my top 5 horror movies:
1) ticketmaster
2) ticketmaster queues
3) ticketmaster prices
4) ticketmaster fees
5) not seeing my favorite artists live because of ticketmaster
the most performative part of job searching is sitting in an interview and explaining your deep passion for a company you genuinely did not know existed until you saw the listing three days ago.
Slay the spire getting review bombed for being “too difficult” is very sad to see
the game is supposed to be hard…
onepunman literally won 20 in a row on A10 and i almost first tried the game on A10 while blindfolded
spire 1 is close to 2x the difficulty and its the GOAT
It's Friday afternoon and I've merged 13 PRs this week so far. I used to ship 2-3 a week.
This is on top of my tech lead duties: reviewing code, responding to Slack, design discussions, meetings, and conducting interviews.
Is there more context-switching? Yes. Is my cognitive load higher? No.
Most of my cognitive load used to come from coding itself, and I'd max out after about 6 hours a day. Now I've delegated most of that to agents and trust them to handle the bulk of the work. I spend more time finding patterns that should be automated, then automating them, so the cognitive load keeps shrinking over time.
The best-kept "secret" in productivity? Don't work on parallel coding tasks.
Throughout my career, I've mostly worked on a single code branch at a time. I only work on multiple code changes when I'm truly blocked. There's always background work to fill the gaps: reviewing code, responding to Slack, writing a design doc. This keeps mental load low and ensures each change gets merged before it drifts from main.
Where do I think we're headed? The era of hundreds of 5-minute tasks a day. Most will only take 5 minutes or less of your time. Some in the foreground, others you kick off and get notified when they're done. It's going to seem scary, but with the right orchestration tooling it's fairly manageable. Not that different from working through a support inbox.