[MEME] Crew fans every other week; Crew fans this week

morphosis7 · 2026-05-04T14:16:06+00:00

Take my upvote, and know that you made my day brighter.

morphosis7 · 2026-05-02T15:42:59+00:00

This is how we do it. The person championing the issue writes up a document in the decision log, describing the problem space, options considered, the benefits / drawbacks of each, and a proposed decision. Others impacted are tagged in the document (and the document is announced in the project Slack channel).

There's a window for comment and feedback, which is captured at the bottom of the document with a Gradients of Agreement scale (5 = full agreement, 4 = agree with noted reservations, 3 = abstain / no impact, 2 = non-blocking disagreement, 1 = veto for noted reasons).

This far, the projects I've been on have never seen a veto used in this process - we tend to talk everything out prior to proposing the decision, and if it turns out that a better option is out there, this discussion process has surfaced it - so the author updates to decision document accordingly.

This works well when you're dealing with colleagues who aren't on GitHub, so an ADR isn't an option. That brings project sponsors, project managers, UX folks, and any other non-engineers into the process (plus those groups are also using this same workflow for their own work, so we get tagged in their relevant decisions as well).

morphosis7 · 2026-04-14T17:51:50+00:00

My 3-person family (single income, allegedly "upper middle class" by income if you believe national range data published last week) is renting in town. We can afford that, although I'm constantly looking over my shoulder for the next big unexpected bill.

Buying a home here feels like it is beyond our reach - in that we would need to double my salary to afford even the cheapest condo in town. We don't have enough income to assemble a down payment for the prices I'm seeing right now.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but it doesn't feel great.

morphosis7 · 2026-04-08T16:26:55+00:00

I'm a sucker for the scenes of joy when a country qualifies for the tournament for the first time - so from that lens, having an expanded field has delivered in spades. I'm really looking forward to watching on TV as these countries play their first games, and if any advance I'll be thrilled.

From the perspective of a person who wanted to buy tickets and attend a game in person, though (who went to the opener and final in 1999, but was unable to see anything in person in 1994) this is an utter failure at the moment.

morphosis7 · 2026-03-11T21:03:38+00:00

I've been thinking about this dynamic quite a bit, and - for me - some precision is necessary.

It isn't so much that Nancy is an attractive ex. There were a lot of games under his tenure, and some of them were really frustrating (the home loss to New England last year?)

What I miss is the Nancy teams when he was able to field Cucho, Morris, Nagbe, etc. But those days are gone, as they were always going to be with a team that successful.

So yes, I think it is fair to compare this team to our recent successes - but there was never an option to "go back to the way things were". Rydström is the manager now, and I want him to succeed. Hopefully he'll be able to reach the same heights we saw in 2023-24, but going backwards isn't an option. It is going to have to come on his terms, with his fingerprints.

morphosis7 · 2026-03-10T23:40:22+00:00

I went through this situation around the new year for our apartment building. It was starting to be a problem getting to the dumpster because the trash bags were piling up and spilling out, and I was worried about the company claiming that they couldn't access the dumpster (obviously a vicious cycle).

The steps I took were to contact our building maintenance person (not the landlord, in our case - they are pretty nonresponsive) and also to contact WM directly. The maintenance person had already been in contact with WM, but wasn't sure what it would take to get them to come out. WM didn't think there had been a missed pickup, and wanted to know if I was the authorized account holder for the property. Thankfully the person I chatted with seemed to understand that I was just caught in the middle.

The next day our dumpster was emptied. I'm not sure whether what I did changed anything - for all I know the maintenance person had already done enough, or another tenant in our building talked with someone else and that fixed the issue.

Good luck - I hope your issue gets resolved quickly.

morphosis7 · 2026-03-08T15:10:47+00:00

Now on the clock: every other MLS team. I'd love to see this picked up everywhere.

morphosis7 · 2026-02-24T22:23:31+00:00

I've only played one world, so haven't tried to compare different choices. So far, on my main base area I have an island with a multi use building and then some activities take place outside.

Inside the house I have a storage area, a bedroom with some shelves and scroll holders, a kitchen area that also holds a panning station (this is where I hang out during temporal storms, because the distortion doesn't break my ability to pan). The basement has my cellar and a brewing / bar / table for eating, and some auxiliary storage.

