jbrown @roguelazer@mastodon.technology

I am 100% convinced that every tech company would be well-served by firing 80% of their employees and cutting hiring by 80%. Rapid growth is the root of all evil.

I am deep in the #Ruby (YARV) internals trying to figure out some locking around `GET_VM()`. I think my brain is leaking out of my ears.

Did #neovim 0.4 just get quietly released? I see the `stable` tag getting bumped on Github, but no release announcement.

Not to be callous, but if you're the primary commuter transit in a several-million-resident metro area, maybe you should have a strategy to not completely shut down for an entire evening of commute every time someone causes a "major medical emergency" by jumping in front of a train. This happens every couple of weeks on #SFBART

“Hundreds of thousands of clock domains” in Apple’s new CPU cores? Holy crap that must be a complicated clock tree. Do they just stop worrying about clock skew at that point?

On a BART car where the doors are stuck open at the end of the car. And, to think, I thought these were loud with the doors closed! The transbay tube might've actually just damaged my ears.

#Homeworld 3 was pre-announced today. They're using a weird crowdfunding platform for it, which makes me a bit nervous, but... Homeworld!

https://www.fig.co/campaigns/homeworld3

And the fact that they're replacing PGP signatures with a tool whose README (a) has a big warning that it's alpha-quality and should not be used, and (b) says that it is not a suitable replacement for PGP signatures and should not be used as such...

Am I the only person in the universe who verifies #PGP signatures for software source tarballs? This is the *second* time I've had to report this exact same ticket on the #etcd project: https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/issues/11094

https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/8/22/1684 this is ominous looking

"Are there legit cases where money values cannot be represented as a float?"

not something I wanted to see in a code review comment at work

Someone on this BART train is using the little Palm-branded Android phone inside a case that makes it at least three times its normal volume.

My office was picketed today because of our CEO's political donations. I really know how to pick 'em.

My company just (5 minutes ago) announced a major reorg (via a PDF emailed to the whole team by someone's executive assistant), basically minimizing engineering, disowning all the projects engineering has been advocating, and putting most of the company in the hands of a new executive who nobody met until last week. I think that might be the next tone of the death knell that I hear...

Dropped the GC time of a production Java service by 85% today. That was nice.

Replaced my CST2545 #trackball with an Elecom M-HT1UR ("HUGE") at work today. So far so good -- I like the scroll wheel position a lot more. Needed to install SteerMouse to get the special buttons working in #macOS, though; USBOverdrive couldn't see them.

Seeing a bunch of SSL traffic through #tor getting MITMed by an exit node presenting a *.onion.mba certificate. Hrm.

Upgraded to the #macOS 10.14.6 supplementary update and now my dock has a mysterious blue orb in it that I can't remove. Neat.

Sometimes I forget how terrible building #Java software is. This open-source package is 14,500 lines of code and running `mvn` pulls in 876 jars (223MB) worth of dependencies.