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great quote: > the problems we face with software are rarely technical. The problem is always the people creating accidental complexity and pushing it to the next person as if it w…

As someone who struggles with cycles of depression, but let's call it funk, I relate to the downward behavioral and thought spiral it can put you inside. Yet, inevitably, I DO get …

Anecdotal, but everything running fine and looking normal on our us-west-2 instances

"Revenue is the Dominant Term." This really speaks to me and is one of the driving philosophies when we created our pricing model for Warmintro, which ironically has a mission very…

I've struggled with this quite a bit in my own life. I find the "No Zero" mentality to work well for me. Treat every weekday as a "No Zero" day. What does that mean? It means if my…

How do you feel about monthly 1:1's? This was my approach though the topic was less about keeping up to date with what the team/person has been doing, and more about how they are f…

Software ones can be good or bad, but software adjacent ones can be downright ridiculous. A running joke at my last role was that I would keep trying to get the company to pay for …

Spooky how similar this sounds to my own experience. I would add as well that if the acquiring company does not have a solid plan for how to integrate your team/product... you're g…

That's a good way to put it. As my economics professors liked to point out, Black-Scholes was a self-fulfilling prophecy in that the success of the model was determined by the fact…

Been getting blocked by recaptcha more and more, do any of these tools handle dealing with that or workarounds by default? Tried routing through proxies and swapping IP addresses, …

I feel this problem is especially significant in San Francisco. Having lived in several other cities, I can say that, at least for me, this was never a major issue before living in…

Let me clarify a bit here. I am not denying there is a LOT of shit code out there. Nor do I have a problem with calling it out, whether the code is someone else's or my own. Fair's…

That is a fair point. And to be clear I'm not saying there is not shit code out there, because there is. I'm arguing against a type of culture that praises negativity rather than c…