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The only developer productivity metrics that matter « genehack.blog Trying to quantify developer productivity is a fool's errand

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Star Trek fans saved my life when I had literally no idea why I felt so fucking different.

Shout out to the 40-50 year old Klingon RP group that let me chill out with them every year on the third floor of the Hyatt.

Discworld QOTD, from Witches Abroad

There are some great people, @yanthomas.dev included, looking for their next adventure!

Oh hey, and me included, too! I'm not in a rush, but keeping my eye out for the right opportunity in docs or community leadership. If you've liked using or contributing to Astro, maybe part of that came from me!

An illustration of a frog with its hands on its hips Text reads IT COULD BE WORSE* * apparently

It Could Be Worse*

I made Caveat Frogs a thing here and on instagram (@caveatfrogs)
Give me a lovely follow, share, like, comment, sweet embrace, marriage proposal, ultimatum that if I don’t change my behaviour then you don’t know what will happen

Feels like a metaphor for *something* or other.

Illustration of Emmet and Alice “Ma” Otter watching a drum bounce high into the air. Text reads “A joyous HUBBA-WHA to you”.

I don’t always do this, but this year, I felt inspired and made a holiday card.

May your drums roll as you wish them to throughout the season and the coming year.

we got the dog a tennis ball on a rope but she destroyed the ball already, rendering it into a festive christmas noose

As some of you are aware, part of Dragon Age day was to thank the DA Devs for all the hard work they put into the series we love so much.

This is also the first DA Day where we have no DA team, as they were laid off earlier this year.

So let's make an effort to support their new projects!🧵

Change one letter, ruin a candy:

Gummi Beers

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

🚗 Jim's on the road and the last and final stop for XO Ruby is Austin!

Are you along our route? If you're in or near any of the following cities along the way, reach out to us to meet up.
📍 Tucson, AZ (10/20–10/21)
📍 El Paso, TX (10/22)

oh sure I find out about this *now* when I can't go anywhere tonight and I'll be working all day tomorrow.

Ah well, I better follow in case you make your way to Tucson again!

Applied for a job online. This one shared an AI Resume Summary of the CV I uploaded and—just complete gibberish. More in common with a William S Burroughs novel than anything I wrote.

If that’s what HR is relying on then no wonder none of us are getting hired.

Why do I understand this, everything is the worst

As technologists, it has never been more important to hold this feeling and focus our efforts on recapturing what’s been lost.

Acknowledge that this is a labor issue. AI is capital’s organized effort to wrest all remaining power from our hands. Educate yourself, get organized, and go build.

"I'm enjoying this!"

"Do you recommend it?"

"Honestly, I'm terrified to recommend it. You can tell when it was written, and I feel like I need to give several 'yes, various parts are bullcarp and/or shockingly offensive' warnings."

fewer than 1% of the human population will ever get to type a comeback as contextually devastating as this

I have no idea what they're trying to say in the PR email as the background makes the text unreadable

Free PR tip: your fancy email backgrounds may look cool, but they can often end up like this.

Stick to plain colours. Save the flashy stuff for including in the main body of the email, not the background.

This is the greatest

Unsplash photo of a dark green underwater scene strewn with bubbles.

It's 2000, & wreck diver Rod Macdonald has discovered something terrifying:

"Dave and I couldn’t resist the temptation to fin over to the edge of the pinnacle & look over the side, down into the 200-metre deep abyss.

[Then] I became aware that my exhaled bubbles had stopped rising upwards..."

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lot of people been posting this one but here’s my post of it with my name correct. okie doke

Initially, and for the last few years, I just assume the worst with dhh and I'm eventually right.

Those middle years were kinda nice though.

I think it is glitching autocorrecting to ‘glorching’

Girl, I am losing my mind

Alice Fraser riding a dragon in the Realms unknown icon

@realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive this week is Competence. Sometimes known as competence porn, it’s just work that has people doing a good job of whatever they’re doing.

Suggestions for competence in Science Fiction or Fantasy? Give them to me!