Year: 2025
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High-Impact Typo
Typos in configuration might have been a common type of error 10 years ago, but it’s going to get a lot of scrutiny now.
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Just Do It
I have started to experience these kinds of bizarre out-of-context sentences once again as my children have started playing Minecraft. “I covered my place in Creeper heads.” “Oh man, that’s creepy.” Yeah. It is creepy. As are the discussions about the pros and cons of killing livestock and villagers.
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Not a Trick Question
So…English. Lots of the names for animals for when they’re alive and needing to be tended are Germanic: Cow, Pig, Sheep. But the words for when they’re prepared as food are Frankish: Beef, Pork, Lamb. Probably because at one point the Frankish conquerors were the upper-class eating the food raised by the lower-class Germanic folk….
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What Changed?
Just another great day that somebody got to have in meetings! (Thankfully not me.)
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Critical Features
All hands on deck to get a critical feature shipped.
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From Your Mother
To be clear, this is more about predisposition to symptoms – when it comes to passing on an illness in our house it’s almost always from kid to parent and not the other way around.
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Majestically
Whenever I hear the word “majestic” I think of Prince John in Disney’s Robin Hood agreeing with his fortune telling: “Handsome, regal, majestic, ha ha. Lovable, yes, yes. Cuddly. Oh, that’s me to a T. It truly is.”
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A Journey of Self Discovery
Sometimes if you stare at a problem too long, it just starts to look normal.
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Empathy For AI
Somehow it is more palatable to consider an AI as a less experienced person who will get better with time and not a machine that just doesn’t get it.
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Help Me Fix My Mistakes
Maybe it would have worked out regardless. I know when I’m on the other end, like on servicing, I’m more likely to want to put in the extra effort to make a not-strictly-required ask work for a customer when they frame it as “yes, we know it’s our fault, but please help us anyway.”