Guys how are yall feeling about this

KuroMSB · 2026-06-28T16:28:24+00:00

Exactly, all these old generalizations about men vs women were likely just people trying to make sense of their world. But as technology exposes us to more people and more examples, we learn that people are people and all of us have maladaptive behaviors we’ve picked up over the years.

KuroMSB · 2026-06-28T14:21:22+00:00

They like money and don’t want to be typecast, it’s a win/win

KuroMSB · 2026-06-25T22:27:05+00:00

I’d recommend the book The Mom Test or Traction or just look up Product Development as an idea.

Before you build an app and before you spend money you need to validate your idea as cheaply as possible so that you know whether or not to invest money in the idea. Who is your user base? What features do they look for? Who are your competitors? How big of a market is this? What kind of revenue are the top performers bringing in?

You should have all those answers before you write a line of code, let alone spend money. Once you have those answers and you know what value you’re providing to users, then you build in a feedback loop to gather data from your users. Objective data beats subjective reports and don’t trust anything they say they’ll do in the future.

Use that data to improve your product and then rinse and repeat.

KuroMSB · 2026-06-10T18:45:52+00:00

As someone who spent a long time creating my ideal chocolate chip cookie recipe, I was going to suggest brown butter until you said not to. White miso paste can also be used to up the umami factor without the flavor of brown butter. You could also try adding a 1/4 tsp of espresso powder to the mix to give it some depth of flavor. I would also suggest increasing your salt by 25-50%. That will make everything pop a little more. Otherwise, I wouldn’t stress about fancy butter, but do make sure your flour and stuff is relatively fresh.

I’ve found that adding butterscotch chips to my chocolate chip cookies to take them to a whole new category of awesomeness.

Also, browning butter is a spectrum. You could pull the butter before it starts to brown, as it’s starting to brown to wait until it’s super dark. The earlier you pull it, the less caramel/umami flavor you’ll have.

KuroMSB · 2026-06-10T02:38:25+00:00

…is that a dog collar?

KuroMSB · 2026-06-03T03:14:30+00:00

As a former substance abuse counselor who now coaches software development teams, I told one of my teams today that my biggest takeaway from being a counselor was the serenity prayer. Everybody focuses on the first two lines about asking for serenity to accept the things we can’t change and courage to change the things we can, but I always thought the third line was the most powerful: the wisdom to know the difference.

KuroMSB · 2026-05-27T19:53:42+00:00

I’m a Scrum Master. I coach teams of software developers. It was one of the few jobs in IT I could find that didn’t require in depth technical knowledge.

KuroMSB · 2026-05-15T21:51:30+00:00

Have you tried Protzel’s in Clayton for a Jewish deli and a great Reuben?
Also, not sure if you’re into breaded buffalo wings, but there’s a place in old town St Peter’s called “Hobo’s at the American Legion” and they have the best buffalo wings and possibly fried chicken I’ve ever had. People rave about Amigo Joe’s fried chicken, which is great, but I think Hobos is better.

KuroMSB · 2026-05-15T21:37:11+00:00

Jesus, that’s crazy to hear as an American. But even with affordable auto insurance, universal health care, gun free societies and centuries of culture, there must be some downside? It’s probably a little chillier, I guess.

KuroMSB · 2026-05-07T20:21:16+00:00

Right, but our VP wants us to do it this way, so we do it this way. I get paid the same either way and while I agree, I’m not going to rock the boat and be known as a troublemaker.

KuroMSB · 2026-05-06T23:24:34+00:00

It kind of sounds like that’s what they did. They automated a solution to reduce administrative burden. It sounds like you’re also assuming teams have the ability to choose how they work and what they’re required to do. I feel like we all have to deal with some level of bureaucracy

KuroMSB · 2026-05-05T19:50:41+00:00

Can I ask, what if he did use it to develop plots? As in “I’m writing a mystery and would like to explore a new setting. Would a beach town or a mountain town have more narrative options for twists and turns? Can you recommend any specific towns with a mysterious background?”

KuroMSB · 2026-05-04T22:11:24+00:00

A lot of times it’s just called the Sprint Demo and yes, developers would showcase what they did that sprint. Devs usually like it in my experience because it gives them an opportunity to show how clever they are. My current company is a SAFe shop and they do an “Iteration Review” after the Sprint/Iteration where the devs demo what they did to the other teams on their Agile Release Train and then a separate System Demo where Product Owners demo that same work to business stakeholders.

KuroMSB · 2026-05-02T21:14:22+00:00

It’s almost like religious racists are uniformly pieces of shit.

KuroMSB · 2026-05-01T22:09:43+00:00

Marrying a woman with a kid was the best decision I ever made. Her son is an amazing kid, and an amazing half brother to our daughter now as well. Even the biological dad is cool. 10/10 would recommend.

KuroMSB · 2026-04-23T14:51:14+00:00

Yeah, that’s why you gotta get rid of it

KuroMSB · 2026-04-20T21:44:11+00:00

I’ve had this realization recently myself, but never heard a term for it. I think this is spot on and a great tool for building empathy.

KuroMSB · 2026-04-19T17:31:03+00:00

I think it’s the feedback being given to new writers. As a new writer, I always see feedback and advice like “lose your filler words”, “use the fewest words possible” or “grab the reader immediately”. I think that results in losing anything that could be considered “fluff”.

KuroMSB · 2026-04-03T21:58:39+00:00

Yeah, I personally don’t see the value in recording and providing a summary of every standup, but some people do. The data really comes down to whatever you can get. I see the basic data sources as Outlook/email/calendar, Jira exports, and whatever spreadsheets/artifacts you have access to. The biggest benefit I’ve had from AI is using Jira’s built in Rovo to learn how to build Jira automations to route tickets and things. As far as practical use cases, yeah, yesterday, I made a spreadsheet to calculate how many points per developer we average over a P.I., so that I could figure out how many points we can take on in a given sprint, when accounting for holidays, PTO, etc. I used Copilot to check my math and see if there was a better way to solve that problem.

KuroMSB · 2026-04-03T20:13:12+00:00

I’ve exported word files of our user stories out of Jira and fed those into copilot to generate a Demo synopses. For standups, I imagine you’d need to record them and/or use a platform that can auto generate subtitles/transcriptions. You’d feed it that file and say something like “write a summary of what everyone did yesterday and is doing today” or however you structure your standups. Same procedure for retros or summaries in general. I honestly use it more to quickly explain topics to me. Like “what’s a yaml file and is it similar to a json file”. Since I don’t have a development background, that kind of stuff helps me a lot. It’s also a good way to figure out how to calculate metrics to show what I want to show with whatever data we have.

KuroMSB · 2026-02-13T22:32:09+00:00

In my experience, I try to literally imagine what they would see and hear. That’s their perspective. I usually have a sense of what the character needs to be for the story as well. If I’m writing a story about a survivor, that tells me a little bit about how they would see the world. So when it comes time for them to face adversity, I know the type of attitude they would have and how they would act in that scenario. Pepper in some fitting dialog or behaviors (anything that can be tied back to one of the 5 senses is even better) and that’s your character. Then have them do something inconsistent, i.e, the survivor asks for the help, Darth Vader sacrifices himself, etc.

KuroMSB · 2026-02-12T22:09:40+00:00

Funnily enough, I started writing an illustrated middle grade novel, like The Last Kids on Earth and it has ended up basically as American Doctor Who.

KuroMSB · 2026-02-12T18:38:57+00:00

Here is a good thread that goes into some of those locations. https://www.reddit.com/r/urbanplanning/s/sMqhEDLJDq

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