Mastodon Archive

We all know MS Teams is bad, but what's remarkable is the fact that the actual teams in charge of the different tabs in Teams don't seem to communicate with one another. They implement entirely different design patterns.

I'm not sure how many times I've listened to "No Reply at All" by Genesis, probably hundreds, but I just now realized the vocal-horn call-and-response mirrors the lyrics.

"In the heat of battle, my father wove a tapestry of obscenity that, as far as we know, is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan."

Wowzers. Notion just rolled out sub-tasks, and it looks awesome. I was just considering another task management solution because I wanted this. The timing! notion.so/help/guides/tasks-manageable-steps-sub-tasks-dependencies

Never meet your heroes, and for the love of all things holy, never, ever, work with your heroes.

"The Age of Social Media Is Ending" by Ian Bogost really is right on the nose. theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/11/twitter-facebook-social-media-decline/672074/

This post by @lethain is possibly the most important writing on engineering leadership ever. I've read it so many times over the years lethain.com/doing-it-harder-and-hero-programming/

"I want to insist on an ama­teur internet; a garage internet; a pub­lic library internet; a kitchen ta­ble inter­net." robinsloan.com/lab/new-avenues/

"Modern knowledge work, if anything, is a shallow distraction generation machine. A professional schedule riven with email, Slack, and calendar invites is one that cannot also support whatever form of inspired thought moves the needle in your particular field." calnewport.com/blog/2022/12/05/ann-patchett-on-scheduling-creativity/

"Well, it took most of the day, but I installed MT on my machine and it works. I hope. I had installed PERL on my machine a long time ago, when I first meant to go through this exercise, but I still had to install MySQL, which took an hour to download off the Web last night." daniel.industries/2003/06/17/my-first-post-via-MT/