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jvschrag

@jvschrag@hachyderm.io

Professionally: I help leaders foster psychological safety, create team health, and facilitate powerful meetings. Former dev, designer, and UX exec in the VFX software field. 🏳️‍🌈

Unprofessionally: I like to draw, bake, write, hike, rock climb, make music, and do portrait photography, but I'm only good at some of them. Lifelong #doctorwho fan.

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grimalkina, to random
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Pointed to this paper from a column on it: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4464593

Folks in dev psych and elsewhere often talk about girls being underconfident. But how rarely we frame in terms of boys' overconfidence.

"Across a range of countries, contexts, and domains, men have been found to exhibit higher degrees of confidence in their ability than women (Kay and Shipman, 2014). This phenomenon has been particularly salient in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)."

jvschrag,
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@grimalkina Faking confidence is also taught to boys as a deliberate strategy — and a really effective one, given the super-common cognitive error of ‘mistaking confidence for competence’.

jvschrag,
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@grimalkina Can I assume you’ve seen this xkcd comic?

https://xkcd.com/385

jvschrag, to random
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Currently experiencing the Canadian version of the ‘marshmallow test’ — seeing which of my neighbours can’t wait until Victoria Day tomorrow to set off their fireworks and are instead setting the off randomly throughout the weekend.

gairdeachas, to foss
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Hey / community, how do you source skillsets outside of your core dev team's wheelhouse, be that volunteer or paid?

@DProofreaders is embarking on a proofreading UI redesign and the dev team doesn't have deep expertise. What we do have are two existing ~20-year-old UIs, a laundry list of requested improvements, and a very opinionated community.

Any suggestions on how you find someone to help you wrangle that?

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@gairdeachas What level of expertise are you looking for? There are a lot of just-graduated UX folk that might be interested in a “real” project they could add to their portfolio as they job-hunt. The university of Toronto near me has a summer intern program for their masters of information UX program, which is really good. (I’ve hired a number of people from there).

Although if you are talking full redesign, I’m guessing you want someone with more experience.

CSLee, to seresearchers
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NEW RESEARCH PAPER OUT! In this paper, @grimalkina and I explore how review anxiety is maintained and exacerbated to develop a model of code review anxiety. We also go a step further to develop and test the effectiveness of a cognitive-behavioral intervention for code review anxiety, so that we can reduce code review anxiety in an evidence-based and empirically-supported way (because science > vibes): https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8k5a4

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jvschrag,
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@CSLee @grimalkina @seresearchers I found this preprint particularly interesting as a former dev and designer. In the design world, there is a whole culture around critique, including practices that go back a very long way that help mitigate some of the issues outlined here. My computer science education did not prepare me the same way.

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@grimalkina @CSLee @seresearchers Yes! And receiving it!

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    jvschrag,
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    @jonobie Sure, but after you put on a kudzu garment, are you able to take it off again?

    Do you start with a cocktail dress and by the end of the evening it’s a full-length ballgown with a train?

    gairdeachas, to random
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    TransLink (Vancouver public transit agency), it is 2024 why can't I add money to my Compass card online if I don't have a Canada address? I just want to give you money.

    Guess I'll be stopping at a kiosk on Monday 'cause I bet you'll take my credit card /there/.

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    @gairdeachas I think you can now just use any tap-enabled credit card directly on Vancouver transit, without getting a compass card.

    jvschrag, to history
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    While clearing up my late mother’s house, I came across some historically significant newspapers that she had stored in a cedar chest more than fifty years ago. Rather than leaving them sitting in a drawer at my place, I’m trying to think how they might be put to good use in some kind of educational program, or displayed where people could see them. The Toronto Archives were not interested, and the museum library has not yet responded to my query. Ideas are welcome!

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    @jonobie I have a friend who used to work on a reality show who told me that what you see on the screen is very different than what is actually going on. Not much actual “reality” in the show.

    scottsantens, to random
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    Results are out for the guaranteed basic income pilot in Austin where 135 people got $1,000/mo for a year.

    9% of people reported working less and 7% reported working more. Of those who worked less, half upskilled for better future jobs, and half chose unpaid care work.

    Housing security significantly increased, as did food security. People lived in better housing and ate more balanced meals.

    People also felt significantly more connected to the people and places in their neighborhoods.

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    @scottsantens Every UBI pilot study (that doesn’t get cancelled) ends up with completely positive results. So why doesn’t it get implemented? My theory is that they will keep doing these studies until one of them shows some kind of negative result, so that they can use it to say “See? It can’t work!”

