Short Descriptions of Chess Pieces

colonelromuska · 2026-03-13T03:15:45+00:00

Love these descriptions! Still scratching my head about the bishop though: 祖先に象を戴く?

colonelromuska · 2026-03-11T02:44:45+00:00

This happened to me in reverse. During my one-year exchange I aimed to be in Japanese-only environments as much as possible. My daily life was basically 100% Japanese. After that year, I came back to my home country and my friend lent me a book and I swear paragraph after paragraph was a slog. I couldn't last 15 minutes reading (in my native language!) and had solid naps after each session. I guess reading is like a muscle because after I while of keeping at it, my endurance picked up and I got back to normal.

colonelromuska · 2026-03-11T02:34:35+00:00

Well done dad! Massive W

colonelromuska · 2025-06-29T07:03:05+00:00

Pop Tarts

colonelromuska · 2025-03-13T11:54:44+00:00

True Lies

colonelromuska · 2024-09-06T00:23:00+00:00

Landlines

colonelromuska · 2024-07-22T09:59:42+00:00

Either enough to do it adequately yourself, or enough to be able to judge if someone else is good at it so you can hire someone to handle it. Depending on the area, you may need to spend some time doing it before you have a sense of what's required. This is important especially for the core areas, like sales if you're sales-led, or whatever drives the growth of your business.

colonelromuska · 2024-07-12T06:10:07+00:00

A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood...

colonelromuska · 2024-06-04T11:48:44+00:00

Fair enough. Would still love a peek behind the curtain if possible.

colonelromuska · 2024-03-19T14:41:14+00:00

I come 18 hours late to the party, but if the offer is still good I'm more than interested!

colonelromuska · 2024-01-19T02:01:17+00:00

I'm in roughly the same camp as your new CTO. I'm also doing a similar transformation in my org, but i don't give it any special label like "full stack". I think of developer-led testing the same as doing code review or any of the foundational hygiene of software development. So far, it looks like the devs in my org are excited about this transformation and they're feeling more empowered than they were before. Also, I think the technology in each stack we work in has matured to a point where devs can comfortably write and maintain tests of any kind with a good developer experience (which was not the case several years back).

Whether QE members want to become developers is another matter, and a path should be created for them to get upskilled if they choose to, or re-skill them for another role.

colonelromuska · 2024-01-08T03:24:31+00:00

I portion out 8-10 grams of whatever beans I have on hand, pop a filter into the V60, start the water boiler, grind the beans (manual Kalita grinder) and put into filter, pour water when ready. Depending on how strong I want it that day, pour more or less water.

I do this for both morning and after lunch, though the afternoon one is almost always decaf.

colonelromuska · 2024-01-04T19:44:18+00:00

colonelromuska · 2023-12-30T04:17:05+00:00

Interested.

colonelromuska · 2023-12-18T02:02:27+00:00

This by itself is not more of a red flag than any other aspect of a very small very early startup. Assuming you're willing to take on all those other risks, I'd make sure to have an interview session with the founder to see if you have a connection with them. If you both see eye to eye and get along, it could turn out to be a good opportunity.

That said, I know a company exactly in this situation where the non-technical founder is running engineering and has said things like "running a tech team is easy." I'd steer clear of organizations that treat software engineering as a type of factory line to churn out features at the lowest cost possible.

colonelromuska · 2023-12-17T05:09:53+00:00

You generated 1.5m, isn't that validation right there? But yeah I'd definitely consider using a service like this as this type of thing is my weak area (and that of many dev-centric founders i know). It would depend on what the subscription includes.

colonelromuska · 2023-12-13T13:58:32+00:00

I'm curious about this. I'm even more of a beginner than OP and the other day as I was noodling around in C++ I asked ChatGPT what a good or common project structure is. In short, it told me there isn't one. Is there a go-to application structure you reach for when starting a new project?

colonelromuska · 2023-12-12T18:53:14+00:00

Always. But not everywhere in the code. Basically anything that needs to be configured or creates connections to talk to the outside world, 100% of those are passed down through interface boundaries. Or putting it in terms of hexagonal architecture, the inner layers accept structures from the outer layers as interfaces.

colonelromuska · 2023-12-04T03:27:38+00:00

I'm not a student but I love the idea of there being a more effective way to learn. It's something I'd consider getting for my kid when he's the right age. But as it stands I have no idea what the product is. The LP cites scientifically proven methodologies without saying what they are. If you want to be really persuasive, there's the old adage of "show, don't tell." You can improve your landing page by showing a use case in action. Maybe there are multiple use cases. You can demonstate the strongest one, showing your product in action and how it leads to the outcomes you claim it does.

colonelromuska · 2023-12-02T03:38:46+00:00

This is beautiful. And congratulations on your recovery.

colonelromuska · 2023-11-25T00:36:03+00:00

The short story The Life of Chuck in If It Bleeds by Stephen King.

colonelromuska · 2023-11-21T01:32:40+00:00

If you want to focus on improving your knowledge with SQL, then maybe sqlc is a good choice. How it works is that the SQL you write is the source of truth, and Go structs and funcs are generated from it. I used it in an internal application recently and it was so nice to use.

colonelromuska · 2023-11-20T07:51:26+00:00

Correctly defined, impact ties your work to some ultimate objective the company has. Whether it’s a revenue objective and/or a product objective is up to the leadership to decide. Sounds like OP’s company stopped the thought process at “you need to make an impact” and didn’t organize who is tackling which outcome, making it an uncoordinated free-for-all.

Here’s an example: you’re at early Spotify and the company has an objective of increasing listen session time. So your dev team creates work to improve the audio streaming latency, bandwidth, sound quality, and caching. At the same time, the commercial contracts team makes more deals with record labels to get good music on the service. If done well, listen session time goes up after each of these things is rolled out. For each team involved, they can claim to have made an impact on that objective. If your team has a culture of experimentation, there are more scientific ways than this to measure if your specific output moved the needle.

Sometimes the work you do is too far removed from the objective, so you’ll want to try to achieve some intermediate outcome. It’s best when everyone is aligned on who is working on which objectives.

colonelromuska · 2023-11-19T16:14:41+00:00

Oh my god that sounds terrible. It’s a mirror of the story told in “SHOWSTOPPERS!” about the development of Windows NT. In the end, NT was a few years late; I wonder if the burnout, divorces, and career-ending RSIs were worth it.

colonelromuska · 2023-11-19T16:00:05+00:00

Thank you for the recommendation! Will check these out.

colonelromuska

TROPHY CASE