Iris

@iris_meredith
1,063 Followers
220 Following
1.2K Posts
That problematic person who keeps popping up in your feeds. Blogs (or, according to HackerNews "seed[s] extreme left wing ideas into the minds of vulnerable HN members with my demented, violent writing") at https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/posts
Liberapayhttps://en.liberapay.com/iris_meredith/
Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/c/IrisMeredithandherblog
Show threadIris1h ago
#TransDayofvisibility, I suppose. I know not what good tagging myself like this does: the part of me that's competitive doesn't need it and the part of me that's trans feels like it makes me seem a bit pathetic.
Show threadIris1h ago

rent. I can never be both. If I'm struggling to feed myself and pay my bills, I can"t be the person who writes those articles that everyone shares. If I'm the person who writes those articles, I can't be struggling as much as I am because I'm clearly fairly capable and socially adjusted.

I guess what I'd say for these days is that we can be *both*. I can be smart *and* need the help of readers to pay rent: neither invalidates the other. And yes, it should be different. But it isn't.

Iris1h ago
Today is the transgender day of visibility. I don't know what to say more globally on the matter, but personally: there is a part of me that is the heterodox tech thinker. I write articles: I get quite a few views, I am popular. Then there's the trans side of me: the person who can't get a job however good and socially well-adjusted I am. Those parts don't often cohabit in people's minds. I can be the clever person who write the things that people love, or I can be the trans girl trying to make
Iris3h ago
I love seeing the Microsoft Teams referral codes for some of my articles in my analytics. Who are the people sharing my work on Teams chats? What are they like?
Iris8h ago
Unfortunately, I fear that it's easy to see why LLMs became popular: getting anywhere in our currently arranged society requires us all to generate unreasonably large quantities of what is, frankly, total crap.
Iris1d ago

Today in the LinkedIn papers (aka: "please give Iris a job or something"): five misconceptions people have about being trans in the workforce!

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/five-things-trans-workplace

Five things you get wrong about being trans in the workplace | deadSimpleTech

In this article, then, I'll discuss five misconceptions that people commonly hold about trans people, with a tilt towards workforce interactions. In each section, I give a brief explainer of the misconception and why it's wrong, and then give some points for what you, as a well-meaning cis person (or a trans person privileged enough to have dodged most of this shit: they're few and far between, but I've met one or two of them) can do to help mitigate or undo the damage that the misconception causes.

deadSimpleTech
Iris1d ago
mcc1d ago

*Company makes my life worse through their product*

I will boycott this product

*Company continues making my life worse, now through externalities*

How do I boycott an externality

Iris1d ago
Iris2d ago

A new article, this one about the application of Clausewitz's concept of friction to Software Engineering:

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/friction_software_engineering

Understanding friction in software engineering | deadSimpleTech

That, in short, is how friction works in war: things start out organised, prepared and informed. Then the bullets start flying, and little by little, things go wrong and start to break apart. Co-ordination breaks down, people get tired and demoralised, and eventually what started out as a well-oiled, effective machine that was more than capable of achieving objectives ends up as a tired, worn-out blob that cannot fight any more or go any further. This seems simple, but as Clausewitz has it, "in war, everything is very simple, but the simplest thing is hard".

deadSimpleTech
Iris2d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@iris_meredith/116311817974687217

Resources are running low, rent needs to be paid and the relevant support systems are distinctly unhelpful, so I'm going to be pushing out more LinkedIn-relevant articles for the next little while. Apologies to those who read my work for the critical essays.

Iris2d ago

A new article, this one about the application of Clausewitz's concept of friction to Software Engineering:

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/friction_software_engineering

Understanding friction in software engineering | deadSimpleTech

That, in short, is how friction works in war: things start out organised, prepared and informed. Then the bullets start flying, and little by little, things go wrong and start to break apart. Co-ordination breaks down, people get tired and demoralised, and eventually what started out as a well-oiled, effective machine that was more than capable of achieving objectives ends up as a tired, worn-out blob that cannot fight any more or go any further. This seems simple, but as Clausewitz has it, "in war, everything is very simple, but the simplest thing is hard".

deadSimpleTech