QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 25/09/2026Because I am cursed with providing support for the channel 100
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 25/09/2026My current (not) favorite thing is daily whole Teams channel pings for channels of 3000 to 20,000 people when the user wants support 101
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 10/09/2026Would you please register a profile for GLOW on Benevity? That would let you add a description there and help people find it for employer matching if their employer uses Benevity. causes.benevity.org/causes/840-3...causes.benevity.orgGLOW - GOVERNMENT LAWYERS OVERSIGHT WATCHDOG | Benevity Causes 110
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 11/08/2026I do not see this on the iOS app, but do on iOS Safari 020
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 11/08/2026I get it in Bluesky chats/DMs without any browser extensions 220
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 04/08/2026"Interesting" can be derogative (more like your meaning) or complementary. Which one is context dependent in my experience 010
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 04/08/2026I think she means it as "exactly!", kind of like the 100% but with more emotion 000
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 04/08/2026👀 is an acknowledgement that a message has been seen on my team. I have not seen my team's meaning much elsewhere. But casually I see it as "that looks interesting" 100
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 04/08/2026Is that what my coworker has been meaning? That reminds me to ask her to be sure, but that makes the most sense. 100
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 28/07/2026I am really not a fan of how Professor Sag characterizes disability accommodations. I am glad people like @rahaeli.bsky.social and @jmiers230.bsky.social are calling that out. 010
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 28/07/2026I also think organizations should do more than create a list of approved accommodations and largely limit themselves to that list. People *will* need different things. The list my college had contained things that would be helpful to some people, but none of them would help me. 100
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 28/07/2026I think stressful, time limited exams are generally not a good tool to measure student performance. I still think extra exam time should be available as an accommodation because it does help some people. It is not a bonus or advantage. 100
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 28/07/2026So getting 4.5 hours instead of 3 on an exam that only needed 1 hour for me and most students was completely useless to me. I shared that with my college and they effectively told me the only accommodations available were those from the list. None of those things would help me. I got no other help. 100
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 28/07/2026Extra exam time is almost never helpful for me. I tend to do well on exams without it. In addition, nearly all my professors gave ample time on exams. If the exam would take most students under an hour, the professor gave 3 hours for everyone. Time was not supposed to be a limiting factor. 100
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 28/07/2026I struggled in college because of my disabilities. I went through my school's process for accommodations. It took extra time and documentation, not easy. After that whole process the only accommodation available was extra exam time (and maybe a few others from a list that would be useless for me). 100
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 28/07/2026On accommodations for disability (specifically extra time on exams). As a somewhat recently graduated undergrad (not law) student with disabilities, exactly this. Accommodations are a good thing and we should offer more variety and make them easier to get. 110
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 27/07/2026It does impart additional (now) necessary work to manage the churn 010
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 20/07/2026It is so annoying. I also hate that you cannot transfer the prescription to a different pharmacy, even when the med is out of stock or you are travelling. You have to get the doctor to write a new prescription *and* cancel the previous prescription. Otherwise, no meds for you. 150
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 15/07/2026I mean, that does not seem that unusual. I see people hyping the latest JavaScript craze in similar ways. Typst seems to appeal to some members of very passionate and opinionated groups like LaTeX grognards and Rust evangelists. 100
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 07/07/2026I realize this is probably a joke, but didn't the Pope recently and completely sincerely warn against this (building a Tower of Babel with AI)? I think the Pope had the right idea about building towards the betterment of people instead of to glory themselves. 020
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 03/07/2026I noticed that Nike's shoes use touching colored stripes, while 7-Eleven's shown trademarks and products appear to have gaps between stripes. Is that significant at all for Nike's defense? 000
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 29/06/2026This standard site validation checker might help isitstandard.site/inspect?url=... 110
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 27/06/2026I cannot easily do a keyword search on images. I cannot recover blurry or pixelated text. I may not be able to nicely increase text size in an image. Just give me text please. 210
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 27/06/2026Tangential point, but if I became supreme overlord of the world, I would ban sharing screenshots of things like error messages or logs. They must be shared as text. A link to text is acceptable. Additionally, error messages and such must support copying as text. A copy to clipboard button is ok. 110
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 21/06/2026Sacramento California apparently www.kcra.com/article/sacr...kcra.comOfficers detain man driving stolen Sacramento police cruiser after freeway chaseLaw enforcement officials detained a man suspected of vandalism who stole a Sacramento Police Department patrol vehicle Friday afternoon, officials said. 120
