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Functional programming, TypeScript, tooling.
 He/him. Views and opinions my own and do not reflect those of my employer.

I usually only follow folks with pronouns in bio.

Got my performance review today.
Positive feedback: literally every member of my team says I'm the best manager they have ever had. I solved multiple long-standing problems the team has been dealing with for years. Team members feel safe to share their struggles, everyone feels empowered, everyone receives valuable feedback.
Negative feedback: I am not enthusiastic enough about AI.
Overall ranking: 3/5.

Anyone hiring for a fully remote team lead?

#GenAI #LLM #GetFediHired #FediHire

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Some Things Just Take Time

On friction, patience, and planting trees.

Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings

SPIDERS

BIG and MANY

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Does everything just get more unaffordable forever? Do things ever improve?
Just remembered my all-time favourite bug, where Android accidentally rendered the name of the "Grunt" tool on its webpage as "Dorkq" https://github.com/gruntjs/gruntjs.com/issues/81
Home page shows the project title as "dorkq" on some Android devices · Issue #81 · gruntjs/gruntjs.com

See here: http://www.browserstack.com/screenshots/2308d26f99f0b5915b53829c4ae5f9567b2d84be I haven't tried to figure out why. @practicum noticed that the letters are all 3 off and lowercase. G-3=d,...

GitHub
@Drunkonhugs It was a bug in Java's font code. When a font is rebuilt/replaced/updated, the cache wasn't also rebuilt, leading to a glyph table that no longer represents the actual font being rendered.
After raising our rent by $100/month every year for the past 5 years, our landlord is now raising it by $400/month. Fuck everything about this.

you don't need to rub the heel of the boot all over your face like that

it's unseemly