dylannorthrup.bsky.social
126 posts
40 followers
91 following
Prolific Poster
Conversation Starter
comment in response to
post
You and me both.
comment in response to
post
To be fair, I've tripped up so many times trying to parse text including em dashes and "smart" quotation marks that I avoid them out of habit.
But, if you don't have to write code to manipulate the text written, em dashes can and should be used when appropriate.
#RegexFlashbacks
comment in response to
post
Next, tell @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social that swinging at ALL the pitches is important because ALL of them are important right now.
And, while I hope you can actually do some good down there, it's a shame you and other Dems had to have @vanhollen.senate.gov do it first.
comment in response to
post
When layoffs happened, I got let go because I "hadn't gotten up to speed on ${TECHNOLOGY_HE_OVERSAW}".
It helped that I'd documented and automated much of the tooling around ${TECHNOLOGY_I_OVERSAW}. Over a year after I left, my tooling was still being used.
#NoGoodDeed
comment in response to
post
In my previous gig, the other SRE detested meetings and only willingly communicated via Slack or PR. When I wanted to skill up on their topics of expertise, I liked to do it over video since it was "higher bandwidth"; and much easier to identify and fix miscommunications. They always resisted.
comment in response to
post
Don't ask about prevention, ask about how we can create a world where everyone can thrive.
Don't ask what causes autism, ask what we can do to support their continued growth, rights, and needs.
Don't try and assign values to people, because all people have their own distinct values.
comment in response to
post
Adding further credence to my "The leadership obviously being blackmailed by компромат." hypothesis.
comment in response to
post
Same reason as his previous term.... they are flooding the zone by setting 10 alarm fires. Human lizard brains focuses on one emergency at a time. It's hard to train oneself to overcome that tendency and folks not doing emergency response had no reason to do so before eight years ago.
comment in response to
post
Would love to but all your positions are listed as SWE and not sure if my SRE coding skills will pass muster.
It’d be awesome to program Go as a part of the job and not something I can only do when working on Prometheus exporters.
And having the double Fitz on my CV would be cool.
comment in response to
post
Trans teens and 90-year-old Holocaust survivors showing more mettle than powerful law firms, the wealthier-than-God, the entire Republican Party, and far too many Democrats.
comment in response to
post
The minute the New Deal started conservatives were like “it’s only a matter of a few years before we go full communism” and yet, somehow, we never got within earshot of full communism. Meanwhile, all it took was electing one Black president and within a few years we’ve got Nazi salutes at CPAC.
comment in response to
post
I’m so fucking pissed that I already go into a classroom thinking “what do I do if there’s a mass shooter” and now I gotta add “what do I do if armed agents of the state come to drag away a student?”
comment in response to
post
1. Playtest early and often. You hear it all the time to the point where you stop hearing it. “Yeah, fine,” you say, but you don't get to it until beta.
Asking one friend to play is not enough. Put your prototypes in front of people, see how they respond, and continue prototyping appropriately.
comment in response to
post
Because the job of legislators is to get elected and, since they also make the rules, they don't make any rules to stop what helps get them elected.
Pretty fucking infuriating.
comment in response to
post
Not like it matters. Even when your party had the majority and the Executive, y'all chose Merrick Garland who was afraid to indict blatant criminality because it would be seen as "too political".
Lemme know when your party is interested in doing more than holding up paddles and color coordinating.
comment in response to
post
Here I thought you were going to say “The perl code that is essential to the deployment process which is no longer maintained because the person who wrote it got re-org’d to manage email.”
comment in response to
post
Early 50s and it's still happening. Sorry.