I wrote a thing about craft, humanity, our new robot overlords and The Artisanal Web
Don't blame my employer for the dumb things I say.
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Carter Baxter
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Ex-designer, occasional dev, recovering journalist & lousy guitarist. Proud 18F alumni. These days I usually traffic in management musings, civic tech thoughts and bad jokes.
Don't blame my employer for the dumb things I say.
Don't blame my employer for the dumb things I say.
I was asked today to write up a quick under-the-hood look at how I built DSCovery, the Django-based civic tech jobs aggregator I created awhile back. So, if that's your sort of jam: https://another.rodeo/building-dscovery/
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)So many alpha males, so few people working on QA to get them ready for beta.
I was thinking today about how "though leaders" routinely throw out terrible ideas, and the entire concept of "thought leadership" is problematic, when I realized that the thought leaders require thought followers.
So maybe we should do less of that?
I wrote a thing about backpacks. Sort of.
Not going to lie, The Onion buying Infowars was not on my bingo card, but I can definitely think of worse outcomes https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/business/media/alex-jones-infowars-the-onion.html
Today I wrenched on an old bicycle that was made sometime during World War II.
I plan to not just make it shine, but to be really, truly usable. Right now, though, a lot of the bolts have stuck in place and are difficult to turn, and a lot of the parts show an extreme wear. And of course there's just grime and filth everywhere.
But I am persistent, and I can make it better, eventually.
This may be a metaphor.
Luigi Ray-MontañezMost toots/skeets/threads should live for like... two weeks? A month?
I feel this particularly when posting job openings on LinkedIn. They get engagement weeks after the opening has closed.
Ted M. YoungFlexibility in code is a _cost_ not a _benefit_. "Let's make it configurable!" puts the burden on the consumer, requiring more decisions to make, resulting in more effort, whereas an opinionated setup might be good enough, allowing the consumer to spend that effort elsewhere.
Jeff TriplettPlease publish and share more
https://micro.webology.dev/2024/11/02/please-publish-and.html
Please publish and share more
Friends, I encourage you to publish more, indirectly meaning you should write more and then share it. It’d be best to publish your work in some evergreen space where you control the domain and URL. Then publish on masto-sky-formerly-known-as-linked-don and any place you share and comment on. You don’t have to change the world with every post. You might publish a quick thought or two that helps encourage someone else to try something new, listen to a new song, or binge-watch a new series.