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AOC during Zohran for Mayor rally: "There are people out there who say, 'If you go out and make this endorsement, your political career will be over.' And to that I say: I don't care. We will never get to a better place if everyone is just worried about themselves. If it's over, so be it."

This is heartbreaking. (via someone at the St. Paul rally)

The anti-abortion movement in America has killed people with guns, bombs and laws. Yesterday, one of its members assassinated a Minnesota politician. We must reject religious extremism and restore reproductive rights for all Americans.

One thing not mentioned in this report: if this code was part of the 25% of Google’s code they have said is being written by AI.

The usual reason for the debate is that someone further up asked for a timeline. Rather than spending valuable time debating the unknowable, we can just make something up: it is equally accurate. Use the estimation time to build & derisk the project. Then just take a wild guess and triple it.

There is no reason to define the scope of the MVP before you start coding. Slice the project into functional slices and dark-launch each one. After each slice, ask “why is this not ready to launch?” If there is an answer, work on that slice next. If there is no reason, you have your MVP.

This is the true spirit of Pride Month: standing up for each other against the use of force.

Anyone else notice that Google Docs’ grammar checker suddenly start being terrible at grammar?

We desperately need people in Washington who understand tech without representing the interests of giant billionaire-owned corporations that want to crush their competition.

The key characteristic of Agile development is delegated management. Any framework that offers full supervision to upper management is not Actually Agile. (definitions from Robert Austin: www.dorsethouse.com/books/mmpo.h...)

Our movements are advertisements for the world we would build if we get power.

Government software can be good and we know how.

“If you have one road, you don’t need a map” - @kevlin.bsky.social at #myConf

A company that demands engineers do their job badly unless given permission to do it well is going to end up with the software it deserves.

Bluesky is for people who remember disenvoweling

When a “stand up” involves people working on different goals/projects reporting their status, that is just a status meeting.

Any change is an excuse to change

Whelp, this is horrifying.