I love this

What kind of stuff are you researching now? You seem like a kindred spirit. I just bookmark things after there get to be too many tabs as I like context switching between twenty tabs for hours and get an odd satisfaction out of not using the tab switcher.

Holy fucking shit. You must have so much RAM!

For me:
A Pluralsight course on Windows Endpoint Manager
Various Lemmy tabs
The Economist
This Youtube video about Pakistan

So “we” are not our brains

If our brains were fully connected to our bodies, we would have an innate knowledge of the human body without having to go to school for biology.

Beautiful! We live in the dark TL.

My local news station aired this story today along with a quote from experts that it is not true because smoking things leads to inhaling bad shit from the wrappers.

Fuck twitter and fuck big tech

Twitter is now a dumpster fire.

I guess this may be standard, but I’m running unit tests as part of my CI. Integration tests that can’t be mocked go in the CD pipeline. For automated UAT, I have a branch on the CD pipeline that runs on the agent after a deploy, but in order to make the agent more agnostic I am toying with the idea of running the tests on a VM or on the deployed location.

ah nice. we include the backlog # in our branch name.

you are a pro and I aspire to be you

ah so you are the dev from 2014

I think that’s a good way to get out of scrolling, but not a good way to become a part of a community. I think doing what you’re doing is a good start, but also frequenting a few places (especially more niche communities) can also really help.

On the flip side I work with people who have been doing it for 20+ years and are “bad” programmers.

I don’t know that we’re watching the internet collapse. I think we are witnessing tech companies respond to growing financial pressure by accelerating their monetization plans, and it’s blowing up in their faces. The result will be the reinvention of the web. I don’t necessarily know if decentralized apps are going to take off, but I do think the internet will shift towards smaller (possibly open source) sites in retaliation.

Remote definitely is not for everyone! I would just like the freedom to come and go as I choose, but I guess that’s not economical from an overhead perspective.

You have IT manager experience, my dude. You’ll definitely find some remote work either back on the dev side or still in management. My company tried to pull this too but joke’s on them because I moved 200 miles away from the office during Covid. The Economist recently published an article which cites a study that says working from home is not as productive as previously thought, because of the aggregate value that unplanned micro-interactions in the office can provide. Not sure I agree…

tfw Chromebooks are expected to last 3-6 years which is how long my full sized laptops normally last :(