Can I please have maternity leave when I get a new kitten?

If you’re wondering why communication & people skills are becoming very important to get to senior engineer and above levels at Big Tech: it’s because of this. Coding is the trivial part at many of these places. Working with so many other engineering teams is the real challenge.

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Along with me, my entire engineering team has been let go. Before I get into my own thoughts, I want to honor them. If you are looking to hire some brilliant accessibility engineers, keep reading.

Fantasizing about how much better software would be if co-locating code that changes together was emphasized as much as “separation of concerns” in all of the books you read in your junior years.

Learned the hard way. Can’t emphasize this enough.

I worked on this at Twitter in 2015. IIRC we tested it and most people didn't get any views and we had to have some thresholds before showing it as "0 views" was depressing We also wanted to be accurate and not count if someone quickly scrolls past your tweet in their TL

Some good advice on charity in the thread.

Accessibility isn't just ARIA, it's design too. UI controls need to have distinguishable hit areas, readable text, contrasting interactive and selection states, focus rings, etc. In lots of the current trendy apps and libraries, everything blends together into a pastel mush.

In the new blue app. Thanks maxi again for the invite! Really appreciate it.

This thread from a former SRE at Facebook summarises why Twitter rolling out massive changes to everyone, with no A/B testing will hurt the social network. There’s a reason social networks that thrive are religious about experimentation & monitoring key metrics. Twitter 2.0:

😅 is anyone else getting sick of chatbots? I wrote down a few thoughts on why chatbots are not the future of interfaces and how we can be more thoughtful: wattenberger.com/thoughts/boo-c…

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gonna start using this response

A grim take on the state of Japan: "Coming to live and work in Japan could be a grave mistake for young people now. And if they are already in Japan, unless they are already 100% committed to living here, it might be better to leave while they still can."

since im a real estate agent here is my 2 cents: just watched this video qnd he briefly mentioned about cheap country-side houses. thank you for being real about it! it's such a scam you will never get rid of it

The best thing you can do to prevent burnout is to simply not care.