Between and I took 7600 steps.
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@www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me this is such an important topic. It’s 15 years since some colleagues let me know how much less than the men in my team I was being paid. The knowledge helped me to negotiate a bit, and I remain grateful for their consideration and openness.
Week Notes 24#41 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-10-07?
OggCamp 2024 (14 mins read).
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A recap of this weekend's OggCamp 2024 conference.
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Attached: 1 image My new response to every invite
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Attached: 1 image Thanks everyone for attending my impromptu session about sustaining #opensource and how we’re doing our part over at STF 🙌 super appreciated talking with you all 🙇🙇🙇 #OggCamp2024
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This week, Parul Singh shares the story of how she won a legal case over an ex-employer for ADHD discrimination. Parul is a Recruitment Marketing Partner and Neurodiversity Advocate at xDesign, and an ex-tech recruiter. She was diagnosed with ADHD at aged 25 and uses her platform to awareness about neurodiversity in the workplace and in the recruitment process to build a more equitable future for neurodivergent people. In order to make a bigger impact, she created a new role at xDesign, "Neurodiversity Advocate” in which she works closely with the People Team to lead the internal neurodiversity community. We all know how important it is to feel less alone. She also feeds into internal policies, processes and supports other neurodivergent employees at xDesign. As a woman of colour, she also puts a spotlight on intersectionality within Neurodiversity and the compounding impact that being from multiple minority groups has on barriers we face” Topics: 00:00 What are your earliest ADHD memories 04:29 Unhealthy sources of dopamine 11:00 Misdiagnosed with depression + finally getting an ADHD diagnosis 18:47 Normalising ADHD in life + at work 22:38 How did you feel after your diagnosis? 28:52 Imposter syndrome 32:00 Winning a discrimination tribunal + Neurodiversity in business 38:13 What is disability discrimination? Find Parul on LinkedIn 👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/theadhdtechrecruiter/ Here's the link to the ADHD/ND resources : https://theadhdtechrecruiter.notion.site/ADHD-Neurodiversity-Resources-1-0983dc5d52aa400d9225973d940b2287 Specific ones relating to this discussion: 👉 https://www.gmb.org.uk/sites/default/files/neurodiversity-law-guide.pdf 👉 https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/138118/Equality_Act_2010_-_Duty_on_employers_to_make_reasonable_adjustments_for....pdf Subscribe and be the first to know about Live events 👉 https://bit.ly/3KawML7 Watch on YouTube 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_HZMBt0Fr8 Follow ADHD Chatter: LinkedIn 👉 https://bit.ly/3m1qm8Q Instagram 👉 https://bit.ly/3KuNXIr TikTok 👉 https://bit.ly/3ZxZNGd This episode has been produced for entertainment purposes only and is in no way meant to be taken as medical advice or advice in any way.
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Oh that's cool - very small world 🤓
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@www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me that's a very interesting salary page. I used to work around Capital one as a senior associate but I predated you by a few years. Good idea to track it like that. 👍
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Attached: 1 image Be like @jacattell@mastodon.me.uk and buy an @openbenches@botsin.space T-shirt https://openbenches.org/support #OggCamp
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I'm still not over the person who compared large language models to be the same as someone owning and using a wheelchair, as a means of accessibility for writing code. Pushing a wheelchair in one meter does not consume one gallon of gas. Using a wheelchair does not require vacuuming up the internet just so it can give you a misspelling of the word strawberry.
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While I was at OggCamp enjoying the enthusiasm and geekery of my fellow humans, my mother was smashing her way through the World Conker Championships*. Taking retirement gleefully. *her words “we went, we saw, we didn’t conker”
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The current chaos in Wordpress caused by Matt seems like a good time to remind folks that the Mastodon "community" websites and trademarks are 100% owned by one
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Well, I thought #OggCamp2024 was great. Thanks in particular to the team and crew for making it happen, and thanks to the community for keeping the spirit of #OggCamp alive, and sharing it again this weekend. My blog is a good way to keep up with what I’m up to, and has links to other places you can find me online between now and OggCamp.Next. https://andypiper.co.uk
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This was a fun and decidedly humbling conversation with Ben Johnson about SQLite, databases, Litestream, and LiteFS.Links:Ben on GitHubLitestreamLiteFS
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Shared: Matt Mullenweg’s Bull(enweg) https://bullenweg.com/. If you're having trouble keeping track of the current Wordpress/Matt Mullenweg drama (things are escalating so rapidly!), this website posts regular updates. #wordpress
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Can't believe Mullenweg just went and disclosed the critical supply chain attack vulnerability in Wordpress randomly on a Saturday
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wp shows that the world would be so much duller if successful people could just to go therapy and chill counting their stacks or something. smh what a clusterfuck. I don't like wordpress as a tech stack all that much, but... i really admire wordpress for how it democratizes access to self-hosting and allowed so many people and businesses to own their online presence. Sad to see it take such a hit, and hopefully it'll recover.
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Lol I'd say something about the Wordpress thing but Occam's razor dictates that there's really nothing to add that hasn't been said. This makes me want to pour over @ntnsndr@social.coop's book on governance sooner than later. I'm highly skeptical of unaccountable hierarchical organizations (so much so I'm willing to threaten my stability over it) and this is why. Power corrupts.
