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[–] jeff@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago

I'm an exmo. Gender and sex is doctrinally binary, I always wondered how intersex children would be treated. Thanks for sharing. There were lots of things that made me leave, but I always disagreed with the church's stance on LGBTQI+ issues.

[–] jeff@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

You've convinced me a little bit. Some of those flags do look good. Definitely not every flag though.

[–] jeff@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I have small hands and my kids use it without complaining. It's bigger than a Switch, but not too much bigger. I've traveled with it plenty.

[–] jeff@programming.dev 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This isn't surprising to me. I know that this might not be strictly relevant to this community, but I thought I'd share anyway.

I live in a conservative state that has restricted a lot of women's health services(abortions). We had a really great family doctor, she was my wife's OB, she was my kids pediatrician, she even delivered my youngest. She moved to New Zealand over a year ago and we are still upset over it.

We have multiple friends and acquaintances that had to go to a neighboring state for a "procedure" because hospitals in my state refuse to do anything that medically is related to abortions. One friend had a miscarriage and needed a procedure to remove remaining tissue in her uterus and she had to go to another state, even though there wasn't an embryo in there anymore.

It's nuts. I'd love to get out of here, but we have young kids and all of our family is local.

[–] jeff@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do you subscribe to A24 Zines? I just googled it.

https://shop.a24films.com/collections/zines

[–] jeff@programming.dev 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

As an American that lived in Canada for a few years.

Yes. I mean, first of all it was over 200 years ago. And Americans aren't generally great with history. Second, we don't really think about it as Canadians. I was at least taught it was British troops, which is accurate, but I never really made the connection that it was really Canadians until I lived in Canada and a Canadian made the claim.

[–] jeff@programming.dev 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Interesting question... After a small amount of research.

The FDA in the US and the INS globally. The number is just a sequential identifier, i.e., red #3 was approved before red #5.

[–] jeff@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

Psychonauts 2. I picked it up for 80% off during the autumn Steam sale and just getting around to playing it.

I also picked up It Takes Two and have been playing that with my wife.

[–] jeff@programming.dev 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Use it for tasks you tend to put off and don't use it for tasks you tend to hyperfocus.

Right now I mostly use it for boring time-consuming chores, otherwise I don't bother.

I will hyperfocus when I am coding at work, so I never use it then

[–] jeff@programming.dev 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It makes a lot of sense for businesses, especially where different countries might have different regulations. E.g., amazon.ca and amazon.in. Both sites are in English but it makes way more sense to split them up by country.

[–] jeff@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

+1 for Halls of Torment

It's a really solid entry in the rogue-lite vampire-survivors-like genre that Diablo enjoyers could pick up really easily

 

My company started using Lattice software for tracking 1 on 1s, reviews, etc. I don't really love it, but it's nice to have something that the entire company is standardizing with.

I've been using Obsidian for my personal notes before I became a manager.

And I use the M$ Suite as needed with SharePoint.

Any other tools, software, processes, that you use for the people management side?

 
 
 
 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/144418

I generally don't like "listicles", especially ones that try to make you feel bad by suggesting that you "need" these skills as a senior engineer.

However, I do find this list valuable because it serves as a self-reflection tool.

Here are some areas I am pretty weak in:

  • How to write a design doc, take feedback, and drive it to resolution, in a reasonable period of time
  • How to convince management that they need to invest in a non-trivial technical project
  • How to repeat yourself enough that people start to listen

Anything here resonate with y'all?

 

I've heard people mention curl and imagemagick. Any others that you know about?

 
 
 

I really do love the fun IDE colors.

Does anyone else switch IDE themes depending on the project? Whenever I started a new project I would choose a new theme to go with it.

 
 
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