, 2025
My business model of selling tours of people's homes doesn't work if I have to get their consent.
Adam [ 🎹 🥘 🧑‍💻 🏒 ♟️ 💞 ]May 28, 2025
@kf think of how freakin awesome that is!
Adam [ 🎹 🥘 🧑‍💻 🏒 ♟️ 💞 ]May 26, 2025
@kf I mean, I’m definitely inspired by your “working out is hygiene” remark! I’m an advocate for active recovery, I think it paves some good paths
Adam [ 🎹 🥘 🧑‍💻 🏒 ♟️ 💞 ]May 26, 2025
@kf hopefully I’m queueing up some clapback, as I’m starting a program myself and need some familiar voices to help me stay the course
Adam [ 🎹 🥘 🧑‍💻 🏒 ♟️ 💞 ]May 26, 2025
@kf What if you paid out-of-pocket (did a light session, maybe active recovery) and then did a strength workout on your own when you’re up for it… then you’d be missing the benefit of a trainer strength session but still get some reps in, plus active recovery is good when you need it? (Offsetting other sessions has no effect other than being mentally disrupting, for me at least)
Adam [ 🎹 🥘 🧑‍💻 🏒 ♟️ 💞 ]May 26, 2025
@kf There’s no issue whatsoever with deferring anything you’re not currently up to. No loss, no setback, none of that. Perfect practice as they say.
Adam [ 🎹 🥘 🧑‍💻 🏒 ♟️ 💞 ]May 26, 2025
Bill the LizardMay 26, 2025
"Much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification." — Fred Brooks
Adam [ 🎹 🥘 🧑‍💻 🏒 ♟️ 💞 ]May 25, 2025
Jan Lehnardt May 25, 2025

I’m officially done with takes on AI beginning “Ethical concerns aside…”.

No! Stop right there.

Ethical concerns front and center. First thing. Let’s get this out of the way and then see if thre is anything left worth talking about.

Ethics is the formalisation of how we are treating one another as human beings and how we relate to the world around us.

It is *impossible* to put ethics aside.

What you mean is “I don’t want to apologise for my greed and selfishness.”

Say that first.