evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

3 Years of #3dprinting filament data:

Symbol table: Yeah so this name is upvalue

Code generator: What’s upvalue?

Name resolution: Not much, what’s upvalue with you?

Code generator: Segmentation fault (core dumped)

#programming #shitpost

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com@bsky.brid.gy

my dudes (it's always dudes). when someone asks a question on the internet and you don't know the answer. Just fucking ignore it. "helpful guessing" is not helpful. the internet is a big place - there is a good chance someone will actually know the answer. if you want to be helpful, just boost the question.

Ich hab ihn gefunden. Der *Stairway to Heaven* geht bei uns in den Keller
😅 🤓
#aachen #sommer #hitze #flir #geek #nerd

Some Expanse art to enjoy.

#fanart #scifiart #scifi #Expanse

Some Expanse art to enjoy.

#fanart #scifiart #scifi #Expanse

Here is my first published comic entitled The Pianist. It was published in Bait/Switch

www.baitswit.ch/the-pianist

Jen Sorensen nails it, as always.

Shout out to Costa Coffee in Exeter for putting out a big bowl of water for passing dogs. Nutmeg thanks you.

Graffiti recently spotted. Écoute les victimes (listen to the victims). Paper cutout ear added above an apartment intercom speaker. 10/10.

You've crimsoned your last king, smashed your last pumpkin, and headed your last radio.

In a previous job, the head of our department wanted to impress on the C-level executive he reported to that he was a fantastic manager.

(My reporting line went CEO, the C-level executive, this department head, team manager, me.)

He decided the best way to do this was to produce a monthly report for his boss.

So one day the department head held a meeting with all the team managers who reported into him (including my boss).

Data-driven decision-making was the future, he announced.

He tasked all of them with producing a monthly highlights report for their teams. He would select the top highlights from those reports for his report to the C-level executive.

Naturally, my boss, and everyone at that same team manager level, wanted to show the department head that they were a great manager.

So all the team managers tasked all their reports (at my level) with producing a monthly report of their own. All the key highlights and stats from everyone's month had to be documented.

Reporting became a critical task. For at least a couple of days a week, all nonessential tasks had to be paused for reporting.

So imagine: A few dozen staff at my level each producing a personal report over a couple of days each month.

Those personal reports were compiled into team reports by the team managers over a couple days each month.

This was followed by countless meetings with the department head, where each team manager pled their case for their team's achievements being included in the report to the C-level executive.

Eventually, the best highlights from those team reports were culled into the department head's monthly report to the C-level executive.

Anyway, one day the C-level executive called everyone into a Teams meeting. He announced he was leaving the organisation.

At the very end, there was a Q&A.

Someone asked him about the reports.

He said he never read any of them.

#corporations #corporate #business #management #leadership #capitalism