Solidarity

Great practices for remote dev work are also great in person. Senior engineers: think out loud and ask questions. This helps junior devs (and others) do the same.

These scribbles capture work-life balance with a 3-year-old. The notebook has even been used to catch toddler vomit.

team naming is using the words “experience” “platform” "operations" and “engineering” in various configurations until you die

Actually, I think I prefer phonecalls to video calls now.

We’ve just added built-in citation support to GitHub so researchers and scientists can more easily receive acknowledgments for their contributions to software. Just push a CITATION.cff file and we’ll add a handy widget to the repo sidebar for you. Enjoy! 🎉

I work in tech. I’m a parent. And I just don’t want to be busy anymore 🧵 1/11 #burnout #WorkLifeBalance link.medium.com/FeqQeGzcPjb

Today Apple, @Bocoup, Google, @Igalia, Microsoft and @Mozilla are announcing Interop 2022. We have collaborated with the other major browsers and standards bodies on identifying the key technologies needed to fully experience the web. hacks.mozilla.org/2022/03/intero…

1. Avec respect, j’ai été à la manif hier, les arguments n’avaient rien à avoir avec la nazification des francophones, comme le dit Antoine. Certaines exagérations oui. Mais en bref, leurs arguments (présentés en FR et en anglais) se résument ainsi. journaldemontreal.com/2022/05/06/un-…

10. Ça paraît que sa fait longtemps que ces chroniqueurs pro96 ont été sur des bancs d’écoles. Du secondaire au cégep n’est pas une transition facile. Pourtant le cégep c’est l’une des plus belles créations du Québec moderne et de commencer à jouer la dedans c’est dangereux.

Perhaps I enjoy reading about software engineering process a tad too much. This is great, though: martinfowler.com/articles/branc…

“Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."

You can hear French being spoken on all continents, but this is the only place in the world where one might hear Mohawk, Mi'gmaw, Cree, etc. Why Quebecois feel the need to take Indigenous resources to "protect" French while Indigenous languages are near extinction is beyond me.

Legault : on peut violer les droits des minorités si "la majorité est d'accord". J'ai honte.

33 years ago tonight, 14 women went to bed thinking about their finals, future in STEM and the upcoming holiday season. They didn’t know that these dreams threatened a man’s sense of self worth and that they wouldn’t survive to see their goals and aspirations become a reality.

Qualitative data is also data. Being data-driven means considering all the data, not just the data you like the best, or the data you perceive to be more “objective.”