jasonpeacock

I've been really proud of Amazon for recognizing this a while ago and creating a path to Distinguished Engineer for ICs, which is VP-level (and then actively promoting ppl to that level, it'…

Solarized Dark for a long time, then Solarized Light b/c the rest of my windows/themes are all light. Now it's Dracula, b/c it's fun and widely supported. I still use light th…

I thought we were all in clear agreement that promoting engineers into managers creates poor managers? Engineers are good engineers, management is an entirely different skill set. Promoting engineers …

Managers should not be coding - they are there to grow their people. That's why they are called "people managers". Managers help organize their teams to be effective by hiring people wi…

There was a recent post about asdf performance from the maintainer that is quite illuminating: http://stratus3d.com/blog/2022/08/11/asdf-performance/ …

An airline that actually cared about customers would figure out a way to temporarily provide all bags with an Airtag (or equivalent) and encourage customers to track their bags. Or at least, encourage…

Logs should be the input to generate metrics (in addition to any metrics published directly). Otherwise, it's hard to convert a stack trace into a metric ;) But you can process the logs to genera…

This is called "Structured Logging" and there's lots of articles already about it, and libraries to support it. For example, a great structured logging logging library for Python: http…

It sorts by time and shows new stories since I last visited. That's the killer feature, it's amazing what a little cookie can do to vastly improve the user experience.

In additional to all the features that others mention, I chose to support the Neovim project. It's a more open alternative without a BDFL that is willing to move forward and modernize the editor,…

Because when I started using Vim, VSCode and Helix weren't around. And now I know Vim (Neovim) very well and it does everything I need - I'm productive with it and it's lightweight. I d…

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/22/google-cs... …

I was taught to heat the wire and touch the solder to it. This looks like they are laying the wire on the solder, then heating the solder - not the wire. Won't this result in a cold solder on the…

For developers, there's no such thing as the ultimate todo-utility Actually, it's org-mode. But for the rest of us non-Emacs users, there's todo.txt: https://github…

ok, jokes on me :) I did the read the article (and have bought both books). but I've seen so much garbage about CICO that I took the response seriously..

It's not physics, it's biology. There are processes that adjust and compensate to changes in the body and diet. For example, if my BMR is 3600cal, and I don't eat for a day, why am I no…

It's not. What you eat is just as important as how much you eat. The body is complex, self-regulating system with hystersis and set points. You should go learn about "metabolic syndrome"…

Walking quickly (at a speed that you want to start jogging, but you don't) is less efficient for same distance than actually running..which is better for your health. To get the same benefits fro…

What about former employees? At least in the Glassdoor use case, they need to support feedback from former employees in addition to current employees. And Blind only verifies your employee email on si…

And pubic and anal hair is meant to waft the pheromones from those regions too? :)

Houston, TX is a great example of this. First, they give shelter without condition, then they have counselors to help. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/14/headway/ho…

The modern car is an appliance, just like the modern computer. Yes, there's a minority (sometimes vocal) who like to hack on their cars (computers), but the majority of users want something they …

C was invented in 1972 and became one of the most widely used languages in the world with "the compiler is the specification" - and there were many different compiler implementations too. It…

Something great I read once: Every time you see 'notifications', replace with the word 'interruptions'. It really puts it into perspective. I have notifications enabled on…

There's also `homesick`[1], which is a Ruby dotfile manager. If you don't feel like managing a Ruby distro and want something more portable (and `homesick` looks to be a stale project anyway…

There is also variation within a species, like humans, where you get not just the different forms of color-blindness, but also tetrachromacy where you can see more colors: https://en.wiki…

Due to climate change, that's could be pretty much anywhere it's summer. E.g. check out the UK: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weat...…

Yep, something like Git Cliff[1] is great for generating release notes from your commit messages. And conventional commits are good thing to do regardless of whether you use them for release notes or …