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It takes more than great code to be a great engineer. Soft Skills Engineering is a weekly advice podcast for software developers about the non-technical stuff that goes into being a great software developer.
It takes more than great code to be a great engineer. Soft Skills Engineering is a weekly advice podcast for software developers about the non-technical stuff that goes into being a great software developer.
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So: Mu. Ask a different question. You have dependencies. You will always have them. Choose them thoughtfully. Invent where it matters most to you, and re-use where it does not, and where you can benefit from somebody else's care & testing. Talk your employers into sponsoring the important ones if you can, because that will improve their quality. Probably. There is no such thing as free-as-in-lunch software. FIN
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange That EU law does not require a #CookieBanner unless the web site wants to track your clicks or sell your data. Because people do not understand this, they think "stupid EU law" instead of... - "website owner has no respect for consumer rights" - "website owner has no solid business plan and just hopes for a few bucks from the advertisement industry" #GDPR
Welp, I’m now considering the idea of having entered a midlife crisis, to certain degrees. Don’t worry, no extravagant purchases forthcoming.
Content warning: winter, mh-
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Attached: 1 image Hey all, I turned 30 this week! 🎈 I feel a bit weird asking for a "present" but if my code, writing, or talks reached you over the years, I would love to receive a postcard from wherever you live 📮 Open source is deeply rewarding, but sometimes I miss a physical reminder of the people on the other side of the wire ✨ Also, if you mention in the card making a donation to a US 501(c)(3) that aligns with my values, I will match it! Mailing addresses, both US and EU: https://filippo.io/#addresses
No, because I have an alias gcob
that is much further engrained 🤓
Framework for building high quality, interactive API documentation. - zuplo/zudoku
I just did a massive spring cleaning of one of my servers, trying to clean up what has become quite the mess of clutter. For every website on the server, I either: Documented what it is, who is using …
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Katherine speaks with Demetris Cheatham, the Chief of Staff to the CEO of GitHub, about her unique perspective on the open source landscape. The discussion covers her experiences in various sectors and the impactful 'All In' project created to elevate developers from underrepresented backgrounds. They highlight the significance of community, the power of relationships, and the pivotal role of natural language and AI in making coding more accessible globally. The talk also addresses critical challenges like the digital divide, funding for diversity programs, and the importance of evolving diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in tech. 00:00 Introduction00:26 Connecting Through Open Source02:02 Role and Responsibilities at GitHub05:06 Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives09:16 Challenges in Computer Science Education12:51 Equity and Systemic Change16:21 The Journey to a Billion Developers24:07 Building Relationships in Open Source31:37 Final Thoughts and Takeaways Sitting on GitHub’s Executive Leadership team, Demetris Cheatham is currently the Chief of Staff for the CEO of GitHub, where she acts as the CEO’s trusted partner to move all of software development forward. Demetris is particularly passionate about the evolving nature of open source in the age of AI. Before her time as COS to the CEO, Demetris was Senior Director for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Strategy at GitHub, the Global Diversity and Inclusion at Lead at Red Hat, and was the first woman and youngest Executive Director to lead the National Bar Association, the United States’ oldest and largest international network of over 65,000 predominantly African-American attorneys and judges.
This week Jonathan chats with Lori Lorusso and Steve Hoffman, the Head of Community and SVP of engineering at Percona, the open source database experts. - You can join the conversation in , watch live or get the video version of the show on , as well as getting the full story and show links from . Oh, and follow ! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Thank you 💜 anything you feel would be useful to add on top of what's in there?
@www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me I adore that you've done this, I've seen it before and really loved it. Nothing passive about disclosure on a topic where there is a lot of social pressure not to disclose.
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I used to do this - especially with t-shirts at stake - but since last year I'm not as bothered 🤷🏽♂️
Now I try and raise PRs when I can, otherwise I'll forget about them 🙃
no no no *you* can't freely scan through the collected works of humanity, that right is reserved for the large language models.
Stop defining "developer experience" as "the inner loop while I'm writing code after spending an hour installing node_modules". Setup time is "developer experience". Upgrade toil is "developer experience". Memoise-everything-after-weeks-debugging-stray-rerender toil is "developer experience". Belated, frantic code splitting side quests are "developer experience".
Would love to hear about this 💜 as someone who does something somewhat similar, somewhat passively (publicly sharing my salary history), I can attest to how important it is to chat about it with your friends and colleagues and work to get better 🙌🏽
I don't know if I ever will stand up and talk about this practice in public, because it's a somewhat terrifying idea to imagine all the potential backlash or judgment idk, but if I did and everyone agreed, there is a GREAT talk I've imagined: "The Salary Ring." I'd describe these couple of years in my life when several of us joined together to support each other learning to negotiate, doing group market research, workshopping what we'd say in toxic situations together.
