James
@thejamesrapp
Tamer of Tech Debt
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Tender rejections - history does repeat. Tender rejections are following the same trajectory as in 2019, which is a bullish sign for the end of the year and headed into 2025.
Effective organizations generally test new practices before rolling the practice out widely. Obviously. But it's so common to see engineering organizations mandate new practices/architectures/etc without any testing. Why does this happen so often?
shit like this is why go doesn’t have a ternary operator
An observation about devops: At Big Tech, engineers take on all the operations work, oncall, deal with being woken up at night, b/c they are paid very, very well to do this. Hard to copy this model if you don't pay like those companies do. Else you need something different.
Does anybody know of an impressive AI? Haven’t seen much development in the space lately.
Really loving Slack’s recent UI update for sending DMs. Instead of clicking “+”, you now click “Direct messages -> Create -> Start direct message”. When it comes to the most common flows, why click once when you can click three times? 🤡
Some alarms going off about the new capabilities of AI but I can’t help feeling like this is an age-old reaction.
One picture that continuously for years takes my envy to another level is @dhh workspace
ChatGPT is coming soon to the Azure OpenAI Service, which is now generally available, as we help customers apply the world’s most advanced AI models to their own business imperatives. azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/gen…
The freight market has likely bottomed is the theme of my latest article freightwaves.com/news/high-freq…
Also, as a mechanical engineer and a proud owner of Catalog Issue No. 121, it's our prize. This thing is equally well designed in print.
PSA: If, like me, you were never taught to wash rice, turns out you need to wash rice.
Stop using LastPass as your password manager. Move to any other one, and please change any passwords you have on there now.
Can ChatGPT fill out all of these peer review feedback requests?
HAPPENING NOW: One lane of Hwy 1 is closed at Devils Slide, S of Tom Lantos tunnel. A car has been spotted on the beach at bottom of cliff.
an observation i’ve made over the years is that every sort of highly-regarded position selects for extreme stress tolerance & emotional resilience as a filtering mechanism beyond raw talent & intellect which are typically table stakes. doctors, athletes, actors, execs.
Another day, another now former Amazon software engineer sharing how Amazon put them through hell thanks to a meritless PIP which was the set up so they would fail and be fired. Amazon has a 6% target to fire people and they do. Every single year. And yet few people know this.
No joke: there is a *gigantic* consultancy to be made out of the problem statement "Slack stops working when we reached X00 employees. What just happened." Plausibly a software company, too, but there are many companies who would pay $X00k just to get that question answered.
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