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The easiest (and laziest) way to keep up with all this is just to use RSS. Yes, it’s safe and boring and it works1.

All2 the Words That’s Fit to Print:

Red Or Green

If you think this is about color theory, you are only partly correct. How about a nice game of intersectional poly-cultural functional-dysfunctional workplace shenanigans.

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  1. There is a point in life when you realize that safe and boring and it works is the ultimate engineering flex. Sure, when you are young and enthusiastic and full of energy you embrace the whole move fast and break things, because it feels like you have achieved something. The reality is you are running around like Wile E. Coyote in a Warner Bros cartoon, and the Road Runner has outsmarted you, yet again. You become a senior engineer when you realize this, not when you have reached a simple five-year milestone. Anybody who considers themself a senior engineer just because they have reached that milestone is a shallow and vapid idiot who should never be let near a compiler. ↩︎

  2. Technically, it’s some not all because, yes, the publishing pipeline is wired into our IFF discriminator and the words are compartmentalized. In other words, what is available to you may very well be not all that is available, so if you log in you may, or may not (because no promises and no guarantees here), see more things. It is called setting boundaries. ↩︎