During lectures, I switched from asking "does anyone have a question before I move on?" to telling "someone ask me a question before I move on" and it is so simple but SUCH a game changer. #AcademicTwitter

now this is cinema

11 Promises from a Manager: a 🧵 1. We’ll have a weekly 1:1. I’ll never cancel this meeting, but you can cancel it whenever you like. It’s your time.

Three weeks ago, I had a miscarriage. I was six weeks pregnant. I live in Texas, a state that has effectively banned abortions. A thread about what it is to cease to be pregnant in a state where abortions are banned:

Want to stop the Ford reign of terror? Check this site out to see how you can send him packing. votewell.ca

Canada and Denmark reach settlement over disputed Arctic island /via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…

HOW TO FLY THE CANADIAN FLAG

Did you know it was International Women in Engineering Day? eventbrite.ca/e/internationa…

With the newest version of Git 2.37.0, you can run just "git push" to push new branches. No more "--set-upstream origin". Enable with: git config --global --add --bool push.autoSetupRemote true

A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore 🧵

1/I have been asked by some people why I haven’t made a public statement about the assault on our Deputy Prime Minister. To be blunt, I had to sit with my thoughts for a couple of days. Because this incident is not isolated & it brings up too much pain. And fear. Yes, fear.

When men refer to themselves as "alpha males", I hear that in the context of software, where alpha versions are unstable, missing important features, filled with flaws, and not fit for the public.

Elon taking over Twitter reminds me of when Scar took over Pride Rock.

The simplest and lightest Agile “framework” is mobbing/ensemble.

47 years ago today the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior. In this thread I'm going to discuss a few things: - The actual story - The Gordon Lightfoot song - The different roles of an artist/storyteller and an educator - Why it's ok to say we were wrong

The owner of Twitter is hanging out in the comments of murderer Kyle Rittenhouse.

An room of students is screamed at for hours. They're hungry and not allowed to leave to use the bathroom. A man must ask 100 women for their phone numbers in one evening. A $15k retreat promises a psychic reset to manifest your personal power. What do these have in common?

A guide to getting started with Twitter alternative Mastodon wapo.st/3FZsYuZ

Problem: Feature flags are handy, but it’s easy to forget to remove them later. This leads to needless overhead, complexity, and risk. Solution: Write an automated test that fails if the flag still exists after a given date.

That's the true cost of the automation-unemployment #CritiHype: while we're nowhere near bots stealing your job, we're certainly at the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that *fails* doing your job: pluralistic.net/2024/01/11/rob… 45/