jtrek

It's hard not to draw uncharitable conclusions when people you considered friends don't reach out.

They may be struggling, but that's an explanation not an excuse. The sadness experienced by the person who never gets called, never gets invited, and feels forgotten, is real.

You think about what they do spend time on. Who they do call. It invites comparison. Why did they invite them but not me? Do they not like me? Was it something I said? It's impossible to know. They might not know themselves.

I follow a guideline of "follow their behavior, and if you have extra emotional energy then model the behavior you want to see". If they reach out sometimes, I'll reach out sometimes. If they don't, I don't, until I feel like I have the extra energy to risk them blowing me off or whatever.

How do they feel about it? Are you sure? How do you know?

In America, we resolve our political differences at the ballot box,

Do we though?

Without doing any research, I feel like I hear about fewer hate crimes targeting trans men than trans women? I'd guess because our society is obsessive with policing women's bodies. A guy with no beard is whatever, but a woman with some fuzz or stubble is a crime.

(Not to say that trans men don't have their own struggles)

That doesn't really address people betting on horrible things and then making them happen.

Also "it will just go underground" is still kind of a win? The average person isn't going to navigate sketchy underground arrangements, but they'll find a slick website with good SEO.

All tools are not equally safe nor should they all be publicly available.

A chainsaw is a tool that you might cause harm with if you use it in stupid ways. We don't give chainsaws out to children. We don't use chainsaws for cutting dinner.

There are human elements to the problem but that's not a big reveal.

I dislike postman. I see job postings that are like "MUST KNOW POSTMAN". Fuck, people should know how to make API requests but postman isn't the only tool for that.

Furthermore, if I'm doing automated tests to run on PR I'm not going to use a GUI. Pytest or jest or whatever testing library your language has.

I did use Bruno for a while for convenience during local development, though.

You guys fell for the ragebait embarrassingly easily

Microsoft should maybe evaluate why so many people read about the alleged horrible AI+Subscription model and went "yeah that sounds like something microsoft would do." Their brand is in the shitter.

Pretty much every decision Microsoft has made for years has been bad. Why not one more?

If someone posted that Valve is moving to a subscription model, much of the response would probably contain "This seems out of character for them"

I don't know why someone down voted this.

I've had several friends block off time on their calendar for i-dont-know-what. It was marked as busy and it could've been anything from napping to elden ring. It's their time.

Though I think a lot of people don't use a calendar for their personal life and I can't relate to that level of chaos. I can't remember my plans and everyone's birthdays in my head.

I think a lot about how one time we spent s few hours estimating how long a project would take. Management came back and said no, that's too long, we'd need to finish in a month.

Well if that's how long it has to take why not lead with that?

Bunch of idiot empty husks doing cargo-cult "agile"

Seems fair. Was a pretty big fuck up. Might deter others from making similar fuck ups.