Task manager says Chrome is using 452mb of ram and I only have 2 pages open. Ok. I'm done. I'm moving to Edge. Open edge with same 2 pages: 585mb. Really? #ffs

Nobody can "keep the team motivated." That's a the-beatings-will-stop-when-morale-improves situation. What you can do is create an environment where self motivation is possible. Relatedness, autonomy, mastery, purpose. You cannot manage someone into being motivated.

Youtuber Stuff Made Here built this hoop from with robots and computer vision capable of tracking the ball and directing it into the hoop by tilting the backboard [full video: buff.ly/2y0ErdQ]

Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (2012) github.com/alevchuk/vim-c…

This system designed and built by Johan Link holds a ball in balance on a plate. A webcam films the system and a python program analyzes the images to find the position of the ball, preventing it from falling [video with more details: buff.ly/3mhEjLt]

It's the weekend 🌴 You're building some hobby project 🏗 You're looking for a code sample that shows you how to use an API... 🤔 You can stop looking now - we have them all here: aka.ms/code-samples 👈

Advice for anybody in #brampton getting their covid vaccine at the CAA Centre; When you get there, ask somebody near the front of the line how long they've been in line. If over 10 minutes, don't follow the line to find the end, go the opposite direction around the building.

interviewer: if you can explain what deadlocks are, I’ll hire you me: hire me, and I’ll explain deadlocks

Just spent 2 minutes worried I was completely behind in my language technologies before realizing he's talking about English. What the hell is hard & soft C? LOL

“I finished that API integration”

Rooting through git blame trying to figure out who’s responsible for this shit. x.com/SlenderSherbet…

Gov: I want the experience to be exactly the same as if they walked into one of our offices to register their car. Dev: Exactly? Gov: Exactly #inlineOnAWebsite #WTF

While I regret answering a `coding interview` question (I swear I missed that), I'm still amazed at the final evolution to this `2D Spiral` question. It boggles my mind how adding the right model removed all complexity. codereview.stackexchange.com/a/154472/130123

Kafka may have been a clever name for a technology, but Goodreads searches for books on it are practically useless.

The free WiFi in the Vienna airport is shockingly fast.

ArriveCAN Budget: - $100,000 for app development - $53,900,000 for fake App Store reviews

Yes, ArriveCAN cost a lot of money. Way too much. (It was a pandemic.) Going way over budget happens all the time in enterprise. It’s often the developers’ fault. It even happens outside global public health emergencies, believe it or not.

The machines are already writing the code. Those machines are called compilers. We, programmers, simply specify the solution in sufficient detail so that the machines can write the code. Specifying the solution in sufficient detail will _always_ be a human endeavor.

Casey Newton Platformer Starting to suspect this is some kind of “Brewster’s Millions” situation where he secretly has only 30 days to lose all $44 billion dollars

Even as a developer I’m struggling to figure out the password rules