jasonpeacock

Exactly this. Slack warns you "are you sure you want to notify all these people" or "it's outside this person's hours"... If they have Notifications turned on, that'…

Yes, you could have googled the symptoms, but do you have the background & experience to evaluate the results? Anyone can google "how to program", but you wouldn't put those results…

This is very long (but thorough!) article about implementing structured logging. Shorter version: Use structured logging! If using Python, use `structlog`: https://www.structlog.org/en…

For WFH, if you have your own space for working, then get a desktop conference speaker/mic, like the Plantronics Calisto 7200: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DCD…

Here you go: https://www.arcimoto.com/

The Arcimoto is technically a motorcycle (most states classify anything <4 wheels as a motorcycle) but there are exceptions in the majority of states that do not require a motorcycle endorsement n…

Random trivia: The author always uses "Iain Banks" for non-fiction and "Iain M. Banks" for science-fiction.

brb, asking my manager for 5% raise to match...

A new fave I recently discovered - render markdown in the terminal for easy reading (and proofing): https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow …

I do the same, but am using Sortly instead of building my own app: https://www.sortly.com/

There is none. All leaders of the worlds’ major religions support the COVID vaccine, anyone who claims religious exemption is either lying or part of some fringe religion.

I can’t tell from the page - is this powerline compatible? Many of us all have fancy prompts and other text envs that need powerline glyph support.

We effectively have this now with PCI-DSS (requirements imposed by credit-card processing companies), and it sucks because of the bureaucracy involved in making any change. It has take literally over …

Check out Inkplate for larger, affordable, ready-to-program, e-ink screens - they have both 6" and 10", and even color! https://www.crowdsupply.com/soldered/inkplate-6 …

I wish my employer _had_ instituted a vaccine mandate, and I'm disappointed in seeing Google reneging on theirs. It would have improved my relationship with my employer, increasing my trust in th…

I do this too! I have [Messages/Slack/Chrome | Outlook/Notes/Chrome | iTerm3/Chrome] setup and easily swipe between them. Chrome is fixed in place on all of them b/c I fr…

#1 is why it's so successful. It's just challenging enough to make you think, but still solvable by most people. So we all get that nice dopamine rush of solving a puzzle with a reasonable p…

Fastmail also integrates really well with custom domains, much better than GMail ever did. Overall, moving to Fastmail from GMail was one of the best things I've done in my online life.

Yes, do it. It's an internship - have fun & learn stuff! Internships usually turn into full-time offers, I'd only turn this down if you're also getting an internship offer somewhere…

In order of importance: 1. Paycheck 2. People 3. Purpose When you get lucky you have all 3. Most of use are pretty happy when we have the first 2. If you are paid enough then you may …

DIYODE Magazine is good - variety of projects with full details: https://diyodemag.com/

Look for a drip machine endorsed by the SCA - Specialty Coffee Association. I've had both of these, they are both great: https://smile.amazon.com/Bonavita-One-Touch-Featuring-Ther…

Nope. Where have you worked to get that impression? > But what it does mean is any company that runs an organized process That organized process is for deliverables that the company is investing re…

Well, the moon _is_ in space... ;)

Not just feature flags, but "knobs" - we use a percentage (of requests or customers) instead of a boolean to enable features so we can dial them up/down. This let us slowly roll out new…

Because the people making the decisions are not the same ones doing the work.

OSX is my "it just works" user-interface OS/development "appliance", which I use a dumb-terminal to SSH to a cloud linux host (or local shell, which is close-enough to linux f…

Something that could be helpful and clarify the intention, is to explicitly license those artifacts under a different, more open (Apache/MIT/etc.) license.