Raven

[teathattast]

[ralfmaximus]

Years ago back when I worked in cubicle land, we were hiring junior software developers. They didn’t have to have a ton of experience, just a willingness to learn, and some demonstration of their software skills. Like: show me a program you wrote (any language) or a web site you designed. Anything.

And there was this one guy I talked with who seemed super sharp, but had virtually zero experience writing software. When it came time to do the show-n-tell part of the interview he whips out his laptop, brings up a website, and spins it around to show me what he made.

A website of tiny ceramic frogs.

Not for sale. Just… all these ceramic frogs, organized into categories. Frogs on bicycles, frogs with hats, frogs sitting on lily pads. It was a virtual museum of ceramic frogs in web form.

I scrolled through his online collection of frogs, slightly baffled.

“This is your website?” I asked finally.

“Yep!”

“You coded this yourself?” I popped into view-source mode and poked around some incredibly well-formatted, well-commented html. I nodded slowly. This guy was meticulous.

“Yep!”

“So… where’d all the frogs come from?”

“I made those too,” he says, beaming. 

And while I’m processing this he rummages in his bag and pulls out a little ceramic frog working at a computer terminal. He places it on the table before us, next to the laptop.

“And THIS one,” he says, “I made for you! As a thank you for the interview.”

It was adorable. I hired him on the spot. I mean, why not? Worst case he’d wash out in 90 days and we’d hire somebody else. He turned out to be one of the best developers on our team. 

And yes, his cubicle was loaded with ceramic frogs.

[fishtrouts]

Winter’s Chill - Part 3

This is a continuation of the winter’s chill comics Part 1 and Part 2! The links lead to the previous parts :)

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[santhipoma]

[newtypezaku]

[newtypezaku]

I'd collapse if it'd get me out of a tea party

[newtypezaku]

[thanakite]

Wit Studio giving Ascendance of a Bookworm better animation quality now that they have taken over is kind of funny especially since it's starting with Adopted Daughter of an Archduke, as it makes it seem like the animation is better now because Rozmyne's a noble now

[valkylander]

Ferdinand: Obviously I cannot be the one to adopt Myne. The entire point of the adoption would be to protect her from my enemies, and being my daughter would make her no safer than being my ward already does. Moreover, I am unmarried and, though an acknowledged noble, I am a member of the Temple. I lack the social clout necessary to offer her the protection she needs.

Karstedt: Obviously Ferdinand can't be the one to adopt Myne. Then how would he marry her when she comes of age?

[newtypezaku]

I dunno, you never taught her what it can and can't do

[newtypezaku]

Man, I wanna be mad but you keep doing impossible shit

[valkylander]

Rozemyne: Ferdi is like a bench. He makes me comfortable and gives me a place where I can relax, but also if I entrusted my body to him for a night I think I'd wake up sore and exhausted.

Ferdinand: Rozemyne...

Sylvester: Wow. No idea why people think you two are a couple.

[aweebeing]

Gotta love how Rozemyne commanded Ferdinand to stay alive, knowing full well that if he disobeyed he would die because of it.

She literally said, "I'd kill you before I'd let you die," And she's so real for that.

[newtypezaku]

Sis doesn't have time for any of that, she's running six companies and the church

[rozemynelovebot]

their father daughter goofiness is kind of everything to me

[likesdoodling]

So I've been re-reading Ascendance of a Bookworm, and have recently gotten into part 5 volume 4 - this picture is of when Rozemyne gets told not to raise the duchies grades any further as the adults can't keep up. Her inner monologue describes the world turning grey around her as she thinks that if she really is always making things worse then maybe it would be better to just disappear....

[omniscientpenguininatutu]

its the same picture