Carl Cravens @CarlCravens@mastodon.xyz
Maker, programmer, gamer, dad, husband. Jack-of-all-trades. -- Reliability Engineer @ http://Linode.com
@CarlCravens Except, as my wife points out, it's your son's college taking to you about keeping your son in school. But making your newsletter with "retention" in the title is still weird.
AMAZON. Go to your room and think about what you've done.
Dear marketing people: "retention" is not a word you're supposed to use in customer-facing materials. Retention is entirely your concern, not theirs.
Do you ever get hung up on writing a piece of code, where you know you can do what you need, but you're really looking for a simpler, more elegant way of doing it, because you're afraid the maintainer won't take your PR if it looks too complicated?
Three things I wish work Slack would enforce: Match your username to the mail system, use your real name, use your real photo.
Clearly, I have become the grumpy old man of the office.
Sometimes I think other countries must get a really distorted picture of the US from the weird products that are manufactured there for us.
Other times I think they get a pretty accurate one.
That was so out of context, but my wife needs to see it.
@queenpossum @karobit Is it this one with Drum Major Riverdale Archie and Baberaham Lincoln?
Reference for the visually inclined.
I got a hand-made leather sling bag at the art fair over the weekend. Now my corner of the office smells like a tack shop.
UI designers, can you all agree on just *one little thing*. Just one is all I ask. Pick a f'ing corner for the "X" close button and *stick to it*.
Once you've managed that, we'll talk about the positions of the "OK" and "Cancel" buttons.
We visited an art show this weekend. Carl picked up some pottery (of course) and I picked up some lizards.
(Sadly, the artist doesn't seem to have a website. smallwonderlizards on FB, according to her card.)
How did I miss out on The Moody Blues in my youth? I guess they'd passed their heyday before the 80's.
# dang, this quickly got out of hand.
My favorite code comment from last week.
Yesterday we went to a giant art festival in Manayunk, a hipster neighborhood in Philly. It was an exceptionally muggy day so towards the end we started looking for a place to grab a drink. We ended up outside a Persian teahouse (https://www.safateahouse.com/) and it wasn't busy, so we stepped in. I tried sekanjabin, something described as a cucumber/honey/mint tea, and...
... oh... em... gee.
Turns out it's a new place, apparently a mother-son venture. Sadly (but not for my budget), an hour away.
My new office building is lit entirely by motion-sensitive lighting. TIL all the basement cafe sensors are near the doors, and if you sit at a table long enough with nobody coming into the room, all the lights go out while you're eating lunch, and no amount of arm-waving turns them back on.
I'm a systems engineer (administrator) by choice, not because I "wasn't smart enough" to be a software engineer.
My first thrown pot in over three years. 1.5 pounds. I expected to have to learn to center again, but it just happened. Overall, my hand remembered what to do, I was just fuzzy on the specifics of things I kept changing up... sponge placement, knuckle lift, finger lift, etc Nice to be throwing again.
As if salaried pay wasn't enough, they had to go and invent "lunch and learn" so they can rob you of your lunch break, too.
