Notices by Rachael L (r343l@freeradical.zone)

@skinnylatte Update: the cheap rice cooker produced texturally superior jasmine rice than the instantpot. Also we cooked beans in the instant pot while the rice cooked.

@skinnylatte Between you and Pailin I am now pushing to "upgrade" our house to use a two button easy rice cooker (over instant pot). We sometimes want rice and to pressure cook something and the simple rice cookers are easier to clean and less complicated. So we'll make rice more often / easier with a simpler device. Also 10+ years ago I would have said I "don't really like rice". Ha!

Sound Transit will start running "simulated service" of Link light rail's line between Seattle & Bellevue next month! That means running trains along the full route the 2 Line is supposed to run from Redmond all the way to Lynnwood! Currently 2 Line stops at the South Bellevue station and doesn't continue west to Seattle.

From King County Council Member:
https://bsky.app/profile/kccclaudia.bsky.social/post/3mbxbfiolxk2d

#Seattle #Bellevue #SoundTransit #trains #transit

@skinnylatte Yeah suburban sprawl would have made those hard to be workable. I find it fascinating the US dominant cultural view that fast/cheap mass produced food is inherently bad even though it's been a critical part of urbanized places going back literally millenia.

@skinnylatte I can't help but recall the "cafeteria" style places I went to as a kid with my grandmother in Iowa in the 1980s. Relatively cheap, inexpensive, good selection. Though probably not high quality by your standards, certainly better than what my grandmother was up to most of the time (my dad worked till quite late for some years when I was a kid). The only thing we have like that now really is fast food which is not really cheap any more and not good.

@inthehands lol of course I forgot that bit by the time I got to the post I replied to that. anyway I think about it a lot when I notice how quiet people on my team are or not asking questions. getting folks to engage can be hard because even opening up the topic may feel risky to someone.

@inthehands Good leaders in my experience are actually quite aware of this tension and actively worry when people don't bring problems or "no" to them. A good leader knows they need to accept the negative feedback gracefully so they can continue to get important information and not have people self-censoring. (Obv even "good" leaders don't manage it all the time or for all topics!)

@inthehands @matematico314 omg that class sounds amazing. I have so much math squirrelled away in my head (dual major technically but ended up in industry as a code monkey using very little of it) but we weren't often taught it in historical context so most of what I have is just a name associated with a theorem.

@skinnylatte OTOH I doubt that PG&E getting temp power for the opera is meaningfully delaying power restoration for anyone else. OTOH seems not a good look.

For #Apple #iPhone #MacOS developers: Are there any good docs or guides on Accessibility API and usage of it, specifically on interactions with Braille displays? The official docs are seemingly barely anything even for accessibility API in general much less Braille. #accessibility #braille #swift

@b0rk @jyn Dipping into some of these posts takes me to this link and OMG WILD.

https://calpaterson.com/bank-python.html#:~:text=barbara

@munin @inthehands I would love to see this broken down further by gender & race/ethnicity. I say this as a AFAB, nominally woman-presenting person who has been in the industry (post-college) 25 years and am nearly always the oldest “woman in tech” in any room (at least in a technical / non-managerial role). I imagine it would be fascinating.

@kingrat Lol also just noticed you said a MANAGER position and what in the heck.

@kingrat You mean like for a "take home"? I suppose to each their own but I vastly prefer them to live coding with the expectation that I clearly explain my thinking in real time to someone I just met and have no relationship to as a way to prove I can code and solve problems. It is all absurdity.

Live coding problems continue to be a shite way to interview and do not represent a person's ability to do the work. Even when you "pass" them you feel incompetent.

Wikipedia continues to be the coolest best collective effort internet thing ever.

I am pretty sure I have seen this and wow is it slow moving. Perhaps I was more patient as a kid. #monsterdon

The vulture creature effects artists obviously were in charge and so got all the screen time they wanted. #monsterdon

How can the vulture steal her soul every night?? Does her soul return in the morning and I missed it?? #monsterdon

me: "Is this the skeleton fighting? I remember skeleton fighting"
partner: "Not yet. There is one and it totally rules." #monsterdon