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Engineers often complain that visibility should be their manager’s job. In other words, they think engineers should be able to focus on the code, while their manager figures out who’s doing well and rewards them. This attitude is an...
The other day I saw this post about "Stolen Buttons". It is a browser extension that "steals" a button from every website that you visit. You can see the creators collection of "stolen" buttons here: Stolen Buttons | Anatoly Zenkov If...
Yesterday morning I switched this site to its fourth major engine, a little over twenty years after sketching out the core idea behind it. The new generator is called sashimi, is written in Go, and runs almost entirely inside GitHub...
While I abhor plans and get myself into holes of spur-of-the-moment decisions… I'm participating in Blaugust this year. Perhaps I'm not fulfilling the requirements, because I didn't post an announcement or anything until today, which is...
Contents 1. The Death of the Annual WinWe are conditioned to treat winning as an astronomical event. It is rare, blindingly bright, and lightyears away. We are told that winning looks like the promotion at the end of the fiscal year, the...
#spiky is the confrontational, direct, and uncompromising path within radical movements. It is the willingness to push back against power, name uncomfortable truths, and refuse to water down political edges to make ideas more acceptable...
I know this is going to be a bit ironic, considering the permanence of the internet I continually preach (nothing ever really disappears per-se), but the internet does have a habit of forgetting.Websites disappear without warning,...
Sunday Asides #106 Marvel has been having quite a week. First off, they announced that David Jonsson is the new Black Panther. The chatter online about it has ranged from happiness to disbelief to anger, with people saying it's not fair...
Welcome to day 9 of 13 on The Great Balkans Road Trip. This is a group tour with Just You. We started in Romania, have travelled through Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Kosovo. Today we’re completing Serbia, visiting Novi Sad, before...
We have filled in our fair share of coal chutes. They’re small tunnels into building cellars from the sidewalk, or from areaways adjacent to the front of old buildings, that were used so that coal could be shoveled from a cart or truck...
It's that time again for my weekly update, which includes a short collection of noteworthy finds, posts that inspire, as well as a few reflections from the past week or two. I'll aim to land these in your inbox by the weekend, in time to...
#stupidindividualism is the manufactured habit of prioritising personal gain and self-interest over collective survival. It is not simply “people being selfish” – it is a social behaviour shaped and reinforced by decades of politics and...
Made a run out to Gurney's Sawmill this AM. Usually I leave my house around 0700 and I get there about 0745-0750. Today I left closer to 0800 because most of the trip is driving due east right into the rising sun. Most people drive that...
It is hot here in the UK and in Europe. That means that I am reading less as I prefer to cycle into work rather than get the (extremely hot) London underground, which is my most reliable free time for reading. It is hard to read from the...
Welcome back to the fourth part of the series which looks at my one week in London earlier this year. In this post, I’m continuing on my quest as a tourist to make the most of the time I have, by visiting as many attractions (and...