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I like to build things up. People, systems, software, knowledge... | I coach managers and technical leaders | https://www.cybadger.com/

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Sunrise on the Reaping, Hunger Games #5. Loved it. Don't read it until you've read the other four. Young Haymitch is so different to old Haymitch. Love, hopes, dreams. Then the ending and it all makes sense. Totally worth some small unevenness/pacing issues for the ending. READ IT! #booksky

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I realized something recently, which is that we're building AI tools completely backwards. While I was aware that there's some de-skilling happening already, I finally clicked a bunch of pieces together and decided to write this to talk about how we can do better hazelweakly.me/blog/stop-bu...

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@amyhoy.bsky.social's #WordSesh talk "Creating in a Crisis" was chock-full of good stuff. Three short take-aways: 1. Human-scale is better for customers than BigCo scale. 2. Don't stealth-mode build-ship-validate. Validate first. 3. The "Sales Safari" research method—I'm going to try it.

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Much less part of the #WordPress world than I used to be, but still up early to watch @rosswintle.uk's #WordSesh presentation (Level Up! How Side Quests Enhance Your Career). It's good stuff!

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OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for nine days. What the HELL? 1/

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I finally read Dune. It's a classic for a reason. Political intrigue, strange well-crafted worlds, heroes, monsters (and sandworms), flaws, betrayals, special powers, victories. Read it if you haven't. You'll see its influence on lots of other books and movies. #booksky #dune

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Pleased with the summary of my talk which will be shown at WordSesh next Tuesday (9am UTC!) wordsesh.com/sessions/lev... I'm having a LOT of fun writing this. Sign up - it's free! It should be fun. Oh, there's a whole bunch of other serious talks you can see too. If that's your thing. 😉

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Quick notes on "The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist" by Fred Brooks. Insightful. If you do any kind of design, even visual/graphic, read it. Standout concepts: "the budgeted resource", spiral model (vs waterfall), and empiricism over rationalism. #booksky #design

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Never wrote Swift or built a Mac GUI app before, but have an itch I want to scratch. Tutorials and docs weren't getting me there. ChatGPT is kind of the Google Maps of jumping into a new ecosystem. You can get going quick, as long as you're careful. Writing code + learning at the same time! 🐎

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"A Stroke of the Pen" is a collection of early Terry Pratchett short stories. Fun to see the early stages of his voice and style developing. Not Discworld-level writing, but very enjoyable. And short stories make it easy to dip in and out. Aspiring writers: you gotta start somewhere! #booksky

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Ever been with bored/tired/grumpy kids and, in the moment, you can’t think of things to do? 😫 I’ve been struggling with that for years, which is why I’ve created Offline Kids. It’s a WIP but I’m working to make it the best resource for screen free kids activities. offline.kids

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Lessons from those a few years (or decades) ahead are a gift. Appreciated this article from David Patterson (yeah, that one, the professor, computer architecture textbook author, Google engineer) in the February issue of Communications of the ACM. (Not just for engineers, professors, or techies!)

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The thing I always miss most when working remotely is a whiteboard. A full, interactive, point to it, underline things, grab the marker, know everyone is staring at the same box looking puzzled whiteboard. I haven’t figured out how to make it work virtually. But I wish I could.

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Found myself discussing engineering archetypes today with @cybadger.com. If you are a Staff+ level engineer, what archetype do you most identify with and why? #webdev staffeng.com/guides/staff...

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@rands.bsky.social, was thinking about the Free Electron, but for sociotechnical systems, rather than engineering. They won't rewrite your buggy app over the weekend. Instead, they've already identified process and mgmt issues and are working to fix them. Do you have a name for that archetype?

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Finished Shadow Cabinet (HMRC #2) by Juno Dawson. Read #1 at random. Thought it was okay. But great characters and ended on a cliffhanger 🧗 so I had to read #2. Glad I did! Liked #2 better. Still great characters. Complex and flawed, relatable. Plus, y'know, witchcraft. Ended on a cli... #booksky

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Lots of things make managing hard. This time, I only wrote about two of them. 1. Sometimes, there's not a right answer. 🤷‍♂️ 2. You have to execute anyway. 🏃

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Finished up Blitz (Chequy #3) by Daniel O'Malley. Not quite as good as the first two. Still fun and enjoyable. Great world-building. Clever writing. The split-screen between 1940 and today was quite well done. Digressions got a bit long in this one. But still mostly fast-paced. #booksky

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Highly inspired by @samwho.dev’s work. Was reminded of my 161% nerdy and totally over-the-top write up of the static-hosted, “serverless” 2-player scramble game I made. Binary encodings ahoy!!! rosswintle.uk/2024/04/stat... Game (Free! No login!!): words.pico.games

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