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NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️🌈") wrote:
@blithe does Mac and cheese count as “solid”? Assuming not, probably a good burger? Thankfully Heiðar makes a kickass burger so I wouldn’t have to go far. 😊
Mastodon FeedMastodon FeedNfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️🌈") wrote:
@blithe 😬
This was my least favorite part of the subway in NYC.
Mastodon FeedNfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️🌈") wrote:
@slightlyoff as a person somewhat recently venturing into JS-web-framework land, I’d love to hear some of the problems here.
I’ve liked using Svelte’s all-in-one (HTML/CSS/code) file structure, and recently saw some CSS-in-JS libraries for React, but haven’t gone far enough down those rabbit holes to experience the pain for myself yet.
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Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Apart from being generally educational, this video about human genetic haplogroups will probably be a serious trigger for American white supremacists, who would realize their closest relatives (haplogroup R1) also live in central Africa around Niger and Chad. (Not that I encourage engaging in any sort of meaningful conversation with white supremacists.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlQdOUGVdG8
But overall, what a curious mix us humans are!
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
If the people who were telling you that the last decade's excesses were fine, actually, were out here helping to remediate the damage, that'd be one thing. But that's not where we are.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
"Fundamentals don't matter" is how we got "CSS-in-JS".
Groking why holding your platform wrong guarantees a bad time is not an idle skill; it insulates your team from floating dead in the water.
As someone presently digging multiple teams out of the "CSS-in-JS" ditch, with huge wins for products, teams, and users on the other side, I think I've earned this dissent.
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chancerydaily@masto.ai ("Chance The Lawyer ⚡︎") wrote:
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Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedtechnomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:
facebook, medium, and cloudflare: we're going to join the fediverse!
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I guess you could say the VCs unbanked themselves.
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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
An important addendum to this (while I wait for another build to finish) is that the goal of getting in touch with these other sub-disciplines is to help you identify which skills *in your own layer* are foundational, and which are less likely to survive the next correction.
Gaining an appreciation of the stack from the point of view of other layers will help you gain perspective on your own systems, which makes you more valuable and effective.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
No, you don't have to do VHDL, or etch chips, or rebuild a core router from the OS up, or crimp your own cables -- at least not if you don't want to. But if you work in browsers, you'll need to learn OSes and something about web development.
If you work on the web, you'll need to learn a lot about browsers and something about what designers are struggling with.
And if you're a designer, you'll need to learn about your medium (web development) and content design.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Now, we all operate in different levels of the stack more-or-less, and a constant truth is that there will always be a higher and a lower level adjacent to what you are comfortable with. That's OK! It's natural. Don't let it get you down.
But also don't let it become a crutch. It's *necessary* to begin to grow an appreciation and understanding of the terms of debate in those layers as you progress. They're not "your" layer? OK. Cool. But you must become conversant in 1-2 above/below.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The way this plays out over a career is subtle but powerful. When those around you understand you to be a lightweight, or to "only know X", it will eventually cause them to refer you for fewer positions. Doors will remain closed that you might not even perceive. In moments of change, peers will not look to you for guidance.
All of that adds up.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
For my crimes (looking at LinkedIn...yes, I know), a point I cannot stress enough for those who MSFT refers to as "early in career":
Learning the trendy thing without developing a parallel skill in the fundamentals will *always* catch up with you. Every time.
You *do* need to understand the platform below you.
Really.
*Really* really.
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Mastodon FeedOf course maybe I’m just still quite anaemic but trying to get healthcare in the UK just now is a roll of the dice
Mastodon FeedI will miss being able to do things on command. I got home from work today and just made an entire fucking pasta sauce before starting on some other chores.
Incredible.
Mastodon FeedSo far: methylphenidate makes me nausous fucks my sleep too much and lisdexamfetamine is giving me near-constant headaches / dizziness.
I don't think if anything else is commonly prescribed in the UK, maybe I'll just have to be generally useless and beg employers to look at my productivity averaged over a year and not week-by-week :(
Mastodon FeedRealising that before I'm halfway through the year I'll probably be bringing my total spend on hair removal up to £10k and I'm not even going to be done 😭
sometimes I really hate being trans / transitioning so late in life.
And I'm still gonna need hair transplants too...
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whitequark ("Catherine") wrote: