LoriHC @lorihc@social.cleverlibre.org

when I have been a hiring manager and an applicant does not fit what I need I think "oh interesting! sadly not the right fit for this job" and I promise you I have never, ever thought "who's this delusional person applying for this position? how dare they?!". you're not wasting my time I get paid for this.

Remember, the Holocaust didn’t start with gas chambers.

It started with politicians dividing the people with “us vs. them”.

It started with intolerance and hate speech.

It started when people stopped caring, became desensitized, and turned a blind eye.

Remember.

Americans: please give us an affordable, practical, small EV with decent range

American car companies: here’s a $70,000 EV truck that weighs 6 tons lol

<zero EV trucks are sold>

American car companies: wow americans aren’t ready for EVs

"urban residents who switched from driving to cycling for just one trip per day reduced their carbon footprint by about half a tonne of CO₂ over the course of a year, and save the equivalent emissions of a one-way flight from London to New York"

#Cycling
#ClimateEmergency

https://theconversation.com/cycling-is-ten-times-more-important-than-electric-cars-for-reaching-net-zero-cities-157163

hey, you know those "tell me what you were doing when you crashed" boxes you almost never fill out?

I just want you to know that the last... 3? crashes I've worked on have all had BRILLIANT clues for what was wrong in there from users. If you have ANY idea what you were doing, and can put it into words? please, please do, your assistance is HUGELY appreciated. Even just "I was adjusting the app settings” can be a clue!

(also, remember that it's a human reading it eventually, be kind!)
#work

Are you interested in working on clang and swift compiler frontends? Are you excited about improving language interoperability between C++ and Swift? We'd love to hear from you!

We are looking for people both in Cupertino and London:

https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200531386/compiler-frontend-engineer
https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200474298/swe-clang-compiler-engineer

64,000 pregnancies from rape in just the red states? Add however many rapes didn't result in pregnancy. Sweet Jesus, we don't need to ban abortions, we need to #StopRape

Something I've started to see as really problematic when I look back at workplace situations over the years is people being conflict avoidant. I think folk conflate it with de-escalation but it ends up having the opposite effect.

If you're working on a team that is not all white cishet men there *are* going to be harmful behaviours like racist, sexist, homophobic microaggresions at the very least. You need to address that shit when it crops up or you're just further marginalising people.

I once had a user who refused to let us install a new version of our app on their machine, saying “I don’t want a new version, I want you to fix the version I have”.

@lorihc I started doing agile around 2003 in CA & I don’t remember that term, but there a lot of stuff from then I don’t remember 😅 Been East Coast again near 20 years & doing agile continuously, never heard from multiple trainers and coaches 🤷🏼‍♂️

“Let me get this straight. Donald #Trump, of all people, is outraged by a candidate presenting a second-place finish as a success? He thinks it's "delusional" for someone to stick around in the wake of an electoral rebuke?

I've seen failures of self-awareness, but c'mon.” Via @stevebenen
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/irony-trumps-angry-reaction-nh-primary-victory-rcna135420

Every once in a while, a guy presses me about my experience as a woman in tech, expecting something rosy.

I say: "Imagine that all your same-gender peers for the first 15 years of your career…were not there. That was my experience."

You'd be astonished at the pushback I get because it is just so hard for them to conceptualize so many people in their career just vanishing.

That's how it is for women and many people of color in tech.

Amazingly, @dmoren and I were able to interview the co-creators and showrunners of "For All Mankind" about the recently-concluded season, alt history Apple products, and (of course) vending machines.

https://www.theincomparable.com/nvm/31/

I’m continually so proud of the work our team puts into initiatives like this. Announcing Apple’s new Black Unity collection for Apple Watch. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-unveils-2024-black-unity-collection-and-announces-six-reji-grantees/

Awful ruling upholding Indiana’s law against recording police within 25 feet. Similar laws have been ruled unconstitutional elsewhere because recording cops is an established First Amendment right.

The IN lawmaker behind the law reportedly said citizens like those who recorded George Floyd’s murder were “involved in a situation that’s none of their business.” That tells you all you need to know. https://thedissenter.org/us-judge-rules-in-favor-of-police-buffer-law-viewed-as-threat-to-rights-of-journalists/?ref=the-dissenter-newsletter