I've always been bothered with the saying "code as if the next person maintaining your code is a violent psychopath who knows where you live".

Why are we instilling fear and promoting toxic behavior and workplace violence?

You should code so that you can take that beach vacation without having to be on call.
Code so that you have free time to be with your family.
Code (and document things) so that you can leave the project for something even bigger.

It's that time of year where I occasionally remind the world of the existence of this cursed bit of generative music I made years ago: Endless Jingling, which mashes up a random selection of three of four different carols on each reload, jumping randomly between measures of each ad infinitum.

You'll need to click to make it make sound. I'm sorry in advance.

http://joshmillard.com/endlessjingling/

The uncanny valet

He parks your car neeaaaarly perfectly

It's really creepy for reasons you can't quite pin down

One of the things that really bugs me about Slack and Discord is the way they are fractally divided into workspaces/servers and channels so that I constantly have small numbers of unread messages spread across many channels, and many more that are functionally dead but still clutter up the interface because I don't want to miss if someone does post there.

It also creates additional mental load, because anything I want to share requires a multi-level decision about the most relevant channel.

apparently i passed a phishing awareness test last week by correctly ignoring a fake linkedin email

nobody tell my boss that i ignored it entirely on the assumption that it was a real linkedin email