RT @nconnaughton: @mweagle Agreed, often these historical problematic names stand in the way of a clearer understanding of the goals of the…
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https://www.unicefusa.org/stories/unicef-children-are-bearing-brunt-intensifying-crisis-ukraine/39481
Replying to @benkershner
As a… – WFH “professional” I want… – to forget I recently extinguished this candle so that… – I can spill the wax on myself
Replying to @jbminn
Will do - adding it now, I needed to find the ink.
No words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzg3GgBPPg0
Some WFH Slackiquette practices I’ve used over the years that people seem to have appreciated...
All channels follow a similar naming structure so they alphabetize nicely in a group:
{team}-{focus}
Replying to @mweagle
Use Slack scheduled messages: https://slack.com/help/articles/1500012915082-Schedule-messages-to-send-later
Replying to @mweagle
Project specific channels to scope pod-work. Format:
{team}-proj-{name}
Add a project landing page/deep link to the channel description to make it easy to discover. Pinned messages are non-discoverable.
Replying to @mweagle
{team}-standup channel is where:
(a) team async posts Standup updates for heads down days. Format: Y: (yesterday) T: (today) B: (blockers)
(b) team async posts PLI (“Parking Lot Item”) for in-virtual-person discussion in the next day’s Standup. Use threads for PLI followup.
Replying to @mweagle
Primary channels:
* {team}-team * {team}-standup * {team}-photostream * {team}-pr-requests * {team}-doc-requests * {team}-linkroll * {team}-playlist
Replying to @mweagle
If something is useful and likely to be useful again…get it out of Slack and move it into a Wiki, ticket tracker, anything that has a URL. Slack is a read-at-most-once medium.
Replying to @mweagle
Anyone else have Slack-practices they have found helpful?
Replying to @mweagle
Also, create a {team}-memes channel.
Replying to @nconnaughton
I’m not sure, although I imagine someone has found a use for it.
Replying to @mpchlets
Good one. I do use channel level /remind for heads down days in place of calendar reminders. Related: only in extreme circumstances is @_here or @_channel ever appropriate.
I should look into Workflows. I haven’t really used those much.
Replying to @rchrdbyd and @channel
@no
RT @mpchlets: @mweagle /remind is amazing
+ instead of +1 is just clever (the number of + will lead to incrementing the number)
Workflows…
Replying to @rchrdbyd and @channel
Related: ReplyAll
RT @mpchlets: @mweagle @_here @_channel Scheduling Slack messages when you have a random question or thought past working hours is huge for…
Replying to @nconnaughton
I think so? The dedicated channels advertise their intent, so depending on the team members energy level they know where to look.
General team channels are critical, but they can also turn into the common/utils/core equivalent of team communication.
Replying to @swyx
Yep, I do something similar. 👍
Replying to @ADoug
Nice! tyvm
RT @hypatiadotca: I’ve had to write this out a bunch of times so here’s a tweet: if you’re making a new community Slack team:
☑️ rename ge…
Please unroll @threadreaderapp https://twitter.com/hypatiadotca/status/1494099137570168836
Replying to @rjonesy
photostream: optional, low traffic from significant events, PTO/OOTO, the awesome dinner you cooked.
linkroll: links to posts, articles, papers
Replying to @ihcsim
Good call. 👍
RT @matthewpskelton: More details of remote-first practices are in our new @TeamTopologies workbook, published by @ITRevBooks
https://t.c…
Replying to @Hicksyfern and @mattstratton
I didn’t know that & good to hear.
That’s a good learning. It definitely seems counterintuitive that “more channels is the answer to our channel overload”, but not all channels are created equally.
Replying to @HansDeLeenheer
Good suggestion and I do that as well. Adding a group level emoticon is 👍
Replying to @persproutlab
Yes.
Replying to @_abhayshah, @brianleroux, @alexbdebrie, @chrismunns and @astuyve
More anecdata from the SEA zone:
https://www.seattlepi.com/realestate/article/Bellevue-home-sells-for-nearly-1m-above-asking-16814154.php
Replying to @nconnaughton
You might appreciate this: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3454122.3454124
“Rather, I want to see us recognize the work of the educators, those that analyze and characterize and critique, everyone who fixes things, all the other people who do valuable work with and for others…” https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/why-i-am-not-a-maker/384767/
“Adjusting to management is difficult because the skills and metrics required for management success are completely different from those for individual contributors.”
