My first advice to junior contributors is to STOP using vibe coding for PRs. OSS is always about people more than about code. We don't need more code generated by LLM, we need more people who care.
When you become disabled there’s a few things you notice right away:
Ableism is everywhere.
People will abandon you. Even those you were certain would stick by you.
Just because something is illegal or against human rights code doesn’t mean it’s not happening ALL the time
Accessibility is not what it should be.
People will blame you for your disabilities. It won’t matter what you do or how hard you try, you won’t be “good enough”
All the misconceptions you had about disabled people were wrong.
That’s really the crux of it.
Disability is a minority group you can join anytime.
Most people will experience disability in their lifetime
Yet discriminating against us is not only common it’s socially acceptable.
Most people don’t realize how misguided they are until it happens to them
Many of us living with chronic illness had the same preconceived notions about disabled people until we became disabled ourselves
We thought it wasn’t “that bad”.
We believed we would be the exception
Many of us became advocates because the realization that we were so horribly wrong shook us to our core.
If we had that much ableism to work through, then so does everyone else.
That’s why we need strong allies.
We need people who will say disabled lives matter.
We need to shift the public perception away from the idea that disability is a moral failing.
We need to be visible, take up space and help people realize that all health is temporary and disability happens to almost everyone.
Inclusion and accessibility matter!
#disability #ableism
#eugenics #chronicillness
We are excited to announce the Call for Participation for the Package Managers devroom at @fosdem@fosstodon.org 2026, taking place on Saturday, 31st January 2026 at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Submission deadline: 1st December 2025
https://blog.ecosyste.ms/2025/11/06/fosdem-2026-package-managers-devroom-cfp.html
This is why I have a website. It’s also why everything I’ve ever written has appeared on my website with *very* few exceptions
Having a single domain name that’s YOU is invaluable. My website gets lots of compliments on its branding and appearance. My slides borrow that appearance, too
It matters!
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Honestly, if you value content you've created always make sure it has a home outside of a single company. Always.
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The best software engineers are fantastic written communicators.
Here's why:
- breaks information out of silos (DMs, emails) so others can reference, build upon, and expand your work
- supports remote teams, different timezones, and helps colleagues catch up after time off
- unblocks teammates by reducing repetitive conversations
- prepares you for the lest of your career. Senior+ roles ARE writing roles: architecture docs, code reviews, technical specs, etc.
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"Entitled white billionaire wants to decide laws"
I don't give a fuck if Harry Potter was your whole childhood. It's not more important than the lives of trans people.
it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc
and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way
The tragedy of the UK is that we grew up believing that our government would dispatch James Bond with his “license to kill” to dispatch megalomaniac media tycoons, water barons and mad billionaire rocket builders.
The reality is Bond would probably turn up to award them their MBE.
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
Big thanks to @www.jvt.me for running the "What story does your dependency tree tell you about your org?"
Great tooling on how to manage dependencies and surface up actionable data using dmd!
You can catch this workshop at GopherconUK if you are attending!
It’s weird seeing so many people scrambling to build oss documentation and tools for LLMs to work with software… where’s that same energy making documentation for the humans?
The next Manchester Go meetup is on the 30th of July at Fatsoma! This one though is a workshop so bring your laptop and follow along with @www.jvt.me on "What story does your dependency tree tell you about your org?".
See you there and patch your vulnerabilities 👀
https://www.meetup.com/go-mcr/events/309017083
We finally did it! After recording an episode of @fallthrough.fm, @matthewsanabria.dev and I recorded our post show discussion (featuring @www.jvt.me!).
That’ll be shipping alongside next week’s episode, which includes the wonderful @steveklabnik.com as well!
i had some really stressful interactions on github yesterday and today. lets just remember many of us are doing this OSS work for free and to do good, kindness is appreciated
It’s about to be MAINTAINER MONTH aka May
If you have anything maintainer-centric going on in May, get it added to the website!
maintainermonth.github.com
http://maintainermonth.github.com
Lots of websites and apps now provide fee-free booking for UK train tickets to any destination, featuring split-ticketing and better options for identifying the best value fares. Yet, many people I …
Idk who needs to hear this but tech workers who have to have high salaries are still working class and should act (and be treated) accordingly.
Tech workers have much more in common with miners and factory workers and secretaries and baristas than with management and executives.
Stop making those little AI image generator memes of yourself as a Barbie or a Ghibli character you are enriching evil companies and destroying the planet and this is like one of the easiest things you can just not do
Jamie Tanna
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#open-source
#ai
#llm.
