Today I completed my first week at my new job. It’s been a whirlwind, but every day has been better than the previous one. It’s been so many years since I started a new job that I wasn’t match fit in the process. I’d forgotten how to ‘start over’, so that in itself has been an experience. Learning what is expected of me, and figuring out how to implement that without getting lost in the minutiae becomes the next challenge.
I can’t believe that 40 years of computer software design has led us to a world where we are all reliant on a range of entirely bespoke browser-based apps. The tech world has really ended up in a basket-case of UI design. I don’t mind server-based stuff, but I love a native front-end. It’s such a shame that market economics has resulted in us running complex apps in an app that was never designed for that purpose.
Half-way through the first day of a new job. It’s been a long time since I’ve had to go through the rigamarole of induction. 💼
Wordle 739 2/6
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It’s going to be a good day!
That feeling when you’re enjoying the job of being a basketball commentator. 🏀
When the struggle is real, a walk can be the remedy. 🚶🏼♂️
I’m liking Tinylytics - a new project from @vincent. Giving me what I want to know, and nothing more, about site stats for my micro.blog site.
This could be a headline from The Onion. You know things are bad when Nigeria decides your business is too scammy to be allowed to operate in its country. Binance ordered out of Nigeria: Nigeria…has ordered Binance to “immediately stop soliciting Nigerian investors in any form whatsoever”. I bet there are many Nigerian Princes happy to once again have a clear run at the market.
Thinking about Slack’s fall from grace. Acquired by Salesforce. 🤮 Squeezed on the business side by Teams with typical Microsoft embrace, extend, extinguish. Squeezed by Discord from the casual side. Slack will probably keep limping on as a sad brand, Yahoo!-style, for years.
Friendships make my heart sing.
Social Media Deathwatch II - Mark writes: When a site tells you they don’t want you using it, except by their captured clients, you should stop using it. All they want is to control you and put ads in your eyeballs, until you explode. … Reddit came out of Digg being fed into a woodchipper just because Kevin Rose wanted a little bit of money… Don’t use closed networks owned by someone else.
I’m happy to see pressure mounting on the RBA. Not so much even for the decision to lift rates, but on it’s myopic approach to analysis. The economy has changed; it has become more integrated, and duopolies and oligopolies rule the Australian markets. A fundamental lack of competition is allowing the growth of profits, and the RBA currently seems unwilling to accept this as a line of thinking. Bernard Keane, writing for Crikey, knocks it out of the park on the Reserve Bank of Australia’s approach to inflation.
Most people have a set of skills that aren’t monetised. These skills are often linked with hobbies or interests. Why don’t people make money from them? Perhaps there is no discernible market for the particular skill. Maybe the joy is removed when a transactional element is added. For whatever the reason, humans are adept at many things, and we often only get paid for a small aspect of the overall talent inherent within us.
Oh no, now I’m going down a Safari versus Arc versus Vivaldi browser showdown rabbit hole. 🕳️🐇
Oh, is that all we have to do? More gold from the guy earning in excess of $900,000 per year from his one job.
“People can cut back spending, and in some cases find additional hours of work that will put them back into a positive cash flow position.”
– RBA Governor Philip Lowe
Creating rice outline islands with my boys.
The “party” that is neoliberalism has been giving our society gift after gift. We’ve had corruption and self-interest at the highest levels, as PwC executives had their snouts in the trough on both sides of the consulting equation, giving legislative design advice to government then flipping that information and advising their corporate customers on ways around said legislation. We’ve had executive wages grow exponentially over recent years, irrespective of their performance, or that of the company they lead.
So we are at the point where the feature update for macOS is… screensavers. Better for energy efficiency, and thus climate change, to simply have the screen turn off.
Sick day. Watching episodes of Seinfeld.
I’ve discovered the music artist Jelly Roll. Really digging his sound. 🎵