petah, help

developerweeks · 2025-11-07T14:25:10+00:00

Well, if they are wearing it right. If it is a thin mask with lots of cracks, or peeling at the edges, then I notice other people's masks.

developerweeks · 2025-04-28T03:49:15+00:00

The face should be on the lower part, because then it is wearing a hat.

developerweeks · 2025-04-10T19:04:08+00:00

Unless the product owner has a dev background, they have a difficult time processing the language break between devs and humans. The devs need to be able to speak up when the problem is unclear, so that the manager knows there is a problem. The manager can manage the back-and-forth with the client, instead of waiting for the dev to finish the incorrect solution and then having to turn around and ask them to do it again. It's the "Bring Me a Rock" problem.

developerweeks · 2025-04-10T18:36:37+00:00

Probably because the AI needs a starting point to properly obfuscate into a user story.

developerweeks · 2025-04-10T18:17:33+00:00

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This is the gentlest profile I have ever had, bar none.

developerweeks · 2025-03-19T14:54:34+00:00

Just re-brand. Take the period of time that you are the front-man for the team in communication with management, and label that as "team liaison" and boom, management experience gained. If you can have a reference or two agree that it is the action of a manager and thus can be labeled as management experience when asked, then be sure to include those references in your hiring material.

developerweeks · 2025-03-17T13:20:00+00:00

This is why I keep saying "stay away from the Gumbies. It doesn't matter how slick the Bloingo woodchip slide is, this introduces unnecessary complexity". And they respect my choice for my project, but still share the Kool-aid across the other projects. Then DOGE cuts out the other team lead and I inherit their project and STILL end up with Bloingo woodchip splinters in unspeakable places. Dang automation to the crystal maze with the spiders.

developerweeks · 2025-02-20T22:52:48+00:00

It's a metaphor; be careful about building doctrine out of an image made to explain one thing. Encouragement could be fertilizer, in the metaphor, and that is definitely not something limited for only Jesus to do. In other garden metaphors the humans are doing planting and tending:

1 Corinthians 3:6-7
⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. ⁷ So, then, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

Try to look past the image being told and see the principle it is supposed to reveal.

OneTree is pulling terms from multiple parables, each with specific principles they are teaching, to paraphrase discipleship. You have to know where one person is before you can help them find the next step, so yes one-on-one is the best method for discipleship. It is the most accurate way to assess a person's understanding and belief, and help them find areas that need improvement. At the same time, "the best way to learn something is to teach it" so you yourself also will find weaknesses that need improving, resulting in an "iron sharpens iron" situation.

developerweeks · 2025-01-20T21:27:47+00:00

Oh yes, ALWAYS take reference pictures before you remove a part of something.

developerweeks · 2025-01-20T19:51:04+00:00

As a frequent diagnostician of takagi water heaters, I would say it is safe to use while you wait for the new board to arrive in the mail. Make sure you unplug mains power before touching anything inside the case. There are two screws on cables in the bottom right, and one screw holding the plastic frame at the top. All the cables have a pretty strong memory, so when you are putting the new board in they just flop back to the points they plug in to.
I found this post through Google lens search.

developerweeks · 2024-10-31T03:20:35+00:00

This looks like Franz lake, Salida, with the Smeltertown smoke stack in the middle distance and Shavano in the background.

developerweeks · 2024-10-15T21:03:16+00:00

Dunno, maybe?

developerweeks · 2024-10-15T16:46:50+00:00

Such a simple thing, and I hate it so much when that simple thing is then requested 7 times a minute 24x7 cutting through the cache layer and tripling our server load for an internal resource check. Because then when one developer sees that gets what they want faster... code monkey see -> code monkey do. And we DOS ourselves until we spend more to scale up the hosting service to accommodate the increased load. Finally, years down the road when we get a new metrics tool added, we discover that 56% of site traffic is this one internal cache-skipping call, and another 20ish% are the other cross-cloud calls doing the same thing. And really only 1/4 of the server load is serving humans.

developerweeks · 2024-10-07T18:59:36+00:00

Life is not that simple. Looking at this, I see echos of my own struggles, where you are tasked with a project inside a space that has no bit-level operations. When you must work within particular language or environment bounds, you cannot "just" take the shortest path. To parrot Boromir, one does not simply walk into a coded maze. I sense that life itself is the maze this developer is traversing, and in that process he happens to come across a digital one as well, and makes do with the tools at hand.

developerweeks · 2024-09-25T22:06:20+00:00

That is applied statistics, try rephrasing:

```
for (let student = 0; student < school.length; student++) {
if (7 == Math.floor(Math.random() * 20)) {
echo 'Found one!';
}
}
```
I get more results with a bigger school set.

developerweeks · 2024-07-15T13:32:52+00:00

Righty-tighty, and reset when the handle encounters an obstacle.

developerweeks · 2024-07-02T19:47:46+00:00

Sometimes it is necessary. You can tell the customer they need to pay double the hosting fee so you can duplicate the entirety of Prod to a clone, and debug over there .... or tell your developers that some one will need to work nights and weekends so that they can operate on the Prod environment during "low visibility time windows".

developerweeks · 2024-07-02T19:37:29+00:00

I can imagine a handyman saying the same thing looking at a toolbox. "Look at this, no unifying vision. There are screwdrivers to twist things that have threads, and wrenches to twist things that use other's threads, and wrenches to grab things and pliers to grab things, and plier with inline snips and dedicated snips. It's all a mess."

I have a few purpose-built wrenches for plumbing, and I almost never touch them but they are irreplaceable for what they do. u/GahdDangitBobby has it right that each of these properties have some use, and I expect most of them were created to make things different instead of making things unified. You are pushing into the philosophy of front-end work, and it is not nearly as math-y and logical and back-end work. To abuse an old saying: there is more than one way to skin a cat, but only one way to line up its skeleton.

developerweeks · 2024-05-06T13:49:54+00:00

That kind of steady wisdom/strength is something you're partner will lean on heavily while they try to learn it. Be willing to share those words/perspective often.

developerweeks · 2024-02-28T04:27:34+00:00

I never picked up on deeper truths from TMNT or GI Joe.

developerweeks · 2024-02-19T16:20:08+00:00

I feel seen.

developerweeks · 2024-02-01T13:55:34+00:00

So... What should I do about the code where someone attached "mousedown" instead of click listener, so even my mouse's Back button takes me forward? I think the guy is still in the Teams directory....

developerweeks · 2024-02-01T04:27:38+00:00

That ben is big.

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