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Written by Adam Harvey on 2025-01-24 at 15:25

Ah, I see Slack is back on its bullshit¹ again this morning.

¹ Not clearing the activity bubble on a workspace no matter how many times you view the message that generated it.

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Written by Adam Harvey on 2024-12-20 at 16:23

A small #rant, in visual form.

It's nice to know that there are parts of Google unbothered by the constraints of any actual design process.

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Written by Adam Harvey on 2024-11-23 at 06:03

T+5:30:

[#]pyconau

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Written by Adam Harvey on 2024-11-23 at 02:53

My favourite part of watching @chrisjrn give his talk demonstrating async in Python 1.6 are the ripples of nervous laughter in the audience as the techniques get more and more arcane. #pyconau

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Written by Adam Harvey on 2024-11-22 at 21:57

Although, if I'm being honest, the first paragraph of the conference description doesn't fill me with great confidence either.

(Also, "cyber" still has a... somewhat different meaning to me, as an Old.)

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Written by Adam Harvey on 2024-11-22 at 21:55

This feels like a dangerous set of wi-fi networks to be adjacent to #pyconau.

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Written by Adam Harvey on 2024-11-21 at 02:15

Another conference hosting its virtual component on Discord, another annoying few minutes of right-clicking on the vast majority of channels to mute them.

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Written by Adam Harvey on 2024-11-15 at 12:11

I want to know what's at the end of this wifi network.

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Written by Adam Harvey on 2024-11-07 at 04:47

Always good to get fan mail.

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Written by Adam Harvey on 2024-10-21 at 18:42

I am in a hotel breakfast room in an Icelandic town of 721 people eating instant noodles for dinner (because the only restaurant in town is closed on Mondays, and I can't be bothered driving back over a mountain pass), and there are two bros watching and listening to a presentation on Bitcoin on a portrait monitor I guess one of them brought.

I have noise cancelling headphones, and they seem super nice and offered to turn it off, so it's really all good, but this is weird, right?

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Written by Adam Harvey on 2024-10-04 at 18:36

Achievement unlocked: voted for the first time in a Canadian election.

(Lesser achievement also unlocked: voted for the first time in a FPTP election. Ugh.)

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Written by Adam Harvey on 2024-10-04 at 15:46

Incidentally, since I just made a joke alluding to the Automattic situation, a thought on optional self layoffs as a business process:

I took a similar offer from Sourcegraph at the end of 2022. Doing so turned out to be an excellent decision for multiple reasons — it resulted in my applying for and getting my current role at the Rust Foundation, which I greatly enjoy, and it turned out that my intuition about how things were going to go for my team and engineering in general at Sourcegraph in 2023 was largely correct, and I was glad to not be there for it.

But there's a persistent framing around it that I find a bit disingenuous, particularly in the current (challenging) tech job market: the idea that the people who stayed are now "all in", and excited to excited to be there.

Maybe they can't afford to leave.

Maybe they need healthcare. (Hi, America!)

Maybe they need a work visa to continue living in the place they're putting down roots.

Maybe they just straight up need more time than the usual couple of days afforded in these scenarios to decide whether to break their emotional bonds to their teams.

There seems to be a trend of leaders in organisations doing optional self layoffs patting themselves on the back after these exercises; eg (paraphrasing) "they turned down $126M to stay!" I feel like that betrays a lack of introspection on how the process actually works for people on the ground, and reads too much into the complex reasons that those people may have for staying or leaving.

I do understand that leaders ultimately don't want people who aren't aligned to stay. (Although that can quickly turn into a slippery slope of "no dissent allowed".) It makes sense. But if you're in a position where it actually makes sense to make a one time, 48-96 hour offer to pay people to leave, maybe you should also be reflecting on how you ended up in a position where that was even an option in the first place.

[#]rant

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Written by Adam Harvey on 2024-09-19 at 01:37

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Written by Adam Harvey on 2024-08-18 at 23:17

Update: it is, indeed, bread!

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Written by Adam Harvey on 2024-08-18 at 22:16

Tried baking actual bread for the first time today. Obviously the real test will be when I cut into it, but at least it looks like bread?

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