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Is there a book or video course on business writing for software engineers you would recommend?

I've spent many hours teaching writing and pair-editing with software engineers. I would like something to help accelerate that learning.

The tech companies who court and then betray sex workers deserve public shaming, but sex workers shouldn't have to rely on tech bros' largely nonexistent sense of shame in order to continue to transact and communicate. For that, we need *lots* of platforms, not just *better* ones.

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Engineering managers: replace “bus factor” with “bingo factor”.

I hope my team members leave unexpectedly from winning big bingo bucks rather than getting killed by public transportation.

“When their shitcoin price goes low, we go high.”

—Michelle Obama

What happens when Bonobo’s sound engineer hears the house organist practicing at 1am? youtu.be/AdyAF9M3XVw

A chatbot has never improved my customer support experience.

Waking up to a cryptocurrency DeFi Ponzi scheme collapse is an improvement over the usual US news I wake up to.

🪴 Indoor plant friends: what is the best way to deal with watering when on a 2-week vacation?

(Assume all my friends are also on vacation because Sverige in July.)

The glass bulb thing did not work last time.

Do the plastic water bottle spikes or rope methods actually work?

Deutschland will launch a €3.5 million annual sovereign tech fund to support engineers working on open source software government agencies and industry rely on.

Good for the intellectual commons. Good for national security.

sciencebusiness.net/news/germa

Being able to set multiple timers with Siri apparently won’t happen until macOS Inland Empire.

Is there anything immigrants to Sverige can do other than feel helpless, ignored, and denigrated during elections?

When is Apple Watch going to track big spoon and little spoon cuddle time?

These are critical sleep tracking metrics affecting my health and well-being.

Mozilla finally released a Firefox add-on for language translation using local machine learning. It’s based on Project Bergamot <browser.mt/> and implemented in WebAssembly.

Sadly, like Apple’s, no support yet for Svenska (Swedish).

blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/lo

The 🇺🇦 Ukrainian territory currently occupied by 🇷🇺 #russia is of the same size as:

- 🇺🇸 Pennsylvania
- Austria and Switzerland combined
- Slovakia and Czechia combined
- Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia combined

🔗 nitter.net/Kasparov63/status/1

#Ukraine #StandWithUkraine #SlavaUkraini

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