Notices by waffles 🇨🇦 (waffles@masto.yttrx.com)

@mekkaokereke it’s human nature to protect yourself emotionally from the fear that you too could become homeless, and the best way to do that is to invent reasons why a person is homeless. Alcohol. Drugs. Mental illness. The reason doesn’t matter, so long as it can assuage your fears because “that would never happen to you”.

The things we tell ourselves when we’re living paycheque to paycheque and living life on the edge of homelessness.

@gnomon @cks @nev hahahaha I’m rooting for you!!

When I interviewed for my current job I did the programming solution in Perl.

“I don’t think that’s valid syntax” the interviewer said 🥲

@gnomon @cks @nev I just assumed that most network protocols using crlf was a teletype thing

I still remember learning Perl for that job with you gnomon— *shudders*

@badnetmask I do find that tools like these help to remove the tedium of writing unit tests. So much repetition that these tools often get that right with a few well placed tab completions

The web was born on a machine like this

https://mastodon.social/@keyboards/113632896900081547

@mekkaokereke

“It's stressful to feel responsible for people's careers without these skills.”

I stopped smoking weed once I went back to being a SWE.

@mekkaokereke a weak manager will do poorly at representing their reports’ work. A strong manager will recognize this type of work and ensure that the other managers in the room during calibrations also recognize the value of this work.

Fix the shitty managers.

@liztai from what i've seen, tools like chatgpt are surprisingly accurate at providing working python based on prompts. It would really accelerate that initial "I know what I want this to do, I just don't know how to express that" frustration that comes with learning a new programming language.

@liztai The colour of the houses on the left are so cute!

Seeing app developers lose api access has been a stark reminder that the internet is neither free nor open.

If you have the means, support your “local businesses”, be they instance operators, or mobile client developers.

A dollar here, a dollar there. Every bit helps to keep the internet decentralized by supporting those who help to make it happen. The internet will never be free, but hopefully it can be open.