Mark Goody @marramgrass@nitech.online

Hiring a software engineer in their late 40s:

Pros:
* Understands your stack better than you do after glancing through the repo for five minutes.
* Will rewrite said stack 2x as fast, and half as buggy if you let them.

Cons:
* Gives zero fucks.
* Knows we're not *really* like family here.
* No, seriously, absolutely zero fucks given.

Do not cite the deep magic to me, product manager, I was there when it was written.

"Online conferences will never work because no-one wants to sit through a bunch of talks on Zoom," they confidently type before closing the tab and settling in for three hours of tennis while their spouse watches the latest videos from a favorite online chef and their kids chat with literally hundreds of fellow fans during a real-time stream of two strangers playing Minecraft.

Anyone looking for a remote (UK based) #Mac or #iOS UI application developer? Experience of large, complex projects, #ObjC, #Swift, #AppKit, #SwiftUI etc?

#jobs, #jobfairy

@marramgrass

Unfortunately as a white guy I have noticed that occasionally Da Algariddem will notice I am white and male and decide I must be interested in being an ignorant bigot. Right when I turned 40, for a hot minute the ads were all guns, trucks, "EDC tactical" shit, you know, insecure masculinity and insecure masculinity accessories.

"I think maybe Tolstoy actually never figured out happiness. I can always tell the hallmarks, because people who have never been truly happy tend to think there are a set of failure states they have to remove to get there, to that perfect state that looks like everyone else's happy family."

-From a speech I delivered years ago and just found

In the "nothing new" department - it's interesting to see Reddit complaining that third party devs are profitable but they aren't.

Years ago when I edited java.net I remember the Sun execs walking around JavaOne angry that everyone was making money off of Java but them.

I love how business types are all in favor of “letting the market decide” until it comes to wages. Then they gripe and moan about people not wanting to work for the low wages they’re offering - when that’s just the market deciding they have to pay folks more.

“drive civilization forward.” is apparently a thing the new Twitter CEO wrote.

Fuck, and I can't state this strongly enough, away off into the sea at San Francisco Bay.

🤦🏻‍♂️

One does not simply walk into Mortar

#introvert #meme

Ai Weiwei A.I. Weiwei