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itsjoshbruce

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Time Lord. Agile Coach, User Experience designer, and software developer. Designing the human experience all around. :)

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ayo, to accessibility
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Will probably be hated for this… why do advocates often come off as preachy when I hear them talk? To the point that they will say (at times indirectly) that they care for people and others don’t… I get that it could be a frustrating field, but sometimes devs just need educating—admittedly including me 🙋‍♂️

itsjoshbruce,
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@jaded_jouska @ayo: This resonates with me as viable.

Feels like I’ve had the same conversations since circa 2000.

I worked in a call center once. No matter how often I was asked the same question or asked to pull up the same information I reminded myself that I hadn’t said it to that specific person.

And…20 years is a long time to be saying the same stuff - pointing to the same references - about the same underlying tech. Inde. clients, gov’t agencies, corps, and other devs (new and old). 1/

afilina, to random
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This looks suspiciously similar to azjezz/psl, just with a different API. It even has the same name: PHP Standard Library.

The PHP community would be better if devs worked together instead of copying and re-branding someone else's work. Credit to azjezz for the original PSL.

itsjoshbruce,
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@afilina: I’m starting to feel this way about a lot of things in tech (and tech-adjacent) fields at the moment.

Agile frameworks: We invented a new way of working. Write down what needs doing, revisit the list of things, and do the most important thing. We call it 10x BS!

(You mean a todo list??)

Nope. Totally different.

The key isn’t to create. The key is to look back 30 years and rename what was always there, without referencing the source. Pretty sure this was always the way.

davew, to random
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The reason it's nice to have old people around is that we don't care about the future in a personal way, so we might just tell you the truth.

itsjoshbruce,
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@davew: Pretty sure historians and philosophers fall in this camp as well, regardless of age. :)

Crell, (edited ) to random
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Here's an ethical question. My investment advisor is recommending a fund that invests in biotech and . Biotech fine, but AI? Is that ethical to invest in?

Its no oil or guns. And AI has potential legit highly valuable uses in medical and environmental research, so it's more legit than blockchain or metaverse nonsense. But it'd also bring used for seriously scary shit, like undermining the very concept of truth itself.

I dunno. Does the hive mind have thoughts on if AI can be ?

itsjoshbruce, (edited )
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@Crell: Do you have an investment policy statement? https://joshbruce.com/essays-and-editorials/finances/investment-policies/

If you do and it doesn’t cover this question, maybe revisit.

Years ago Moby gave an interview. He mentioned getting pushback for allowing his music in car commercials. His retort was that if a company wanted to pay X to use the music and he gave half to causes that offset the negative impact, he was maintaining balance.

For me, it means not concentrating/chasing a sector, and shopping at small and local as possible.

grmpyprogrammer, to random
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Maybe I should just go back and do more Python stuff so I can be ready for my future “prompt engineer” roles

itsjoshbruce,
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@grmpyprogrammer: Feel like maybe I should start learning how to actually use a Terminal. It’s the same thing, yeah?

polotek, to random
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Open ended question. Do you have any investments besides stocks/bonds? Why did you get into them? Do you have a strategy, or was it more happenstance? If you have a strategy for investments, I'd like to hear about that too.

(Without judgment. It's okay to say cryptocurrency. But I will not be engaging directly with that topic.)

itsjoshbruce,
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@polotek: I appreciate the position of The Money Guy Show when it comes to primary residences (use assets) - if it generates income, might be a bit different. Capture cost basis, not estimated resale value when calculating net worth (cursory search didn’t result in text-based explanation): https://moneyguy.com

Difference between (J. David Stein): https://joshbruce.com/essays-and-editorials/finances/concepts/

To the OP: https://portfoliocharts.com/portfolios/golden-butterfly-portfolio/

My investment policy: https://joshbruce.com/experiences/finances/investment-policy/

itsjoshbruce,
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@polotek: ESG and local/private investing??

Vicki Robin (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicki_Robin) talked about using a LION (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Investing_Opportunity_Network).

Is the desire to help regardless of reach, or is reach more important (star fish)?

No judgement either way, just something worth considering. I invest broadly in NYSE, then spend mostly at small local cooperatives. A non-LION alternative to a straight LION approach, while helping locally (my sphere of control and influence).

jitterted, to random
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Took me almost 2 hours to finally wrangle some HTML into what I wanted. It's frustrating only because I don't do CSS from scratch very often and there's so many tiny little things one has to know separately and how they work together.

Luckily the browser tools have gotten good enough to provide quick feedback along with help for grid and flex layouts. Juggling align-content and justify-content and so on is so much easier with immediate feedback.

itsjoshbruce,
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@jitterted: Curious what it was. Might have been able to help. Simplifying HTML + CSS is kind of my jam. :)

itsjoshbruce,
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@jitterted: Guess I’ll reinstall Twitch. lol

itsjoshbruce, to random
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Pretty sure the con drop hit today.

Ready for bed; despite 99% recovery on WHOOP.

It was fun driving from Portland to Louisville. Love driving that part of the country. Also, the bad weather was nonexistent.

It wasn’t fun starting the journal with the beginnings of a sinus infection. But, I started combating it the moment I woke up to a clogged nose. So, was rapidly clearing up by the time we left on Sunday.

Feel like I didn’t get shit done. But, it’s more like I did low-energy things.

itsjoshbruce, to random
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Latest health and wellness article: https://joshbruce.com/experiences/health-and-wellness/historical-summaries/202403/#thursday-march-28-2024

I’m allergic to Portland, Oregon. Managed to avoid full-on sinus infection. And had fun at Agile Open Northwest.

