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1/ So, I'm one of the more senior engineers on our team, and recently two of our engineering managers left the company for new opportunities. Totally happy for them but it's left some holes in the org. In particular, my immediate manager left, one of the best I've had <subtweet>

2/ This manager (call them Jo) started in engineering, was very technical, stayed relevant, and managed to strike a great balance of leading, protecting their people from the worst of upper management decisions, encouraging us to grow and improve, and was generally awesome.

8/ I can only aspire to support and encourage my peers like Jo did.

Be a Jo.

3/ I've been doing my best to fill the gaps Jo left from a technical perspective; I already provide a good amount of direction on technical issues, and I've been operating as a feature team lead for a while now.

4/ Today I had a conversation with another feature team lead, who's been having a hard time figuring out how to bootstrap their team's area of responsibility. They have the technical chops, but aren't sure how to get started. Did they want to get on a call and talk?

6/ I rather talked too much (it's a failing of mine when I get going) but worked to make space for dialog, and tried to let them lead the conversation (with mixed success).

Is there anyone @bandcamp that can help me with a broken gift purchase #bandcamp #radiohead oops

@Bandcamp So excited about Radiohead's demos release that I typo'd my brother's email address on the gift form, and now I don't know how to make sure he gets it! (it was a non-deliverable address)

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@jephjacques Top Three AI Names

~20 meetings this week at $dayjob. This is my new normal.

@pixel Also you got me posting on Twitter and now I feel so dirty

@pixel I hear you, but I feel like we have so many of those. I miss working in actual “Mac” apps sometimes. I’d like to have something like Drafts, with a post list, and a live “preview” that rendered the post I’m editing with the blog’s styles.

One button push to publish.

@pixel I just like the idea of not having to edit in one app, and upload in another. However there are some nice markdown apps like @draftsapp, so :shrug:

@pixel Mac app to compose and manage posts, render to disk or s3 or what have you - I’d use it.

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