I’ve been debugging CSS that looks weirdly off for days and can’t get it to look nice. Then I realized I was looking at a 150% zoomed-in window I had opened for presenting the page at a meeting. How is your day going?

This will be my first and last election post, I just can’t deal with the dread of everything coming, but on those ”election forecasts”: isn’t 2024 the final nail in the coffin for them?

No way this election was ”too close to call”, or ”50/50 but my gut says”. If you could start 10000 parallel universes from Tuesday morning, Trump would have won pretty much in all of those? And that models can’t predict correctly in this kind of an election makes those models more than useless in all cases, no? Maybe polls are something you can’t sum and average over at all?

It is curious to me how most of the software engineering advice and best practices are based on mostly anecdotes. Software organization generates so much artefacts and other data that could be measured but I rarely see it turned into actual numbers. For instance I have never seen monetary value (or some other value) assigned to (say) a CI/CD-pipeline or something obvious like having a revision control system in use

I once sold this at the customer by calculating the cost of making manual updates to a production system, but I didn’t go further than that. One could probably assign probabilities of mistakes and their cost but even just the cost of work was enough that time. I’d like if I had framework for this and I wonder, if frameworks like DORA and SPACE could help me?

I recently read a book called Build: Elements of an Effective Software Organization | Swarmia and I’ve read before Your Code as a Crime Scene, Second Edition: Use Forensic Techniques to Arrest Defects, Bottlenecks, and Bad Design in Your Programs by Adam Tornhill and while they give ideas (and latter is more tuned towards improving software) I am still looking for more ”business-like” book on the topic with hard numbers. Search continues on…

What is a thing that you know you would be very good at if you had the time to practice?

Idea for iOS — conditional screen time: the system only let’s you procrastinate after you have completed your todo list of the day. No social media before laundry and no games before Duolingo

Anyone use Airtable to automate memos and press releases, I have a document that is 95% same and the changing parts are easy to parameterize. Can I somehow go from data in Airtable to PDF document (roughly 2 pages) easily? Or should I use something else?

Finally saw Megalopolis. This was an awesome mess, perfect movie for me. I wish there was movies like this

Never done anything with Wordpress, but this drama still makes me uneasy. Can you no longer trust massively popular open source projects either?

This was a good text on relationships: don’t waste time on people who are not into you

Because attractive, non-needy, high self-worth people don’t have time for people who they are not excited to be with and who are not excited to be with them. Fuck yeah.

Fuck Yes or No

It is 5 years since I left Twitter and 5 years since I joined micro.blog. There are many excellent options for short-form blogging now, and the world is a better place for it. Cheers for microblogging diversity

Started reading: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien 📚. The book I love the most. Re-read number I don’t even. This is like a perfect rock song of a book: short, full of love and energy, and magic

Currently reading: A History of Roman Britain by Peter Salway 📚

Finished reading: The Anglo-Saxons by Marc Morris 📚

Video formats and codecs are about as painful for a programmer as time zones are.

Finished reading: Translation State by Ann Leckie 📚

Such a lovely book about Presger translators and their capabilities (and their appetite)

Currently reading: The Anglo-Saxons by Marc Morris 📚

Finished reading: The Dark Tower I by Stephen King 📚. Something I already finished on my holiday. I must say I won’t read this series further, definitely not for me. Somehow I do not care for the characters even if the world looks interesting. I felt I must have missed something as this seems to be generally well regarded novel

Hi micro.blog, long time no see! Trying to reactivate. How is everyone here?

I’ve been so happy with Airpods Pro noise cancellation before I started using WH-1000s. With big headphones I can imagine outside world sounds don’t exist at all and that has now ruined airpods ANC for me. But I don’t want to wear heavy headphones all the time either

Currently reading: Translation State by Ann Leckie 📚

Finished reading: Provenance by Ann Leckie 📚. Finally finished this. This is not quite Raadchai trilogy level, but then again, what is?

This is called ”takatalvi” in Finnish. There was no snow here last week and now 😳

Video alt: I am walking in a park over a walking bridge to another. Everything is covered in snow.

I am ”ah, large text, amazing” years old

My to read list manifested itself physically

Assumption that everyone knows how to use computer is wrong. Just a reminder to myself. Taking several steps back and starting from ”this is a web browser”