Hazel Weakly

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

ladies, is your programming - a field dominated by rich white men - driven by fashion trends - practiced as a demonstration of status - funded by vanity projects for failsons - filled with queers trying and failing to break even that's art, sorry

Don't know where it'll all go, but I DO think we have an opportunity in software to break out of some of these approaches and take a much more dynamic look at our within-team change, within-person change, and learning journeys within orgs. That's pretty exciting to me.

I have generally been a proponent, both in my research writing and in my work with client orgs, of focusing mostly on change-over-time-within-your-own-org, in part because I see massive problems with assuming orgs are comparable (see our paper: johnflournoy.science/no-silver-bu...)

The fact that DORA is pausing (stopping? Canceling?) its annual survey is so interesting to me. I wonder if we are moving out of the aggregate Annual Report, Acronym Frameworks era in devex

Not a single word of this is hyperbolic in the slightest. Buy your friends in cybersecurity the drink or chocolate of their choice right now. We are not doing well

For some reason I’ve had this stuck in my head all day

Phreak: "Alright, what are the three most commonly used private keys?" Joey: "156, 115, 55. But not in that order, necessarily, right?" Cereal: "Yeah but don't forget 4. System operators love to use 4. It's that whole male ego thing."

truly a wild time to be alive when the cryptography world is split between those worried about quantum computers and those whose private key is “4”

#KCDUK Day two! I’m the second keynote speaker today and I’m so excited to be speaking about how to be impactful and strategic as a high level IC Check it out at 10:05!

“”” PwnEscape makes it possible for guests to access the host, by sending a guest malformed IPv4 packets “”” Oh baby no, please no

If you're at @kcduk.bsky.social and want to follow the speakers I made a starter pack go.bsky.app/SeCgpjK

KCD UK day one here I come! Unfortunately I forgot my contact lenses but I couldn’t sacrifice the aesthetic so I’ll be squinting at everyone ✨ elegantly ✨ Please feel free to say hi! I can’t wait to meet all of y’all

Tech events I get invited to speak at: "succeeding as a woman in tech" Tech events I'd like to get invited to speak at: "succeeding as a creative weirdo in tech who keeps having strange side projects run away on them and wants to scale impact while staying weird"

It’s just wild to me that the reason we’re giving up on leap seconds is because the earth suddenly decided to start spinning faster and nothing ever anticipated faster rotation or negative leap seconds I love how complex and far reaching unintended consequences can get sometimes

if you think "SRE" means "pager bitch", just fucking say it with your chest, rather than dodging around like this.

Why do I get an uncontrollable urge to consume sugar whenever i have a cold?

What route should you take from the blue pin to the red pin, if you need to cross the road to touch the far side in between? You want the fastest route, but counting time on the road for double that on the pavement - it is more dangerous. you will rediscover the laws for reflection and refraction!

IDC's new analyst brief written by Grace Trinidad and @katienorton.bsky.social sponsored by Edera makes the case for a different model: treat every workload as untrusted, and cap the blast radius. edera.link/idc-brief

Luckily we have a very recent experience of a global virus that caused us all to collectively understand how to deal with viral threats before they cause irreparable harm to humanity Right?

Saving this to use against my kid one day

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

Can we get someone to spend some funding on solving pocket dimensions already? It really shouldn’t be too much trouble. All I’m really asking for is a quaint 500 hectare estate nestled on a busy street in downtown, preferably sandwiched between a coffee shop and a sushi restaurant. Thanks!

Hello. Would you like to roll into your weekend with a super chill topic that's not at all existential, me too www.fightforthehuman.com/organization...

New knitting stitch just dropped, and I got to draw it!! www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...

I severely underestimated how annoying the corset + petticoat + tights combo is for going to the bathroom. I understand why Victorian ladies of the court just refused to use bathrooms now 😅

Ready for the fireside chat that @lizthegrey.com and I are doing today? It’s titled “Observability Engineering: What’s Next?” And it’s going to be a wild ride. Bring your o11y questions for our Q&A session! I might be spooky but observability doesn’t have to be 🫡 luma.com/srenl?e=evt-...

Things happening to my fields while tech has no eyes for anything but itself btw

the abolitionist's dilemma

This is me but any cereal at all. Any of it. I won’t even kiss someone if they’ve had cereal. You have to cleanse yourself of sin first. It’s awful. Can’t even smell that shit Who invented it? I have words for them

Can’t believe it took us this long to find an animal that was vibecoded

brings me no joy to say that Fukuyama nailed it

there is simply no replacement for “having personal attention from an actual teacher who cares”

Reposting this to figure out how much of my timeline has become European vs American now that I’ve been in the Netherlands for about a year

Damn can’t believe we’re gonna have to falsify psychology pseudoscience with questionably applied AI (artificial intelligence) instead of questionably applied AI (aws intelligence)

“Tony [Gilroy] finally turned to me, and he said, ‘Hey, you just got to stop pitching plot. Plot is bullshit. Plot is what happens when you get the behavior right. Pitch me a line of dialogue, pitch me atmosphere, pitch me something visual. Stop pitching stuff that happens.’” 1/2

This is so good. I mean, it’s Stevie wonder, so I repeat myself. But it’s worth repeating Imagine being such an artist that the throwaway scraps you buried in the closet and forgot about were… this