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 20/06/2026Do you have a preference on where the LLM review takes place? Do you do the review where only you see the results, such as locally. Or is the review viewable to others, such as on the MR or part of CI? Or something else, any of the above, etc.? Trying to gauge what this looks like in practice. 100
Reposted by QuietEngineer🦷👁️Alex Rochon👁️🦷 @alexrochonva.bsky.social · 20/06/2026As promised, here’s a thread of my extended thoughts on Digital Circus and its finale! I tried to organize these as best I could, but I wrote a ton so apologies if I’m rambling. Spoilers, of course, and my words are my own - not speaking for Goose, anyone at Glitch, or my castmates. Enjoy! 12255521089
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 19/06/2026I thought 4x3 was pretty cool so I made my own puzzle. Not sure about difficulty www.hankgreen.com/fourbythree#...hankgreen.com4 × 3 010
Reposted by QuietEngineerLuca Casonato 🏳️🌈 @lcas.dev · 17/06/2026What's this, a new HTML proposal? Built-in localized time formatting in HTML! github.com/whatwg/html/... 1942457
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 07/06/2026I watched The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act in a local theater tonight and it was great. Highly recommend. Excited for the general release on YouTube. Congrats to everyone who worked on it! You should be proud of what you accomplished! 130
Reposted by QuietEngineerIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/05/2026I regularly have people ask me about Mythos these days, so here are my thoughts: Finding bugs is never the hard part. Fixing them is. How’s your organizational alignment? Are your engineers burned out? How is your production resilience? Before you worry about the new shiny, focus on your basics 1936765
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 27/05/2026I did that when trying to pay for baggage with Delta a few years ago. There was a faulty JavaScript validation check that prevented submitting my card info. I had to disable the event listener for the validation. It should not be this hard to give away my money. 160
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 19/05/2026That is where I am leaning. My feedback is along the lines of "I do not think this is a worthwhile feature and has these risks... Assuming FamilySearch want to keep it, these are issues that need to be fixed..." 030
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 19/05/2026GitHub does. According the article that feature was intentionally disabled 150
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 14/05/2026Whoops, the previous link was just to the image, not the text search feature that has the transcript and AI summary. Here is an accurate link: www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3... 030
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 14/05/2026It looks like the transcription is okay, but the AI summary of the transcription is leaving out or replacing words like you identified. The UI also could better differentiate between the transcription and AI summary. I will try to share this with my FamilySearch contacts. 130
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 14/05/2026Found the first one own my own: "Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States records," images, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3... : May 14, 2026), image 307 of 654; . Image Group Number: 008295003familysearch.orgFamilySearch.orgDiscover your family history. Explore the world’s largest collection of free family trees, genealogy records and resources. 130
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 14/05/2026Hi @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social. That looks like a significant issue. Would you please share links to some of these examples so I can reach out within my network to try getting this fixed? I am not FamilySearch employee but would love to help how I can. 200
Reposted by QuietEngineerTom @alttag.bsky.social · 06/05/2026I don’t need people to code* so much as I need junior developers to learn to think in ways that will eventually make them senior developers. genAI gets in the way of that. 072
Reposted by QuietEngineerNational Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 03/05/2026Here's a super weird crowdsourcing request. I'm openly abusing my soapbox to find someone who fits a specific description. #sorrynotsorry Over the past several months I've occasionally asked questions about deeply held religious beliefs. Trying to get a feel for the various belief systems in play. 1611035
Reposted by QuietEngineerFilippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 28/04/2026A bit over two years after starting to work on it... Go is officially FIPS 140-3 certified 💥 csrc.nist.gov/projects/cry... I am pretty confident Go is now one of the most—if not the most—seamless and complete FIPS 140-3 compliance solutions... with a single env var, out of the box. 928962
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 21/04/2026When I say mix, that just means like at least 5% of my work is each of those categories. 33%, 33%, 33% is fine. So is 90%, 5%, 5%. Or just about any other combination. Just enough to give me some variety 000
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 19/04/2026For me, partially yes. I need a mix of feature work, bug fixes, and refactoring or I go insane. But I love making a codebase more maintainable and adding docs, even though it is not visible to users. Unfortunately that is not easy to sell to management as beneficial and important 110
Reposted by QuietEngineerThe Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Hey, attorneys, especially litigators: Read this thread and consider circulating it to your less online colleagues. 57120
QuietEngineer @quietengineer.fyi · 18/04/2026For clarification, the blog post/post mortem was published on 2026-04-10 for an outage around 2026-04-06. pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/a... The 2026-04-16 outage was not necessarily the same or a related issue as far as I am aware.pckt.blogApril 2026 Outage Post-Mortem - Jim's PcktHey all! I'm Jim, and I do system-y things at Bluesky. I'm here to give you some details about what happened on Monday of this week that caused Bluesky to go do... 110
