It’s a completely insane metric to measure the value of a software dev. The most effective dev I know was effective because they churned out line after line of code that was good enough to do the job… (View Post)

This is what happens when you sack all your SRE people & pieces of your backend start to break. (View Post)

Some of it it optics. Brand safety is optics, as in the linked screenshots. No company wants their brand appearing in people’s feeds next to hate content or pornography because it’s radioactively tox… (View Post)

It seems inarguable that the real intent of voter ID is to disenfranchise younger voters (less stable housing, less likely to own valid ID) at the expense of older ones. The claim that in person vote… (View Post)

I’m tempted to agree with Mike here. Unless something changes we’re in for a tough few years & economic circumstances are a very strong determinant of voting intentions. (View Post)