Preston Maness ☭
@aspensmonster.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy
Free Software fan (love #linux). Spent 20 years in Austin, TX #atx. Now in #FortWorth. BSEE from #TXST, 2014. Currently ((2^5)+3) years old (354 ppm) […]
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December 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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we regret to inform you that grayscale week is now over
December 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
we regret to inform you that grayscale week is now over
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This is how you hollow out an entire industry and make us all poorer for it in the process.
For shame.
For shame.
December 4, 2025 at 4:19 AM
This is how you hollow out an entire industry and make us all poorer for it in the process.
For shame.
For shame.
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And I don't think I can find much sympathy at all for the people stunting the professional growth of these beleaguered job-milled IT people by denying them the chance to learn from the short history of our industry and from their peers in other organizations at other points in this […]
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December 4, 2025 at 4:18 AM
And I don't think I can find much sympathy at all for the people stunting the professional growth of these beleaguered job-milled IT people by denying them the chance to learn from the short history of our industry and from their peers in other organizations at other points in this […]
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It is galling to see the reputation of a discipline about which I care deeply be dragged through the mud like this. I'm watching a bunch of consultants and MBAs pat themselves on the back for zero-summing their opex by a couple of single digit percentage points by shoveling sand straight into […]
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mastodon.social
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
It is galling to see the reputation of a discipline about which I care deeply be dragged through the mud like this. I'm watching a bunch of consultants and MBAs pat themselves on the back for zero-summing their opex by a couple of single digit percentage points by shoveling sand straight into […]
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I know how these environmental sacrifice zones of IT anti-excellence are formed because I've seen it happen over and over again, from different angles, in different organizations, following _exactly_ the same toxic runoff trails of incentives into the tailing ponds of organizational dysfunction […]
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mastodon.social
December 4, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I know how these environmental sacrifice zones of IT anti-excellence are formed because I've seen it happen over and over again, from different angles, in different organizations, following _exactly_ the same toxic runoff trails of incentives into the tailing ponds of organizational dysfunction […]
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The thing about this IT department is: I've had this job. I _know_ it is not easy. But these problems are not new: they're so old they have names. The _solutions_ have names. _The books from the 70s and 80s about those solutions_ are known by single words.
And it is not the fault of the IT […]
And it is not the fault of the IT […]
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mastodon.social
December 4, 2025 at 4:07 AM
The thing about this IT department is: I've had this job. I _know_ it is not easy. But these problems are not new: they're so old they have names. The _solutions_ have names. _The books from the 70s and 80s about those solutions_ are known by single words.
And it is not the fault of the IT […]
And it is not the fault of the IT […]