Month: February 2024

Mastodon does not always pull responses to posts from other instances through to your own instance. This means that if you read a post from another server, you may not see all replies. This post provides a GitHub Action that can help push remote replies into your home instance.

Source: Pull missing responses into Mastodon – blog.thms.uk

https://jacobian.org/2022/jun/17/dora-metrics/

https://jacobian.org/2022/sep/9/quality-is-systemic/

Instead of spending tons of time and effort on hiring because you believe that you can “only hire the best”, direct some of that effort towards building a system that produces great results out of a wider spectrum of individual performance

https://tosdr.org/

https://sufficiently-advanced.technology/post/linchpin-knowledge

My long-time friend and mentor, Jeff McBride, who was the headline act at the 2004 Daytona Beach Festival of Magic, defined sorcery simply as “access to sources.” Whether you are a modern day wonder-worker, or a “sorcerer” from a bygone era, the sources are always knowledge or technology.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/rebecca-solnit/in-the-shadow-of-silicon-valley

https://mastodon.social/@mapologies/111872490201394231

#Lemon balm has a peculiar lemon-mint scent, giving the #plant its common name. Catalans and Arabs, however, disagree on this, for them, it is more #orange-like (tarongina and turunjan respectively).

https://mapologies.com/herbs/

https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/111889773124944177

At its heart, every plea for simple, elegant software is a plea for a world whose problems are simpler and actually solvable.

https://kellyshortridge.com/blog/posts/security-chaos-engineering-sustaining-software-systems-resilience-cliff-notes/