Markus Silpala @msilpala@qoto.org
Male parental unit of two kids; married to their mother; resident of Minneapolis, MN, USA; lover of cats, climbing, human connection; writer of software and occasional coach of software teams.
Joined Nov 2022
@narthur recent versions of iOS let you place multiple “copies” of the same app—so you can have the same app on multiple Home Screen pages. Sounds like you created on accidentally?
Ever since App Library became a thing, all the Home Screen icons are basically symlinks/aliases. At least that’s how my head models it.
@trochee @futurebird Neat! Stigmergy seems to have a lot of overlap with “kanban” as well. Note the lowercase “k”. I mean the classic concept from Japanese and Toyota Production System—not the named methods that sprouted from the Agile movement.
My under-qualified take: Stigmergy seems to be the system of signals and actions, whereas kanban refers mostly to a given signal in the environment.
Asking those who know better: am I understanding correctly?
@GeePawHill I dunno. That’s been Con Don’s MO for a while: whatever thing you’re caught doing, turn around and accuse them of the same thing.
@StOnSoftware @JeffGrigg @GeePawHill I do NOT use cURL to post toots, because I expect that doing so would be far clunkier than using Ivory (my client of choice). But I do use cURL for several dev-centric tasks where repeatability and scriptability are more valuable to me than one-off convenience.
The tool depends on the need; the need varies from moment to moment.
@GeePawHill I coulda just nodded along until you said "command lines". Now you leave me no choice but to rib you in a maliciously-loving fashion.
Malicious compliance. I think I like the sound of that. Need to think on what that would look like.
https://mastodon.social/@jbrains/112530715051794406
@jbrains This makes sense. I recall @qrquartel telling me that FaST evolved from an XP team, which discovered it while trying novel things to deal with their context.
@adrianh Aren't you in the UK? That's a late coffee run.
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“Too many organizations spend effort building beautiful DORA dashboards that no one looks at.”
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In listening to Joseph Pelrine describe effective estimation techniques at #CraftConf, I'm left even more strongly believing that the vast majority of software projects are absolutely wasting energy trying to do this better.
Eventually, maybe. Now, no. I believe you'll benefit more by focusing on the flow of value first. In the meantime, use budgets instead of trying to estimate costs.
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At the first ALE conference, I – the sole USAnian attendee – listened to many stories about the annoyance of working for BigCos. It boiled over at the final lightning talk, where I complained about their complaining and said, “Quit! Start a company! In the USA, going independent is a huge risk because you’ll lose your health care. You have guaranteed health care! Use it!”
I’m pleased that two people later contacted me and said my talk nudged them toward doing just that. https://mastodon.social/@Elucidating/112244383621137601
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The American tech scene would explode in a second Renaissance if the US got basic universal health care as a public right.
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What if instead of following a liquids only diet the day before a colonoscopy, you could eat rice, fish, plain yogurt and much more?
Turns out you can:
"A low-residue diet, one that is heavy on starch and protein and free of vegetables, is just as effective, and much less difficult to endure, than a diet restricted to clear liquids all day. (I have seen corn and seeds many times during a colonoscopy, but I have never seen a piece of chicken!)
A pre-colonoscopy diet that includes solid foods is safe and effective, and there are abundant data to prove it."
@williampietri Fair point.
@jchyip @gdinwiddie Or ChatGPT.
@williampietri If there's an ebook edition, you could purchase it and just never download?
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So, when someone asks a question, answer it sincerely without comment or judgement about what they should or should not know.
Making people feel bad for asking a question means they will ask less questions and thus they can't learn and grow.
If you've had a similar experience, please consider signal boosting this thread so we can normalize asking and answering questions without judgement. Thank you.
@narthur @LouisIngenthron I find the LLM/AI hype machine to be remarkable. When else has a new class of product arrived and sparked BOTH of these responses:
"This is amazing, and will soon be making every kind of job obsolete.”
"It takes work and practice before you can get it to produce the intended results—and, by the way, sometimes it's just plain wrong.”
I do believe this is amazing stuff; it will do wonderful and terrible things. For now it is producing WAY more enthusiasm than value.
Does anyone else think “Prompt Engineering” comes across like “learning how to how work around the ways that LLMs actually aren't intelligent”?
Mind you, I _do_ see value in that skill set. It just feels weird to declare a new form of engineering around it.
Male parental unit of two kids; married to their mother; resident of Minneapolis, MN, USA; lover of cats, climbing, human connection; writer of software and occasional coach of software teams.
Joined Nov 2022
