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Humanity really needed librarians to own Internet Search, not venture capitalists.

We may be hiring a dedicated devops/cybersecurity person at my job soon. If that's you and you're comfortable in a very small company that does a lot of perl, DM me! I've only been here for a month but it seems okay so far.

I tried the Apple AI Summaries of notifications. It turns out in practice it just made them unreadable nonsense I had to click on to see what they were actually about. Turning them off and it's already more usable again. Just say no to obligatory AI.

Autism and ADHD are NOT trendy. They're more common than we thought, and particularly manifest differently in women, so all the people that were missed as kids are connecting the dots on why certain things were so much harder for them in their lives than most people. And that lets them come up with actually effective strategies. It's a very, very good thing that lots of adults are figuring this out. Life is much easier with proper language and connecting to other similar folks!

We desperately need to start a Slow Software movement. High quality, intentionally designed, low defect software done at a quarter of the pace for the same price. Because we've been destroying the mental health of developers for the last quarter century, and what do we have to show for it but a giant mess?