Haven't programmed in 6 years. I'm a recovering developer. But in terms of running infra as code, it's Ansible, git, GitLab, AWS, and Rundeck.

Radio? Is that still a thing?

For me it's mix between boardgames and business related podcasts.

At least you aren't a junior dev (srsly not me) who was testing an app that sent live emails to the chief of police that read, "Po Po go boom boom fall down go poo poo." #truestory

Not me. Mine has been remapped to Ctrl. 😀

This question was asked on my first job application, twenty years ago. Back then, my answer was simple, "To be the CTO of a small tech company."

Twenty years later, I'm not the CTO of a small tech company, nor is that the end goal these days.

In 5-10 years, I want to be in an environment where I can empower others and do my best work. When you're young, you think being CTO is the position that let's you do that, but it's not. The best teams and organizations are lead from the bottom up. The purpose of a good CTO is not to empower their employees but instead to support and lift them up. By being on a team where I can do my best work, it gives me the ability to flip the table and empower my CTO/leadership instead.

@bahua @Pickman Both of you are right. You can't groom someone into being a great leader but to can expose a person to tools that bring out the best in them.

The real problem is that some people don't realize that just because they find themselves in a leadership position, it does r mean they are a great, or even good, leader. Then you have the situation where those people are trying to groom leaders.

Code that you don't write, can't break.

@Alice um, nope?

@parion The 2nd most used book on the shelf is Java for Dummies.

Um...rebase -i on your branches would clean that up nicely moving forward.

First question should be, what attempts have they made in the past?

Are they using git or mercurial? If they aren't, that should raise a red flag.

If they have two developers who have been there 15 years, you would probably meet a lot of resistance no matter what changes you propose.

@uddinstock Yes and no. We're in a precarious situation where the manager is purely and administrative manager, providing no direction for the work we do. Also, we don't deal with external clients.

@liveCoder server stuff, some people call it DevOps

@WerewolfCustoms I'm not complaining that they person is charging $250/hr. I actually applaud that. The issue I have is that he created a very popular open source project, which has put him in the situation where he can charge that. Then proceeds to complain to the community that when he's maintaining the project, he can't bill those hours, and that they need to figure out a way to compensate him to maintain the project. When you charge $250/hr, and companies are willing to pay that, those companies are in essence supporting the project and the maintainer shouldn't have an issue allocating 5-8 hours a week maintaining the project.

Changes frequently. Lately it's been J Roddy Walston and the Business. You're welcome.

This reminds me of some guy's rant recently on a certain high profile open source project. Charges $250/HR for consulting and complains he doesn't get paid to maintain the project. Motherfucker, that project is the sole reason you can charge $250/HR.

It would only be better if it was Liquid Coffee 9001.

Yep, not just browsing. There's plenty to rant about.

I should have prefaced this with a developer I know. it's not me.

@AnirudhKonduru Pointy Haired Boss - it's a Dilbert reference.

As far as Ubuntu goes, I much prefer Xubuntu, has the lightweight XFCE windows manager.

Monokai on vim

Those who can do, those who can't: teach computer science.

27" Dell 4k display. Way better than the apple cinema displays at half the cost. Trust me, I'm running both on my desk right now.

One week away, supposedly.

@henseiderv keyword - sane

Sure. That's what the user claimed happened. That's one way to get a new laptop.

@pneves In terms of UI interfaces, I run XFCE. It seems to stay out of the way and is lightweight. Gnome and KDE attempt to do too much and I simply need a launchpad for apps.

@luminous-flux ding ding ding. It was a JRuby app. Still no excuse to write ruby that looks like Java.

@kindohm Um, yeeeaaaaahhhh.