Due to a series of airline mishaps I’ve been at MDW since crack of dawn. I usually fly out of ORD.

I realize my sample size is 1, but this is striking: I’ve overheard more casual homophobia in this one visit to MDW than in seven years of flying out of ORD. Like, combined.

Wtf?
I’m also not sure why it’s so trendy to hate ORD.

It’s a GIANT intl airport. I can count on my fingers the number of U.S. airports that face the logistical challenges that ORD does.

And, you don’t want to hear this: given what those challenges are, ORD does pretty good.
Let’s do the @MaryRobinette airport game.

Travel plans go well, you drink. Travel plans go poorly, I drink!

Beverage can be anything. I’m going with honey green tea for now, with vague hopes of finding a good latte when I get to Denver.
So far I’m three drinks ahead of you between TWO flights canceled and an overnight trip back to my house. I rebooked on a new airline in the end.

Here now. Trying not to get faces in photos without consent.

Flight is boarding. Take a drink. Image
I’m gonna have to pee the second the seat belt sign turns off. I’m already shifting from foot to foot.

…should I drink for this? 😬 Image
UPDATE: I got an aisle seat and peed shortly after boarding. Take a drink.

However, the flight attendant was pretty annoyed with me because “we’re already four minutes late!”

I’m sorry, my bad. I definitely drink for that.
Wheels down, success! You drink. Image
That said, this is my first time through this airport NOT associated with an old ex. Her family lives here.

We ate at this restaurant together. I’m fine, but I confess I’d rather the memory weren’t registering.

I drink. Image
A TRAIN?!?! I LOVE TRAINS!!!*

*(contrary to the accusations of multiple repliers who com-puh-letely missed the point of the bus tweet heard round the world)

Take a drink. Image
LESBIAN SPOTTED ON TRAIN

TAKE THREE DRINKS
Morgan Freeman is missing his cue. I guess I drink. Image
Cannot find a single person that works here. Went in circles trying to find the train to the city.

Asked a man in a Broncos hoodie where it is. He says he won’t tell me unless I give him my number. I drink.

His tone changes considerably when I ask for a photo. You drink.
UPDATE: TURNS OUT HE DOESN’T EVEN KNOW WHERE THE DAMN TRAIN IS

Is that me? We’ll say I drink for that.
ANOTHER TRAIN! And the fare is about 40% lower than my contact on the inside predicted. Take a drink. Image
HORSEY! Take a drink. Image
Weather is beautiful. I’m gonna get to wear my crop tops after all.*

Take a drink.

*jk. I wear crop tops regardless 😉 Image
Gahtdamn it’s AWFUL pretty out here.

Take a drink. Image
Twitter, I’m about to have to find a contraption apparently called the “mall ride.”

Any tips?
Oh no; delay at Union Station. Something about trouble with the signals. I drink. Image
Found the mall ride! Take a drink. Image
Made it!

Final score: 10 me, 13 you. Good travel day! Finish your glass.

Once I find that latte, I’ll join you 😉 Image

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(QT'ing to credit the OP. Screenshot without the handle in case, at some point, the OP wants to delete their association with the idea. The idea will remain in the screenshot so this thread retains context.)

There is nuance to this topic. Twitter has stripped it. Let's talk. A tweet that says "I had a film professor ask why a stu
Example 1: In my second-ever computer science class as an undergrad, I went to my teacher's office hours asking for help.

The teacher speculated that I "lack the intellectual firepower" for a programming career.
Fast-forward to now: I'm a professional software engineer, I teach some extremely highly-regarded programming classes at the U Chicago Master's Program in CS, and I do workshops for O'Reilly and at cons.

I roast that teacher constantly on purpose to make a point.
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I'm really excited about the potential for this workshop. It has forced me to grapple with some really hard pedagogical challenges.

See, the things that are hard about designing pedagogy for legacy code are not what you'd expect.

A thread.
SCENE DESCRIPTION: like 80% of "coding education," from Academia to O'Reilly to YouTube to TikTok, is "How to build X from scratch."

But software engineers spend, TOPS, 20% of their time doing that.

We're mostly reading, modifying, debugging, documenting.

Why the mismatch?
3 reasons:

1. Building from scratch is fun and sexy and works as clickbait, basically.
2. Building from scratch is what programmers get monetarily rewarded for, so it's what they're incentivized to learn.
3. It's WAY f**king easier to teach.

Why so much easier?
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I am not on the RailsConf committee this year, but I have been on it in the past. So I am in a good position to shed light here, from a removed position, on the CFP process.

I'd...recommend this reading for anyone submitting to conference CFPs.
The way MOST CFPs work is that a group of volunteers raise their hands to participate in talk selection for a variety of different tracks or topics. All of these people are doing this on top of their full time jobs.

In 2022 I reviewed 278 RailsConf proposals while on vacation.
Reviewers don't know who submitted which proposal. We know the title and the abstract, and if the submitter sent an outline, we have that too. Most submitters don't submit a very complete outline.

So we've got VERY little info to evaluate on.
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It did not occur to me that this would happen, but so far it has happened twice (AMAZING) so...I have a solution!

Suppose you want your WHOLE TEAM to take the tech debt course, but you don't want everyone to have to submit their own individual expense report.

What we do is...
1. Email me how many instances of the workshop you need for your team.
2. I send you an invoice for that amount.
3. I make you a custom 100% discount code with that many instances.
4. Your team can all use that code to get the course on their own accounts!
Nota Bene: it would not surprise me if I eventually hit a platform limit on the number of "free" instances I can create.

If that happens I'll call them and ask that I be allowed to continue to do this until they make it possible to purchase multiple course instances.
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Okay, I made a thread and scheduled it. Go me :)

Let's talk about the pedagogical principles that went into the design of "Technical Debt: An Analytical Approach."

I'll go over 3 things:
1. Length
2. Exercises
3. Format

(I'll link the course itself at the end of this 🧵)

1/
First, an analogy: home design.

The design elements that make a home "high value," in the eyes of real estate agents, tend to make the home good FOR ENTERTAINING.

High ceilings create space in crowded rooms.
Marble countertops are impressive.
Open plans seat large groups.

2/
Those same elements often make the home worse for living.

High ceilings make the space harder to heat.
Marble countertops have limited resistance to heat and acid, which...come on, kitchens are for COOKING
Open plans mean fewer people can concentrate in the same floorspace.

3/
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So it sounds like, in a month, @heroku is going to end free plans. Apps deployed and hosted for free until now will have to pay, migrate, or perish.

Let's talk about the sustainability of internet businesses for a second. You will not like what I have to say.
In what I'll call the Centralized Software as a Service Industry, it's actually not that easy to break even and the companies that are doing it aren't who you think they are.

How did we get here? Have a seat.

Once upon a time, making money on the internet was extremely easier.
The market was not as saturated, the public was not as jaded toward ads, and programmers did not cost as much as they do now.

I've talked about this period some; why it was so easy to make something "visionary" back then, and why it's not like that now:

chelseatroy.com/2021/07/30/the…
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