Mehul Kar

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I’m…managing @vercel.com

screenshot of slack's emoji picker with the search field filled in with "old-man-yells-at-". the search results in the emoji picker shows many rows of variations of the "old man yells at X" emoji where X is just a different technology (npm, stripe, aws, twitter, slack, github, angular, etc etc)
A screenshot showing GitHub Pull Request UI with a list of commits. The commit titles are blurred out on the left. On the right there are a list of commit SHAs. Almost all of them are marked as "failed", the last one shows a green check. The last commit title is not blurred out and reads "draw the rest of the owl". The image intends to show that it took many commits to get the PR passing checks.
Picture of text that reads: “Process There is no word that irks engineers more than process. Try it right now. Get everyone in your office and say something like, "I've defined a new process to assist our bug triage." Watch their faces sag They hear "busywork." They think, "management is trying to justify itself." This is not the word that defines the third level of the hierarchy. That word is communication. Fact #3: Process defines communication. Process is the means by which your team communicates. Whether this is via a wiki, e-mail, or the hallway, any team larger hare information. This is not”
@AmedeeVanGasse, ah! I HAD NO IDEA this is a toilet analogy! I've been seeing porcelain in the git man pages for years, but had NO idea it was referring to a toilet! The porcelain is the toilet, and it's "closer to the user" (who figuratively sits on this toilet) than the plumbing, which is lower-level and farther from the user--ie: below the "porcelain"! Mind blown.