"It is no secret that the latest SARS outbreak has reshaped the world of work. Particularly in software engineering: where the work can be done anywhere with an internet connection so codes can be pasted from Stack Overflow, and the practitioners generally have a dislike of meetings. Your average software engineer would rather build the wrong thing for eight hours in a flow state, than have a 15-minute conversation in which they find out what direction they should go."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/your-place-or-mine/
Notre index est l’opposé de l’Index Librorum Prohibitorum : il constitue une liste rapide des chroniques du Sillon, entre critique, chronique, essai et bricolage littéraire.
🌊 https://sillon-fictionnel.club/l-index/
True story time. ~7 years ago, onsite team meeting
New hire said when starting job, they thought "model" in job description meant we take photos, wondered where the girls were. Initially sounded like joke, but as they kept going, I realized they were serious. Next few years confirmed laziness, lack of curiosity.
How do you see "model" in #DataAnalytics job &…
The 79th edition of De Programmatica Ipsum is out!
This month, we explore trust and its importance in human society and culture; in the Library section, we review “Geekonomics” by David Rice; and in our Vidéothèque section, we watch a video on the Veritasium channel where Derek Muller hacks Linus Sebastian’s phone.
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/issue-79-trust/
For 5 years now I've been learning about web accessibility and reviewing websites. But I'm not a native screen reader user, and my mobile app experience is lacking.
This month I learned about "Accessibility Actions" or "actions available" for VoiceOver and TalkBack. I shoulda known about it for years-- it makes navigation by swiping potentially much quicker.
Would you be willing to share your thoughts and experiences with this feature?
I cannot stop posting. It's what I was meant for.
#todayilearned that the US census page went down with others. [1]
PSA: Now is a good time to pull some local copies of datasets and knowledge bases.
Spinning up a small homelab for stuff like #kiwix and backups is easy with