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kathlamon Macy's found a single employee hid up to $154M worth of expenses

Why would they hide shipping expenses?

kathlamon Speedrunning an A/B Test Setup: Bandit Experiment in 4 minutes [video]

Go Bandits Go! https://growthbook.framer.website

kathlamon GitHub Actions could be so much better

It's clear we've all wrestled with GitHub actions and Jenkins in some shape or form. Debugging them can feel like being in an escape room, without any clues.

I work at Trunk.io and we have a tool called CI Debugger. It helps you understand your workflows. Instead of getting lost in logfiles and commits, you can pinpoint where things are bogging down or going haywire. It can give you a clearer picture of what's happening under the hood. Like having a heat map for the CI/CD processes.

kathlamon Ways to teach kids to code (2016)

I’d be more interested in ways to teach kids to think. What are some good books/tools/games for that?

kathlamon What is a merge queue, and does your team need one?

Large teams need things beyond a merge queue, they need a merge graph: https://trunk.io/blog?post=trunk-merge

kathlamon GitHub merge queue is generally available

@aselop, We encountered this problem as well. That's why we created Merge Graphs. Check out this blog: https://trunk.io/blog?post=trunk-merge

kathlamon Merge Queue vs. Merge Graph

When merge queues are still not enough, you need merge graphs.

kathlamon Smart Things Smart People Said

This is my favourite so far:

“A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others.” - Kevin Kelly

self reveal: the more I dislike someone, the more I find commonality with them :p

kathlamon Coffee Mode vs. Beer Mode

Love this. What’s the best split? I guess it depends on where you are in the dev cycle.

kathlamon Loneliness is stronger when not alone

Sometimes the 'cheeriest' people are the most depressed. I think Robin Williams is a prime example.

kathlamon How to set breakpoints in CI jobs

How is this different from this: https://github.blog/changelog/2022-05-24-github-actions-re-r...

Or https://github.com/marketplace/actions/debugging-with-ssh