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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Hell yes. I’ve written a unit price calculator, a tip calculator, a “how many plates do I need to put on this barbell to reach X weight?” app, a “am I connected to the Internet” app, and a few other small things. Other people have already written apps like these. But these apps work the way I want them to, and they were good learning experiences.










  • Tehhund@lemmy.worldtoMemes@sopuli.xyzThe Faculty, any day
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    1 month ago

    Dude, Where’s My Car? is so much better than it had any right to be. And while the main characters are stoners, most of the humor isn’t stoner humor. Not that there’s anything wrong with stoner humor, but movies that consist entirely of stoner humor tend to drag after a while.









  • This post is a little too vague to give real advice. You don’t tell us what industry you’re in. You don’t tell us if the engineers are the end users of the software or processes you’re working on, or if they will implement the software or processes you’re working on.

    If they’re the end users, they might be concerned that the changes you’re designing are going to make their jobs harder. A lot of changes in the past couple decades aimed at “efficiency” have involved making people take on more work for no additional pay, then firing the administrative staff or other engineers who used to do that work. Even if that isn’t the sort of project you’re working on they are reasonably wary based on past experience. Or maybe it’s not clear to you how this will make their life harder but management will find a way.

    If the engineers are writing the software that you are helping design, how are you helping to make their jobs easier and more fulfilling? It’s an unfortunate fact that software engineers are sometimes treated like misbehaving vending machines that will produce software if you force them to. If they are writing the code, there’s a very good chance that they know more about this process than anyone else in the room, but are they treated like they know more than anyone else in the room? Is their expertise valued or are they treated like roadblocks when they give their expert opinions?


  • Mastodon, Lemmy, and Bluesky all provide RSS feeds for some of their pages, so you can sort of do this with just an RSS aggregator. It wouldn’t do everything you asked for but it would be a start. I follow some Mastodon users and some Bluesky users’ RSS feeds, unsure if you could also get a RSS feed of a Bluesky feed.

    I use Miniflux: https://miniflux.app/. It’s web based so you can access it on any device. It’s open source so you could run your own instance, but they also have a paid version which is just $15/year. It works great and the price is super cheap so that’s what I use.