Youssuf ElKalay

Pleased to announce a company name change and slight change in direction. ABALogix is now 2038 Labs! Milelogix is still a maintained product but I'm now doing hands on software development consulting. Check out our website for more details: 2038labs.com

@cheeseplus Closest thing to a work "fam" was the former crew of the @ShipShowPodcast - but yeah completely agree with your sentiment.

@cheeseplus Which number are you?

@cheeseplus @lizaledwards Great show. I remember watching an interview with the late Patrick McGoohan in which he said he still had no idea what the show was about up until the very last episode. Side note: Used to get nightmares of being suffocated by the Rover.

@bryanl This might be a misperception on my part but it felt like a lot of the technical posts on Usenet had greater substance than Stackoverflow and the like. I learned a lot in my early days just perusing listserv threads and newsgroups for this kind of information.

I remember when there was no Google search. Making software was hard. Folks swarmed around AOL, IRC, gophers, and Usenet. Then we got *good* search and making software was hard. I think we'll get benefits out of these AI tools, but making software will continue to be hard.

Wondering how much more of a tire fire this platform is going to become. Haven't had time to switch over to that *other* more open platform that uses ActivityPub.

@philiph Ketchup made from tomato's grown in Portland? 🤔

what the heck is this instagr.am/p/CpS69UYp-QhN…

@cheeseplus I never got to play Mass Effect when it was originally released. Got the legendary edition for PC and recently finished the first one. ME2 is interesting so far.

@cheeseplus There's a 4 letter word that starts with R and ends with K. Some of us *still* remember.

The beauty of not taking any affiliates or sponsorships is that I get to freely speak my mind, without worrying about upsetting someone who pays me money. ClickUp reached out, asking if I would become an affiliate and recommend them. My response:

@bryanl 🎶"It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock n roll"🎶 In all seriousness, lots of learning,listening and grinding through various problems both human & technical. Didn't get my first senior title until I had 7 years under my belt which was for the best.

How did you become a senior contributor at your job? And if you aren’t senior, how are you working on that?

You love it.

@joelhooks @adamdotdev There's also Zest which is basically identical to Dash but currently unmaintained. zestdocs.github.io

@adamdotdev haven't used it in awhile but Dash is clutch kapeli.com/dash

In light of recent recent events I'm seriously considering deleting my Twitter account. Mastodon isn't a replacement but its decentralized architecture appeals to me.

@abayer Congrats!

So yeah! Today's my last day at CloudBees after ~7 years. On Monday, I start at Datadog, working on their internal CI platform. Eep!

@cheeseplus Your comment reminded me of this:

@grepory Would you consider DX (developer experience) to be a subset of UX?

@seclectech Can we also add unsanctioned and impromptu Nerf gun battles to the mix? I've worked for two companies where getting shot at by a Nerf dart was the norm.

@SalZiauddin @GOtransit @GOtransitST @TorontoStar @Toronto @blogTO @680editor @citynews680 They can handle the bug problem.

So weird to see companies work so hard to convince an employee to stay after they’ve already put in their notice. There were probably dozens of times you could have stepped in before it got to that point; a meager raise isn’t going to help now.

Berkeley Mono looks like great typeface but I don't know about a recurring annual fee per user for commercial purposes. berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berk…