Dan Pupius

@Connor @nbbaier @arcinternet Schema.Org has some precedent too, with Action and it's subtypes. schema.org/Action

@nbbaier @arcinternet Nope, just honestly wasn’t aware of this! I haven’t been doing web development since 2014 so have lost touch with some newer capabilities. This is fantastic, thanks for the tip!

What if sites could specify their own @arcinternet actions via HTML metatags? The idea is we'd expose some core primitives, and then sites could build on top of that. Would you find this useful? What would be on your wish list?

@MattJamesBoyle @iavins I believe this lib was originally extracted from group cache (github.com/golang/groupca…). I've also used it in some code dealing with 3rd party integrations.

@iavins I’d be concerned if libraries are using this truthfully. I prefer caching to be an app specific concern and not something that happens hidden in a library

Singleflight Singleflight is a really interesting package that "provides a duplicate function call suppression mechanism." Why use singleflight? Consider an application that fetches data from an API or a database (i.e, pretty much any application in existence). If several requests trigger the same call, this might trigger multiple identical database or API calls. These redundant requests can strain your system, leading to wasted CPU cycles, memory, and bandwidth. By using singleflight, we can remove these duplicate calls really easily. Here's an example: In this example, even though we have 5 goroutines simultaneously requesting data for the same key, the fetchData function will only be called once due to the group.Do function from singleflight. Do you use singleflight? what for?

@aboodman Also Sonos. Play 5 stereo pair in the main room. Play 1 in bedroom. Port connected to Denon Amp and Martin Logan speakers which are also used for the TV. I'd probably get an Arc for the TV if I was starting over.

Tell me about your home audio setup. I’m so done with Google Home. 😢

@joshm @browsercompany Where it really messes with your head is when you feel both simultaneously.

I find that the most difficult part of being a founder @browsercompany is moderating my own emotional ups-and-downs. The highs feel unnecessarily high, and the lows feel disproportionately low. Was low last week, now high! How do you stay even-keeled? Might start yoga again!

@joshelman @jamescham Also, the evidence on efficacy of brainstorming is spotty at best. It _feels_ good, which does support an important purpose but likely doesn't actually result in better outcomes.

@joshelman @jamescham It's not about simulating real world interactions, but facilitating different interactions that have similar outcomes. FWIW The biggest gap I see is cultivating belonging, which is necessary for many of these processes.

The discussion on remote work vs in office work continues to rage. But I think the word we don’t debate enough is “work” There are a few types of work: (1) figuring out what needs to be done (2) doing the actual production (3) reviewing (4) delivering

@joshelman @jamescham FWIW my hot take, is that RTO is really about performance management.

@joshelman @jamescham Yes! Intentional communication and collaboration is the key. I do think all 4 classes of work you outlined can be done successfully remotely, lots of evidence that's the case. But it's ok if not everyone wants to spend "innovation tokens" figuring it out. It is still nascent.

@joshelman @jamescham I remember talking to a team pre-covid who was struggling, they were split over two floors and essentially experiencing the same issues we talk about today with naive remote work. "remote" is really a spectrum.

@joshelman @jamescham The point was that remote work amplifies organizational dysfunctions which already exist, but are either not acute enough to fix or not felt by all. Practices that make remote-work work, make work better.

@rauchg Ends vs means.

This is where software development is headed. Work backwards from the desired product experience to the set of technologies that enable it.

Teams that do regular debriefs (meetings focused only on learning from past team performance) improve team performance by up to 25%, but they are often infrequent, conducted only after things go wrong or big projects end. Research on the best approaches: psycnet.apa.org/buy/2018-23205…

@nanaze While annoying, average speed cameras in the UK appear to have been super effective.

CHP wrote 10k tickets this weekend. Just put license plate cameras on pairs of overpasses and ding drivers $25 every time they go >10MPH over the limit. Speeding would cease to exist. sfchronicle.com/california/art…

As well as pressure from the labour movement, reduced work hours gained popularity during the great depression because it meant there was more work to go around.

Worth noting that 1870 was close to peak; a time where work weeks were 70hrs and it was common to see children in factories. By comparison, 14th century casual laborers worked about 1400 hours and 15th century farmer/miner worked about 1900.

@roybahat I usually figure it's a planner-doer internal conflict.

To people who ask for meetings ... then they only schedule them for weeks/months out ... then move them multiple times ... then cancel that day (I agree to do, when "valuable enough I'd meet but wouldn't ask for it myself.") Why do you do this to yourself?

@gavindoughtie Yeah... seems like a fundamental shift is needed. In the meantime, China is the canary, with population possibly reaching peak and projected to decline significantly by 2100.

@dpup So either the population grows unsustainably or the economy crashes or we expand civilization beyond its traditional terrestrial constraints OR …mumble… AGI UBI…

I’m probably dense about this sort of thing but a demographic implosion is bad for an economy primarily because the economy depends on human labor, correct?

@eduardolundgren It's an amazing tool, instead of fighting against the flow, consider org design part of software design.

Just learned about Conway's Law: companies create tech that mimics how they communicate internally! It's like their teamwork style leaves a fingerprint on the systems they design.

NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got. My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/75e5e3d… And some utterly damning charts. 1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.