Tag: culture
Québec, la nation
Deux textes qui se répondent, datés de 1962. Celui de Pierre Elliott Trudeau, dans Cité Libre : La nouvelle trahison des clercs et celui y répondant, de Hubert Aquin : La fatigue culturelle du Canada français publié dans la revue Liberté. Références tirées de ce billet bien senti de Steve Proulx, Lettre à Paul, sur...
Self-Advocacy for Technical Writers
I Built BlogScroll To Save Personal Blogging From SEO Hell
How BlogScroll, a community-maintained directory of personal blogs hosted entirely on GitHub, fights AI slop and SEO spam by surfacing real human writing.
Hypernormalization
Fediverse Report #103
This week I'm zooming in on the culture of the fediverse, prompted by the Superbowl halftime show. IFTAS announces they'll run out of funding soon, indicating the challenges with funding Trust & Safety in the network.
Gatekeeping
Christoph Nakazawa - Athena Crisis, Jest, Yarn, MooTools, Metro
Christoph Nakazawa discusses his journey from shepherding major OSS projects like Jest, Yarn, and Metro to building his new gaming venture Athena Crisis.
We lost the thread
We've arrived at a point where we can say that our attempts to port relationships and social interactions to the internet has been an unambiguous failure.
Conferences and Alcohol
Conferences and the culture of alcohol that they foster.
Arbitrary Calendar Marker Commentary
Another year of Tedium is behind us, and gotta say—it’s looking like another thousand years of it. Here’s the tedium you should expect in 2022.
Hanlon's razor
Defaulting to non-malicious explanations in incidents, postmortems, and everyday teamwork.
Clarke's three laws
When complex systems read as magic, people stop asking what has to stay true for them to work.
Thanks, Craig
Hitting its 25th anniversary this month, Craigslist remains a reminder that a more democratic version of the internet can still thrive.
I Created an Assessment to Evaluate Potential New Hires
Evaluating developer skills is not a science and I think most test miss the mark.
What Even are "Real" Developers
The irony of gatekeeping in a field and medium literally meant to not have gatekeepers is totally lost on some.
Punching Nazis is an American Pastime
Indiana Jones killed so many Nazis, like, if it were anyone other than Nazis you would say it bordered on excessive.
Why Millennials are Ditching Cars and Redefining Ownership
I wish ditching a car in Los Angeles were a workable option for me personally but, at the moment, I have a sixteen-mile round trip, daily commute that isn't workable with public transit.
Building a culture of objection
Summary: accepting objections is one of the most valuable skills a manager can learn, and yet the role models we get fail to highlight this As many other geeks, I have always been fascinated by aviati...