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  In the small, bounded, separable: perfection is beautiful. In the wide, in the dependent and the depended-on, perfection is a flaw.

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  @flq Living systems are infinitely flawed and beautiful!

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  Fighting evil centers evil. Fighting crime centers crime. Fighting death centers death.

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  on Good & Evil in superheroes: Big Evil is comforting. An embodiment of all our fears, that can be destroyed? Delightful fantasy. Big Good is creepy as hell. A centralized source of goodness, some being or organization outside of ourselves, extrinsic? Horrifying.

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  In classical modernity, acceleration secured the resources for pursual of individual dreams, goals, and life plans... In late modernity, it is the other way round: individual dreams, goals, desires and life-plans are utilized to feed the acceleration machine. - Hartmut Rosa

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  Today I found another benefit of capability owner "agents." I can identify needed module boundaries with my reaction of "why are you talking to that cap owner ugh" -- an indication that the code I'm adding belongs in its own module, where changes to that module don't consult the older feature owners. (reference: https://graceful.dev/podcast/ive-often-wished-i-could-fork-myself/)

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  On the way home from the office, I detoured and sat down at a little Illy cafe playing the world cup And followed a footnote to Oscar Wilde's 1891 essay on Lying. The footnote said it defines "irony" in the sense we now use it. I still don't understand "irony" but I have more about beauty now

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  RE: https://avdi.codes/163761-2/ I like to orient my identity not to "what am I good at?" but "what am I getting better at?"

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  It's really nice to have this new tool that lets me get these ideas out of my head by arguing with it - @avdi

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  The schedule for Explore DDD is amazing this year! @RuthMalan @rebeccawb @diana, Randy Shoup, @mattwynne so many! https://exploreddd.com/schedule/ You should all come!!

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  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jessitron/117151778196347747 oh and there's a virtual option if you want to follow along from home!

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  Rubyconf video is up! https://youtu.be/Nvr0klVxw5c?is=LA01CC6CikY9yDIB

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  the value of an abstraction is not revealed by the happy path. Abstraction exists to help me with complexity. The complexity is in the failure cases. Tell me what happens in various failure cases, and I'll tell you whether this abstraction is helpful or 💩

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  When your code helps people over bumps, your code looks bumpy.

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  The trick to enjoying history is knowing more about history. Each book is more interesting for everything I already know that it intertwines with.

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  Build for after the revolution. Build the social structure that will serve us then. Build it now, where we are, and make the systems we hate less relevant.

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  A typo like 'enviroment' can easily turn your production dashboards into pumpkins - Liudmila Molkova, on using Weaver to validate your telemetry #kubecon

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  Claude Code: I did it! We’re done. Whitney Lee: Telemetry or it didn’t happen! #kubecon #observabilityday

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  Marketer: let's get an engineer on to talk about how easy it is Me: engineers don't talk about easy. We talk about what was hard.