"After finding an X-Forwarded-Four header in production, we had a new policy banning verbal requirements"

Do you struggle to code after a meeting? In the morning? Do you struggle to pay attention to a meeting after a deep work? We know that context switching is costly but we rarely talk about how we can be more interruptable. Here's a simple interruptible workflow that you can try:

OH: Kinder, was spielt ihr da? Commit und lauf weg!

“Who is reviewing the turquoise pull request?”

The fact that Ewan McGregor’s brother, Colin McGregor is a pilot in the Royal Air Force and his aviator nickname is “Obi-Two” is my new favorite bit of knowledge.

TIL about `pdb.runcall(lambda: my_func(args))`. Way more convenient than `pdb.set_trace(); debug my_func(args)` which I used previously. Because now it's just the normal debugger, and not a 2nd-level nested one (where readline often doesn't work etc.)

I have deleted the tests that were in the repository and which you had ignored for multiple years Forgive me they were useless outdated and failing

Dem @janunger42 herzliche Glückwünsche zum Geburtstag!

OK, we've got a tricky UX problem in datetime.isoformat and I could use typical users' intuitive thoughts here. If you are a Python programmer, can you take this short survey? Please don't do any research before filling it out! https://t.co/PLxCskvpjq RTs appreciated!

"Did you finish shaving the yak?" "Well, I'm writing a script to git bisect crawl for changes to see when source files were removed from the project but not deleted from the repo to get more context to create some cleanup PRs" "So....no?"

pronouncing "boolean" like "jolene" is my toxic developer trait

He no longer believed one could legislate out of existence greed, or stupidity, or sheer perversity of will. It reassured him that neither could one legislate out of existence love, or hope, or the desire for beauty

… grant me the serenity to not write an ORM when the project doesn’t need one, the skills to write an ORM when it would actually help, and the wisdom to know the difference

Wir suchen beim @flyingcircusio weiterhin einen Senior Systems Engineer mit Hang zu Data Center und Lust auch Hardware in die Hand zu nehmen. Themen wären Netzwerk, Ceph, Qemu, NixOS und Python aber auch viele andere spannende Sachen.

Mac OS needs a function key bound to "dismiss all notifications" the way the X button dynamically appears at the top left of the notification is the worst violation of Fitts's Law I have ever seen, makes notifications way more cognitively taxing than they ought to be.

On today's episode of "Hey look at all that latency when you forget to move your load runner with the target halfway around the world"...

"Fox in Socks" (Dr. Seuss) performed as a rap song by @wes_tank https://t.co/GdsKoGY3DB My favourite part is at the end ("tweetle beetle puddle battle" etc. :) (via https://t.co/F1Fpcx721a)