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Journeyman Geek

1:05 PM

Sure, why not?

Posting on meta is a skill and you often post popular answers to unpopular questions

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Luuklag

True, or post very popular questions that have something against the company xD

my highest scoring Q is definetly populistic: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/339074/…

Tinkeringbell

1:23 PM

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, I really am a parrot according to my fitbit :P

DialFrost

@JourneymanGeek me? :P

Journeyman Geek

@DialFrost people who got lots of reversals when you could still get the badge

you're not getting one, ever

(they retired the badge)

Luuklag

@Tinkeringbell you wear your watch to bed?

Mithical

@Luuklag Who doesn't?

Luuklag

@Mithical I never do.

I also never wear a watch in the first place

Mithical

1:37 PM

...I mean, okay :P

Tinkeringbell

@Luuklag I mean, it's meant to be, and I don't have an alarm clock that shows the time (not without blinding me :P) so it's basically always there, yes.

It's also not a 'watch'. It's a fitness tracker :P

If I do wear a proper watch, I do take it off before sleep, and then put on the fitbit again :P

Journeyman Geek

which reminds me

I need to reinstall the app for my watch on my phone, which resets it ._.

and it keeps happening each time my phone updates ._.

@JNat looks like someone filled out the empty question :D

DialFrost

1:57 PM

@JourneymanGeek :(

Journeyman Geek

@DialFrost not entirely

the reasons for retiring the badge were quite sound

V2Blast

@ShadowTheKidWizard That is high praise :D

JNat

@JourneymanGeek yup, I saw it! ^_^

Luuklag

@JNat hey shouldn't you be making a status-review guidance xD

JNat

@Luuklag I am! I was working on the stats this morning

now I need to ask around internally for what to include in the guidance

V2Blast

2:02 PM

!!/tea

SmokeDetector

@V2Blast brews a cup of mint tea for @V2Blast

Luuklag

@JNat probably the stacks editor is the only thing xD

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag there is no spammer, only zuuuul

@Luuklag lol that means there's less stuff I can sneak into status-review >_>

Feeds

Event-Driven Topic Design using Kafka

Guest Post on July 21, 2022

An event-driven architecture can reduce dependencies, increase safety, and make your application easy to scale. But designing your systems and topics is a non-trivial task

rene

→ 11 messages moved to Chimney

Journeyman Geek

2:14 PM

@Feeds onebox-driven topic design using chat

Luuklag

How many issues are there going to be with this blog post

And I haven't seen any reaction on the previous one from staff, right?

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag not yet

and tbh, its probably going to be a bit sticky sorting that out?

Luuklag

@JourneymanGeek yeah, they probably need to retract the blog post all together, and quit accepting articles from the author in question.

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag well and..

Ideally some kinda review process

Luuklag

but SE is a high impact domain, so articles like this tend to get high up in search engines quite fast, and you wouldn't want that when it is incorrect

@JourneymanGeek +1

Journeyman Geek

2:20 PM

but even if the people running the blog were technical (which might not be entirely true), they're not going to know everything about everything

Luuklag

@JourneymanGeek I wouldn't expect so either, but some form of review would be nice

Journeyman Geek

So its also about generally vetting who writes (and we got no visibility on that on our end) and getting someone to check it... which is somewhat at odds with what's traditionally been 'we need to knock out an article every <period of time>'

cause $deity, we've been complaining about the blog for years

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Q: StackOverflow.Blog isn't that great

I've been here a while, and done a few rodeos and, the quality of blog posts feels like its hit rock bottom at times. I admit there's some great ones but considering Stack Overflow as a company is in a wee bit of a transition, it might be a good time to go "maybe you guys should revisit it". I d...

Luuklag

My wife writes her own blog about outings for kids in our region, she just tries to keep content ahead for 6-8 weeks, so in unforseen circumstances she doesn't run into trouble

Journeyman Geek

2017 - I think we've gone through 2 sets of people who maintain the blog?

Luuklag

Although no-one would die when there goes a week without a new entry

@JourneymanGeek It's been Ryan something for as long as I can recall I think

Journeyman Geek

2:26 PM

@Luuklag Rachel replaced the previous lot, and that's probably pre Ben Popper et al

@Luuklag eh yes and no

Luuklag

Ryan is from halfway october 2019

Journeyman Geek

If, to quote "YOU ONLY HAD ONE JOB" ...

rene

Yeah, let's blame Ryan M for the blog

Luuklag

atleast thats their earliest entry as an author

Journeyman Geek

lol

I've been here so long that Jeff was writing all the blogs

and SF had their own awesome blog with writeups on the SE setup

rene

2:27 PM

Well, those were all codinghorrors ...

