May 2022

389 tweets

Question to parents: do you think it's OK to post videos from Legoland, where a
lot of children can be seen playing?

Around 2008 we should have worked on improving phpBB (and other forums), so they
could exist as their own instances with their self-regulations, and rankings,
content-moderation, but made them interconnect so you could see a users' history
around different areas of interest.

I mostly contribue to Google Maps, so I can hand in my Google Takeout data
during the immigration process to become a Norwegian citizen.

How are these macros (I don't even know if this is the right term) implement on
#Wikipedia?

The "{{ose|NOD}}" macro creates broken links, because Oslo børs changed their
website, and has no redirects in place.
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Replying to @Maaikees

@Maaikees Weightlifting fist but with fruits
instead of weight plates. The circle thingy looks too stampish for me, maybe try
it in two straight lines below: "Eat Sensibly by Maaike Brinkhof"

Getting SPAM calls day currently. If I answer hangs up within 4 seconds. I
wonder what's going on. Someone must have some serious credits on Twilio...
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Today Norway 🇳🇴 is celebrating the liberation from 5 years Nazi occupation.
There are many traced still visible in Norway from that time. This for example
is a sea mine, which is on display in the city.
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I have a new Junior in the team and yesterday we were talking about the
important values that will guide them to be successful:
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Replying to @zimmskal

@zimmskal I've also went through a few
iterations, and at home now have for occasional work on 27". But at work, for
the longest time now, very happy with 3 smaller ones, because I can keep the 24"
full in my view while still having ample space to the left and right.

Replying to @coderbyheart

The SRT file for the subtitles I used on YouTube did not work on Twitter (that's
why this is an YT embed), so I wonder if Twitter has any special requirements
for subtitles...

Hit me with your recommendations for conferences that focus on embedded software
development!

I don't have a good overview, but my colleagues have asked me for some
recommendations.

I'll compile the answers into a DevZone blog post.
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Replying to @carlescufi

@carlescufi We have people from Portland and
Oulu visiting. Overlap is roughly the teams working on nRF9160/Cellular IoT.
Pretty awesome way to connect with colleagues going 68 nautical miles / hour on
the Trondheim fjord!

Replying to @Niklas_L

@Niklas_L No, there are also old cities here and
while digitalisation is far progressed here, there wasn't a strong need for
FTTH. Very few worked from home before the pandemic. Trondheim started to lay
fiber city wide in 2010 and later and then mostly outside of the inner city,

Just had quite the AHA! moment when talking to an applicant ... I am mostly not
coding backend code any more, but much more integration and automation code.
#serverless solves the heavy lifting, but tying it all together is a task that
needs a lot of work. #nobackend

Big organizations make it too easy (by design) to roll out new policies without
talking to the affected people.

Replying to @EvaNanyonga

@EvaNanyonga
@maaretp I think the beauty of Gherkin is that
it's fully independent to any programming language, which allows you to use it
in any of your projects regardless of the implementation language. And it would
hide away the page object in your example makes it less noisy.

Replying to @coderbyheart

@maaretp
@EvaNanyonga I don't have heard many stories
at all where non-technical people where actively writing these scenarios. It's
extremely rare.

But for me it provides a living documentation, that can be understood by
non-developers.

It's great to show "what's currently implemented" in plain EN.

Replying to @MoStueck

@MoStueck You mean they should get an A for
Effort?! This shows just how little they have cared in the past about
repairability and how they now have to throw a ridiculous amount of money on
this problem. The article correctly points out the absurdity of Apple's product
design.

Coding is not a 24x7 job. You can easily fit it into a well balanced, healthy
and economically safe lifestyle. And there are enough positions available where
you don't have to work with misogynistic techbros. Unfollow and block them, they
don't contribute anything meaningful.

Replying to @MaritvanDijk77

@MaritvanDijk77
@CarloKuip Yes, they absolutely should be. In
that case I am adding a retry because my test runner immediately checks for the
result of an action, however, the result is not guaranteed to be visible. So
instead of waiting before checks like this, I use retries because it will be
faster.

Replying to @wolframkriesing

@wolframkriesing I imagine that you could
set up a car lightbox (a large drive through garage which 360 degree lighting,
that takes a hi-res picture of the exterior, and sends it to you (or the rental
company, because licenseplate can be used to identify lender). 5 EUR per
picture.

Replying to @tdpauw

@tdpauw But what if team A maintains properly
tested and versioned releases of their code? Team B can reuse this code as long
as it benefits them. If no longer, they can fork and incorporate that code into
their codebase.

At work I don't like when people say sorry about something they can't control. I
prefer they either just acknowledge it, or tell me what they are going to do
about it.

Replying to @guna_lv

@guna_lv I know, give an engineer a documentation
task, and their are done in 10 minutes. Ask them to name a variable they will
take 3 days.

But I really want to hear what others would prefer when naming a number that is
an integer and equal or greater zero.

Received great feedback about my hiring process today. I really value feedback,
don't be shy to provide it, even if it's negative. It won't burn bridges with
me!
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