softwaredoug

softwaredoug, 17 days ago to random

Insulate your career: not with F-you money, but with your F-You network

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/05/08/build-an-f-you-network

softwaredoug, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

One big engine behind “AI” is the bad tech economy.

Vendors need something to sell, companies need to show results to investors, team leads need to justify staffing, devs need to stand out to avoid layoffs.

Insert any buzzy topic into this mix it will get eviscerated by the starving packs of tech jackals… regardless of what actual users want.

I’m excited about the potential behind the technology. But we’re in a state where many emporers have no clothes, and nobody quite wants to say it.

softwaredoug, 8 months ago to random

🙏Thanks to Joel Martens , Bonsai and Spantree for being such great hosts at the Chicago Search Meetup.

Here’s my slides for Vector Search the Hard Way

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2023/09/05/vector-search-the-hard-way

baldur, 8 months ago to random

“Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops”

"the culture and the order imposed to organizations, groups, and even societies is often emergent and negotiated" https://ferd.ca/embrace-complexity-tighten-your-feedback-loops.html

ZachWeinersmith, 10 months ago to random

It really weirds me out how non-douchey Mastodon is. I have to use twitter for business, for now anyway, but I always feel a little antsy posting there. Like, even nice people sometimes seem like they're just itching to call you at as a moron or bastard. On mastodon, people talk and support. I wonder if the lack of QTs is a big part of it?