A white people taco night no less…

As a fellow person with partial Irish ancestry and a nickel allergy, do I have… magic powers?

Thin steel frame, no air bags, no crumple zones.

Check out the crash tests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roLcNwRi1Sk&t=40s

12 year SDE + 12 year TPM vet here.

Do everything you can to help your software engineers (or whoever is doing the work) have as much focus time as they need. Buffer your meetings and questions to one chunk of time per day. Encourage them to block-out and protect their focus time. And encourage the team to keep office hours so they can still make themselves available to others, but in a controlled way.

Be transparent with the business’s goals and frustrations you are facing. There’s an attitude (often among inexperienced devs) that PMs are good for nothing; just an interface to the rest of the business, and a source of where tasks come from. And some certainly are that, but a good PM is worth their weight in gold.

Find a good mentor, and start thinking about your next career step now.

Post-it notes. One pack is enough for like a third of the plane.

The US Bureau of Engraving & Printing has a mutilated currency redemption program for just this sort of thing.

https://www.bep.gov/services/mutilated-currency-redemption

Lawful holders of mutilated currency may receive a redemption at full value when:

1. Clearly more than 50% of a note identifiable as United States currency is present, along with sufficient remnants of any relevant security feature; or
2. 50% or less of a note identifiable as United States currency is present and the method of mutilation and supporting evidence demonstrate to the satisfaction of the BEP that the missing portions have been totally destroyed.

Mama Fratelli?

Distribution is generally sold geographically. Stateside, I’m not sure who the audience would be. Loyalists would stand for nothing less than a hagiography. Leftists would have no interest in any kind of Trump narrative. This seems destined for a B-tier streaming service.

I’m genuinely disappointed that Asbestos Cafe is basically forbidden now. That’d be a solid name for a hardcore alcoholic vegan bar.

The web version of themoviedb.org has been my go-to for a while now. No app though.

I worked for Akamai for 7 years.

This is why, if your CDN infra is core to the operation of your business, you make your systems accommodate multi-CDN integration. Cutting one CDN off shouldn’t be significantly difficult, and it comes in handy during contract negotiations. All the major players work this way.

I’m a big Zulip advocate. I was using it globally at my previous employer for a global org and it’s pretty great.

Dancing colors; smothered, covered and topped.

That cable management is horrendous. Pull them out.

No wonder I can’t find a TPM job anywhere. The senior devs are doing all my work.

He reportedly ok for now.

Don’t scare me like that.

The current generation of the ford mustang Mach-e has its mobile telemetry cellular antenna wired to an isolated fuse that you can just pull out to kill it. I was astonished to learn how straight forward the process is supposed to be.

There was that one DuckTales episode about it….

It’s a result of Jimmy Carter’s dairy subsidies. There was a Planet Money episode about it, and the origin of the phrase “government cheese”:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/31/643486297/episode-862-big-government-cheese

Next up: racing horse names:

https://www.stadiumtalk.com/s/best-racehorse-names-be7b8ad6b49a42df