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https://probplanner.com/ - I never had the time to dedicate to building a Monte Carlo simulator for project estimates. It was always something I just couldn't justify given my shor…

Funny, I started vibing this ( https://github.com/deangiberson/emacs-mux ) yesterday on the train after playing with cmux for the day and thinking to myself there was nothing that …

I have time to code up little tools for myself and my team. I can now automate simple things quickly to improve workflow, like gathering all the modified tickets in the past 24 hou…

Edge(FluentBit -> Logs -> cron(compress -> encrypt)) -> Cloud(S3 -> Trigger -> Lambda decrypt -> S3 -> Trigger -> Lambda decompress -> S3 > Trigger -> Lambda to CloudWatch) I have …

Whatever the team I'm working with is currently using. Chasing the most recent tool doesn't add value until you see a process problem that a new tool obviously fixes without breaki…

Send out an I love My Little Ponies email to the whole organization. An old tradition.

I was diagnosed with ulcers at the age of 10, well before Warren's work. For 11 years I dealt with constant pain and people telling me I just needed to learn how to relax. At the a…

What do you value more right now? Time or money?

"Even with bad Java idioms, the veteran is very likely to be turning out much better code because he is thinking about the underlying architectural issues (failure modes, recovery,…

I have a 1yr old System76 Galago UltraPro. I like it, works well, fairly quiet. Purchasing experience was good, even with importing to Canada. My two problems are 1) it will occasi…

I'd focus on a repeating theme in your post, "and now they". This suggests that you already see a division between the management of the company and yourself. You haven't been part…

They can't explain what they've learned, because SICP covers so much ground. The best way I can explain is by negative examples. SICP is not: - A learn X in 7 days book - A techniq…

I think these are two overlapping non-linear functions, the intersection of the two is a minima. "Many eyes" worked for a while but the benefits were lost as scale increased. You a…

I was a game developer for various AAA studios for many years and did many, many interviews for new hires. The number one thing that companies will look for is knowledge (you will …

Sometimes not continuing is the correct way to finish a project. Only keep working on the gems. Fail early, fail fast, fail cheap.

+1 for strong editing features. All the fancy stuff came after Emacs became an OS for editing text. Nail that, the rest follows.

And here I'm going to point to Bret's later writing, http://worrydream.com/#!/LearnableProgramming . It's not about the sliders it's about the understanding. A good example is the …