Steve Downey
Software engineer at Bloomberg LP
Views are my own
he/him
Parody of a real software engineer and grown up.
@sdowney@mastodon.social
- Company: good news we updated our software!!! Company: we changed the interface!!! Also, the core features no longer function!!!
- At my company our users and our product owners make UI and UX people cry, because no matter how bad the existing horror created by a programmer is, change is actually worse. Our customers don't want to use our software, they want to do their jobs.
- Least worst for us is usually a new version of something in parallel. Customers like "better". They just need it on their schedule. Understanding that change is bad User eXperience helps.
- No, I don't gotta to hand it to them.
- High Fructose Corn Syrup, in the instance this morning. But in general.
- I can't believe I have been forced to read the words "Naderite Tankies" with my own two fucking eyes.
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- even if you sincerely believe this to be true, making a thing about it, now, and especially next year, is first and foremost likely to make you soundly fucking hated by the rank and file
- This is nuts. wapo.st/3YLpWUo
- There may be no greater illustration of the differences in the parties than the fact Biden had one bad debate and the Democratic donor and consultant class freak out and Trump had two godawful debates and all Republicans just shrugged.
- A lot of the Democratic Donor Class are functionally GOP. All are on team Donor Class.
- Go See
- This is like losing The Game. At least it's not Loss.
- This is literally what the best of the best support, escalation, and incident response engineers do. It sets them apart. It makes them the SWAT team of the org. It's why execs demand them, specific ones, on calls. Take. Ownership.
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- Lessons from first aid/incidence response: If no one is in charge yet, you are until you find someone more qualified. Finding them is part of your job now. Be explicit. Don't ask "can someone", point and say "you, call 911".
- Me: The Pope gets a coat of arms? I wonder if it’s passed down to his children. My brain: …let’s try that one again, shall we.
- The controversial color is ‘buff’. It’s a tincture that’s occasionally used in place of a metal. It’s uncommon but not unheard of. Much ado about nothing. #heraldry
- Technically possible, if unlikely. Widowers can be ordained. This sort of rules lawyering is why I got handed to the CCD class run by a Jesuit.
