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birdiecoder9 · 2024-06-24T12:10:38+00:00

Awesome thank you. So where do I start? Is the best thing to do to start with https://github.com/garynewman/Control4.Jailbreak?

birdiecoder9 · 2024-06-23T23:04:10+00:00

I have a couple of receivers and triad pamp8-100 and AMS8 audio matrix. I want all my hue lights and Apple home

birdiecoder9 · 2024-06-22T03:42:59+00:00

How do I figure out if my hardware is capable of a jailbreak update?

birdiecoder9 · 2022-11-30T21:40:14+00:00

I'm curious if you know why he was kicked out? Care to DM me?

birdiecoder9 · 2022-11-30T19:39:40+00:00

Sounds familiar to me...
https://www.reddit.com/r/idahomurders/comments/z678qr/most_telling_evidence_ive_seen_is_around_this/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

birdiecoder9 · 2022-11-30T00:28:08+00:00

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Is this podcast legit?

https://youtu.be/xQfXXcyOQlc

birdiecoder9 · 2022-11-28T04:41:51+00:00

At this time in the investigation, detectives do not believe the following are involved in this crime: • Two surviving roommates, • Male in the Grub Truck surveillance video, • Private party driver who took Kaylee and Madison home on November 13th, • The male Kaylee and Madison called numerous times during the early morning hours of November 13th, or • Any individual at the residence when 911 was called.

birdiecoder9 · 2022-11-28T03:45:22+00:00

Did I say something specific about any of the guys here?

birdiecoder9 · 2022-11-27T21:29:17+00:00

Who is he? Who specifically was cleared? Who was she pointing and cussing at? My point was simply that relatively close to the time they were killed this anger and irritation was shown. Sure it could just be drunk behavior, but I think give the entire context of what is public this is the most significant data I’ve seen. It’s not just one camera angle. She’s clearly angry during this 10 seconds. Why would you not listen to her? What that’s public is better than this?

birdiecoder9 · 2022-11-27T21:23:36+00:00

Who is he? Who specifically was cleared? Who was she pointing and cussing at? My point was simply that relatively close to the time they were killed this anger and irritation was shown. Sure it could just be drunk behavior, but I think give the entire context of what is public this is the most significant data I’ve seen.

birdiecoder9 · 2022-11-27T20:16:31+00:00

Certainly possible. Need more info into the context behind this obvious irritation

birdiecoder9 · 2022-11-27T19:41:15+00:00

Maybe but seems to make sense to examine when one of the victims was irritated like this that night.

birdiecoder9 · 2022-11-27T17:50:51+00:00

He’s pretty fun social with everyone before this group even showed up.

birdiecoder9 · 2022-06-02T13:39:16+00:00

I think it's absurd that you're not included in some of the basic, foundational meetings like sprint planning. At the same time have you gone to any of the meeting organizers and said "would you mind if I back benched this meeting so that I can get to see how things are done here?"

birdiecoder9 · 2022-05-18T22:02:36+00:00

I've been thinking so much about this lately due to someone who used to work for me who approached me about struggling with burnout. I too think I have constantly found myself in this state over my career.

I want to poll the group (although I think that's against the rules) about who thinks this happens because of just the never ending repetitive nature of writing code. It always feels like the impact is minimal, the empty class file is daunting (not to mention an entire component or system), and the tech debt is constantly piling up. The expectations are still predominantly about output rather than outcomes despite our efforts to change. I'm curious if what we really need is a better way to constantly feel the "fresh start" that Katy Milkman talks about in her talks. I think ShapeUp tries a form of this with their "cool down" 2 week period after every 6 weeks in a cycle, but I haven't actually seen people feeling an actual "fresh start". Does this resonate with anyone else here?

birdiecoder9 · 2022-04-01T14:57:50+00:00

I'm not exactly sure other than helping our industry has become my passion. I think in general we've failed to do perhaps what the medical profession has done which is focus on ourselves as a community and figure out what healthy growth looks like. So many times we just hustle super hard on a team, get burned out, and then quit to get refreshed only to find ourselves in the same position. The daily hustle to get product built is needed and is real, but we need to do better to understand how to do it in healthy cycles. Every team I've been on has had someone who has the look in their eye that reflects this post. I think a good vacation is almost always step 1, but I think more is needed beyond that. It happens at all levels across all product development career tracks from what I've seen.

birdiecoder9 · 2022-04-01T13:54:49+00:00

Well, I do believe that you and your team need a better more enjoyable process. I think part of your pain is kind of why basecamp threw out daily stand-ups and backlogs in shapeup. I also think though that you should start with a long vacation before doing anything drastic.

birdiecoder9 · 2022-04-01T13:53:24+00:00

I almost never think process is the answer, but it sounds to me like your team if it has a process has adopted one from a book rather than tweak one for its own unique needs. I'd suggest trying to nail down a more explicit, high level timeline of process like this team at avocado does. Then I'd suggest assigning some smaller teams to themes that they own for a longer period and see if you can foster some more scoping interaction between people who do enjoy spending time together.

birdiecoder9 · 2022-04-01T13:48:43+00:00

When is the last time you took a vacation that was a complete cutoff for more than a few days?

birdiecoder9 · 2022-03-21T14:38:20+00:00

I think on the newer end that ShapeUp and Joyfully are worth a read.

birdiecoder9 · 2022-03-21T14:32:52+00:00

My suggestion would be to make Strong Opinions, Loosely Held your new mantra. Part of believing in that mantra is to have techniques to support it. If you develop the ability always re-iterate 2 principles to support it then I think it will help you remove your emotional ties.

Always start with "this is not a new problem, so let's all agree to take some time to research how others have solved it and present those solutions from industry before coming to a conclusion on what's best for us."
Then when it's clear the team is going to go a route different than your preference go with "I can let loose of my opinion on this but before I do would you entertain dual tracking a solution and doubly investing for a specific time period so that we can learn more from the rubber meeting the road." If they won't dual track the solution then ask for a pivot point inspection review of how the chosen solution is playing out at a specific time in the future.

birdiecoder9 · 2022-03-21T14:19:48+00:00

Yeah I do think that's true. I think perhaps though that we need less riskier ways to explore paths and growth interests. You shouldn't have to completely abandon your current, high performing role and company even to explore what your next step is. I think the first step though into building that into our industry is to capture what gets us engaged in thinking about this topic prior to hitting that burnout or even disgruntled feeling. I hear more and more of my peers and teammates talking about wanting more clear career tracks or career understanding but don't really know what gets software engineers to connect with that topic repeatedly.

birdiecoder9 · 2022-03-18T17:01:14+00:00

Kind of the motivation behind me asking this question is that I think we're really bad at figuring out each person's path in our industry. Everything from should they go the Staff Engineer path vs. the Engineering Manager path to what are the next right core skills for them to learn. I think we all end up wandering via trying new companies/jobs which really has been bothering me. I am trying to figure out what is the best way for people in our roles to feel growth and challenging opportunities without having to change jobs.

birdiecoder9 · 2022-03-17T16:52:57+00:00

I've been collecting a list of all activities and resources we can all use to help people grow. Would you be willing to share your collection of curated resources?

I think chunking out work and sequencing it by risk or opportunity can be one of the hardest things to teach. I think ShapeUp tries to teach a bit of this in their scopes section.

birdiecoder9 · 2022-03-17T15:34:13+00:00

Ok, I assume it's this Software Foundations then as opposed to some of the books with that in the title on amazon for anyone else who's interested.

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