headed into the city tomorrow for DevOpsDays Boston. if you’re going, say hi! i promise i’ll only look terrified to meet new people for a brief moment.
this begin-to-reply-and-then-delete extends to things where someone tweets something in apparent frustration and i type a reply trying to help then i wonder if they were actually just venting and i don’t want to mansplain so i delete my draft reply
that thing where you follow awesome people on twitter who tweet funny things that make you laugh, and you want to make them laugh too so you type out a reply that riffs on their joke, but then you don’t want to look like a jerk trying to 1-up them so you delete your reply.
saddest thing about twitter is when a dude with 17 followers gets to espouse his crappy opinion at a highly functional, exceptional & well-regarded person (almost always a woman) & they’re forced to address him or appear elitist or exclusionary if they ignore his baseless attack.
disconcerting trend with mapping apps and websites: obscuring or just flat-out hiding the address of the thing you looked for (so you can’t write it down/put it into another app)
there aren’t any wheels — it’s from the Tony Hawk ‘Ride’ Wii game. if i wanted wheels i’d bring this one up from the basement (and probably hurt myself)
forcing myself to first write a lot of content for my website redesign has led me to colloquially recount my entire career to this point on my ‘about’ page.
oh no! now that i’ve got all my website build framework settled + the templates and includes figured out, now i have to actually design it and write content! https://sqd.co/_/ok-bye.gif
and let me clarify; i don’t object to being put in a position of responsibility, i object to this particular position where i am responsible, but i have no agency. i want to support my team and let them do their best work — they rock, but i’m powerless to truly make decisions.
today for a while i actually wrote code and it actually worked and i was super happy with myself and definitely been reconsidering this shift towards pseudo-management which does not bring me joy. i love making things. i don’t love yelling at people to update Jira.
Hopper is semi-feral. he sort-of tolerates us. (my wife gave him a bath in 2009 and he hasn’t forgiven her yet). but i get about it 1/2hr of this every night if i sit on the couch.