Hazel Weakly

No this is so real tho

Inspirational 🫡

I need to start adopting these habits for myself :)

This is a great reminder!

These are all the habits I use fwiw.

+ I try to ensure I am reading at minimum 10-20% work led by grad students/early career/fresh voices; you avoid the calcification and sanded-off edges and get much fresher, bolder ideas that way

I got comms training a couple years ago, which developer advocates do not commonly have. This drama is a REAL good argument for making that mandatory for your teams lmao

quite the opposite really. Orgs should be seeing AI as a highly heterogenous set of individual experiments; even if you HAD good "productivity" measurements before I wouldn't trust them without a thorough re-examination of their operationalization now

In a very rare happenstance, some cancellations happened and I'm now going to be speaking at Platform Day at KubeCon EU! My talk will be on building extensible platforms.

Given that I'm *also* speaking at QCon London, my March is about to be a lot busier. I'm excited!

No one could’ve predicted that the plausible text generator machine would generate plausible text

[lowtax speedrun: the country]

If any time was a good time to argue that energy security comes from renewables, now would be that time... 25% of production blockaded is a hell of a price shock.

Yes! Absolutely! It’s so fascinating how impactful these subtle language and messaging changes are (and how culturally dependent or context dependent they are too)

[I originally wrote this by saying “minor” instead of “subtle” and realised that wasn’t what I wanted to say… proving the point 😅]

(They did not, for some reason, conclude that maybe we should pick a different word for “concept with known solution if one has a magic library card”…)

The other professor stops the first and exclaims “there’s no way that’s trivial!”

The first goes “yeah it is, see here … wait” and then immediately confuses themselves

After about twenty minutes of furious problem solving on a blackboard, they both concluded that it was indeed trivial after all

It reminds me of a physics joke that we tell when introducing “trivial” in classes:

Two physics professors are working on a problem and one is explaining the solution in their paper to the other line by line. The first professor gets to one line and says “and the simplification here is trivial” …

I try to use “straightforward” instead of trivial, and I’ll often throw in “…but not necessarily easy, obvious, or intuitive”

But yeah. Being in math brain for so long makes it really easy for me to forget how off putting certain phrases are!

It’s so wrong. I used it once just to see if I could and it was repulsive

Oh I definitely mean the stupidest possible option of course

*me, sobbing hysterically* you can’t just call everything email!

*them, pressing M-x butterfly to send emoji encoded blockchain updates about your cars extended warranty over carrier pigeon*: this too, is email

Context, for those unaware of these cursed software features:

support.microsoft.com/en-us/office...

support.google.com/mail/answer/...

Poll: should “reaction emojis” (which are called reactji, apparently??) be considered a valid form of email, and should your email client let you send react-o-mail?

Like = fuck no

Repost = absolutely fuck not

As you should

Ty ty 🥺

Attention: I have hit inbox zero on every work and personal email

Please clap, it took me hours 😭

Your For You feed has trans shitposting on it eh? Let me know when I need to send you some Programmer Socks™

Good thing I’m building that :)

Internally, unfortunately, but it’s gonna be awesome

Exactly!

The only thing that’s major and left on my list is I want a way to
1. Embed compliance controls into the metadata so I can mix different levels of sensitive data into the same “bucket”
2. Ability to seamlessly control data sovereignty on a per field basis

(& even for semi structured data)

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

I thought this was a positive sentiment until I zoomed in a bit

And then I understood *completely*

Right?? I’m stoked about this

Happy birthday :)