Jim W

@jwithy
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Web Developer | Semi-Buddhist post-punk dog-loving jekyll-digging nail-biting hyphenator.

These days I’m mostly on xoxo.zone and pkm.social!

LocationLakewood, WA
I’m mostly over at @jwithy and @jw!
It is however wortth pointing out that I'm much more likely to use my @jwithy login than any others. 😘
As in...the last time I posted was april 2017, aka, before any of the stuff in my life that blew up had blown up. šŸ‘‹ this is weird.
Hey there mastodon! It's been....a while.
Okay okay so for real this time: the āŒā­•ļøāŒā­•ļø community set up their own instance, so until/unless i make my own, I'll mostly be using @jwithy from now on šŸŽ‰

Considering setting up jwithy.space as a (private) mastodon instance.

This will be a lot more sysadmin-y type stuff than I'm ready for.

Maybe.

Every once in a while I get reminded of the relief junior devs feel when they come to me or other more experienced people and we don't know the answer to a problem, and how valuable that is.

I think a lot of tech (me included) struggles with not wanting to be wrong or seem stupid, but it sets an unreachable expectation on ourselves and our junior colleagues.

Junior devs: if everything is confusing, you're not stupid

Senior devs: let people see you mess up

It's the remix to Twitter, all those devs they be bitter, users rollin in content but ain't no ads up in hither. Gimme that toot toot. Don't gimme that tweet tweet

I'm making a conscious effort to reply to nice notifications rather than just ā­ļø them

....We'll see how that goes!

Like other folks I'm not sure what I may use this for, yet.

But hey here's my dog