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linc

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He/him. Web engineering leader deep in community building & education who thinks PHP & hypermedia are great. 🚀

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waldoj, to random
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Hotel tea tastes like dishwater, no matter the reliable brand of tea, no matter the caution in brewing. What’s up with that?

linc,
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@Lyle @waldoj Yeah, I frequently use the ol’ bottled water thru the Keurig trick to get not terrible hot water for tea.

gvwilson, to random
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What is the 15-minute city of the web? https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2024/apr/06/why-has-15-minute-city-taken-off-paris-toxic-idea-uk-carlos-moreno

linc,
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@gvwilson In a 15-min city, they’re removing friction from walking which has the effect of adding friction to driving. On the Web, I think that would look like removing friction from democratic self-organizing, which I think means adding friction to feudalist platforms.

ramsey, to random
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I learned about the Japanese alt/indie/electronic rock band バンプ・オブ・チキン because their song “Sleep Walking Orchestra” is the theme song for .

I’m enjoying their music, but can someone explain the meaning behind the name? Is something lost in translation? It literally translates to “bump of chicken.” What does that mean?

@saki, can you help? 😁

linc,
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@ramsey They also did two great opening themes for March Comes In, a powerful anime about a gifted teenage Shogi player dealing with grief and emotional abuse. I’ve run into them a couple times since in other animes’ openers I’m forgetting.

Meyerweb, to random
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and the time an online recipe promises it will take to prepare a meal.

linc,
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@Meyerweb Onions have never caramelized in ten minutes. 😩

linc, to random
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LLMs are the perfect technology for our time, because they value plausibility not correctness.

linc, to random
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The XZ affair is the OSS opposite of every bananas bug report where you just want to scream, "Maybe don't use it that way??" — Someone using it exactly that way just saved our collective bacon.

linc, to random
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If you're being led by someone who cannot demonstrate vulnerability, you won't like where you're headed.

linc, to random
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Sure are a lot of engineers out there spending more time learning how LLM APIs work than how the business that employs them works.

beep, to random
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It’s wild to me that some look at investors’ urgent (and so far, largely failed) push to find a practical application for all these LLM platforms, and consider “artificial intelligence” as somehow more “inevitable” than the last DECADE* of worker-led organizing that’s swept the tech industry.

If I’m going to bet on one future for the tech industry, I know which one I’m picking.

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linc,
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@beep I was thinking about your last blog post and this line in particular: "As tech workers, we’re expected to constantly adapt — to be, well, endlessly clever." I think this rotten incentive goes to the top. You can only succeed [as a business seeking infinite growth] by being the MOST clever at AI [or whatever the hype machine has landed on this quarter] and anything less is failure. It's not that they truly believe it's inevitable, they just need it to be so badly they stopped thinking.

linc,
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@beep I think it's underappreciated how terrified all executives are all the time.

linc, to random
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Imagine we just discovered scissors.

Software engineers are running around the office with them, exclaiming how wonderful they are, waving them in people's faces.

Do software engineers need scissors? Not really.They're a neat tool, but not very useful in the SDLC, right?

But it's pretty dangerous to be running around the office with them. Maybe everyone can calm down and put them in the supply drawer until we need them? That'd be a lot safer.

Anyway, that's how I feel about AI.

linc, to random
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I watched a company ax its entire QA team this week. My thoughts on devaluing QA: https://lincolnwebs.com/2024/03/23/devaluing-quality/

ramsey, to random
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I know I’m very, very, very late to this party, but HOLY FUCK, season 3, episode 9 of !!!

linc,
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@ramsey @shiflett When I reached that point in the books is when I realized the series was not for me and set it aside. 😅

linc, to random
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When I was a senior in high school, we were assigned a presentation on a "controversial topic" that was to be given in class.

Kids did topics like weed legalization or abortion access. I did mine on modern systems of governance. For many years afterward, I was like, "I think I misunderstood the assignment. 😳"

Now I think... I actually did the most controversial one. 😅

linc, to random
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I had another "blogging Sunday" where I connected my nascent thoughts on trying to de-feudalize my own community, @ntnsndr's new book, Benjamin Shestakofsky's new book, and Tim Berners-Lee's open letter on the 35th anniversary of the Web. https://lincolnwebs.com/2024/03/17/feudalistic-software/

hazelweakly, to random
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I have a somewhat serious, somewhat tongue in cheek question: why can't startups plan to fail as their exit strategy?

I'm serious here. So many companies out there start off with something good, or even something great, and then the perverse incentives of unsustainable growth fuck up a lot of that and you have to make things suck enough to be profitable rather than be profitable because you're good.

linc,
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@hazelweakly We’ve forgotten how to start a business without a cap table.

linc, to random
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In 2006, I chose to burn down my nascent career rather than help my toxic boss look good. Or was I just another coddled Millennial unprepared for the workforce?

This morning I reflected on the lies we tell ourselves in challenging times and the practice of naming and moving beyond them. https://lincolnwebs.com/2024/03/03/spring-reflection/

linc, to random
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“That place’s culture is like fingerpaint - It looks fun at first but it always produces a dark, smeary mess.”

ramsey, to random
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This whole job-search experience has left me quite jaded and cynical. I don’t think I’ll look at my open source contributions the same way again. I’ve never contributed for the sake of putting it on my resume, but I now know for certain that absolutely no one cares about your open source contributions. Managers and engineers will use as much open source as they can to do their work, but they have absolutely no care about who makes it or how it comes to be. It’s all magical, free labor to them.

linc,
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@ramsey It took me more than a couple months to come back to it after I watched years of passion go up in smoke, so I wish you speed in your journey. 😅 That said, as the eng dept lead at my company I put $ in our annual budget to contribute to open source we are using. And I've made several professional connections through my open source project that I never would have otherwise. It definitely does not move at the speed of finding a new gig after a layoff, however. 🫠 They are different worlds.

linc, to random
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I just had to open a window and put on shorts in Detroit on 27 Feb if you want to know how the climate is doing.

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    linc,
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    @josh Amen. 🙏 I unsubscribe like it’s going out of style and I still cannot keep my inbox subdued. I always prefer an RSS feed because then I can catchup when I’m free (fun) rather than having a todo list (the worst vibes).

    stevegrunwell, to random
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    This thread pretty much sums up my thoughts on :

    While it can be useful for rapid prototyping, too often our prototypes get shipped as “MVPs”, which are then never given the space to really be cleaned up.

    As a result, shit like this lives on and we continue the cycle of “front-end needs to be over-engineered so people will respect us!”

    https://goblin.band/notes/9puziyltkpyyyt32

    linc,
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    @stevegrunwell Tailwind is functional fixedness delivered as a framework. 🙃 https://phpc.social/@linc/111948152059759844

    linc, to random
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    I have ascended. I am one with the screen.

    linc, to random
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    I just published my software engineer criteria & workbook for annual evaluations. Six years in the making: https://lincolnwebs.com/eval/

    linc, to random
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    Had a fascinating conversation with a colleague yesterday about whether the concept of functional fixedness was the root issue behind (bad) software engineers that "just make it work" (e.g. blindly copy/paste chunks of code and trying again) without considering the larger system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_fixedness

    linc,
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    I think identifying and naming specific issues that your interview process needs to protect against is an important endeavor.

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