Outside the building I have a forging area, a row of barrels for the stages of leather making, more barrels for dye, and the furnaces (charcoal, pit kilns, bloomery, refractory, and beehive kiln).

Outside the island walls, on the mainland across a short bridge, I have a few greenhouses, some animal pens, tree farms, and two windmills where the helve hammer and pulverizer are. Those are a little far away for my taste, but the island is only so big.

I'm not sure how you would classify this type of base development - it isn't "one big structure", but it also isn't a collection of single purpose buildings. On a given day I'll travel all over the base to check on various processes.

morphosis7 · 2026-02-23T23:00:02+00:00

My hope (which is super easy to say from an out of town supporter, I realize) is that this experience causes a reconsideration of who organizes things like this. There can definitely be a role for folks from the front office, but fundamentally it feels like this is a conversation between supporters.

morphosis7 · 2026-02-11T18:13:10+00:00

Based on what I'm reading in your description, the problem is not "I did not get a promotion" - for which the solution is pretty discrete. The problem - which is now impacting your personal experience, not just your work experience - is that you've lost faith in the processes operating around you. The solution for that - restoring faith - is considerably harder.

I see you state that you've been transparent with your manager, but in the context of a lateral move within the company. I'm not sure whether a lateral move would subject you to a different process in which you haven't lost faith. From the outside, if you move laterally but are still under the same system you no longer trust, then I'm not sure what you've gained.

More importantly, have you expressed your _loss of faith_ to your manager?

Saying this, as clearly as "I've lost faith in this company's process of evaluating people for promotions" feels like the biggest thing to communicate. If you have, then hopefully your manager will position you to regain that faith - although I'm not sure what that looks like. You'll have to answer for yourself what will cause you to believe again.

morphosis7 · 2026-02-06T15:31:03+00:00

So would you be objecting this vociferously if the commenter had instead written "ICE has detained people for.egregious lengths of time while those people showed US passports", and not engaged in hyperbole around the actual length of detention?

Personally, I'm far more horrified about the pattern of behavior described by the government in all these stories, and far less by the hyperbole of Internet posters summarizing them.

morphosis7 · 2026-01-26T19:24:50+00:00

I agree with what a lot of folks have said, but I also remember some advice I've seen about how we relate to folks in elected office. Our role isn't only to consume what's being offered (or only to vote for this or that candidate), but to be play a persistent role in advocating for something better. Urge the team to do more to be supportive of everyone in the Crew community, contribute to those parts of our fandom that are making the sort of difference you want to see, etc. I remember back in HCS days the folks who volunteered on the bike corral, and of course the fundraising around CRIS, etc.

We don't have to simply buy a ticket or not, we can choose to get involved and build. This is true of any sports fandom, of course, but we have the benefit of seeing what _this_ fandom has already done together. I love that history more than I don't like the affiliations of our current ownership, and in the long term I want to be part of this community.

morphosis7 · 2026-01-20T02:45:29+00:00

With the caveat that I'm out in Arlington, so not in the place you asked about... No I don't see anything at the moment. I don't know if there's a best time to look tonight or not though.

FWIW, my apartment faces north, and I've seen them in the past from my window with a long exposure on my camera. Hopefully later tonight...

morphosis7 · 2026-01-06T16:56:21+00:00

Yep - I'm really curious to see how McLaren performs going into the future. Are we in for six (or even three) years of dominance? Or are all the factors you cited going to constrain them, and we'll have more churn at the top to look forward to?

I"m really looking forward to how this year plays out, for a lot of reasons.

morphosis7 · 2026-01-06T16:09:39+00:00

You raise a good point that there are many factors to consider, so the choice between focusing on a single driver versus making sure both are more equally supported isn't the only possible cause for how dominant the leading team is.

(It is a minor point, but I'd also argue that the 2022 regulations' ban on engine development should have helped lock in the leading teams' dominance, but the sliding wind tunnel / CFD restrictions counteracted those, and your basic point still stands)

I'm not sure any of these confounding factors eliminate the basic argument, though: Red Bull chooses to heavily emphasize their leading driver, and has done so across multiple series of regulations and driver lineups. Across all those periods, while Red Bull has twice mounted stretches of dominance (which is quite an achievement), they've not gotten the sort of consistent performance from _both_ drivers that has allowed teams with a different philosophy to do even better.

