Thor love and thunder is terrible. It's a fun kind of terrible, but so bad. The pathos that made Thor ragnorok satisfying is gone, the goofy meter turned up to 11, and the acting is so bad. Except Christian bale who seemed like he was in an entirely different better movie.

A short guide to Design & Development methodologies A thread 🧵

Suhail tattling on themself by showing this screenshot, how it's literally explicitly copying a real artist 💀

World class engineering 🙌

Time in meetings has more than tripled since Feb 2020. Nearly a third of meetings are unnecessary—wasting $25M a year for every 1k people. There are 4 reasons to meet: to decide, learn, bond, and do. If it doesn't serve one of those purposes, cancel it. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

A few software engineering practices which many teams will also consider "best practices." What other useful engineering practices would you mention? (Yes, getting back to working on The Software Engineer’s Guidebook!)

A few lucky members of #TeamPixel got a sneak peek at the latest additions to our family of devices. See for yourself at #MadeByGoogle. Watch Live at 10AM ET.

Climate action isn’t about individual sacrifice. That’s a lie you’ve been told. It’s the job of governments to make climate-safe choices the easiest, most convenient choices to make. Climate action is about changing the world together, not changing our lifestyles alone. 1/

So-called "old school gamers" really love to act like they didn't nearly drive D&D into the ground in the 90s by being so obnoxious and vile to anyone outside of the hobby or who dared to play a different ttrpg instead that no one wanted to play it anymore, huh

Spot on reddit.com/r/programmerhu…

I fucking saw red today because I realized that these AI weirdos can just type in “meganroseruiz” and feed my life’s works into a computer and generate “new” images without my consent. My unique shapes and style can be ripped away from me with no repercussions. This is theft.

Turned this into a blog post for easier sharing. Forgive the simple graphic, I am tired. youcanknowthings.com/2022/10/09/a-c…

you can choose a proven technology and couple your application code to it, or you can build a haphazard abstraction layer to “avoid lock-in” and then couple yourself to _that_

TypeScript tip: Avoid making a property optional when the property isn’t valid in a certain case. Instead, declare 2 separate types, and use Omit to avoid copy/paste. Example: Many objects lack an id until they're saved. So declare a separate "Unsaved" type. #typescript

This painting is over 100 years old. It's by Zinaida Serebriakova, a wonderful painter with a fascinating life whose story is worth knowing...

A little bit of A&A War At Sea and I'm about to hit the October Revolution like I'm Ukraine.

THREAD: A tale in two tweets and one FCC chairman

A common source of disappointment is recency bias: weighing the last week more heavily than the last year. Zooming in on the immediate past magnifies slumps. Zooming out farther reveals upward slopes. Progress is rarely visible at a snapshot in time. It unfolds over a lifetime.

Just finished the finale of s1 of #RingsofPower and I loved it. Every episode looked amazing, the characters were compelling, and the storylines were enjoyable. 5 stars, can't wait for season 2.

Giving mastadon a try fosstodon.org/@KirithKodachi