Notices by Jaycie (jaycie@vulpine.club)

The fact that half-baked, rushed software can beat out well-developed software in the marketplace isn't an argument against perfectionism so much as an indictment against the idea that the market is an ideal predictor of value.

Coining the term "picobureaucracy" to describe all the small, ever growing pile of procedures and details people are expected to follow and remember just to get by. For example: picking out a healthcare plan, figuring out taxes, logins and passwords.

The initial success of Mastodon depended on the implicit absence of fascists et al afforded it by early obscurity. Now that Mastodon is popular, we'll have to defend it from them explicitly. Any claims to the contrary are likely revisionistic.

Dear white, male, cis, straight allies in tech: We need you out there de-radicalizing your racist, sexist techbros friends and coworkers (who are much more likely to listen to you than any of us) more than we need your code. Thank you.

We're still hiring for devs at all levels at my new employer! Give me a shout.

We're also less interested in specific tech backgrounds than in general aptitude and potential. Offices across the globe!

Imagining single-user ActivityPub servers meant to be run in multiple instances on the same server. Wondering if that would have any practical benefits.

Reminder that "just wear noise-cancelling headphones in order to concentrate in an open office" is effing exasperating advice, speaking as someone with tinnitus.

If you're an engineer who's angry about what self-interested parties did to phrases like "Agile," "microservices," "SOA," and even "SCRUM," then just wait until I tell you about the history of phrases like "social justice," "triggered," and "socialism."

When people say "You're doing Agile/etc. wrong," they're often right, but only if they include management and the organizational hierarchy among the blamed.

Agile methodologies, even SCRUM (as intended by the creators), are inherently incompatible with the power dynamics of most organizations, especially corporate ones.

More developer co-ops. More unionizing.

Remember that there's nothing "scrappy" about a start-up with millions in venture capital backing in. VCs are exploiting our desire to root for the underdog, particularly when it comes to things like regulation.

If you want to understand why the US workforce gets such a bum deal, imagine a school classroom where the students have convinced themselves that the class bully will be nice and buy them all snacks with the lunch money he stole if only they give it to him nicely instead of making him take it, except that the bully never made any such promise and instead says that those who can't hold onto their lunch money don't deserve it. The bully is the one percent.

Imagine if we have unions in tech which could have the political clout to push back on some of the unmitigated brokenness of technical interviews.