Josh Schultz

Thoughtful / neurotic. I work on raising kids at my house, and on raising software at GitHub.

[Josh Schultz @veryfancy]

"Change starts with what we choose to have for breakfast." - Jerry Weinberg

[Samantha Watkins @_samantha_joy]

Happiness, ability, fulfillment, self-esteem... are their own justifications.

No, Montessori doesn't design her educational approach for "whatever gives a child pleasure."

But it is designed to unlock work, learning, *human life and growth* as the *highest* pleasure.

[Christian Keil @pronounced_kyle]

Yes. Word processing is bad.

Before it, document length was bounded by the human capacity to copy long-form text & about to plateau.

After word processing, the tax & legal codes grew without check. And became incomprehensible to anyone but career experts.

[Soren Iverson @soren_iverson]

Intuit TurboTax option to pay your tax bill by watching ads

[depths of wikipedia! @depthsofwiki]

My favorite thing about this article is that the guy who wrote it started it on a Monday night at 10pm

[Josh Schultz @veryfancy]

@digitalBush We don’t want to be like those tryhards in the Matts channel

[Josh Schultz @veryfancy]

There’s a Slack channel at GitHub with all the Joshes in it. Oddly contains only minimal joshin’.

[Michael Schechter @mikeschechter]

Woke up to a larger than usual number of unread emails. Did I sleep through a major live site incident?

Nope. Someone accidentally(?) added every Mike/Michael at Microsoft to a discussion alias. Here is Copilot's summary of the thread so far:

[Anthony Bonato @Anthony_Bonato]

This student is destined to be a great mathematician

[Jen Gentleman 🌺 @JenMsft]

I feel attacked

[Josh Schultz @veryfancy]

@paulg Hamster ball for the mind

[Josh Schultz @veryfancy]

❤️

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

Once again I find that I'm among the five or six people on a packed plane who care to look out the window at views unavailable to humankind for almost all of our history on earth

[Chris Sells @csells]

Good: leave something to get you hooked on the next day.

But who can just start at next sentence w/o re-establishing context? I can't.

Instead, I'd promise myself to "just read" what I'd written the previous day, which would hook me right back into the flow.

[Josh Schultz @veryfancy]

Launching your new devtools product with a Stevey Blog Rant. Top notch.

[Steve Yegge @Steve_Yegge]

https://t.co/0VLwlF85zF

I'm excited to announce that Cody is here for everyone. Cody can explain, diagnose, and fix your code like an expert, right in your IDE. No code base is too challenging for Cody.

It's like having your own personal team of senior engineers. Try it out!

[Georgia Mae Morrison @mominmedicine]

As a fourth year I had a rotation with a kick-ass intern. She was ON IT. Communicating, checking tasks off, teaching, following up on everything, etc.

I told her how amazing she was and she said “thank you, I’m trying *really* hard.” 1/

[Josh Schultz @veryfancy]

🤣

[kipply @kipperrii]

a good software engineer will often debug further up the stack to find a bug in third-party software rather than reaching for the first work around. a great software engineer will debug further up the stack until they realise the root bug is Society

[lisatomic @lisatomic5]

low self esteem can make you ~meaner than you intend to be, bc you undervalue how much other people would care about how you perceive them

like it's easy to miss that ppl would want e.g. signs from you that you like them

[Josh Schultz @veryfancy]

Yeah reporting on progress is cool but have you tried _making_ progress?

[Josh Schultz @veryfancy]

TIL about a dozen things about Mexico's history, prehistory, economy, and geography: https://t.co/uSDdUrmPDI

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

Fun fact: I have told Ops teams before to tune-down their security requirements.
Either they would not impede actual attackers, would be actively counter-productive, or take IT time away from improvement work.

That's Security as a profession. Not turning everything to maximum!!!

[Josh Schultz @veryfancy]

Bookmarked for future docs.

[Steve McCormick @Quasilocal]

One more, in case anyone is wondering how to make these :)

[Josh Schultz @veryfancy]

rare insults