I find that it’s good to ask questions that allow them to vent further.

Like most buzzwords, gaslight has lost its meaning.

The trick is to do the hobbies for their own sake instead of using them as a means to an end.

Gaslighting is convincing someone that they perceived or remembered things incorrectly. That’s a very specific kind of manipulation.

The silver lining here is that the world has gained an extremely compelling argument for regulations.

Epics don’t have to be huge. And stories don’t need to be attached to epics in the first place.

An epic is just a way to organize features. There’s no hard and fast rule for how many features are needed to form an epic.

If the work is expected to make it into the deliverable product, then it should fall under a feature. Either add it to an existing feature or create a new one. I prefer the former because it results in less deceptive forecasts.

Methylphenidate always works. It’s just a question of dosage lol

The fragmentation of communities needs to be addressed. The fact is that most people just want to consume content. There needs to be a client-side solution that helps less tech-savvy users to more easily consume content from similar communities.

If the mods are gone, then large subreddits become a legal liability.

Is it really? I feel like people in war torn countries have more important shit to care about. This might be another instance of “terminally online person being offended on someone else’s behalf”

Advice on choosing between two things that are only marginally different.

I don’t know how things are today but when I was a kid, some of my textbooks and many of my worksheets were in comic sans.

Shit I might just try this out. I hope my colleagues don’t notice.

Don’t take too long trying to figure out a challenge by yourself. Ask questions. Unlike in school, you are allowed to ask for help with your work.

Learn how to write unit testable code as soon as possible (SOLID principles). Learn how to write concise and relevant unit tests. If it’s not in your team’s culture to write unit tests, then you go be that guy. It’s good for you and it’s good for the product. Unit tests are one of the few things in the programming community that everybody believes are a good thing.

I became a full stack developer without realizing it. I don’t want more shit to do. God damnit let me hone the skills I already have!

The main reason to get into .NET is if you’ve started working for an employer that uses the Microsoft ecosystem.

I’ve only explored very little of the Blue Mountains but I thought that Jamison Creek was an interesting experience. I didn’t think it was possible to feel both safe and in danger.

Form a starting team based on skill sets and let them do the rest. Give them a project and they will tell you what they need if they feel assured that you have the capability and will to help them. You want the team to cater to the product, not to the manager because manager satisfaction does not bring value to the organization or the customer. You only need to manage more closely if for some reason you were only able to gather junior devs.