User:TCipriani (WMF)/User guide

Basics

 * Preferred Name: Tyler
 * Nickname:  (pretty much everywhere)
 * Website: tylercipriani.com
 * Location/Timezone: Longmont, CO / America/Denver (MST/MDT)
 * Pronouns: he/him/his

Availability

 * Mon–Fri 16:00–00:00 UTC (9am–5pm Mountain)
 * Available ±1hr outside regular availability with advance notice

How to talk to me
IRC ≥ Slack > Email > Text > Voice

I'm a slow thinker, so I appreciate async communication.

If you present me with something new my first response will be my old thoughts. This works fine if it's something I've thought about before. If I haven't thought about it before, or it's a situation I haven't faced before, my thoughts and opinions are apt to change rapidly as I ponder.

I appreciate time to ponder.

Things I like

 * Books
 * Fiction and nonfiction
 * I also read junk sci-fi space operas
 * I track what I've read on my blog
 * Blogs (both reading and writing)
 * Photography
 * Astronomy (this relates to photography for me)
 * Birds (this relates to photography for me)
 * Computer science
 * Note taking
 * Git

Some pictures I've taken:

Things I struggle with

 * Overscheduling
 * Catastrophizing / Panic
 * Imposter syndrome
 * Leaving work
 * Navigating change

Annoying things I do

 * I process things too long. I like to believe that I have a bias for action, but deciding a course of action takes me a long time in novel situations.
 * I still write code. I like writing code, but it's probably an annoying thing for your manager to do in many circumstances.
 * I nitpick. I annoy myself with my nitpicks.

Hot takes
MediaWiki is the perfect format for an encyclopedia, but a terrible format for documentation.

Reasoning:


 * 1) URLs are hard to memorize
 * 2) The format encourages long-form writing vs digestible chunking of information
 * 3) Navigation between a small subset of pages is ad-hoc
 * 4) Extraneous navigation adds to cognitive load of readers without providing benefit
 * 5) Hierarchies are useful for learning new concepts, but are supported ad-hoc on MediaWiki

You can make good documentation via MediaWiki, but it the system works against it.