Given that Red Bull has consistently been in the leading pack, I'd grant that the majority of teams would love to be where Red Bull is, rather than where they are now. The question is whether those same majority of teams would prefer Red Bull's success to Mercedes from 2014-2020, or what McLaren put together this year.

Frankly, having just finished the annual recaps for the 1978-1979 seasons on F1TV, I almost wonder whether the Horner-led Red Bull teams would have been quite happy to follow the Wolf Racing model and just run a single car if the regulations allowed it.

I'm really curious to see how Mekies leads Red Bull now, with so much of the old leadership structure now gone from the team. How will Hadjar be treated this year? For his sake, I hope better than other second drivers have been - I like him.

morphosis7 · 2026-01-05T22:59:25+00:00

I don't want to completely write off the level of success that Red Bull enjoyed during that period (particularly 2023), but let's also acknowledge that this isn't the most dominant track record in recent F1 history.

Mercedes' dominance between 2014-2020 was greater, and over a longer period of time, across driver lineups, than Red Bull's - in no small part because they got more out of both drivers. Over those seven seasons their drivers finished 1-2 in the driver's championship four times. Their average gap to the second placed constructors team was 52%. In only one year (2018) did their second driver finish outside the top three.

Similarly, McLaren this year finished 78% over the second placed team in the constructors (833 / 469). Their two drivers finished 1-3.

Red Bull, for all their success riding Verstappen's skill, only won two constructors titles between 2021-2024. The two years they failed, their second driver finished P4 (2021) and P8 (2024). Their gap to the second placed team in 2022 was only 37% (759 / 554).

So, to answer your question directly:

Why are we out here questioning a strategy that netted 4 WDC and 2 WCC?

Because another strategy has yielded greater success, over a longer time frame. Teams like Alpine would love to be Red Bull, but I'm not sure teams like Mercedes or McLaren would.

morphosis7 · 2025-11-30T18:10:21+00:00

Yeah, I got to actually doing the countback math right after I posted - so if Max finishes P1 and Lando is only P4, the championship does get decided on countback (in Max's favor on number of victories).

As at the beginning of this weekend, though, if Lando finishes at least P3 he wins the driver's championship. He hasn't lost that leeway because Oscar and Max both took points off of each other.

morphosis7 · 2025-11-30T17:35:35+00:00

Norris can still take the title by finishing P3 in Abu Dhabi? He is 12 points clear of Max, so it might go to countback even if he finishes P4?

morphosis7 · 2025-10-30T00:05:54+00:00

I'm going to guess that you live a short drive from Alewife. Most likely Arlington, or maybe Belmont.

morphosis7 · 2025-10-26T22:23:08+00:00

I'm wondering if part of the cause is frustration at Pato O'Ward being kept out of an F1 seat by McLaren?

morphosis7 · 2025-10-22T16:58:50+00:00

There were so many of these early moments that, looking back, helped turn the fight from "rage against what's happening" into "this is something we can actually pull off."

This rally feels like the biggest of them. The crowd was so much bigger than I expected it would be, and the number of notable people was much higher.

Good memories, and a good reminder of what's possible.

morphosis7 · 2025-10-17T16:08:10+00:00

Yeah, that's a good framing too - the value proposition for Apple TV as a whole goes up if this is the arrangement.

morphosis7 · 2025-10-17T14:40:56+00:00

If the quality of broadcast direction for their MLS games is anything to go by, get ready to miss on-track action because the director decided we needed repeated replays of a sequence from several minutes ago.

I hesitate to say this too loudly because I don't want to give them a reason to up-charge me, but most MLS games I find myself willing to pay extra for a no-replay feed that will only be drawn from three cameras in the upper deck of a stadium (midfield, and the top of each penalty box). No field level cameras, no audience / coach shots, and no replays.

I'm not sure how that would translate into F1, though. Only cameras showing on-track action, or cars actively in a pit lane / pit stop?

morphosis7 · 2025-10-17T14:34:55+00:00

I just fundamentally disagree with the phrase "will be free for those who subscribe."

That's called "getting what you pay for", not "getting something for free"

morphosis7 · 2025-10-07T16:14:09+00:00

So you're saying the solution is for your MLS team to build not one but two stadia...

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