Luuklag

Oh yeah, Ben Popper superceeds Ryan in seniority. His first entry is sept 2018

Journeyman Geek

@rene well that's even further back but early SO blogs were Jeff too

(That said, I've probably been around SE longer than... most staff ._.)

Luuklag

@JourneymanGeek does Balpha outlive you?

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag possibly!

Yaakov does, tho I wasn't aware of it until later

@Luuklag possibly, and if not, its close enough

@Luuklag he's 13 years, I'm 12 years 10 months

Luuklag

I'm 5y 1m

Journeyman Geek

2:36 PM

ya

I joined shortly after SU came out of beta

so not part of the super exclusive early adoptors

oddly enough found out about it on /.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

And it's time for the daily riddle! Guess what happened here:

@JourneymanGeek on what?

Spevacus

Looks like some sort of cave-in beneath the pool.

That must've been terrifying for whoever was in there, cooling off after a hot day.

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowTheKidWizard slashdot

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Spevacus good eye, that's exactly what it is. It sucked the pool water along with two people.

Spevacus

Yikes! I was joking about people being in there. That's so unlucky to be in the pool when that happened.

Are the two people okay?

Shadow The Kid Wizard

2:48 PM

One escaped on his own, the other one still missing, and the fire fighters looking for him inside the caves.

Spevacus

Caves plural? There's an entire cave system beneath this pool?

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Spevacus worse, it was during pool party with 50 people.

@Spevacus now there is, yeah, and if it was there all the time, it explains the cave-in.

Spevacus

Damn.

Shadow The Kid Wizard

The poor soul chances aren't great, but who knows... people got saved from worse situations. :)

@JourneymanGeek oh lol. You and your shortcuts. :D

@Spevacus the one who escaped got some bruises, but he's OK, yes.

Well one thing for sure, the people won't forget the party. :D

Spevacus

lol

Shadow The Kid Wizard

2:53 PM

@Luuklag less than half of my time on SO/MSE ;)

@Luuklag 6-8 x 6-8

So between 36 and 64

Journeyman Geek

tho admittedly I was more focused on SU at first

rene

@ShadowTheKidWizard I warned you: No Cannonball Dive!

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Luuklag

@ShadowTheKidWizard on SO I'm at 10y apparently

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@rene lol well it's recorded but not on YT

it's on local media site behind tons of ads so I'll spare you, but you see the people aren't shocked at first, as they have no idea what's going on.

Journeyman Geek

@Luuklag which isn't uncommon

I was 'early' on MSE cause there was no MSU

Shadow The Kid Wizard

2:58 PM

@Luuklag oh, so that's almost like my time there. :)

Journeyman Geek

Most people don't drift into meta unless they need to

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek there wasn't meta site for SU and SF?

Didn't know that.

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowTheKidWizard per site metas were a later thing

or something along those lines

Shadow The Kid Wizard

Huh, well you learn something new every day. :D

Luuklag

apparently I joined SO on June 25th 2012

Shadow The Kid Wizard

2:59 PM

@Luuklag what for?

Luuklag

No that's not true, yearling badges don't stick to the date

Erm yeah they do if you got plenty reputation, so it is true

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@DialFrost buh, not even 100?! ;)

Luuklag

only the first few badges are delayed due to a lack of reputation

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@Luuklag need 200 during the year to get the badge.

Journeyman Geek

New Per-Site Metas

Jeff Atwood on July 22, 2010

If you’ve been following our new Stack Exchange 2.0 private and public betas, you may have noticed that every new website launches with its own dedicated meta site. If we’ve learned anything (and I personally had to learn this lesson by having it beaten into me), it is that meta-discussion is an absolutely integral part…

Luuklag

3:01 PM

@ShadowTheKidWizard no not even during, just yearsx200

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowTheKidWizard my account was created 09 :D

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek nice find. ;)

@Luuklag oh, simple!

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowTheKidWizard Oh I remembered it was there

Shadow The Kid Wizard

@JourneymanGeek before me! o_O