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I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
October 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
Great post on the importance of doing something solely for yourself. Two favorite quotes: “burnout doesn’t usually come from laziness or disconnection. It comes from caring too much, too long, with too little support.” And “hobbies aren’t luxury. They’re survival”
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Ashley Willis
Make Something Just for You This post started as an answer to a question I asked in Slack: What else should I write about? A few people wanted to know how I fin...
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July 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Great post on the importance of doing something solely for yourself. Two favorite quotes: “burnout doesn’t usually come from laziness or disconnection. It comes from caring too much, too long, with too little support.” And “hobbies aren’t luxury. They’re survival”
ashley.dev/posts/effort...
ashley.dev/posts/effort...
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The biggest problem with “strong opinions, weakly held” is that you look really stupid walking back a strong opinion even if you have a good reason to do so.
This is why big companies end up with risk aversion and decision by committee. Looking like you made a mistake is fatal while inaction isn’t.
This is why big companies end up with risk aversion and decision by committee. Looking like you made a mistake is fatal while inaction isn’t.
June 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The biggest problem with “strong opinions, weakly held” is that you look really stupid walking back a strong opinion even if you have a good reason to do so.
This is why big companies end up with risk aversion and decision by committee. Looking like you made a mistake is fatal while inaction isn’t.
This is why big companies end up with risk aversion and decision by committee. Looking like you made a mistake is fatal while inaction isn’t.
Me too, gonna have to remember this one! My other favorite traffic analogy is about the myth of resource efficiency…a highway at 100% usage becomes a parking lot.
"Faster cars != faster traffic" is an incredibly evocative phrase. Love it.
This, I think, goes some way to explain why productivity gains reported by individual engineers using "AI" coding assistants evaporate at the level of what actually gets delivered at the team level. (See 2023/24 DORA reports).
Faster cars != faster traffic.
Faster cars != faster traffic.
March 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Me too, gonna have to remember this one! My other favorite traffic analogy is about the myth of resource efficiency…a highway at 100% usage becomes a parking lot.
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New: We spoke to government IT employees/contractors about DOGE. Their warnings were dire. The people who maintain the systems that keep the country working are terrified. "This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known."
The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified
Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.
www.theatlantic.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
New: We spoke to government IT employees/contractors about DOGE. Their warnings were dire. The people who maintain the systems that keep the country working are terrified. "This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known."
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This one came pre-assembled...
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February 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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I reported a problem with newly released Microsoft tooling last year, and in a quickly following update MS backpedaled a breaking behavior change. I’m still getting occasional “someone replied” notifications from everyone commenting “worked for me” on the thread, lol
January 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I reported a problem with newly released Microsoft tooling last year, and in a quickly following update MS backpedaled a breaking behavior change. I’m still getting occasional “someone replied” notifications from everyone commenting “worked for me” on the thread, lol
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No matter how good you think you are, you gotta be coachable if you want to get better.
January 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
No matter how good you think you are, you gotta be coachable if you want to get better.
Don’t rely on just the GitHub star rating…check the project history too! Bot networks are selling fake stars to help legitimize malware packages. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
Over 3.1 million fake "stars" on GitHub projects used to boost rankings
GitHub has a problem with inauthentic "stars" used to artificially inflate the popularity of scam and malware distribution repositories, helping them reach more unsuspecting users.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
January 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Don’t rely on just the GitHub star rating…check the project history too! Bot networks are selling fake stars to help legitimize malware packages. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
It’s amusing how you can judge how much an organization cares about a required training subject by the production budget. Preventing security hacks, data leaks, and social engineering attacks? Video with actors, music, interactive mini-games. Ethics and compliance? Walls of text to read lol
December 10, 2024 at 3:17 PM
It’s amusing how you can judge how much an organization cares about a required training subject by the production budget. Preventing security hacks, data leaks, and social engineering attacks? Video with actors, music, interactive mini-games. Ethics and compliance? Walls of text to read lol
Ooh, gonna try this today. Thanks Sarah!
💻 Remember, if you're on a Mac, you can clean up your desktop by having screenshots sent to another folder:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location whatever-the-pwd-of-folder-is
(then do killall SystemUIServer)
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location whatever-the-pwd-of-folder-is
(then do killall SystemUIServer)
November 25, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Ooh, gonna try this today. Thanks Sarah!
This was such a defining game series for me growing up, I might get pulled into buying this remaster. Great storytelling!
November 23, 2024 at 1:40 PM
This was such a defining game series for me growing up, I might get pulled into buying this remaster. Great storytelling!
Not taking your paid time off is voluntarily taking a pay cut. Worse, it signals your employer it’d be OK to cut vacation time benefits.
Take every day off you have coming to you
November 11, 2024 at 2:07 PM
Not taking your paid time off is voluntarily taking a pay cut. Worse, it signals your employer it’d be OK to cut vacation time benefits.
I absolutely do this. And sometimes writing out the message causes me to revise who it’s getting sent to lol
Does anyone else leave the To line empty in long emails until you're ready to actually send, so that you don't send it early by accident?
November 9, 2024 at 3:07 PM
I absolutely do this. And sometimes writing out the message causes me to revise who it’s getting sent to lol
It’s easy to be discouraged about circumstances outside your control. Choose to focus on what you can influence- your beliefs and values, your interactions with others, and whether you resolve to continue regardless of your environment.
November 6, 2024 at 2:29 PM
It’s easy to be discouraged about circumstances outside your control. Choose to focus on what you can influence- your beliefs and values, your interactions with others, and whether you resolve to continue regardless of your environment.