Hey don’t panic.

We don’t just know you smoked a bowl. We also know your family, your friends, and your third grade teacher and we’ve snitched on you.

I just walked by a guy who smelled like a weed shop.

Most disappointing gift goes to Bart Simpson who wanted Bonestorm but instead got this.

I see this as malicious compliance, and I love it.

I really like that!

A while back, Someone shared their collection of radioactive ceramics. Opened up a new world for me!

Growing up in the 90s, there were so many hobbies that were unobtainable.

Like, I was a kid and didn’t have anybody to teach me about trees. So they recommend you go to a library and get some books on trees. But the books are either at a college level, or something extremely basic. And your support was only as helpful as the librarian. So they knew zilch about the topic, you’re fucked.

Today, you wanna know about trees? Visit a wiki. Watch YouTube videos. Ask AI. Go to the library with actual resources to get the right books or audio books.

Huge opportunity and a wealth of information.

It said do a hobby for the fun of it, not create pain and suffering

Fun fact: internet explorer was originally built off the File Explorer.

I kinda stopped following programming for windows a decade ago. But in sure there is some ancient code from 30 years ago that is holding some critical files together.

Need a Explanation?

(Gestures vaguely in the air)

It’s built off of OSM. Which is how it should be.

You literally cannot search for Mastodon without getting a weird ass 2-paragraph manifesto about The Fediverse.

End users just want to use shit.

This is unfortunately the world of open-source.

1. Nerd tells you to use the open-source thing.
2. Non-technical tries it and asks questions
3. Nerd proclaims it’s not a real problem/your fault/not applicable/fix it yourself
4. Some company takes that open-source version or idea, makes it easier for end users and monetize it
5. Nerd gets angry and repeats step 1

Source: I am nerd and I contribute to open-source.

As a person with allergies to specific foods, then don’t make this mistake. Measure twice, cut once. These rules were written in blood, and tiniest violin for companies who fail it.

This is my neighbor all the time.

Like dude, round up!

And this is why we do The Scotty Principle

That’s the “One minute manager” bullshit. It’s literally just popping in randomly to course correct.

It’s distracting as fuck as a engineer.

Totally agree. Drives me insane with drive-by status updates.

It’s this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/2rmir6/why_developers_hate_being_interrupted/

Absolutely! But it also depends on the size of the company. Small companies can absolutely benefit from PMs. I used to take freelance clients as a engineer, and never accepted a job without a PM who was willing to block out the noise.

In big companies though, I have a lot of disdain for PMs.

Many literally spend their hours being the middleman between actual stakeholders. I recently had a project where the PM was just forwarding emails from one department lead to another. They didn’t understand the product or cared to follow any processes. Then distracting my team for status updates so they can build reports in Excel, so they can feed it up the chain if something was done or not.

Fortunately, our retros are heavily engineer-centric and we can give harsh feedback/fire our PMs, which we have done successfully over the past few years.

This is funny on the internet but I met this guy at coding conferences.

I was considering it in 2020 during the pandemic. Then a coworker showed me some of his figurines. Then more. Then his set. This his room. Then photos of his basement of terrain he’s working on. Then he linked me to new sets he’s buying. Then shared some resources to meet other people like him.

Yeah, imma enjoy this hobby from the sidelines without spending money.