Hasnain says:

Where do I even begin...

“"We had a conversation with one of our white friends, and she said 'No problem. I'll be Tenisha. I'll bring over some pictures of my family,'" Austin said. "She made our home look like it belonged to her."

The home appraised for $1,482,000, or roughly $500,000 more than it appraised for just weeks prior.

The change was equal to a nearly 50% increase in value.”

Hasnain says:

“I am heartened by how startling and repulsive all this blatant sexism is to the younger generations watching, and posting about, the doc. Social media has allowed new voices to circumvent the cis-white-male gatekeepers and begin to lead the conversation, and we’re better for it; young people just aren’t having this mess. They won’t stand for any guff on Billie Eilish’s baggy tracksuits or Lizzo’s size or whether Taylor Swift seems likable enough. It’s a nonstarter. I like how bad we look to them in “Finding Britney Spears.” It means there’s been progress.”

Hasnain says:

Only read the first two articles in this series so far but it’s resonated a lot and I keep nodding along. So much insightful stuff on burnout, and how it’s being horribly mismanaged.

“When you analyze the real causes of burnout, it becomes clear that almost everyone has been attacking the problem from the wrong angle. According to Christina Maslach of the University of California, Berkeley, Susan E. Jackson of Rutgers, and Michael Leiter of Deakin University, burnout has six main causes:

Unsustainable workload
Perceived lack of control
Insufficient rewards for effort
Lack of a supportive community
Lack of fairness
Mismatched values and skills

While these are all organizational issues, we still prescribe self-care as the cure for burnout. We’ve put the burden of solving the problem squarely on the shoulders of individual employees. “Let’s just recommend more yoga, wellness tech, meditation apps, and subsidized gym memberships — that’ll fix it,” we say. But those are tools for improving well-being. When it comes to preventing burnout specifically, they won’t be effective. We desperately need upstream interventions, not downstream tactics.”

Hasnain says:

Bookmarking for future rereading - postmortems are always enjoyable

Hasnain says:

“I built Litestream to bring back sanity to application development. Litestream is a tool that runs in a separate process and continuously replicates a SQLite database to Amazon S3. You can get up and running with a few lines of configuration. Then you can set-it-and-forget-it and get back to writing code.”

Hasnain says:

Continuing on the topic of the bungled vaccination rollout in the US, this is depressing - not using a vaccine and letting it go to waste *should* be criminal - what he did should be fine.

"The officials maintained that he had violated protocol and should have returned the remaining doses to the office or thrown them away, the doctor recalled. He also said that one of the officials startled him by questioning the lack of “equity” among those he had vaccinated.

“Are you suggesting that there were too many Indian names in that group?” Dr. Gokal said he asked.

Exactly, he said he was told."

Hasnain says:

Finally a decent summary of the huge mess that was all over Twitter yesterday (very engaging drama though to be sure)

Hasnain says:

This attack is both genius and terrifying at the same time.

“From one-off mistakes made by developers on their own machines, to misconfigured internal or cloud-based build servers, to systemically vulnerable development pipelines, one thing was clear: squatting valid internal package names was a nearly sure-fire method to get into the networks of some of the biggest tech companies out there, gaining remote code execution, and possibly allowing attackers to add backdoors during builds.”

Hasnain says:

“Aside: Writing a scheduler is hard. It is much easier to have 1000 while loops waiting for the right time, than one while loop waiting for which of the 1000 is first. A scheduler can track when it last ran something, but the work can’t rely on that being the last time it ran. Idempotency isn’t just your friend, it is your saviour.)”

Hasnain says:

I think it’s extremely brave and cool that even after facing such horrible discrimination, she is pushing for laws that would start to put an end to it for everyone.

“Now, Ozoma is helping lead an effort to dramatically expand the law. She's been working for months behind the scenes with employment rights advocates and the office of California State Senator Connie Leyva, who introduced CCP 1001 in 2018, to put together legislation that would allow every person in California to speak out about workplace abuse, even after signing an NDA.”