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Matt Boyd
@3psboyd@mastodon.social
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4.6.0-nightly.2026-03-19
Normal man, normal posts.
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Joined October 12, 2017
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This song sure outlasted that movie, huh. https://youtu.be/hDd2G_V1rzc?si=Py0Bu3dFaA4fhmF8
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I love Big Trouble In Little China because they clearly told Carpenter he needed a white lead and he cast Kurt Russel as a confused guy who is just in the wrong fucking movie.
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One day at an old job, a French engineer announced he had found an English word he really liked: tergiversate.
He thought it perfectly described the phenomenon of someone throwing up a verbal smoke screen to be evasive, sowing doubt and muddying the clarity of the conversation to create cover for themselves. He was disappointed it wasn't in common usage.
I think about that word a lot when someone at work is tergiversating.
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Shrugging and saying "Well, as long as the person creating a toxic environment is delivering..."? Ha ha, classic tech culture. Love this industry.
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How am I supposed to get any work done when the world is falling apart AND Slay the Spire 2 is in early access?
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It's a difficult thing to be vulnerable when all of the various neural networks you've grown over a lifetime are telling you it's not safe.
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A little embarrassed because someone running an "agile" meeting asked me to rate my effort expended as a number in the Fibonacci sequence and I asked if he was making a joke about "agile."
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In a meeting making the case for having unit tests in the repo, wound up saying "Yeah, it turns out to write software, you have to defeat toxic masculinity."
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(Trying to sound like I've read books) "Have you ever read Fahrenheit 420 by Ray Bradford?"
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Sometimes if I know I'm going to need to change someone's mind, I smuggle the idea in first as a joke. The idea is to get them to accept the idea as their own because they laughed, like a bird taking care of a cuckoo hatchling.
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Found out the other day that Claude Code gets 60 frames per second. https://youtu.be/LvW1HTSLPEk?si=oDpKJrqJBy5sVUdy
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Thinking about pitching unit tests as "If you break my code then I don't have to yell at you because I have already made a machine to yell at you."
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Theory: "We can use Large Language Models to speed up process and improve code quality. First, we have an LLM write the tests..."
Practice: "I need to convince the client that unit tests are a worthwhile thing to have."
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You ever have a morning that makes you think "Huh, maybe I should consider leaving the industry again."
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Pretty sure City Hall has security guards. I've passed them a bunch. https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/oakland-mayors-car-stolen-after-office-broken-into/
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Signal is not fucking around with the warning if you try to enable screenshots on the Windows client.
"Disable screen security? If disabled, this may allow Microsoft Windows to capture screenshots of Signal and use them for features that may not be private."
I was so impressed by this that I went to take a screenshot to post here and instantly got got by the same screen security feature I was going to disable in the first place.
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