What you give up when moving into engineering management https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/02/23/what-you-give-up-when-moving-into-engineering-management/
Replying to @edswindelles
Glad you enjoyed it. I really liked this section:
As an unqualified geneticist, policy advisor, and evolutionary biologist, this trend doesn’t sound good. 🤷♂️
Replying to @RobotTaylor
TIL they still exist and they’re in the Florida Keys. Also there’s a species called: ‘“Hominivorax,” by the way, means “man-eater."’
Horribleness confirmed.
Yes.
Plus, back in the day I used to install the MSDN docs from a binder of CDs so that my desktop had a local search engine. https://twitter.com/IrisClasson/status/1501501138549583874
Replying to @andreabalducci
Nice!
“Please insert disc 26 of 60…”
RT @andreabalducci: @mweagle
Nice!
Looking at you next, leap second. https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1503804599404277761
Replying to @niallmullensays
It’s not possible AFAIK. More a TwitterDream than a real possibility, despite the chaos it tends to create.
Replying to @bradfitz
Hot Fuzz!
“The current state of ML monitoring is, without sugarcoating it, a mess.”
The Modern ML Monitoring Mess: Rethinking Streaming Evaluation (1/4) | Shreya Shankar https://www.shreya-shankar.com/rethinking-ml-monitoring-1/
“Pipelines are everywhere , not just in IT.”
In depth research and trends analyzed from 50+ different concepts as code https://www.jedi.be/blog/2022/02/23/trends-and-inventory-of-50-as-code-concepts/
“One obstacle preventing developers from understanding program behavior is the large amount of context switching required to be productive.”
Human-Centered Approach to Static-Analysis-Driven Developer Tools | March 2022 | Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2022/3/258907-human-centered-approach-to-static-analysis-driven-developer-tools/fulltext
“[C]ompanies often don’t give first-time managers the resources they need to be successful as people leaders.“
How to Manage Managers https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/people-managers/pages/managing-managers.aspx
“This post focuses on the large and growing numbers of systems for which just-in-time feature releases are a significant competitive advantage, and just-in-time bug fixes are essential to safety or security or continuous operation.” https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/blog/two-categories-of-architecture-patterns-for-deployability/
“The problem with this trajectory is that no one stopped to ask if it made sense to optimize this style of work in the first place.”
Slack Is the Right Tool for the Wrong Way to Work | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/slack-is-the-right-tool-for-the-wrong-way-to-work
Replying to @nconnaughton
Slack (or any IM tool) is helpful IME if it’s used intentionally together with shared group availability/responsiveness expectations.
The endless virtual zero-distance open floorpan concept, low-messaging cost, and lack of secondary signals (eg: 🎧) make that difficult.
Replying to @nconnaughton
Word.
“However, the more I watch and the more I design my own experiments for small microservice applications that I create, the less I feel I understand what Chaos Engineering is.”
What is Chaos Engineering? https://christophermeiklejohn.com/filibuster/2022/03/17/what-is-chaos-engineering.html
“Introducing new technology gives rise to system and task tailoring by users. But tailoring, once complete, may be invisible. System tailoring becomes part of ‘standard operating procedures’.”
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19910011398/downloads/19910011398.pdf
Replying to @mweagle
“Clumsy automation” is a wonderful expression.
“But is burnout simply the result of insufficient self-care?”
Self-Care is Not the Solution for Burnout | by Justin D. Henderson, PhD | Index https://index.medium.com/self-care-is-not-the-solution-for-burnout-6969bc0a2de6
I’m interested to see if hermetic E2E build chains make a resurgence with the increase in software supply chain attacks.
Solid Friday afternoon team meeting outcome. 🇮🇩 🍲
https://abnb.me/dE09NibLwob
“You can be that manager by being mindful of your communication habits, actively supporting the development and well-being of your people and remembering that there are stakeholders depending on or that you depend upon in your organization.” https://www.infoq.com/articles/five-tips-remote-developers/
“Why does the taxonomy matter? It matters, because each quadrant needs to be addressed by a separate testing methodology with separate tools, at a different point in the software engineering lifecycle.” https://christophermeiklejohn.com/filibuster/2022/03/19/understanding-faults.html
Replying to @cmeik
You bet. Thanks for writing and looking forward to the next one 👍
Replying to @cmeik
Absolutely. I appreciate your research at the intersection of theory and real-world, hard to actually find, applications.
