S03E08 Georg Schleiermacher techdebtburndown.com/episode_s03e... @cpswan.net and @nickselby.com speak with Georg Schleiermacher, former CTO of Hyperloop Spain and veteran of MTU Aero Engines, to explore technical debt in the aviation sector.

Tech Debt Burndown Podcast Series 3 E8: Georg Schleiermacher

Chris and Nick talk to Georg Schleiermacher

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It’s only imposter syndrome if you’re actually qualified.

nsqe@nsqe.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Y'all somebody took a Kia up Black Bear Pass. This will be a thread about the dangers of imagined competence. If you don't like heights, the next picture might make you nervous. Like, I don't have a problem with heights and it makes /me/ nervous!

Wrote this on tech debt management for Fast Company ($) www.fastcompany.com/91381090/tec...

Tech debt isn't an 'IT issue.' It's a business strategy

How 'tech debt' is stifling your company's growth

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Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.

I can’t compete with this

Wish I were one of Elon's kids so I'd never see him again

Exactly why I've been writing, podcasting, and damn near screaming about using the right language. The mainstream media is failing us SO badly right now. Stop. Calling. This. Shit. DEI. This is (re)segregation. This is racial purging. Cleansing Black people from positions of power.

Michael Harriot@michaelharriot.bsky.social · last yr.

By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

Got sent this. Sorry but had to share. Too funny. Too accurate. 😂

Do you remember in school when you were taught about the Nazis and the Holocaust and perhaps wondered why so many people complied and allowed it all to happen? Why so few people resisted? Now you know

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

i don’t understand how, psychologically, a person gets to a place where they interpret sign language as some kind of attack or imposition on their life. like, what the fuck is wrong with you?

Did you get brand new espresso machine for christmas? Is it your first time really diving into quality espresso? Our regular contributor Zuzanna has a great starter guide for you. Please share with your friends who are getting into espresso. coffeegeek.com/blog/beginne...

New to Home Espresso? Start Here

Taking the big leap into making espresso in the home in a way that doesn't involve capsules? Here's your first steps.

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As with mass shootings in America, hand-wringing, feckless journalists say of the murderous bastard who drove a car at high speed through a Magdeburg Christmas market, "His motive is not yet known." TL;DR: His justification is unneeded. He is a child murderer whose motive was murder and mayhem.

Here Giuliani's new lawyer pauses to bring in a discussion of the judge's father, as is customary in federal litigation.

The Trump era has brought absolutely lunatic lawyers typing very stupid things into the mainstream.

Brad Heath@bradheath.bsky.social · 2y ago

Here Giuliani's new lawyer pauses to bring in a discussion of the judge's father, as is customary in federal litigation.

Tough call

My hero.

Benjamin Dreyer@bcdreyer.social · 2y ago

#copyediting It's not an advanced warning, it's an advance warning, and it's not an advance warning, it's simply a warning.

Thanks, United, you punks.

there will be more articles written next week about the threat of “cancel culture” than there will be about this

Bobby Allyn@bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 2y ago

Kash Patel: We will prosecute journalists www.cnn.com/2023/12/06/p...

“Things are bad in Bulgaria. The devil has the people by the throat.”

Patrick C Miller@patrickcmiller.bsky.social · 2y ago

Bulgarians plead guilty to spying for Russia using ‘advanced technology’

Bird, Fallin’, Willy, Solo.

As the former owner of a new Ford Explorer (I regularly had to pull fuses to hard-reset its insanely bad Sync system) I am confident that Ford’s total incompetence will render it unable to exploit any data it harvests. Still, I object strongly to tools like this. gizmodo.com/ford-seeks-p...

Ford Seeks Patent for Software That Records Your Conversations to Serve You Ads

Would you want to drive a truck that was constantly listening to you?

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It's nice to see that there's some proper research being done into filter failure at the outrage factory - it's well worth reading the whole thread (and just a shame that the paper is behind a paywall). My own thoughts from 5+ years ago - blog.thestateofme.com/2019/02/13/f...

Filter Failure at the Outrage Factory

‘Filter failure at the outrage factory’ is a term I’ve been using on Twitter[1], usually as part of a quote tweet for something describing the latest social media catalysed atroci…

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Kate Klonick@klonick.bsky.social · 2y ago

And our findings: Big Finding #1: First we found that misinfo consistently evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, and when it does it is shared more. Interestingly, *this is specific to outrage* !! It is not just a general association with negative emotion in general. 6/

Really happy to be working with Huw Rogers www.linkedin.com/posts/huw-ro...

Huw Rogers on LinkedIn: How Much Tech Debt Is Too Much?

Strengthen cybersecurity and accelerate product launches together? Aren't those in tension with each other? It turns out that engineering slowdowns and weak…

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The data brokers in question were promoting a fundamentally grotesque reading of the law.

Patrick C Miller@patrickcmiller.bsky.social · 2y ago

Judge rejects data brokers’ bid to throw out case brought by law enforcement officers

Two recent posts on understanding and managing technical debt, from a business impact perspective: evertas.com/news/why-tec... evertas.com/news/how-muc...

When you think about it, Wikipedia is one of the only OG websites that hasn't succumbed to paywalls, wall to wall ads, pop ups, algorithms designed to frustrate and screw you over. And it maintains its social status. No wonder Elon hates it so much.