The art of the sacrificial 'duck' in programming projects (rachelbythebay.com)
The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing into stupidity (rachelbythebay.com)
Their latest round of stupidity pops up a new EULA and forces you to take it or, again, you can’t access your stuff. But that’s just more unenforceable garbage, so who cares, right? Well, it’s getting worse....
The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing into stupidity (rachelbythebay.com)
cross-posted from: derp.foo/post/265688...
My list of magic numbers for your turkey day enjoyment [2020] (rachelbythebay.com)
Feedback: I try to answer "how to become a systems engineer" (rachelbythebay.com)
I really like the part where she talks about randomly remembering things looking like magic. I'm 15 odd years into my career now and large part of my debugging approach is that same kind of "randomly remember something relevant" magic that I can't teach the junior engineers I work with.
[Rachel Kroll] Feedback: I try to answer "how to become a systems engineer" (rachelbythebay.com)
I think it goes something like this: you start from the assumption that when you see something, you wonder why it is the way it is. Then maybe you observe it and maybe do a little research to figure out how it came to be the thing you see in front of you.