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@shrydar @john_chandler heresy!

@john_chandler Also the breadbin was only ever meant to be a temporary measure because the original designers couldn't get budgetary approval for anything other than reusing VIC-20 tooling. 64C cases are the proper ones :D

So I ordered another Commodore 64 Ultimate, this time the one in the 64C case. In my defence, I was left unsupervised.

@john_chandler What do you think of it?

I was a dev team lead. Delivered a big project and I was given a large amount of money to take dev team for a meal. I suggested to the team we threw it open to supporting functions and went to pub instead. Next day over twenty people phoned in sick. Proudest moment of my career.

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@elonmusk @elonmusk How about funding a new series with a positive view of the future?

The older seasons of Star Trek were a positive view of the future

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The company hired me to lead their "Agile Transformation." I don't know what Agile means. Nobody does. That's why it works. I make $425,000 a year. To move sticky notes. From left to right. On a board. The board is digital now. The sticky notes cost $80,000 in Jira licenses. Progress. Day one, I said "we need to break down silos." Everyone nodded. Silos are bad. I don't know why. But destroying them is a career. My career. I introduced "squads." Squads are teams. But disrupted. We disrupted the teams into teams. Different names. Same people. Same problems. But Agile problems now. Agile problems are strategic. A senior engineer asked what we're actually changing. I said, "The mindset." He asked what that means. I said, "It's a journey." He asked where we're going. I said, "Toward agility." He asked what agility means. I pointed at the sticky notes. They were moving left to right. That's velocity. We have velocity now. The VP of Engineering said two-week sprints don't fit their work. I said, "That's waterfall thinking." Waterfall is bad. Like silos. I don't know what waterfall is. But I know it's bad. She stopped talking. Waterfall accusations end conversations. We had a retrospective. In the retro, we discussed what went wrong. Everything went wrong. We put it on sticky notes. Then we moved the sticky notes. Into a column called "Parking Lot." The Parking Lot is where problems go to die. It's full. We don't look at it. That's agile. Velocity is up 40%. I defined velocity. I also defined the points. I also defined the stories. We're crushing it. At the things I made up. To measure. Ourselves. The CEO asked for ROI. I showed a chart. The chart went up. Charts should go up. This one did. I didn't label the Y-axis. Nobody asked. Leadership is confidence. We do standups now. Every day. We stand. For 45 minutes. Standing is agile. Sitting is waterfall. My legs hurt. But we're transforming. The transformation is now "Phase 3." Phase 1 was assessment. Phase 2 was implementation. Phase 3 is "continuous improvement." Continuous means forever. Forever means job security. I'm very secure. My contract was extended. Three more years. For "cultural impact." The culture is confused. But impacted. Agile transformation isn't about being agile. It's about transforming. Continuously. Toward more transformation. The destination is the journey. The journey is billable.

@SandyofCthulhu Of course, we don't know for sure that animals don't have religion.

Literally zero animals have religion. It's a uniquely human phenomenon that is worthy of analysis and study. Any modern agnostic who dismisses religion as something "primitive" when it didn't exist before us, is flying flagrantly against all evidence. This fact doesn't make it true. It makes it unusual and interesting. A particular trait of humans.

@WannabeJohnGalt @stewartlynch8 My best effort is over a thousand lines! Those were the days.

@stewartlynch8 I once wrote a couple hundred lines in one sit-down. It compiled and ran perfectly the first time. I still think about that. Especially when it takes me three tries to get a printf() right.

When I worked on a large team on a massive codebase the breakdown of my time was something like this: 0.1% writing new code 4.9% modifying existing code 95% navigating the codebase I think that's fairly standard for a professional programmer. It's something that I suspect a lot of CS graduates are never told. If you've only ever worked on your own projects you probably think it's all about writing hundreds of lines of code a day, when in reality you'll spend most of your time working out how to make surgical edits to decades old code while trying not to break anything. That's why you need an editor that's fast and efficient for jumping around the codebase.

@pydanny I use both together!

I'm such a fan of Ghostty as my shell. It's like Atuin in that I'm not sure how I managed without it. And yes, I've tmux but didn't like it. Configuration was too arcane for my taste.

@OmarHamadD Hello from Australia

With Elon Musk amplifying anti-Muslim propaganda and censoring pro-Muslim voices, I would like to have a test here: Say hello if you don't have a problem that I'm a Muslim and that I'm just your friend on twitter.

@mhdksafa Yes

@mhdksafa Hello! But enough clickbait, no need for validation.

@SandyofCthulhu Good advice, thank you

Marriage advice from a guy who is still happily married after 46 years. My wife said, "I love you so much." today without prompting. Long ago we realized that neither of us is telepathic. Hence, we ALWAYS tell each other when something's wrong. We never just sit and brood on it. And if someone forgets the rules and gets grumpy, when it's pointed out we forgive and immediately say, "Well I felt bad that you XYZ" and then we know what to do or we can defend ourselves or whatever. But we DON'T SIT AND STEW BECAUSE OUR SPOUSE CAN'T READ OUR MIND. Heck I don't know what I'm thinking or feeling much of the time, how can my wife do so?

@SandyofCthulhu About the only thing I change is adding some handicap rules (like negative VPs, or a Power tax each turn) to balance veteran players. What do you find is the best way to add a handicap, that still leaves the game the most fun for everyone?

Gatekeeping games I design: If you bought my game, it's yours and you can do ANYTHING you want with it. Change the rules all you want. I do indeed have opinions about what would give you the most fun with the game, but those opinions are already in the game, so you do you.

@SandyofCthulhu You've nailed it, that's the biggest loss in modern culture, that we can't politely disagree and stay friends.

I detest the political hell we now have. I lean conservative, and I'm religious. The vast majority of my workmates all my life were liberal agnostics. They are, and were, my friends, and when a discussion veered into politics WE STAYED FRIENDS. Seems like forces now don't want that to happen anymore. I think these are forces of evil.

Australia has released a brand of soda called "Kirks" in honor of Charlie, in some of the flavors he was said to love. So beautiful. #CharlieKirk #MAGA

Ricky Wooltorton is taking strides towards a cancer free future. Donate to support their efforts at West Coast 2025 Relay For Life. relayforlife.org.au/s/27408/67445/t

I really need to spend less time on my hobby of book buying and start to read some once in a while.

@SandyofCthulhu I'd love to help playtest your SF game

I have noticed that some X contributors list that they're a TTRPG designer right in their name. I didn't do that, so thought I should list my creds. I am designer or co-designer on five TTRPGs - Call of Cthulhu, Runequest III, Ghostbusters, Elfquest, and Superworld. Two of those got awards (Call of Cthulhu & Ghostbusters). I am currently working on a science fiction TTRPG. Probably be done in a year or so.