Mastodawn

I want to understand how often teams estimate bugs. I'm also curious about how it differs for teams that use points / velocity vs. time estimates. How does your team handle estimates and bugs? (And if you're willing please boost for reach -- I'm hoping to reach a broad cross-section of the industry.)

	We use points / velocity and DO point bugs
	We use points / velocity, but do NOT point bugs
	We do time estimates and DO estimate bugs
	We do time estimates, but do NOT estimate bugs

Poll ends at Sep 1 at 4:52am.

Dawn Ahukanna 23h ago

Conffab 1d ago

A gentle introduction to anchor positioning

Anchor positioning allows you to place an element on the page based on where another element is. It makes it easier to create responsive menus and tooltips with less code using only CSS. Here’s how it works.

Source: A gentle introduction to anchor positioning | WebKit

A gentle introduction to anchor positioning

Anchor positioning allows you to place an element on the page based on where another element is.

WebKit

Dawn Ahukanna 23h ago

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Ruth — of systems & em dashes Mar 25

Ironies of Automation, Lisanne Bainbridge, 1983

https://www.complexcognition.co.uk/2021/06/ironies-of-automation.html

Ironies of Automation

This paper discusses ways in which automation of industrial processes may expand rather than eliminate problems with the human operator. ...

Dawn Ahukanna 1d ago

Ruth — of systems & em dashes 1d ago

“The only way to reconcile that is to drop the quality bar for outputs. But some executives think they’ve found a loophole: put the responsibility for correcting the LLM’s mistakes on the people who are mandated to use that LLM. This is being called “human in the loop” to reassure customers (who also know that AI constantly lies) that the final call is still being made by a qualified professional.”
— @PavelASamsonov

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/human-in-the-loop-is-a-thought-terminating-cliche

"Human in the loop" is a thought-terminating cliche

Without thoughtful guard rails, asking people to clean up after machines doesn't make machines better — it makes people worse.

The Product Picnic

Dawn Ahukanna 1d ago

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Oscar Cunningham Aug 18

@timixretroplays See this recent thread: https://mathstodon.xyz/@andrewt/115040589464280735. The important thing is that you only need the middle fifth of each square. So I isolated those pixels and then manually drew the rest of the rectangles. Each black centre square ended up as part of the black grid or a blue rectangle, and each white centre square ended up as part of a white or yellow rectangle. The red rectangles were drawn only in the redundant spaces.

Andrew (@andrewt@mathstodon.xyz)

I've put this into a more user-friendly interface so you can make your own silly QR codes. (Watch out, they scan less well than regular QR codes so bear that in mind if you want to use one for anything important. Don't blame me if nobody who gets your flyer can visit your website.) https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/

Mathstodon

Dawn Ahukanna 1d ago

Oscar Cunningham Aug 18

A working QR code in the style of Piet Mondrian. Inspired @divbyzero and @andrewt.

#Art #PietMondrian #QRCode

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J. Nathan Matias 🦣1d ago

10 months ago, a company across the world put my neighbor's access to medical care at risk, giving us 2 weeks notice that software behind our 40 electric car chargers would be shut down.

This is the story of how my neighborhood broke free from this potential disaster.

https://natematias.com/portfolio/2025-08-22-unchaining-from-broken-software-tethers/

Escaping the chains of tethered products: the Juice Rescue project

How could a group of executives halfway across the world, with a single email, disrupt my community’s mobility, and what could we do about it?

J. Nathan Matias

Dawn Ahukanna 1d ago

IcooIey 2d ago

Listening with dismay at the post office today as a customer and two clerks tried to figure out what the customs duty would be on a package and how the recipient was supposed to pay it and where. No you can't pay it here, now. Maybe there wouldn't be any duty due, maybe it would be $28, maybe the'd get a notice? If the package was refused, maybe it would be sent back? No one really knows but there was pretty universal disgust at the government here for creating this mess.

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Iris van Rooij 💭1d ago

I would really like it if we could talk about AI without having to talk about LLMs. It is getting quite boring, especially since LLMs are distracting us from important and deep scientific questions.

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Daniel P. Aldrich 2d ago

Natural hazards, tornado formation edition