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    @jonobie I was just recently watching a YT video by a guy who built tunnels between his house, shed, and garage. Now he’s making a big chamber in the hopes of making an elevator to bring his car underground like in a spy movie. I was relieved to see he had an appropriate engineering degree.

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    @jonobie I had an acquaintance who developed “covid toes”. They were very red even six months after recovery. (This was pre-vaccines). I had never heard of this before. So many weird symptoms.

    jonobie, to random
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    Popovers: A long and rambly story. (1/n)

    Growing up, my mom made one of two breakfasts on weekends - rolls out of a can or popovers. Popovers were originally made from a box mix that she said my grandfather used and swore by. When it went out of business, my mom was shocked to discover how simple the basic recipe was - her father had always said they were incredibly difficult.

    jvschrag,
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    @jonobie Weird. I just made crêpes an hour ago for lunch using exactly the same recipe (with the addition of 1/2 cup water). My melted butter also lumps when resting the batter in the fridge. My sister suggested straining it, but that just strains out all the butter.

    grimalkina, to random
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    Reading about a construct I've been wanting to know better for a while: self-compassion!

    "one of the advantages of self-compassion over self-esteem is that self-compassion is not based on the performance evaluations of self and others, or on congruence with ideal standards. Rather, self-compassion circumvents the entire self-evaluation process altogether (positive or negative), focusing instead on feelings of kindness and [...] recognition of one’s common humanity" (Neff et al. 2005)

    jvschrag,
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    @grimalkina I there is a young person in my life just starting out, who has been ridiculously successful at school and athletics and just about everything she puts her mind to, and gets lots of praise for it. I’ve always worried what will happen to her when she inevitably runs into failure, if all her self-esteem is tied to these external performance metrics. I love the idea of a focus on self-compassion instead — it feels like an internal parallel to team psychological safety.

    jvschrag,
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    @grimalkina I’ve seen that idea in writings about child-rearing, but not so much in books about dealing with adults.

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    @jonobie I noticed that the social discourse on this film seems to consist of people who haven’t seen it saying it’s bad, and people who have seen it saying it’s good. I know whose opinion I will trust.

    jvschrag, to random
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    I have a loved one with cognitive issues who recently became bed-bound. I’d like to set them up with a voice-activated system to allow them to ask questions, play music, call family, and control their environment (lights, blinds). But I also want to protect them from accidentally buying things, incoming spam or fraud calls, etc. I’d appreciate recommendations or pointers to good resources for this.

    The signal-to-noise ratio googling this has been very low — especially the second part.

    gairdeachas, to random
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    Got DKIM and DMARC set up for my domain and another that I admin for a friend (mail all hosted by Rackspace) and it was very easy.

    So while my email may not find you well, it is more likely to find you at all now.

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    @blob @gairdeachas I’ve got SPF and DKIM set up for my domain, but I’ve found DMARC intimidating. But I have discovered that some places don’t get emails I send them, so I might have to bite the bullet.

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    @gairdeachas @blob Thanks. I guess at least I’d find out who’s not getting my emails. Or how often my address is being used by spammers.

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    @jonobie I’ve long suspected that many of these discoveries were unfortunate accidents followed by the desperation of a hungry person who got a pleasant surprise.

    Jeremiah, (edited ) to privacy
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    Holy shit. Police in Sverige can now surveil anyone without concrete criminal suspicion and monitor people for "preventive purposes".

    https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/abQBWM/advokaten-kritisk-mot-lagen-om-hemlig-avlyssning-krankning

    V, C, and MP were the only parties opposed to this gross expansion of government surveillance and invasion of personal privacy.

    https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/aktuellt/aktuelltnotiser/2023/sep/7/justitieutskottet-sager-ja-till-utokad-anvandning_cms36eb0df3-4b06-4f5f-8a64-5c348e3dd7d1sv/

    “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” —Ben Franklin

    jvschrag,
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    @Jeremiah I assume this means that shitty abusive cops will be using this to track and harass their ex-girlfriends.

    jvschrag, to Batman
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    My sketch for days 3 and 4. It took me two days to finish this one, and panel 3 incorporates some earlier work because I'm lazy.

    virtualbri, to Starwars
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    @virtualbri When I was a teenager my mom gave me a book about the making of Star Wars, which went into detail about the matting process and had a big picture of the optical printer they used. Many years later when I went on my first business trip to ILM, I walked past that same optical printer which was on display in a hallway there. I kept my professional demeanour but inside my brain I was squealing and going OMG OMG.

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    @jonobie Yeah, information isn’t copyrightable, just the form it’s fixed in.

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