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I retired a few months ago. These calls have taken me back to the horror of working in tech. It must be what PTSD is like.

Edge case that needs fixing. Move on.

I've read 31 novels since January, far more than I'd read in the last 30 years.

Easy: I read 50 pages every night when I go to bed, instead of screens.

I started with short novels, 150 pages or fewer (chatgpt gave me a reading list).

It quickly became a habit, and it's lovely.

HS2 Phase 1 as a whole required 8,276 public-body consents, but those were not 8,000 permits for the bat structure.

Sounds like a 1-way ticket to burnout.

Nature isn't good enough, so he had to vandalise it.

It would have been easier and cheaper to raise the salaries of the Long Island employees.

“Parents were discouraged from teaching their children languages other than English, even if they expressed themselves best in that other language.“ Yes my Spanish-speaking father and English-speaking mother decided, when I was growing up in USA in the 60s, not to speak Spanish to me, in case it fucked my learning and development up. Shame, it would have been cool.

Yes! I love my Airpods Max more than any other headphone ever but I wear them all the time and mt tinnitus is crazy. Should stop wearing them, at least reduce.

If they'd use bread instead of 'bread' I'd eat there all the time.

How about 'My list of indie blogs' instead?

I've always thought of dreaming as analogous to a flight simulator, as the article suggests.

Come back, zinc! Come back!

Management-speak or not, it's correct. Software development is much more social than it was when I started. Pairing and mobbing get better results faster.

Thank you! I've wondered that, can't wait to see what he answer is.

Hard-to-read grey fine type also acts against user goals. Is it still 2010?

not much use when your ruminating self knows the tricks you're playing on it

I remember the 90s when manual typesetting and page layout was replaced with Quark Xpress, and when analogue phot retouching was replaced with Photoshop. Lots of highly skilled people suddenly out of work - the ones who didn't retrain to use the new tech. Wasn't overnight but felt like a revolution. Then of course magazine publishing lost out to the internet.

I would love to spend my days making stained glass windows, or as a dry stone-wall builder in the Yorkshire Dales. TS, there's no way to make a living in either.

Tenuto app is my favourite for this. I'm also a new adult learner.

St Jeremy led an institutionally anti-semitic Labour Party, clearly documented by the EHRC. Reading that will answer your question.

Whenever my MS account did stupid stiff like this, I'd just create a new one. I ended up with 4 before moving my life outside of the MS ecosystem.

Magnify to 150% and it's readable again.

Not quite true, but I can see why you'd think that. I worked for a reputable SP company in Oxfordshire, legal were all over everything we did. The Hoover debacle did wonders for our business, all of a sudden clients wanted protection from the scammers.

But ok I then went to one in London and some directors were sent to prison for fraud. So OP yes you have a point. It was a dodgy world.

Waterfall / no process -> Scrum -> Kanban -> XP

Problem I found with this journey is that Scrum concepts pollute Kanban and beyond. We now just do what works, as little process as works for us - and we implicitly review the process with each commit.

Do you have any data to back this opinion up?

I'm still genuinely uncertain why companies are so desperate to get staff into the office.

'Business people' like HR, sales, marketing LOVE being together in person; Engineers somewhat less so. Given that companies tend to be run by 'business people' then yeah I think I just answered my own question.

Daily Mail headline: "Thinking gives you cancer!"

Don’t forget how much streaming services struggle with classical music meta data.

zzzzzzz

A great read.