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On my morning walk today I listened to the #hanselminutes episodes where @shanselman chatted to @nova - at one point they discuss psychological safety and how you shouldn't "flip the bozo bit" on someone for not knowing something you think they probably should know (💯 agreed) . There was a certain element of irony as I had to go and look up "bozo bit" to fully understand the analogy! Really great episode! I've bought Kris' book and look forward to reading it!

Unexpected blast from the past listening to @shanselman interview Mekka Williams. She and I both used the SL-1 language in our first jobs out of college, and we both used it to program telecom equipment.

I was a Bell Northern Research from 1979 to 1983, programming the SL-1 private branch exchange (PBX). I remember debugging by setting breakpoints using a hardware debugging card with 16 red LEDs and 16 switches to specify the address.

hanselminutes.com/869/do-i-sta

hanselminutes.comDo I stay or do I go? - Tech career advice with Mekka WilliamsThe Hanselminutes Podcast by Scott Hanselman - Fresh Air for Developers - Deep tech talk from an inclusive perspective

Anyone compared mastodon/twitter followers? Like:

@robertdmcneill (Voyager Pilot) - twitter: 63.3K mastodon: 1.79K = ~2.8%

@shanselman (#Hanselminutes, etc...) - twitter: 308.3K mastodon: 8.3K = ~2.7%

Categorical cross over make sense. So those numbers being similar isn't surprising.

But, what about folks who play to entirely different audiences? Are there categorical trend lines? Can they be used to watch for a critical mass?

PhD students must be having a field day