Amusing - I'm hearing a comeback of XP (Extreme Programming) practice. In the early 2000s these used to be popular (championed by @kentbeck.com). Then died down. They are now surging again. XP practices like small releases, frequent integration, and constant customer input!

I paid my therapist a zillion dollars to tell me this, so I’m passing it on to anyone else in MN who needs to hear it: Think of taking time away to recharge not as not doing the work, but as doing quality control for the work. You’re not going to be able to show up to do it well if you’re depleted

One thing LLMs really excel at is prompts like, “I’m in [City] for 2 days, and already have X, Y, and Z booked. My other priorities are A, B, and C. Make me an itinerary.”

Sick of all the AI slop littering your pinterest? 🤮 1: Navigate to your profile 2: Click on "Edit Profile" 3: Head to "Refine your recommendations" 4: Head to "Gen AI interests" 5: Toggle everything off! Enjoy the human creativity!

6-8 times a year, it just kills me that I can't strongly type React children. Imagine being able to enforce which components could be children of a given component! 😤

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Colleague of mine recently pondered: “How many gen-z devs run `rm -fr` because they think it means ‘for real’?”

Jerry Chen@jcsalterego.bsky.social · 2y ago

not many people know this but .js is pronounced dot just sayin'

Works.

What great engineering looks like: invisible at most times… except when it matters. Had no idea an iPhone would measure water presence on a charging port and warn for it. But it does! Was at a pool and a few hours later when plugging it in got this helpful message.