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  • Experimenting with ChatGPT

    Me: What happened to Everett at the end of the Brothers K, by David James Duncan ChatGPT: In the novel “The Brothers K” by David James Duncan, Everett is one of the main characters. Everett is the youngest of the Chance brothers, and he is a talented and ambitious young man who dreams of becoming…

  • How Soon?

    There are only two increments of time in software development: “real soon now” (actively working on it now), and “it’s on the roadmap” (maybe one day will actively work on it). Still real soon now! Moxie, https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1567492610713079814

  • Beware Shortcuts

    There aren’t shortcuts for making sense of the world, and anyone who is selling themselves that way or buying into that narrative about them should read to us as a giant red flag. Charlie Warzel, “Musk, SBF, and the Myth of Smug, Castle-Building Nerds“

  • Ditching Deadwood

  • Crude maintenance mode

  • On Ambiguity

    “There’s a desire to use process as a way to manage ambiguity you can’t control,” said Mark Matienzo, a software engineer for an academic institution. Agile and the Long Crisis of Software

  • ChromeOS Flex on Dell XPS 9310 2N1

    Issues Display doesn’t auto-rotate b/c isAutoRotationAllowed: false which might be because hasAccelerometerSupport: false Occasional soft freezes, where the UI becomes unresponsive until what appears to be a watchdog restarts the display server.

  • Star Slinger – Choose Yourself

    If you can’t walk away from a negotiationThen you’re not negotiatingYou’re just working out the terms of your slavery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADobcQEhrzQ

  • USB Apple SuperDrive with Linux

    Had access to one of these, but couldn’t get it to accept a DVD when plugged into my Ubuntu laptop. Turns out…the drive needs to be “told” to wake up before it will accept a disc: # Debian/Ubuntu/etc – Linux SCSI generic driver sudo apt install sg3-utils -y # tell the external DVD player/burner to…

  • Today in WTF-UX

    “Read on” Just kidding.