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Written by archiloque on 2025-01-31 at 17:16

« The author argues that before the Meiji era, the deity for the shrine had miraculously manifested a bright light to guide sailors to safety, but now the deity inspired people to study science and build lighthouses. The age of wonder was not located in a mythic past, but instead found less than twenty-five years before the pre-sent. For this author, the Meiji Restoration had succeeded in transforming external miracles into divine inspiration »

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Written by archiloque on 2025-01-31 at 17:14

Best alternative criteria to complexity when rating user stories during a sprint planning:

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Written by archiloque on 2025-01-31 at 17:05

Agile end of iteration demo lineage can be traced to old harvest rituals, including the centrality of sacrificial imagery

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Written by archiloque on 2025-01-31 at 14:54

I love when IntelliJ decide they want to act like an evil dungeon overlord and spend time to update the skeletons, totally normal behavior for an IDE

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Written by archiloque on 2025-01-31 at 11:52

Coworker is having nasty troubles with uvicorn and uv and I’m telling everyone he’s taning unicorns #python

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Written by archiloque on 2025-01-22 at 09:15

Microsoft renamed Office to Copilot, I’m amazed https://www.office.com/

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Written by archiloque on 2025-01-12 at 12:52

For browsers we need a special cursor for when you have a clickable zone in a clickable zone, and another when there is 3rd level clickable zone, and when the browser detect a 4th level the browser should just stop the computer.

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Written by archiloque on 2025-01-10 at 16:08

When starting the retrospective, remember to throw a handful of salt at the UX to ritually cleanse them of their figma-ness

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Written by archiloque on 2025-01-10 at 11:42

I wonder how many pitches the LA fire department receive for AI tools per day since the beginning of the fire

https://mapstodon.space/@hareldan/113802801735335167

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Written by archiloque on 2025-01-09 at 19:24

« If you pick up a hard task, it makes a big difference whether you immediately tackle the hardest part head-on, or if you put it off and try to work around it. I’ve seen engineers spend weeks avoiding a difficult task that could have been accomplished in a serious day of effort. »

https://www.seangoedecke.com/what-makes-strong-engineers-strong/

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Written by archiloque on 2025-01-08 at 06:59

« Doing what your management chain wants is an expression of optimism. It comes from a belief that your company knows what it’s doing, and that the people it chooses to set strategy are basically competent. »

https://www.seangoedecke.com/cynicism/

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Written by archiloque on 2025-01-07 at 22:27

More workplaces should have a crypt. I know it’s a bit old fashioned, and when I signed up for current job I didn’t really thought about it, but in practice it’s really nice.

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Written by archiloque on 2025-01-05 at 20:20

If you want some news from France, tomorrow a wild trial is starting: it involves Sarkozy helping a Lybian terrorist escape from justice against money for his presidential campaign https://abos.mediapart.fr/optiext/optiextension.dll?ID=fM1el5VbQb0UPBYYM4NBYTWhFEGRLIiPsVVucUkhIGdn19d5GgDXDci2vD96TojU8zyskHDDBlMAb0zHKPma0lKuLFGIwVj57Z

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Written by archiloque on 2025-01-05 at 08:10

New links: Encoding change in git diffs, S3 table buckets, Windows 2, glue work, shipping projects

https://archiloque.net/weekly/25-01-05/

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Written by archiloque on 2025-01-04 at 19:50

« In my experience, projects almost always ship because one single person makes them ship. To be clear, that person doesn’t write all the code or do all the work, and I’m not saying the project could ship without an entire team behind it. But it’s really important that one person on the project has an end-to-end understanding of the whole thing: how it hangs together technically, and what product or business purpose it serves. »

https://www.seangoedecke.com/how-to-ship/

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Written by archiloque on 2025-01-04 at 12:56

Reading about the open source people having to deal with bad generated PR, and thinking about the corporate lawyers that probably have to deal with lots of generated formal complaints from customers and ughhhhhhh

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Written by archiloque on 2025-01-02 at 18:54

« Extreme programming » was the first agile method to allow knee strikes and chokeholds

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Written by archiloque on 2025-01-01 at 20:21

Reading about the laws passed in some US states that target “commercial entity” that publishes “material harmful to minors” and I wonder if companies that publish C++ materials are covered or not

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Written by archiloque on 2025-01-01 at 15:41

In the newest « home alone » movie, the child is fighting against a trio of B2B SAAS salespeople

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Written by archiloque on 2024-12-31 at 20:41

I’m looking for resources on the possible futures of the « open source » LLM provided by for-profit companies, any article suggestions?

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