Either "trigger" is a blacklisted word or your domain is on a list somewhere, because my company has this url blocked under the "weapons" category.
That's unfortunate.
> My goal here isn’t “what is 100% the most reliability-oriented way we can build things”, it’s more like “what is the 80% of reliability we can get for 20% of the effort while still enabling devs to go fast”
The author also points out that these bullet points will not apply to every unique situation.
If your goal is to allow devs to go fast at the cost of more hardened code, then yes, skipping code coverage is a major way to code faster. There are definitely times when it is appropriate to skip writing tests when the primary goal is to go fast.
It's difficult to answer your question without knowing your specific situation though.
How do you manage this expectation when working in an environment where part of the office is in the physical building and part is fully remote? When we were all in the office (pre-covid), anybody could walk to your desk to have a face to face conversations.
My manager warned us not to deprioritize IM/calls or it could be used to justify reducing remote privileges (since there isn't a good face to face walk-up equivalent when remote).
I personally hated when people walked up to my desk without messaging me first, and I view unsolicited video calls the same way.
I've seen a number of day planners fairly similar, but I haven't seen any quite like that. The grids instead of lines, the combined empty space and to-dos, and the additional spaces outside the days.
> I am currently plugged into my monitor which is providing power + USB. I didn't have to try three times to plug it in.
Unrelated to the plug orientation, occasionally my laptop fails to properly connect to my monitor over USB C (providing both data and power) until I have plugged it in several times. The issue could be either the monitor, laptop, or cable. This is just anecdata, but it shows how USB C alone hasn't solved the problem where it doesn't just work the first time.
> Even on something like a QNAP (which can be compared to managed hosting) this can be hard. Flip the wrong switch and you expose something to the world. Missed a security update: your device is now vulnerable.
It doesn't even require actively flipping switches, but can be from not knowing a vulnerable feature was enabled by default. My QNAP got hit with ransomware because of a vulnerability in the cloud access software that I wasn't even using. I've since locked down all non-local traffic.
Wanted to reply saying the same thing. I didn't really muck with the settings on my QNAP NAS and then checked into my files one day and everything was encrypted with some txt files telling me to send BTC to some address. I just formatted the disks, lamented not backing some stuff up, and moved on.
I'd say the point being: I'm a software engineer who knows better about these sorts of things and still got caught with my pants down. You have to be very judicious with respect to security. You can't just plug and play and say "I'm too busy to worry about that."
Another thing I'll add is the amount of software tools they have on these NAS machines strikes me as 1) very impressive for a company their size and 2) a huge surface area rife for being hacked. When it happened I wasn't surprised at all.
I've since stopped using it because at the end of the day I'd rather pay Dropbox to have peace of mind.
Hey, that's about the same time that I had the same experience! I never wrote anything super complicated, but it got me interested enough to choose a Computer Engineering major when I applied to college.
It doesn't even need to be a special syringe. I've been able to unblock my ears with warm water and a bulb syringe. It probably takes more effort though since the bulb only holds so much water and has to constantly be refilled.
Oh, interesting. I once lost hearing in one ear due to wax blockage and finally got annoyed enough I went to an urgent care clinic. They used a wax softener and then a big syringe with warm water (and maybe something else mixed in) to irrigate my ear canal. That did the trick and cleared it out. I wonder what about using a syringe can be harmful?
Pushing it too far in, using water that is too hot, pushing the water in too fast. All can damage your ears.
I have had my ears syringed twice. In both cases at my doctor's surgery by a nurse. I visited my doctor because I started to notice that I was going deaf in one ear and ear drops didn't seem to work. Syringing worked perfectly and removed a surprising large amount of wax.
