I've known for a long time that I can't change things here. But in this moment, I realize that the organization values things that I don't value, and it's as simple as that. I could pretend to be neutral and say that my values aren't better, but you know what, my values are better. Having tested code is better. Having comprehensible logs is better. I'm wasting their money sitting around until December, which is unethical. I'm disrespecting myself waiting two more months for a measly Christmas break payout, which is unwise. I've even degraded team morale because I've convinced some of the engineers that things should be better, but not management, so now some of the engineers are upset.

Get Me Out Of Data Hell — Ludicity

“While we’re not perhaps guardian angels,” Rubenstein said, “we are providing a social service, and that social service is making companies more efficient.” The authors highlight the essential problem with this fetish for “efficiency.” Industries that serve a social function require excess capacity, so that they can continue to provide care when demand surges or an employee calls in sick; nursing homes have to be properly and conscientiously staffed. Cut everything derided as “fat” and you will eventually cut to the bone.

Book Review: ‘Plunder,’ by Brendan Ballou; ‘These Are the Plunderers,’ by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner - The New York Times

Some suppliers will have a part in an aircraft they certified in like 1990 and they’re not going to touch it, because why would they? No one’s going to compete,” Mali said. “The aircraft is in service for 30 to 50 years, so they’re just bringing in money every year, making the same thing.

Palmer Luckey tried to crush aeronautics startup Salient Motion. But Anduril backer a16z invested.

the board has struggled to establish its relevance. It remains unknown to the vast majority of Facebook and Instagram users; it hears only a small number of cases each year; it takes hundreds of days for cases to be heard and its decisions to be implemented; and when presented with the biggest case it ever got — whether Donald Trump’s accounts should be restored after he led an insurrection against his government — the Oversight Board punted.

The Oversight Board gets a lifeline

Getting Musk to join Trump on stage is a big coup for the Republicans, though, not just because the two men actually seem to hate each other personally. Musk, after shattering his reputation as the benevolent “I fucking love science” guy, is, ostensibly, just an influencer now, arguably the biggest right-wing influencer in the world. And so, he’s doing exactly what an influencer would do, and is now running a scammy payola scheme to pay people to register to vote in swing states.

What feels real enough to share

I'm somewhat sympathetic to the "man I need the job" line but this "well a manager lied to me first?" thing – just play the fucking tape forward. Just put your anti-capitalist self-righteousness on hold for one goddamned second and think. If your model is "it's okay to lie if I've been lied to" then we're all knee deep in bullshit forever and can never escape Transaction Cost Hell.

Don't lie in interviews

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Software development is a team sport, so any tool or process which helps individuals communicate better will improve the team’s performance. Images are an easy way to cut through confusion, and Greenshot makes image-based communication incredibly easy.

Greenshot is a free, light-weight screenshot software tool for Windows. Install it via Chocolatey from https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/greenshot. Once installed, Greenshot will sit in the background waiting to be used via hotkeys.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Software development is a team sport, so any tool or process which helps individuals communicate better will improve the team’s performance. Images are an easy way to cut through confusion, but it can be difficult to get a visual representation of your Azure Infrastructure. Providing this visual representation is very helpful in presenting or analysing your current state infrastructure, so here’s an easy way to generate it via a command line tool.

Azure Visualizer, aka ‘AzViz’ is a PowerShell module which automatically generates Azure resource topology diagrams as an SVG.

What you are reading is just my latest attempt at a blog and aspirations of regular writing. My life is littered with the remenants of unfinished projects, including multiple started-then-discarded blogs. I choose a host and a platform, struggle to write a couple of posts, and then abandon it. I could never understand why this could or should be the case, until I came across this post by Slava Akhmechet.

A few days ago I realized something. I don’t like writing.