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The first months of management can turn into an unprioritized list of legitimate demands: 1:1s, feedback, hiring, planning, delivery, technical context, stakeholder expectations, and your own learning. Trying to do all of it at once is a...
The tender, sometimes playful associations of violet and iris-powdery references account for the popularity of several sweet florals in the market, especially when coupled with the intensely feminine note of roses producing an almost...
Ben Nadel creates a StructPop() user defined function (UDF) in ColdFusion that will return a struct value and delete the given key in a single operation....
This was one of the most common objections to Plan A. The plan proposes AI chip regulation to ensure that both China and America know where all the chips are, making their deal to regulate AI together “trustless” (ie neither side can...
While catching up with ex-coworkers, the conversation inevitable turned to the future of coding. By the end of the evening, “You’re absolutely right!” had become an inside joke. That’s what ChatGPT seem to say when it’s wrong. Each time...
No new project on the horizon but I have one hanging out in the back of the brain bucket. It is a stick chair - I have the patterns for a LAP stick chair. I don't have the stock for it but it is looking like the #1 project. When I was...
Language is one of the things making us human and all of a sudden a mediator is stepping into that process. – Sandra Wachter Welcome to the Future (#1475) If this doesn’t horrify you, you might be a useful idiot: Two teens who engaged a...
Just as cars painted red are known to be faster, libraries implemented in Rust are also known to be faster. Today’s example is orjson, a Rusty replacement for Python’s built-in json module, boasting 10x faster serialization and 2x faster...
Standishgate Market Place Market Street Millgate Even northerners in Wigan are getting the hang of dressing for the heatwave. I think even the one flat cap being worn is a summer flat cap.Take-away coffee in paper cups is just so wrong,...
CNCF's extensible metadata registry is one release candidate away from 1.0. Here's what it does, why it matters, and where to try it.
This morning Woodpecker (an adolescent) made its first appearance here at the House of Light. What an honour. Woodpecker is an old friend who I’ve come to love as deeply as they’s (that’s a poetical for Friday) penetrating bill digs into...
Eisei won his second bout. One more win and that should be enough of maezumo. Then we’ll see him at Nakabi in his kesho-mawashi finery. It will be Jonokuchi in September. I’m eager to see him take on Hikarumusashi. But that clash...
A compact Notion template for recording a technical decision, the options considered, and the consequences worth revisiting later. Use it when a decision affects more than the immediate implementation or when the reasoning could...
Clarify what a Staff engineer or tech lead is expected to own before an ambiguous leadership role turns into conflicting expectations. This worksheet creates a shared agreement about outcomes, boundaries, technical involvement, available...
Turn a vague career direction into a plan you can return to. The template connects a longer-term direction with near-term objectives, a current 90-day focus, and a small set of goals you can review regularly.Who this is forSenior...