Ruby, OSS and the Internet
Also, if you're like me, and were raised to scoff at people who needed to hire cleaning services as it is a "rich lazy" person thing, I urge you to absolutely let go of that. The last two years I've been incredibly burnt out both from work and from, idk, probably 39 years of undiagnosed autism. If you can pay for an accommodation like this to help give yourself some space to breathe, do it.
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They can be useful, but at least my OSS doesn't need them much. I've got some work bits that do have Must
s for convenience either in func main
or as you say, in tests
I'd say that adding a separate /x/
or /exp/
package can also be a good way of testing out new things - very clearly a separate "experimental" thing, which can be tested independently
Using a fork of the module is also a good suggestion and a way to make sure it's not even in the main repo, but gives you mostly the same codebase to be able to test things
How to use Dependency Management Data to discover which dependencies are participating in Hacktoberfest (3 mins read).
Detailing how you could use dependency-management-data to gain insight into which dependencies you use are participating in Hacktoberfest.
Get ready to celebrate open-source once again with Hacktoberfest! Whether you're going to be creating pull/merge requests, maintaining a participating project, or hosting a community event, check out the site for all the information you'll need: https://hacktoberfest.com
In this episode, Omkhar chats with Mike Hanley, Chief Security Officer and SVP of Engineering at GitHub. Prior to GitHub, Mike was the Vice President of Security at Duo Security, where he built and led the security research, development, and opera...
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Thinking more about why and where I'm putting my thoughts and what I should be spending my online time on.
and talk about Chrome unexpectedly going EOL on Ubuntu 18. Keeping old things alive is really hard to do, and in open source it's becoming more common to just run the latest version rather than trying to keep old versions alive for long periods of time. Show Notes
Justin Garrison, Director of Developer Relations at Sidero, joins Corey to discuss Justin's experience transitioning from large companies like AWS and Disney to a more agile company like Sidero, the benefits of using simplified Linux distributions like Talos OS for running Kubernetes, and the...
My no-nuance take on the recent discourse: I am not less than the other people in the IndieWeb community for not having a fancy, automated, cool setup on my personal website. Nobody has ever made me feel that way. It doesn't matter if all you have is a simple page with your name and email. If there is one place where you can do whatever you want and how you want is your personal website. I'm lucky to have found a community that supports this.
My no-nuance take on the recent discourse: I am not less than the other people in the IndieWeb community for not having a fancy, automated, cool setup on my personal website. Nobody has ever made me feel that way. It doesn't matter if all you have is a simple page with your name and email. If there is one place where you can do whatever you want and how you want is your personal website. I'm lucky to have found a community that supports this.
I've written about it (https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/08/autonomy-online-indieweb/) and I don't even implement the stuff I mentioned! I promise you, nobody is judging.
I will be attending
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Week Notes 24#35 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-08-26?
This week on The Business of Open Source I have an episode I recorded on site at AI-Dev in Paris with Justin Cormack, CTO of Docker. We finally get around to talking about AI at the very end of the episode, but otherwise we talked business and open source and how Docker manages both. Here’s some...
Sarah Christoff discusses her experiences and challenges as an open source maintainer with a focus on her work with the Porter and Zarf projects. Sarah shares insights into the frustrations and isolation often felt by maintainers, and emphasizes the importance of community and human connections in navigating these roles. We chatted about of Porter and its function in simplifying complex DevOps tool integrations. Additionally, Sarah talks about Zarf, a project recently donated to the OpenSSF aimed at facilitating air-gapped Kubernetes deployments. 00:00 Introduction 01:29 Challenges of Being an Open Source Maintainer 03:12 The Human Element in Software Development 05:45 Advice for Aspiring Maintainers 08:42 The Porter Project 11:10 The Zarf Project 13:09 The Importance of Community in Open Source 15:31 Women in Tech and Role Models 21:45 Animal Rescue and Community Building 26:10 Final Thoughts and Hot Takes on Open Source Guest: Sarah Christoff is a software engineer at Defense Unicorns who loves making complex code more digestible. She is the self-proclaimed founder of the Leslie Lamport fan club. When she's not bugbusting, she is running her animal rescue and competing in triathlons. She believes code should be like cats: intelligent, fluffy, and easy to take care of.
What if your infrastructure diagram was responsible for the actual infrastructure?! John Watson & Scott Prutton from System Initiative join Justin & Autumn to discuss.
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