The stories about 10x engineers never include:
• Adding meaningful test coverage
• Updating outdated README sections
• Mentoring junior engineers
• Listening to burned-out coworkers
• Improving on-call runbooks

No glory in these things, but those that do them are the ones you desperately want to keep.

They plant trees they don't expect to sit under.

Today we're bringing the debate to the Scottish Parliament.

We're calling on the government to commit to the expansion of publicly owned bus services that deliver high quality, affordable and reliable public transport.

Sent a pull request to Audacity fixing a crash bug I'd been running into frequently. The cause was an out-of-bounds memmove. Classic C++ areas.

Anyway I got a fucking copilot review on my PR which left two comments, both completely wrong, one of which suggesting I reintroduce the out of bounds memory access. I'm furious!

I'm a python developer, I'm a tech lead, and I've been a tech architect. I will learn any language you need, and I'll work for anyone provided they're not building bombs to drop on civilians (or assisting in the efforts to do so).

Otherwise, if you happen to know of anyone looking for a contractor or perm twisty brained developer with a need for headache inducing problems.

#GetFediHired #Hired

"Yesterday word emerged that the Department of Housing and Urban Development is taking over the National Science Foundation’s building, evicting all its employees.

The top floors of the building are, according to the AFGE Local 3403 going to be retrofitted into a kind of executive mansion for HUD Secretary Turner, including an executive suite, executive dining room, reserved parking for the Secretary’s five cars, exclusive use of an entire elevator, special space for his various assistants and a planned gym for the Secretary and his family."

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/national-science-foundation-to-be-requisitioned-as-mansion-for-hud-secretary-and-also-hud-office

#USPol

Our cat Abby has grokked that socks are important to us humans, and now we have to hide them because she’ll sneak one and try to use it as currency for food and favors.

Let me repeat: My cat has invented her own form of currency based on her observations of human needs

Abby, you’re a genius and no you may not have another Churu tube