https://hn.algolia.com/?q=starlink+whitehouse

The sheer bumbling incompetence of this current regime is almost akin to the plot of a "Hogan's Heroes" episode, with management style provided by Colonel Klink...

Just take a look at some of the opensource academic, infrastructure or "passion-projects", where there is no management pressures to "move fast & break-things" and ship-ship-ship. They tend to be very stable, very predictable - and very high quality.

So - when TNG began airing, I would have been about 15 - right squarely in the perfect formative timeframe - it was "ours" more so than the original series ever was.

(lots of rush work, Microsoft is still "validating" this new TZ in M365/SPO/OneDrive, users who tried to use that new TZ yesterday, changing their SPO sites end-up broken and unable to load without hitting system pages via URL... users who had changed their desktop OS TZ couldn't edit List items... it was a "fun" day...)

I would rather take advice from someone who learned from mistakes than random "influencers" or corporations...

(Or both... here in Canada, Rogers is a "wonderful" mix of both...)

Plug for a friends boardgame - which uses D4's as playing pieces:

https://bsgames.ca/games/sinoda/

At the time I worked for an organization which pretty much had an unlimited budget for development and had therefore purchased just about every VBX bundle. They also had a solution with about 90+ complex forms - and no standards, so each developer of each form would pick whichever VBX control that "pleased their eyes". Which was "fine", until about 50% of those VBX control vendors simply did not offer an OCX upgrade in a timely manner - or in many cases simply folded/stopped entirely...

(The next nightmare was transitioning to what was supposed to be a more loosely-coupled COM type architecture, where each form could be dynamically loaded - except, referenced dependency tree and "breaking-binary-compatibility" during weekly "clean builds" ended-up taking sooooo much time... Thanks to a tool from a MSFT employee via their consulting service called "VBBuilder" (think of essentially "make") finally helped reduce that manual effort from a full day to just minutes...)

As well - the fact that technical writing (in publishing at least) has been homogenized and steered-clear of the use of humour, metaphors, idioms and analogies has also moved me away from writing/technical editing - I miss the days of "quirky" books - things like Jeff Duntemman's "Delphi Programming Explorer", which IIRC was told as a hardboiled detective mystery. Or "The Phoenix Project" by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford. Sure - I understand the driving commercial underlying reasons for this: profit + globalization - but I still miss those. Of course, with technical blogs available, there are still plenty of unique voices out there.

So - I would pepper my talks with real-life scenarios and anecdotes - and alot of humour - because my audiences where in the "same trenches" as me.

Then, I gave a talk to an audience of ALL corporate developers (Windows world, so .NET) - it was such a weird vibe, I have never had such a stony-faced, unresponsive crowd of attendees. (But their written feedback/reviews were great, so...)

(It also didn't start well, because the venue hosts attempted to eject an attendee because of the way he was dressed (motorcycle leathers, jeans - honestly nothing offensive) - and "didn't look like he was supposed to be there" - I intervened - it turned out that he was a tech user-group leader in the local community, and was just "different/quirky".)

Uh, the main site appears to be down (and most wouldn't click on the link, given it's name) - but you can read about a project here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Haines

Of course, the memes are already out about how large a hand you will need to use one of these... Harkens back to the "you're holding it wrong" antenna-gate controversy...

(I want one... find phone screens too small, but don't want to carry a phone and a tablet - yes, I know there have been other offerings in the Android ecosystem, but I am not in that realm)