Did we ever settle whether masks work against COVID19? It seemed like a very important scientific question to determine whether that particular cluster of proteins follows the same laws of physics that others do 🙃

I definitely think the local experience can vary a lot, certainly across native vs non-native English speaking crowds. No one in my current environment is a native speaker and it's quite normal to see open ChatGPT tabs being used to help translate/rephrase/check grammar/etc.

There is a very nice intro from the lovely people at @coderefinery.org. I'm linking directly to the photography analogy they use to explain staging vs commiting because that was an "I finally get it 🤯" moment for me:

coderefinery.github.io/git-intro/br...

Write code to make being human easier. Rip code out if it makes being human harder. Write code to make caring for each other easier. Rip it out if it makes caring for each other harder.

Empathy driven development has literally never failed me. It’s done me better than everything else combined