mr_tristan

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by mr_tristan 4y ago
I suspect the hyperactive hivemind culture that's been one result of new technology. Sure, there's a lot more passive consumption going on, but really, what I see is a non-stop communication stream where nobody really gets to that
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
This sure seems to be what happens when the long tail runs into the paradox of choice. One thing I've noticed, it is now way easier to create content over this time period as well. I now have a camera that can record beautiful 8K video
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
My main sources of burnout these days are: 1. useless information overload, and 2. lack of focus time. And it's rare that I've actually met a manager who could even see this as a problem. My main way to deal with this: just ignore
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
Recently, I've started getting into Youtube again, but following a couple of different hobbies much more closely; woodworking/making, and photography. What you describe is echoed by a few of them, namely, they do not really attemp
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
Pinning can be far less painful with tooling to review and manage all the changes. One example would be the Maven versions plugin: you can use it to query "what's been updated", update to next release, etc. The list of goals
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
I think of it as "content and presentation should be as independent as possible". This is the content side: don't bother with fancy unreadable formats. I've been thinking about this as I try to think about my own persona
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
Was about to recommend this, too. Newport's description of the "hyperactive hive mind" is almost dead on what this author is calling "Slack-mania". And Newport shows this is much bigger in scope than just the introd
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
Yes, it's very much the expectation that I need to somehow be immediately available that makes it rude. I don't know how many times I have to respond, "Hi! Do you have a question? If you want to chat, feel free to schedule so
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
To be honest, I think this is a sign that the company really isn't experimenting, and probably won't figure out how to stay fully remote post-pandemic. The best thing my company did was host a single "async week". Absolu
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
> A video conference is a sterile dehumanizing experience. A good in-person meeting is pure jazz. Its elegant sparring between those who care deeply about the things they are building, and watching and participating in this banter is one
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
I've been fully remote since 2017. It's not just about personal convenience. The fully remote teams I've been a part of tend to have far more efficient meetings. I've now pushed status checks or round robin style stuff t
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
I agree with all of this, and just want to add a note about mental health; take your stress levels seriously and learn to know your triggers. While most of us working in tech tend to live pretty cushy lives, but, we are surrounded by silly
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
Subscription models are great for professionals (and companies), but amateurs, a single year of the Adobe Photoshop + Lightroom bundle is over 2x what a perpetual Affinity Photo license costs. (I just wish Serif came out with a photo manage
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
I've worked at a couple of companies now that introduce a "month off" day, which isn't tied to a particular holiday. At one place, they made it a "use it or lose it; your choice", so typically the last Friday o
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
The CDC is not so much asleep at the wheel, we just don't have any kind of coherent public health system in the USA. There's basically an independent public health officer for practically every county, and there's very little
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
I'm not convinced the arguments in this article are really the cause. We're in an era where musicians have to build a following by means other than their music. I'm just not sure how an aspiring musician would connect and bui
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
I'd be curious what you're working on, or if you have any links that are shareable. This is a truly hard thing to do. I sometimes use visualization plugins in IDEs, or hand roll visualizations. For example, spit out an HTML page t
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
I find that programming languages are themselves a great reference... for the logic of a single thread. The moment you start doing concurrent development, or hell, even basic event-driven code, it gets much harder to "just read along&q
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
Left about 6 months ago, and was basically shocked at the compensation bump I got. As someone full time remote since 2017, working at the latest place since 2018, it felt like a new world looking for a job in 2021. So many more options, whi
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
I think it's the core, the 2D engine, just never got the love it needed to be a great place to start. Nobody seemed to prioritize making that happen. Like, the antialiasing was noticably fuzzy. I never found an applet that looked like
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
Fact checking just seems like another business we haven't hired to solve a problem generated by the platform itself. I find that the problem here isn't fact checking, it's just the control of these private social media platfo
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
I will never go back to a team that's even partially "colocated" because I've found, that when the team gets async right, it's enormously annoying to go back. But, as someone who has experienced full time work in a
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
I found this article and discussion to be a bit deeper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28539185 I'm not really convinced security issues in open source libraries is a funding problem. Sure, sometimes money might
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
FWIW I found this book to be a better survey of ways an experienced dev can take their career: https://staffeng.com/book This article seems a little flippant. I’ve found very few “specialists”, personally, or legacy coders.
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
You might want to look up carpentry, instead of woodworking. They're actually pretty different in skills and approach. It's like, with woodworking, step one is often "make everything perfectly square". In carpentry, noth
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
Spatchcocked my first turkey yesterday, which I cooked in a pellet grill; came out great. I usually do that with my chicken, which also comes out nicely, so I guess I was pretty used to it. But it's honestly pretty easy, and I agree, m
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
I suspect there needs to be some newer patterns in open source build systems that help the cloud-based IDEs become a "thing". It's the build systems that give me confidence that my IDE choice isn't some permanent lock-in
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
I'm not really sure I like the term "test" for what you do in production, because ideally, tests should have well defined starting and ending states. I feel like chaos engineering [1] is a better definition for what's be
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
I've found most "tech debt" planning to be incredibly vague and nebulous. Many engineers can identify what makes them uncomfortable, but it takes real effort to fully explain why, and what the real impacts are. Maybe trying t
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by mr_tristan 5y ago
I’ve experienced a corollary to this: individuals don’t instantaneously gel into teams. I’ve found places that try to solve hard problems by “finding good folks and putting them together on a ‘squad’”. Or, deciding to reorganize and just br

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