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Process creates friction, so we got rid of process. But that friction was necessary for holding workslop at bay.
Because without slowing down, we can't ask "is this good? is this right?" We can only ask "when will it be done?" And that's a world where #LLM outputs will always beat people.
Fortunately, an "optimized" process moves slowly, because prod…

The myth of "no design process"
Process can add friction, but trying to get rid of friction by getting rid of process dooms design to irrelevance.

For hosting our internal source code repositories, we're using #gitea. There are a bunch of other options and all of them seem to mimic github's look and feel. Gitea was the one I found out about first some years ago and it stuck. It has an issue tracker and works well for doing pull requests and reviewing them online.
There's a commercial cloud hosting offer and an enterprise opt…

Back from a very wet (local weather history says 1.76 inches or 45 mm of rain yesterday) SAR training weekend.
Lots of good land navigation drills both on trail and bushwhacking through heavy brush. Everyone's rain gear got a good workout and there were definitely a few hard lessons learned about underperforming gear.
Wrapped the weekend up with a mock search, finding our "missing person" with a "head injury", plus her friend who had gone for help but &quo…

Re “apply the pressure anyway:” that’s advice I got from…Keith Ellison.
I was part of a citizen group pressuring him to vote for the ACA when he was in the House. He met with us, and gave us an impassioned speech about universal care and how the ACA was a good first step but insufficient, relating it to the less-remembered civil rights acts of the 1950s that laid the groundwork for the big one in 1964.
Somebody from the group finally asked him, “Why are we meeting with you? You’re already convinced!”
He replied (paraphrasing here): “I •need• your pressure. I need it even if I already agree. If you’re pressuring me, then I can get on the floor of the House and say ‘My constituents are beating down the doors of my office! This has tremendous support!’ I can tell my colleagues in private about how agitated voters are. If you apply pressure, I can pass that pressure forward. I need you to do it! •That• is why you’re meeting with me.”
And now Keith Ellison is MN Attorney General. He’s already started doing the right thing. Follow his advice, and apply that pressure!

A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars: #Mars, Says New Report: https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/search-for-life-should-be-top-science-priority-for-first-human-landing-on-mars-says-new-report -> In a major new report, scientists build rationale for sending astronauts to Mars: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/in-a-major-new-report-scientists-build-rationale-for-sending-astronauts-to-mars/

Man, I bet we’re all relieved today that Obama shut ICE down the first chance he got. And then Biden… remember when he shut it down a second time just for good measure? (And while busy funding and arming a whole friggin’ genocide in Palestine, what a legend!) *Phew!* Imagine what could have happened if the Democrats had just kept going with business as usual.
#theRatchetEffect

NYT refers to her as Renee's 'partner' instead of spouse. : (
A Month After Renee Good’s Killing, Her Partner Makes First Public Appearance at Memorial - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/us/renee-good-partner-memorial-minneapolis.html

Just ran across https://openwebsearch.eu/news/ for the first time. A small number of years ago I would have called the idea ridiculous. Now I think that, if you got the right people together, it could have a good outcome.

“Abundance has a way of leading to amnesia.”
#remember

The One Thing You Can’t Afford to Forget
“Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God…” (Deut. 8:11) Dr. Harold Urey, a Nobel Prize–winning chemist, was once walking along a sidewalk when he ran into another professor. They chatted for a few minutes, and as they parted, Dr. Urey asked, “John, which way was I going when I met you?”

me: wow my new football book got here. I should take some time today to keep reading my current football book. but first I gotta finish watching this danish football match cuz I got distracted watching football chant YT shorts on my phone. and I kinda wanted to keep playing football manager...
also me: sometimes I wonder if im really autistic or if im just making it up