Notices by Jon Dubovsky (jond@mastodon.social)

Please consider writing your hashtags in upper camelcase so screen readers have a chance at figuring them out.

#whyistayonmastodon sounds like an giant undecipherable mess of sounds.

#WhyIStayOnMastodon reads out "Why I Stay On Mastodon" 😄

(Reason #44 I stay here: my previous requests like this have been generally well-received, proving that most people are awesome.)

@jartigag Our big-picture number is just person-days. Since we track those it's easy enough to ask "how many person-days went into the control software for X?", etc.

It is poorly-correlated to SLOC. For hard problems you spend so much time researching only to produce like 50 SLOC. Easy problems like "implement this state machine" is a lot of very-nearly-boilerplate.

(I actually care far more about the distribution of completion time compared to the work estimate range!)