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Via @marcelias:

There are only 44 days until Election Day and in many states voting has begun! Please:

-Make sure you are registered to vote.
-Make a plan to vote.
-Vote!

If your vote didn't matter, Republicans wouldn't be trying to suppress it.

The new Georgia election-night ballot counting law is ill-advised for many reasons (it will create chaos, solves no actual problems, and creates a logistic nightmare to implement this late in the game, for starters). But the thing that bothers me the most is that it will put ground-level election workers - who were already viciously targeted in 2020 - in the spotlight and at the center of partisan disputes.

We need to do better by these dedicated public servants.

A conversation today reminded me of something: I have come to see speaking badly about ones users as a sign of a bad programmer.

Disengagement, cynicism, callousness, suspicion… these things make bad software.

Simultaneously our industry has elevated these traits as signs of “rationality”.

Caring, empathy, curiosity, engagement, learning, compassion… these things make good software.

And they don’t get the hype they deserve.

Aside, but important: in my experience, disengagement especially, but also to some extent the others, are often an early warning sign of burnout. So if you feel you’re slipping into that, maybe get someone you can talk to, there might be more going on than you realize.