MelTheTechie (she/her)🏳️‍🌈

Senior Technologist, Writer/Editor, Speaker, Wrangler of cute pups. Find me on sky app, too!

[MelTheTechie (she/her)🏳️‍🌈 @melthetechie]

Thanks @lisacrispin - if anyone wants to follow me on Bluesky: https://t.co/hrovoU0XJp

[Charity Majors @mipsytipsy]

Your reminder that any AI-generated result will always be a guess.

If you *can* calculate or compute the answer, you probably should; it will be faster, cheaper, and far more accurate.

But some problems you *can't* really calculate or compute. In which case...guess away. 🌈✨

[MelTheTechie (she/her)🏳️‍🌈 @melthetechie]

@techgirl1908 That had better be the size of a fish bowl.

[MelTheTechie (she/her)🏳️‍🌈 @melthetechie]

@TheyWrestleTest Yeah, that's pretty annoying for sure.

[MelTheTechie (she/her)🏳️‍🌈 @melthetechie]

@TheyWrestleTest You should be able to shut that off, yes? Or did they take that option out?

[MelTheTechie (she/her)🏳️‍🌈 @melthetechie]

On the lookout for a new opportunity (aka Job) - QA/Management, or something around that space would be a good fit for me. #jobseekers

[Amanda Goetz @AmandaMGoetz]

First they called it “quiet quitting”
Now they call it “quiet vacationing”
Know what’s not quiet?

How tired millennials are of BS corporate culture.

We tried climbing the ladder and we still can’t buy houses or save for retirement.

Agree with Peter Guse on this one.

Out:
Giving everything for a company who doesn’t care about you.

In:
Work that enables you to feel fulfilled in and out of the “office”

Agree?

[MelTheTechie (she/her)🏳️‍🌈 @melthetechie]

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[MelTheTechie (she/her)🏳️‍🌈 @melthetechie]

@_nyanbun_ This is so real it hurts. If you love something, absolutely love it, don't learn how it's made. OR hope that your love is so great, that you can overcome knowing how things work and still enjoy what you love. It took me three years before I played games again.

[MelTheTechie (she/her)🏳️‍🌈 @melthetechie]

So NASA can update a probe that's over 50 years old and 22 Billion KM away in two days.

Some software out here still taking years, and it's recent. Is the software more complex than Voyager? Maybe. But why is that? It didn't have NASA's budget, or timeline. What's difference?

[Sarah Drasner @sarah_edo]

I have many stories like this too- sometimes my highest performers have been people I have been told needed to be let go when I took the team on.

Always give people a chance, give them the feedback and time to grow. Sometimes it doesn’t work out. But it’s worth trying.

[MelTheTechie (she/her)🏳️‍🌈 @melthetechie]

@TheyWrestleTest It's sad when we are so undereducated we can't learn from our own history, and that I fear, is the point. You can't treat other humans like this if you know what it represents, and why.

[Vernon Richards | Ghostwriter & Coach @TesterFromLeic]

Greetings 👋🏾

The latest episode of The Vernon Richard Show is up!

In this episode, @FriendlyTester and I chat about conference submissions, networking and on-boarding onto new teams (with a painful sprinkle of footy as well as 😐)

Available wherever you listen to podcasts, plus there's a link in the following post 👇🏾

[MelTheTechie (she/her)🏳️‍🌈 @melthetechie]

They eventually did once I pointed out that I was testing across many devices and two platforms, INCLUDING Automation. And while each dev only had to remember 15 toggle names for features, I had to remember 30. Sometimes more, because OS-only features. It matters.

[MelTheTechie (she/her)🏳️‍🌈 @melthetechie]

Or QA/Tester that has to go through your code and figure out what the inside joke was later.

IT'S NOT HELPFUL - and no, I didn't have this exact problem. I was on a mobile team with iOS and Droid developers, and they refused to name the A/B feature variables the same.

[April Wensel @aprilwensel]

I understand the appeal of naming variables and modules based on obscure references or inside jokes. It’s fun and can enhance a sense of belonging for the current team.

However, I implore you, think of the poor developer trying to navigate through that tangle a decade later. 😅

[Charity Majors @mipsytipsy]

Interviewing is an inherently asymmetric process, where candidates always have less information and control. Writing a review of your interviewers, like @shippo did, is a small but real step towards balancing the scales. 🙌

https://t.co/hE42nIyxrc p.s. welcome to honeycomb!!

[MelTheTechie (she/her)🏳️‍🌈 @melthetechie]

@jrosaproenca This feels like so many governments in a nutshell - at least externally. Who knows what kind of dancing around the line they are performing that the public is not aware of, and may never be.

[MelTheTechie (she/her)🏳️‍🌈 @melthetechie]

I have an XR that is working fine because I've done this twice since I've owned my phone. iPhones are literally set to save EVERYTHING. Most of it's not even necessary. I don't need all my text messages and voice mails, nor do I need every tab I've ever opened.

[MelTheTechie (she/her)🏳️‍🌈 @melthetechie]

What they don't tell you: Turn off iCloud from your phone. Download your photos and data to a Google drive, then delete everything you can from your phone. Shut off all the "save data" features except for the most critical.

[MelTheTechie (she/her)🏳️‍🌈 @melthetechie]

@samueljforrest I used to use command line all the time, then did one consulting gig where folks on staff joked about how I wasn't using the IDE. It's a strange world out there.