Ricardo Hermida Ruiz

@gothburz A practice that lingers way into the 23rd century youtu.be/t9SVhg6ZENw

My manager asked how long it would take to fix the bug. I said two weeks. It took forty minutes. But now I have two weeks of buffer. That's called experience. Here's how it works. Every estimate I give has a multiplier. The multiplier depends on who's asking. My manager asks: multiply by 4. A VP asks: multiply by 6. The CEO asks: multiply by 10 and add "dependencies." Dependencies are other teams. Other teams are always slow. Even when they're not involved. Especially when they're not involved. Nobody checks. The bug took forty minutes. I fixed it Monday morning. I didn't tell anyone until Thursday afternoon. That's three days of buffer. Buffer is protection. Protection from the next ask. Because the moment you finish something fast, they ask for something else. Finish the bug in an hour? Great, can you also look at this other thing? Finish it in two weeks? Great, take the afternoon off. You earned it. I earned it by lying about how long things take. That's not how they'd describe it. They'd call it "managing expectations." I'm managing expectations. My expectations are that I don't want to work that hard. When I was junior, I gave honest estimates. "That'll take about two hours." My reward? Four more tasks that day. Then I watched the senior engineers. They said "end of week" for everything. Everything was "end of week." A config change? End of week. A one-line fix? End of week. A meeting that could've been an email? End of week. They were never stressed. I was always stressed. I learned. Now I'm senior. Now everything is "end of week." Or "end of sprint." Sprint is two weeks. Two weeks is forever. Forever is comfortable. Sometimes someone pushes back. "Can we do it faster? This is urgent." I pause. I look concerned. "Let me see what I can do." Then I deliver in three days instead of two weeks. I'm a hero. I wasn't faster. I was honest about the original timeline. But the compression makes me look dedicated. "He really hustled on this one." I didn't hustle. I just stopped lying for a moment. Strategic honesty. Delivered at the right time. After enough fake delays. The best part is nobody tracks this. Nobody says, "He estimated two weeks but finished in forty minutes." They say, "He finished ahead of schedule." Ahead of schedule. I set the schedule. I beat the schedule I invented. That's exceeding expectations. I'm exceeding expectations. My performance review says I'm "highly reliable" and "consistently delivers." I am reliable. I reliably estimate 10x what things take. And I consistently deliver. Right before my fake deadline. That's called being senior. New engineers burn out because they're honest. I padded my way to work-life balance. My manager asked why I always seem so calm. I said, "Experience." Experience means I've learned to lie about time. Professionally. With a straight face. And a buffer that could fit a vacation. That's engineering.

It’s always DNS

@p_balduino 👀

@p_balduino Na volta pra cá não tem isso, elas vão direto

@AkitaOnRails veio da memória na hora

@p_balduino Aí ninguém pode pegar seu computador emprestado

this the best breaking bad meme i’ve ever seen 😭

thinking about the person who got mad about the photo on the sandwich article

@josevalim @t3dotgg

@tvaziri my favorite shot!

"Rogue One" (2016), visual effects by Industrial Light & Magic. Visual effects supervisor John Knoll, animation supervisor Hal Hickel. Full ILM credits: ilm.com/credits/rogue-… Animation by Yuhon Ng, lighting by Dan Hayes, compositing by Tami Carter.

@deboradeveloper neovim+lspconfig ué

Nessas horas eu não defendo taaaanto o uso do VIM mentira, ainda prefiro VIM

@_camilotk @p_balduino no lugar de abrir uma thread deveria ter tido "preciso abrir um parêntese sobre isso"

LISP tem uma das sintaxes mais bonitas que uma linguagem de programação pode ter, mas as pessoas que nunca experimentaram julgam pela forma. (Como não assino o Twitter Premium - e nem pretendo - vou fazer uma Thread como os Astecas faziam explicando.) 👇 🧵+

@ProgramadorREAL achei que em español ele ia confundir o j também

@programador_who @Metropoles Çenha pra manter os hacker russos longe

@Metropoles Pessoal, tentem usar voltando, fica mais difícil. Senha321 no lugar de Senha123 Por nada. Ou escreva senha errada Cenha321. Essa nenhum hacker quebra.

Walter Delgatti diz que senhas do CNJ eram 123mudar, CNJ123 e 12345. Hacker invadiu sistema do Conselho Nacional de Justiça e inseriu mandado de prisão de Alexandre de Moraes contra ele próprio.

@grahamcox82 @robinlavallee @unclebobmartin Don't forget about Paul.

@robinlavallee @rhruiz @unclebobmartin But it's only just getting fun. You've got GeoGuessr, Chess, and all sorts coming up after that...

I despise password rules:  8 chars, a digit, a punctuation, one uppercase...  That's all crap.  It leads to "MyPassword1." A better approach is to pick a few random words.  "sticker cube bead robot".  That's easy to remember and a LOT better than "Mitzie1."

@MikeOkuda I was always mesmerised by those round displays! Love them

Our friends at Roddenberry Prod recently dredged up some notes that I sent to Gene's office, way back in 1985. I asked, "Why are the monitors round on the movie Ent bridge?" I wondered what kind of graphics would be used on round screens. These sketches were my answer.

@usrbinarthur que nunca consegue substituir completamente a antiga?

Daqui a uns quinze anos, o Musque vai criar uma nova rede social chamada Wayland?

The #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds crossover with #StarTrekLowerDecks is NOW STREAMING on @ParamountPlus! And it even has its own special animated title sequence.

I'd love to teach a group of 4-5 developers the basics of testing in Elixir (for free). Thinking two or three 1-hour group sessions. You have to overlap with 8am-3pm ET. Sign up 👉 forms.gle/SgDfW8ec9pR8dB… (first come, first served). Retweets appreciated. #MyElixirStatus