Carl Cravens @CarlCravens@mastodon.xyz

How is it cell phones videos bypass all of our social standards of not bothering your neighbors in a restaurant?

My phone has more CPU cores than my desktop machine.

One of the worst things about text chat as work communication (whether IRC, slack, etc) is asking a technical question, and while you're waiting for an answer, someone else posts a totally different question that sparks a conversation, and your important technical question goes unanswered.

I didn't have this much trouble with team mailing lists.

This toot brought to you by a dev who is editing code where all the variables are different from the DB and are confusing AF, but policy doesn't let me rename variables for clarity.

Simple DB dev tip: When naming variables that correspond to a field in the DB, give it the same name as the field, unless you have good reason to do otherwise.

I think I use my letter opener to flick crumbs out of my keyboard more than I do to open mail.

Google Music:
Wednesday afternoon: how about listening to that album you've listened to every day for a month?
Monday morning: how about listening to that album you've listened to every day for a month?
Every Day: How about...

Yeah, Google, I listen to that album every day. Your recommendations are not exactly Deep Neural Net AI quality here.

My wife's been posting pictures of her creations alongside photos of old Dragonriders books. I barely remember my great grandfather. He died when I was little. Years later, after great-grandma died and we were cleaning out the basement, I discovered in the many boxes of old books, some very early prints of Tolkien, Lovecraft, McCafferey, etc. It made me regret I never got to know the man because we clearly had something in common.

I find it ironic that corporations have basically turned "mental health" into another task on my plate to be kept track of, executed and measured.

When you ask Amazon for "low-sodium snacks" and it literally gives you stuff with "sea salt" in the name, and some of the highest-sodium snacks available. 😖

Me (in anime slack): Explain why the Japanese use this English word when they have lots of their own words for this concept.
Slack: [lots of generic info about loan words, isolation, etc]
Me: You don't actually know, do you?
Slack: ...

I'm wondering if there are other industries/careers that blur the line between work life and personal life as much as the software/tech industry does.