Until estimating is on a sounder basis, individual managers will need to stiffen their backbones and defend their estimates with the assurance that their poor hunches are better than wish-derived estimates.
—Frederick P. Brooks
The Mythical Man Month was written in 1974, and it still feels like despite our many new techniques, the software industry’s estimation hasn’t evolved much past “defend an educated hunch”.
Still reeling from seeing TJ & Dave live this past Saturday, with surprise guests Tracy Letts and Michael Shannon. Reminded me of the beautiful serendipity than can happen in NYC and the improv world. The show was also really really funny.
Been waking up early recently, trying to adjust my sleep schedule. Still in the “pretty tired a lot” phase.
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You may know that you can open man pages in a Neovim buffer with :Man. However, you can also configure your shell to open manual pages in a Neovim buffer when called from the command line. First, if … Read more
I wrote a base #css stylesheet for novels. https://www.chrisdeluca.me/article/base-css-to-style-a-novel/
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I’m working on a short novel, which got me thinking about typesetting (naturally). There’s as many ways to style a book as there are a webpage [citation needed], but there’s rules … Read more
I wrote a guide on building your own #neovim fzy search in #lua https://www.chrisdeluca.me/article/diy-neovim-fzy-search/
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There are plenty of fuzzy search solutions for Neovim, most notably Telescope, but sometimes you just want something fast and simple. Enter fzy, a fast command line program with a slick search … Read more
I’ve been trying to find a good workflow for drawing vector artwork that has the spontaneity and roughness of hand drawn images. tl;dr If you’re just interested in my process, and not the … Read more
I had some trouble after upgrading GPGTools to version 2020.2 on macOS Big Sur, where it would ignore my Yubikey smart card and I couldn’t unlock my stuff. Every time I tried to use gpg (Yubikey … Read more
I’ve been working on a graphing project for the Astoria Digital volunteer group in collaboration with Muckrock. The app will visualize data around New York’s 50a police disciplinary record … Read more
I find PHP’s boolean casting rules strange and hard to remember. I know I’m not alone. To help myself out, and anyone else that happens to stumble upon it, I wrote a commented script that … Read more
New article: Actually Using the General Sibling Combinator: https://www.chrisdeluca.me/article/actually-using-the-general-sibling-combinator/
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I’ve vaguely known about CSS’s general sibling combinator for a while, but I have never found a practical use case for it, until now. And let me tell you, the results are, get ready for … Read more
Computer World featured Astoria Digital, the social justice tech group I volunteer with.https://www.computerworld.com/article/3567471/how-slack-airtable-and-open-source-software-connected-new-yorkers-during-the-pandemic.html: https://www.chrisdeluca.me/note/1595105910/
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A lot has changed in the world since I last posted. I have been extremely lucky during this pandemic. I am still employed, I can work from home, and I have my wife to shelter with. I do not take these things for granted. And yet: https://www.chrisdeluca.me/article/introducing-pcg/
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A lot has changed in the world since I last posted. I have been extremely lucky during this pandemic. I am still employed, I can work from home, and I have my wife to shelter with. I do not take these … Read more
Here’s a little web component I came up with to produce typewriter text, similar to old school SNES RPGs. codepen.io/bronzehed… Read more
Allow Satan into your life: chmod 666 my_soul.txt. The permissions of the beast.
Finished reading: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. I started re-reading this for some reason I now forget. You know what? It’s still good. Read it in 5 days.
🍿 I saw On The Waterfront for the first time the other day. Spoiler alert: it’s good. Also, set in Hoboken! Still, I was surprised how much of the plot revolved around re-routed PATH trains.
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Today I downloaded all the data Facebook has on me, and started poking through it. Since it’s been the focus of every privacy scandal, I went straight to the ad data. I found two items. My ad … Read more
I wrote a small git pre-commit hook to prevent committing certain files. There are more words to this, but if you’re impatient, you can skip right to the goods. At work, we have some … Read more
I took a week off from work to join a deep dive study group on machine learning. It was an incredible experience and I want to tell you about what I learned. I learned with very smart and interesting … Read more
This is not meant to be a take down piece, and I realize I’m not providing any direct solutions. I wouldn’t be writing about Drupal if I didn’t care about it. My hope is that my … Read more