Safeway has signs that say "Mask Not Required When Fully Vaccinated" with a picture of a mask, but all I see is the picture and think "gotta have my mask on"

Potentially hot take? I don't think most NIMBYs (even the rich white ones) are NIMBYing for personal financial gain. It's mostly a very common strain of small-c conservatism, where people like their neighborhood the way it is and hate the idea of things changing.

I'm amazed. The FCC informal complaint process actually works.

Today I noticed this badge on my GitHub profile. The worst part is that they used a version of my code with known bugs that I have fixed since it was released.

I AM SORRY F*CKING WUT

In honour of a new academic year: Why I find the word 'PROBLEMATIC' problematic: A Thread

I think a lot of engineers have silly aesthetic preferences but one I have that I will absolutely own is that if I want to recommend an article from Bloomberg the URL should say Bloomberg and not Google because the Internet is a ^}+{^}+] society and we have rules.

I am a connoisseur of weird robot vacuum issues, because they all seem to get at least one thing slightly wrong, but this might be my favorite. I discover this happened almost every morning.

Get rid of the nanny and readjust shelter cost to $6k/month and this is a budget that requires only $175k pretax income per year rather than over $1M Spending $23k/month to "own" a place that rents out for maybe $6k/month is clearly a great way to become poor.

What I wish I knew years ago, was very highest levels of IT employment are not whiteboarding sessions. It's beat-down, drag-out congresses to the death where nobody knows what the hell is going on, but they try, and at the end they still don't know, but it's fixed pretty well.

Contributor Licensing Agreements are bad.

If you really want to understand all this. Stop scrolling and spend 5-10 minutes reading this feature Grace and I wrote about the historical, geographic and scientific context of this: fvcurrent.com/article/sumas-…

"Don't use Q-tips" has big "Don't click links in emails" energy

It's always good to make sure that accounts which may be targeted for software supply chain attacks are secured by 2FA.

Probably. I am looking at ActivityPub-based replacement solutions. It is hard to believe, but Developers Swearing turns 10 years old next month.

Today, I got an email from Twitter that they suspended Developers Swearing 🙁

After many hours of fighting with Azure Functions and converting the Python2 code written over a decade ago to Python3, Developers Swearing is now on BlueSky. bsky.app/profile/gitlos…