“With that said, the goal of this blog article is to learn how to increase the resilience of your large distributed system by preventing the propagation of failures.” https://blog.mi.hdm-stuttgart.de/index.php/2022/03/03/cascading-failures-in-large-scale-distributed-systems/
How it started: nice! There’s a cute bunny in the backyard. 🐰
How it’s going: that little thief is eating the plants we just installed! Initiate horticultural lockdown cages. 🚨
(The rabbit hopped past the lettuce we put out there).
Replying to @joshroppo
Can confirm they are eating well.
MFW Memphis is on the national broadcast, but @JaMorant isn’t playing.
Channeling Boston accent…
“This is definitely a wicked awesome problem.” https://overcast.fm/+tF0BPH6Nw
Replying to @benjamin_l_s, @jbesw, @AboutDev and @julian_wood
AWS Lambda 10GB Ephemeral Storage is now available! 🎉
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-lambda-now-supports-up-to-10-gb-ephemeral-storage/
Replying to @turgon
The feature release or the IO perf?
Replying to @kstewart
🙏
Tragic and enraging.
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0385546491/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_AFZFASG8RD9KPWHC531M
Huge if true. (Disclaimers: not really, it depends, pragmatism, path-dependence, micromotives & macrobehavior, awesome title 😀).
https://www.thecloudcast.net/2022/03/did-devops-ruin-everything.html
Dear Lazyweb: is there an OSX todo app that looks good/supports resizable fonts on a 4k 27” screen?
Asking for a friend with astigmatism.
Replying to @perrito666
Ugh...So much negative space.
https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1508482389546205185
Replying to @ickymettle
I tried OF, but couldn’t find a way to set the default size for the note text.
Replying to @cdubhland
Teach me your ways
Me: Alexa, what’s my daily briefing that will cause me the most confusion?
Alexa:
Replying to @seclectech
Great read 👍
Replying to @GisselleXie
I have no idea 🤷♂️
Replying to @AboutDev
TIL Maryland’s official sport is jousting.
Replying to @AboutDev
I prefer “curiosity” to “passion”, but 🤷♂️
“The two critical components of grit are passion and perseverance.” https://hbr.org/2018/09/organizational-grit
“MLOps is in a wild state today with the tooling landscape offering more rare breeds than an Amazonian rainforest.”
MLOps Is a Mess But That’s to be Expected - Mihail Eric https://www.mihaileric.com/posts/mlops-is-a-mess/
“Never use MTTR without clarifying what the “R” stands for (there are at least 6 ways to define it).”
How to Best Use MTT* Metrics to Optimize Your Incident Response https://www.infoq.com/articles/mtt-metrics-incident-response/
Best practice: Shark in the ocean, 450 million years of incremental improvement.
Imported best practice: Shark at Mt. Everest base camp.
Replying to @nconnaughton
Sharkmatha: would watch.
“How do we help others get out of the dark, frustrating place that is the local minima of suckiness that is the expert beginner, past the stars, and into the cloud?”
The local minima of suckiness | ★❤✰ Vicki Boykis ★❤✰ https://vickiboykis.com/2021/08/05/the-local-minima-of-suckiness/
Replying to @cmeik
Congratulations on the journey 👍
Replying to @cmeik
I’m confident 😀
RT @Giannis_An34: I have to keep it light around here 🤣
Replying to @cmeik
Replying to @cmeik
Respect 👊
RT @dberkholz: In practice - lots of people in the same place allow for natural serendipity, but also high levels of distraction and lack o…
RT @CodeWisdom: “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” – Peter Drucker
Three-way communication is particularly helpful in these distributed times: https://incident-prevention.com/blog/three-way-communication-for-utility-workers/
Replying to @mweagle
Another tip is to clarify terms that presuppose common understanding.
“The rest” ➡️ “Which ones?” “All” ➡️ “Would you please list them?” “Normal” ➡️ “How so?”
All teams are cognitively distributed, some teams are occasionally geographically colocated.
2022: Still rocking Queen and Led Zeppelin at the burger joint. 🤘
Replying to @Indu_alagarsamy
Definitely. Whenever there’s a “Rock’s top singers” and he’s not in the top three I stop reading.
Currently playing: Allman Brothers.
Replying to @jbminn
When the ketchup breaks.
The desk reorganization will continue until the wires reduce.