Also, still enjoy driving cross-country.

itsjoshbruce, to webdev
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I tend to think we lost the benefits of mobile-first design and development when we emphasized fluid layouts instead of accounting for:

  1. crap (and unstable) connections,
  2. limited processing power,
  3. limited I/O capabilities (ex. no hover and less precise),
  4. constrained on-device storage, and
  5. limited data plans.

(I’m sure I’m missing a couple.)



itsjoshbruce, to random
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Agile Open Northwest was loads of fun. Met some great people. Saw some familiar faces. And, finally met some folks I’ve followed for a while in person(h/t @qcoding).

Evening coding sessions were also interesting to participate in.

Good feedback on the session I did on The 5 Ps and the one Becca and I did together as The Irreverent Agilists: No Spikes in the Mosh Pit.

https://joshbruce.com/essays-and-editorials/the-5-ps/

https://the-irreverent-agilists.com



itsjoshbruce, (edited ) to accessibility
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Does anyone know of a tool or approach for having a printed book read to you (they, and I, don’t do well with reading print)?

Specifically, this book: Donald Featherstone’s Solo Wargaming

Was going to recommend screen reader + ebook; can’t locate ebook version.

Update: Their trying a Google app for Android called Lookout: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.accessibility.reveal


itsjoshbruce,
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@SirSid: Definitely cool. Might be on the expensive side. :(

sarah, to random
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I’m going to teach myself Laravel this week.

Send rescuers if I don’t emerge by April.

itsjoshbruce,
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@sarah @grmpyprogrammer: Fanning over it happened to me for a few months.

Then my desire for loose coupling kicked in, and I shifted to creating service providers outside of the main Laravel stack and project structure. Then anti-globals and “magic” brain kicked in and I started preferring dependency injection of Laravel helpers.

Then I went back to not using it. 🤷‍♂️

Not anti-Laravel, just not the fan I was after the first couple of months. Good luck. Let me know if you wanna pair up sometime.

alicew, to random
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(boost please!) I need to get a job, I need to get a job, I deserve to be hired, please help me out. 🖤

  • Comp sci degree
  • 1.5 years as a software test engineer
  • Python, JS, Rust
  • Seeking same role, full stack, sysadmin, or dev ops
  • Remote preferred, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN, USA

DM or email me for a resume if needed, check out my site if you want more info on what I do. Referrals are very much preferred in this job market. Thank y'all for the support.

site: https://werefox.cafe
email: ada.werefox@tutanota.com

itsjoshbruce, (edited )
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@alicew @grmpyprogrammer: Adding “FediHired” and “FediHire” should get you a couple of boosts as well, if there are enough characters available.

itsjoshbruce,
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@alicew @grmpyprogrammer: To be fair, I don’t know how helpful it is. Just a thought.

itsjoshbruce, to random
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Did a joint session with my Adventure Life Partner (TM), Becca yesterday at Agile Open Northwest.

The title?

“No Spikes in the Mosh Pit”

We had a great group and conversations about organized chaos, self-management, and misconceptions. Oh…and we talked about corporate play as well.

itsjoshbruce, to random
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Humans have been creating (and complaining) about many things for a long time. We've also been incentivizing the "democratization of creation."

Chances are if you're about to say: There's no way to do X?

  1. A more likely sentiment is: I don't know of a way to do X.

  2. It's literally impossible with today's technology (and physics).

  3. You might have actually invented something unique for the state of the art.

More often than not, it's the first one. Followed closely by the second.

itsjoshbruce, to random
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Was out of town this weekend. Heading home now. Decided to publish and deploy the health and wellness update I didn’t do Friday or over the weekend: https://joshbruce.com/experiences/health-and-wellness/historical-summaries/202403/

saramg, to random
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No disrespect to dudes who chest bump each other. Ya ain't hurtin' nobody, let your freak flag fly.

But...

Like... I don't get it. It seems like a high five with extra effort, and even a high five is kinda... odd, it?

itsjoshbruce,
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@Crell @saramg: Chest bump, then bro hug, then full hug…that’s the bromance escalator.

itsjoshbruce, to random
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Part 9 of Time: Mastering the Mundane has been made available for purchase on Leanpub: https://leanpub.com/master-the-mundane

Part 9 is about Collaboration, which often gets conflated with Delegation (Part 7).

Contribute to this project on the Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/mastering-the-mundane/projects/book-mastering-the-mundane



itsjoshbruce,
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Part 12 of Time: Mastering the Mundane has been made available for purchase on Leanpub: https://leanpub.com/master-the-mundane

Part 12 is about system optimization (otherwise known as, well, optimization).

Contribute to this project on the Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/mastering-the-mundane/projects/book-mastering-the-mundane



itsjoshbruce,
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Part 13 of Time: Mastering the Mundane has been made available for purchase on Leanpub: https://leanpub.com/master-the-mundane

Part 13 is about alternative views. Up to this point, we’ve been using a list for all the things. Now we’ll look at otherwise humans have come up with to visualize the same data.

Contribute to this project on the Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/mastering-the-mundane/projects/book-mastering-the-mundane

#TimeManagement
#SelfManagement
#MasteringTheMundane

itsjoshbruce,
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Part 14 of Time: Mastering the Mundane has been made available for purchase on Leanpub: https://leanpub.com/master-the-mundane

Part 14 is about time journals. Alternative Views (Part 13) focus on possible futures. Time journals emphasize what actually happened.

One more Part before mass-distribution.

Contribute to this project on the Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/mastering-the-mundane/projects/book-mastering-the-mundane

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