For context, that’s about 100,000 fewer people than take a NYC subway on any given day.

I’m confident this sudden change of news has nothing to do with the charges laid against the SolarWinds CISO and was definitely not preceded by a frantic round of consultation with financial criminal attorneys.

Squashing commits in PRs is destructive and wrongful. I’d add “in my opinion” but I’m pretty sure all ethical frameworks and religions back me up.

If you don’t think queuing theory applies to knowledge work like it does to factories, please let me know what your backlog looks like.

At Pivotal I once wanted to send a green cake to red hat folks when they released open shift 3. It got pretty far through the legendary ask@ process before senior management caught wind and put the kibosh on it. I don’t remember what the reasoning was.

Trusted publishing comes to RubyGems! blog.rubygems.org/2023/12/14/tru…

It can be built and it can built as a self-understanding whole rather than a behavioral robotics rats nest.

Did too little coding in 2023. Won’t make that mistake in 2024. Happy New Year, everyone.

I started a website dedicated to this and then, quite predictably, lost interest… theoryof.predictable.software/articles/what-…

TIL that Java PriorityQueue doesn’t produce an ordered Stream. Y tho

My TV just tried to steal my TV.

So cool to see this

Who is actually getting their ADHD meds? What’s your secret?

Bring back Concourse

If the rest of the world hired the way software developers are hired, to get a job at Subway you’d spend 5 hours showing you can mill wheat, build an oven and butcher a pig. And then get rejected because they don’t think working in a deli for a decade is relevant experience.

If you're wondering why I went quiet, it's because I got transphobic garbage on my timeline and deleted the app. I'm now over in fedi land: @[email protected]