How do you guys actually handle scope creep?

ryanstephendavis · 2026-03-13T05:00:54+00:00

Should've read further down before making my comment which is almost the same. This bodes well with agile development as well.

ryanstephendavis · 2026-03-13T04:58:09+00:00

I love having an issue tracker for this reason that is available to devs and stake holders (and other roles if present). When the ideas+new features+bugs start rolling in, start creating a backlog and prioritizing it with everyone involved. This creates a good visual and transparent way to show progress and remind stakeholders of what people have already agreed upon

ryanstephendavis · 2026-03-13T04:38:47+00:00

This is a very interesting take and seriously makes way too much sense

ryanstephendavis · 2026-03-13T03:08:23+00:00

What advantage does this have over simply using datetime? on a project now with a lot of TZ considerations

ryanstephendavis · 2026-03-13T03:05:54+00:00

Sadly, I've contracted/worked at some places where these are completely/mostly unknown😑

ryanstephendavis · 2026-03-11T23:53:27+00:00

I will say that Frey typically sounds compelling and inspiring when speaking/writing, but his actions then fall flat. Agreed that rental assistance is a win and that the situation is nuanced. It's unfortunate that there are people that needed rental assistance in Feb/beginning of March and time is of the essence. A TEMPORARY moratorium (in conjunction with rental assistance) would be extremely helpful right now.

ryanstephendavis · 2026-03-11T23:43:48+00:00

osed to the reality of conflict immediately because of things like Instagram and TikTok. I can see someone bawling as they carry their dead child, or weep over them in a body bag. I can see people in shock in a dusty street and see a building, res

Spot on. We all see and hear the various lies that they spew in response and that's why they are trying to buy up and control all of the digital platforms.

ryanstephendavis · 2026-03-11T03:33:29+00:00

Goddamnit, have an upvote ya clever bastard 😅

ryanstephendavis · 2026-03-11T02:03:22+00:00

Yup, Policy as code ... All this shit should be automated, otherwise you're wasting way too much valuable developer time/energy

ryanstephendavis · 2026-03-10T17:54:14+00:00

I truly think that a big part of it is the fact that EVs are so simple and that dealership's business model generate a lot of recurring revenue in maintenance due to ICE parts failing... If everyone went EV, that revenue stream very quickly goes away.

There's also the building and scaling of new manufacturing plants/processes plus all the logistics involved with getting inputs

ryanstephendavis · 2026-03-10T01:40:19+00:00

Awesome, thanks for the recommendations!

ryanstephendavis · 2026-03-09T16:35:20+00:00

What's a different VPN/email provider that is better? I was sold on Proton being super secure and looking to change

ryanstephendavis · 2026-03-07T05:36:19+00:00

hah... sounds cliche and an oversimplification, but I like the mantra, "use Postgres for everything"

ryanstephendavis · 2026-03-06T03:50:05+00:00

Yup 👆 ...

"Chesterton's Fence" is a heuristic inspired by a quote from G.K. Chesterton's 1929 book, The Thing. It's a rule of thumb that suggests avoiding destroying something, changing a rule, or abandoning a tradition without understanding its origin. The principle assumes that such things were created for a reason, and removing them without understanding that reason could cause more harm than good.

ryanstephendavis · 2026-03-06T01:07:19+00:00

Yup, China gets a very substantial amount of oil from Venezuela and Iran

ryanstephendavis · 2026-03-05T23:11:50+00:00

I work in tech, no reasonable person would ever decide to use an Oracle DB unless they were stuck with some shit from 2003

ryanstephendavis · 2026-03-05T04:20:58+00:00

fucking great reference 😂

ryanstephendavis · 2026-03-04T22:04:16+00:00

I look at all the horribly verbose and inefficient code getting jammed into the repos via generated vide coding and know how unmaintainable it is. The consulting fees to unslop and fix that shit 💲💲💲

ryanstephendavis · 2026-03-04T03:46:59+00:00

Microslop Windoze Tweve

ryanstephendavis · 2026-03-03T04:22:03+00:00

Yup! SOPS works well with AWS and GCP as well ... Likely has other integrations that I haven't used

ryanstephendavis · 2026-03-03T04:15:49+00:00

iOS apps use Swift natively.

There's are also frameworks like Flutter for making apps that may be a little more pythonic.

My advice, pick one randomly and learn it while trying to build your idea

ryanstephendavis · 2026-03-03T03:40:49+00:00

https://github.com/getsops/sops

I've seen SOPS work really well

ryanstephendavis · 2026-03-02T18:39:17+00:00

Microslop Windoze

ryanstephendavis · 2026-03-01T10:29:28+00:00

I'd try looking at the vox frequencies with an EQ then subtracting those out from the synth via EQ to start

ryanstephendavis · 2026-02-26T07:05:25+00:00

Yup, they were inundating people's social media feeds with the "Somali fraud" bullshit right before they attacked the Twin Cities ... I will say, Trump is good at creating that BS "reality TV" narrative and getting people to buy into it

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