User:TCipriani (WMF)/User guide

Basics edit

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

Availability edit

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

How to talk to me edit

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 edit

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
Hiking/Trail running
My dog and my cat

Some pictures I've taken:

2021-07-30 ISS solar transit gif
Lunar Eclipse Composite (47034757982)
Sagrada Família Vertorama
Flatirons Sunrise

Things I struggle with edit

Overscheduling
Catastrophizing / Panic
Imposter syndrome
Leaving work
Navigating change

Annoying things I do edit

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 edit

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

Reasoning:

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

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