I wrote a book about dealing with dates in data pipelines.

https://williamsbk.gumroad.com/l/...

I hope to write another one early next year.

What was interesting was 70% of the Data Vault training was something I do already. The other 30% was either a good idea or overkill. However now that it has been adopted by the team, I guess everyone will have to code that way.

“The Fraud Police is this imaginary, terrifying force of experts and real grown-ups who don’t exist and who come knocking on your door at 3 am, when you least expect it, saying 'Fraud Police! We’ve been watching you and we have evidence that you have no idea what you are doing.'” ~Amanda Palmer

Wow, y’all are depressed.

https://twitter.com/williamsbk/...

I don’t work in medicine or military so no one dies if I use “<“ instead of “>=“ because I wrote the variables in the wrong order. I’m not worried about skills, I’m worried about saying the wrong thing to the wrong person because direct, clear communication is out of style right now.

Me: <complaining to Boss about something Boss is doing>
Boss: That’s why we pay you so much, so you will put up with stuff like this.

Trumpbuxs are breaking banks.

Setup an Urbit planet
Got it working and it’s beautiful
Started doing development
Broke my planet because I’m me
Now I’m sad as I try to figure out how to fix it and not doing development

I got a planet!
Chat isn’t working, I don’t know why yet.
It was working on the comet I spun up, but not on ~linrun-harmes.

Management fired the catfish hire!
The person who showed up was not the person on the phone. It took three months for the team to convince them it was not the same person.

Screw DataStage
Screw Saleforce
Screw the $25k/week Vendor who finishes work maybe 60% complete, if I’m being generous.
Screw the business rushing to us to fix their shadow IT cluster.

DataStage is a very expensive pile of crap; just like anything from IBM.

Someone asked about CVs, and I found this https://resumonk.com/blog/...

Disclaimer: I use (pay for) Resumonk.

I need to write something using https://nuget.org/packages/... because it’s bugging me. But I don’t know what.

I’m learning Japanese with Duolingo, so I enabled the keyboards in iOS. However I am not far enough along to know how to type what I need and the layout looks like it’s based on a 10 key phone. So for now I speak “おはよう” and have Siri do the writing.

Yesterday was my two year DevRant anniversary, I forgot.

No Joe, they can’t.
https://twitter.com/realsaavedra/...

The weather.gov API is a great teaching API. https://weather.gov/documentation/...
It’s simple but has lots of flexibility.

OCT31 == DEC25
Merry Christmas!

By filling out their tracking tools in a language they can understand prior to their deadline of needing the data, being honest in their meetings, and being right about the time/complexity of the effort.

I think this sums it up nicely.

https://jackbaruth.com/?p=16779

Stop staying “.... or whatever” or “pull blah, blah, blah” when discussing requirements. What you say, we will build. If you honestly don’t care what we build then let us end this call and we can make it up.

Devs: There is to much work for the team size, can we say no or wait to the business?
Mgmt: Here are some staff aug contractors.

Later

Devs: They are screwing things up.
Mgmt: Then manage them better, it’s your work they are doing.

Someone shat in the office.

The Moto MC68000 CPU in the original Mac had 68k transistors. Apple sold 372k units in 1984. 68k x 372k=25.3bn
The A12X SoC in an iPad Pro has 10bn transistors.
So, if you’re inclined to really unfair comparisons:
3 iPads => all Macs sold in the first year

Found via https://twitter.com/benedictevans/...

There is a 1,000 line program in your 20,000 line program just waiting to get out.

I tried this on mobile and the delay isn’t as noticeable as I’m a really slow mobile typer.

https://input-delay.glitch.me/

An amazing thread about time.
https://forum.bodybuilding.com/show...

The delta between the HiPPO and LoPPO (“highest paid person’s opinion” and “lowest paid person’s opinion” respectfully) is proportional to the schizophrenic actions of the company.

There is no sex in your violence
There is too much magic in your requirements.

Anyone work on alternative mainframe banking software? Like https://temenos.com/en/solutions/... It kinda looks just like software now, which is a good thing.