XI messed me up, too, in the best ways.

It's a Black Friday / Cyber Monday time of year and I'm trying to help engineers get ready. emmer.dev/blog/an-effect…

I circled back around to finishing a Lerna migration this week. I wanted to get the packages back on dependency update autopilot. emmer.dev/blog/keep-lern…

Some people practice TDD, but I practice FDB (frustration-driven blogging). Yet another unwelcome surprise I discovered with GitHub Actions this week. emmer.dev/blog/use-githu…

Great episode, I love the messages here. Especially the final message in understanding your delivery, I think that is missed by many who don't examine these biases.

deployed but at what cost

"laurie why do u always use firefox, haven't you tried..." me:

A weekly struggle.

Like this if you cry every time 😢

Folks should really think harder about when they use "time ago" dates instead of just giving me the actual date:

you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

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As a… – user I want… – AI in every product so that… –

im tired.

mac is like "we're intuitive" but then they have this fuckass install window

Yeah let me go to my local GameStop and grab some physical ga-

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I really appreciate this article. What I most appreciate is a teammate who brings vision but then lets others join in that vision while it's still only half baked. Doing so creates buy-in and momentum early.

The question in the second half of "what are you working _on?_" really struck me. I'll be trying to take that into the new year.

you can’t make this stuff up.