Legendary wizard Voldemort…

We have a NeatBoard that’s configured for Zoom. So our stand ups are in front of this TV thing and it works well for us.

Then again, our stand ups are short and to the point. We’re closer to kanban than scrum.

That is 100% comedy gold.

I would have happily told your to 302 see other meeting room.

Also known as induced demand. Most of a thing drives more demand for that thing.

Which means the app was crap. Rather the rules it used to validate a valid name are garbage.

Usually because someone tried to be too strict. E.g. names are space delimited A-Za-z strings, rather than just accepting any old Unicode string and safely processing it (e.g. with an SQL prepared statement).

I’ve had websites reject email addresses with one of the newish TLD’s because someone decided they new how to validate an email address (it’s more a more flexible spec than you might think).

That’s conforming (to what ever criteria). Send me a UTF-16 string of at most 100 code points. Send me a 7-bit ASCII string of only A-Z0-9. Reject anything that doesn’t comform.

sanitizing is trying to clean an input. That’s “lemme just double escape some special characters” or stripping/replacing/encoding characters or truncating strings, coercing types. Don’t do this, your sanitization code will have bugs or edge cases.

If they were valid they wouldn’t be rejected.

Running a coffee shop isn’t a fair comparison to a CEO.

A successful coffeeshop requires someone with experience and expertise.

Replacing the Starbucks CEO with an LLM however…

There is a whole board of directors between shareholder and CEO to try too.

Righteous.

Don’t sanitise inputs. Reject non-conforming inputs entirely.

But otherwise: yes.

100%

Excel is the one actual critical application because it deals with data (and formulae), data which is only useful when you maintain its integrity (hopefully you’re not storing dates).

Word is just a shitty application for text. Needs that can usually be adequately addressed by a plain text file (or plain text email). It thinks it’s a desktop publishing application (goodbye MS Publisher). Any tool that can do rudimentary text processing will suffice for the vast majority of use cases. One might have footnotes and some meta data that might be important, other apps do that well. Even markdown can do that.

PowerPoint, likewise, is a shitty slide show application. Any equivalent will suffice.

There’s quite a few other apps, I forget those.

Not being able to paste a jpg of a screenshot into an Excel sheet embedded in a Word document is a feature.

I posit that the vast majority of users of Office would be just fine with any of the lightweight web app equivalents.

I have but one up vote and this is solid gold.

That episode was wild. Setting up the big bad monster for the federation to be fighting… then just forgetting all about them.

I wasn’t sure about how I could HypethTread^TM a pigeon, so avoided voiding my warranty.

It’s only one pigeon.

Some of us have multiple pigeons though.

I’m remembering from back in the ol’ single core days too. Where an interrupt was, well, an interrupt.

Couldn’t quite remember how it worked, just that USB didn’t CPU interrupt:-)

USB keyboards yelling into the void in the background hoping to be noticed.