Brown sugar is the healthy sugar, right? Like brown rice or whole wheat?
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Robb Kidd
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mastodon 4.7.3Dev, Ops, Sec, & Observability ... but mostly random brain droppings.
Develops wares that are soft at Honeycomb.
Formerly of:
- Chef (*pours one out*)
- Lookingglass (10% more cyber than other leading brands)
- the military/industrial complex (gave it up for Lent)
EMT (retired)
Philosophy, religion, and cultural studies nerd.
Only a wannabe drummer; you might be looking for https://www.instagram.com/kidddrum/
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"Buc-Ee's is like a truck stop Mecca."
«Yea, could see one growing legs, standing up, and fighting a kaiju.»
•group falls silent•
"... Mecca, not mecha."
Developers,
We've spent decades arguing •against• source lines-of-code and numbers of commits as a measure of productivity. If you're an AI convert, your proselytizing will be unconvincing if you show charts of your SLOCs and commits increasing.
Show us:
• How many more features shipped?
• How many more of your customers are happy?
Showing how you are measuring business outcomes is way more convincing than showing that you're only measuring code output.
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"Birds aren't real; they're drones."
«Gentlemen, we've found our web3 distributed compute infrastructure and our claim to it solid.»
— Allbirds' C-suite, presumably
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Why does this small thing matter?
I live in an affluent suburban area. My neighbors can't figure out how—or knowing how, can't be bothered—to match large shopping carts with large shopping carts and smalls with smalls. Even after expending the effort to bring the cart to the corral, they give up on the last trivial bit of work. Doing so would benefit others: carts wouldn't spill over into the parking lot as quickly, a bit less work for the poorly-paid employee that rounds up carts. But no, the cart's in the corral and the rest is someone else's problem.
And these are the folks we'd hope to depend on for mutual aid involving actual difficult work?
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Michael Schur was onto something in How to Be Perfect when using "returning a cart to the corral" as a metaphor for ethical decision making.
Every grocery run, I hear Ted Danson's voice from the audiobook saying "Do I have to return my shopping cart to the shopping cart rack thingy? I mean … it's all the way over •there•."
Holy Week updates 2026
• Palm Sunday
• Maundy Thursday
• Good Friday
• Holy Saturday
• Easter Sunday
• Sugar Crash Monday
• War Crimes Tuesday
If you can't afford t̶o̶ ̶t̶i̶p̶ to pay for the power to run your business, you can't afford t̶o̶ ̶e̶a̶t̶ ̶o̶u̶t̶ to run your business.
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@miah@hachyderm.io For the shoe company's ability to source difficult-to-procure advanced compute hardware and data center space. •Obviously•
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This is another small sign of a larger Don't Give A Shit About Other People movement in America.
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@jamie
And this is feel in my pancreas. If only the message associated with a line's change could tell you why that line changed. If only we had the technology.
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@jamie
Feel this in my bones. I will often suggest reviewers walk my PRs' commits instead of looking for meaning in a wall of red and green File Changes.
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@miah@hachyderm.io
«… continue to build on Allbirds’ legacy and deliver compelling products to Allbirds’ customers …»
Presumably not the •same• customers.
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@jamie@zomglol.wtf
Admittedly ignorant of your team's particulars, I have a hypothesis about low activity in December and January that doesn't involve AI: holidays and Q1 "what even are we doing this year?" chaos.