After a bunch of experiences like this I will now basically only use test runners that automatically run the tests in randomized order.

Gotta catch that stuff early.

I do make the assumption that the reader is trying to look competent to their boss/clients yes. If that's not the reader's goal then I have very little to offer.

Author here. Do you generally find that people who are not software developers understand what you mean when you say "technical debt?"

That depends.

People who are around developers, often yes.

Whenever someone doesn't get it, it's easy enough to explain in one sentence: Technical debt is the result of decisions that we've made, willingly or unwillingly, or knowingly or unknowingly, that make changes slower and riskier.

In the case of a newly committed file you can add just the file with

git add . -N

And then review the text itself as part of the git add -p workflow

TIL about git add -N / --intent-to-add :

  git add --intent-to-add .
  git diff
  git add -p .

  ## To then reset and keep changes
  ## these are equivalent:
  # git reset .
  # git reset --mixed .

The issue here isn’t that this guy shared something about his personal life it’s the particular personal details. It’s possible to share information about your personal life without talking about your drug use or your therapy or your drug use at therapy.

It is irritating that people expect you to understand what reasonable personal sharing is without explaining explicitly and goodness knows I screwed this up when I was younger but “don’t talk about your personal life at all” is bad advice.

If you haven’t interacted much with people raised by conservative Christians in the United States, they often have strong feelings about how they were raised.

Firefox is an interesting choice as a company that wasn’t affected by identity politics given how Brendan Eich left the company

Early Firefox was the example. Looking at Firefox's market share decline since Eich got replaced reinforces the point though.

They are not a “pure middle man.”

You should talk to someone who works at Patreon. Or a larger creator on their platform.

They provide a lot of services and support to their bigger creators.

Last I heard they also do their own payment processing, which is a substantial technical problem.

Patreon just does this every few years. At least Jack Conte didn’t post a video of himself crying about it this time.

For anyone wondering, I looked it up and even managed not to mindlessly delegate it to an LLM—you're welcome!

First layoff was in 2022, 17%, claimed reason: economic downturn.

That was the last layoff.

So by "every few years" you mean, a single time a few years ago, yea.

Buckle in, our economy is flushing!

oh but he did - just in the conext of AI instead of his workers:

https://youtu.be/17_HcR95YBc

timestamp(s): ~33min and ~41mins

Kind of tone deaf of him to post a somber layoff message below his open-mouth laugh-smiling profile picture.

Lol imagine if he had changed his profile pic just for this. I don't think that would make him look any better.

An accompanying photo of the executive team saddened by the news sounds like just what folks need

He needs to be frowning and wearing all white.

His smile really says, "I'm so happy, healthy and am quite fond of my life while making music with my really cool celebrity friends!"

It was small enough I didn’t mind.

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