Out Of Scope - #12

In person conf update

Hi ya’ll! Hope everyone had a good week. I can’t believe it’s already June. Time flies when you’re way too busy (as a platform team engineer 😌).

Emily Kager @EmilyKager

The list of P0s grows

Conference Update

This past week, I went to my first in person conference in 2+ years. It was fun to see industry friends in person again but also was also entirely draining. My social battery after 2 years cannot handle 2 full days of socializing and networking.

Of course San Francisco has recently been in another COVID peak. Several speakers and attendees had to cancel last minute because they got positive for COVID, but no tests were required to attend. Mask adherence was almost 100% at the indoor conference but time will tell if we all get COVID anyway.

I’m a huge fan of remote work, but not so much of virtual conferences. I just think we need to be honest that conferences are more engaging and fun (and exhausting) in person. It’s still a complicated time to plan in person events, but they definitely have value and I think we will all have to be understanding of last minute cancellations and travel changes. Having options for remote speakers and streaming or recording talks for remote attendees will be a way to be more inclusive and flexible.

ICMYI

A good reminder that users may use our software in different ways than intended.

Rachel Feltman @RachelFeltman

I recently learned that my husband only opens instagram once every 4-6 weeks to check our local ice cream parlor's flavor of the month......it is just....an ice cream flavor checker for him....amazing

This is the sign I’ve been waiting for. I will never be closing another tab.

Arvind Narayanan @random_walker

I mis-clicked on one of my 150 open tabs and it happened to be a tab that's been open since 2019 with a paper that has a solution to the exact research problem I've been puzzling over today. This is the moment I've been waiting for and I've decided to never close any tabs again

Putting this in my next ERD.

Bill Phillips @billjings

The latest terrible new trend is tech companies rescinding offers (including interns). If your company is hiring or has last min internship roles, it would be a good time to post about them.

Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll

Re: rescinded offers. Quite depressing it’s simultaneously happening at several companies and being normalized. If you asked me a month ago, a company that rescinded offers en masse would qualify to be in my list of companies never to work for.

Matt Slotnick (hiring!) @matt_slotnick

seeing companies cancelling 2022 summer internships... this week. that is absolutely brutal

That’s it folks! I’ll see ya next week!