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Sorry, supply chain MATTack https://dan.mastohon.com/@danhon/113297421083885764
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Attached: 1 image Don’t just tell everyone the open web is great, go on the open web and tell everyone *why* it is great @sil@mastodon.social at #OggCamp24
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On the topic of joining a #union and the collective bargaining port we as workers should work towards at #OggCamp2024, I'd also recommend discussing your salary with your colleagues!
It doesn't have to be as public as my /salary page, but it's hugely useful to do and helps work out inequity
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A decision is made Why I've decided to abandon wordpress for a static website. https://lars-christian.com/a-decision-is-made/ #wordpress #webdev #indieweb #smallweb
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Open source is proof free markets are so efficient they can even find a use for communists.
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Attached: 1 image Mark your calendars for October 15 for OpenUK London community meetup "Can open source even be a business?" OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock will share the findings of the OpenUK Economics of Open Source Report; followed by the panel including Liam Crilly of NGINX, Lee Wright, GTM Leader Data Infrastructure, Amanda Brock of OpenUK, Matt Barker of Venafi, and Paula Kennedy of Syntasso, moderated by Jennifer Riggins. Sign up here: https://www.meetup.com/openuk/events/301997818/?utm_medium=referral&utm #openuk #openukmeetup #opensource
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Really enjoyed #oggcamp2024. It's great that a conference based entirely around Open Source software and Freedom exists. Open source may have a reputation of being just for nerds, but it's about *so much more* than just tinkering with code. You don't need to be a coder to benefit. When things are open source any bad behaviour (i.e. tracking, telemetry, privacy violations) hiding in our software has nowhere to hide. This becomes more important as we become increasingly reliant on our devices.
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"Less of a question, more of a feature request…" Only at #OggCamp 🤣
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Attached: 1 image Confused about the WordPress drama? This corporate governance diagram should clear things up!
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People who attend a conference talk but who proceed to open their laptop and work: get the fuck out and do that elsewhere. You’re more annoying than herpes.
Thanks for those who came to my talk at #OggCamp2024, "89 things I know about Git commits (abridged version)" based on blog post of the same name - glad I resisted doing a couple of slide changes in the ~90 seconds before I went up on stage 🫣
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Shay Nehmad on how writing is the key to becoming a better engineer, how to do it, and more.Links:* Cup O' Go podcast* Code Complete book* Shay's blog* Obsidian and Logseq
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News🧑🔧 Go 1.23.2 + 1.22.8 released, mostly backports of fixes ⏲️ High-Resolution Timers on Windows🌬️ New release for Air🔨 Interesting post about code shelf lifeInterview with WillemSite: https://www.willem.dev/Twitter: https://x.com/willemschotsLI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willem-schots/
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Between and I took 10129 steps.
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Some notes on upgrading Hugo
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I'm missing my late Mum especially today. It's the first anniversary of her death, and to remember her we went to one of her favourite places: Westonbirt Arboretum. I was very happy when my Aunt (Mum's twin sister) agreed to join my wife & I for the day; her love of trees parallels my Mum's, so we enjoyed a long afternoon of walking through the glorious forests, and in particular the Acer glade.
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When somone says something like "our competitor isn't contributing to our open source project", there's an implied assumption that anyone *can* show up and contribute changes that are meaningful to them but against the interests of the project owners (and their commercial backers). That's just not how it works. Despite that, submitting occasional PR's that have no chance of getting merged is probably the best way to expose that bullshit if/when it comes to that.
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Attached: 1 image At "Into the multiverse: a parallel universe where neurotypicals are the weird ones" with Parul Singh, in Cotton Theatre. #OggCamp2024 #OggCamp24 #OggCamp
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.example-demo {text-align: center;} In this article, we’ll talk about what is a Rainbow text and demonstrate building one through a basic example. If you are interested in generating code for text with any gradient color, check out our CSS Text Gradient Generator tool.
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Parul's talk was incredible - her humour and reflection on her experiences of life as a neurodiverse person, through the lense of "what if neurotypicals were the weird ones" was really quite powerful.
I spent the talk very eagerly nodding along and laughing - a little distractedly - at her incredibly relatable take on the role reversal, and bangers like "Norman received feedback [that his colleagues felt weird about him because] he couldn't fidget".
I'm biased as someone who is neurodiverse myself, so related much more heavily to the talk, but feel that non-neurodiverse people in the audience could also understand the parallels.
I was very strongly reminded - in a great way - of Rachel Morgan-Trimmer's talk from OggCamp 2019 which was also a really powerful insight into life as a neurodiverse person, and I really enjoyed Parul's empathy-driven talk.
I especially loved the ending call to action, asking us all to consider what steps we could take to understand others in our life better.
My only complaint was that I wish the talk was recorded!
(I unfortunately missed the first few minutes)
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Attached: 3 images I’m at @oggcamp@mastodon.social today, immersing myself in my FOSS community! The unconference is shaping up nicely and the schedule is on joind.in! #oggcamp2024
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Attached: 1 image Managed to get into the #OggCamp2024 board! If you wanna learn more about how at STF we support #opensource and talk about that, find me in the Graphene 1 room at 15:00 🤩
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I'm talking about - would you believe it - dependency-management-data at #OggCamp2024 later this afternoon 🤓🛸
Come to learn about some very interesting things you can learn from your usage of Open Source and internal dependencies 👀
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Today on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Chris Holmes, co-founder and CEO of Greymatter. Greymatter is deeply involved in the open source ecosystem and maintains the Go Envoy Control Plane, but Chris is adamant that it is not an open source company. We had a great discussion about why...
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Go Time co-host, Johnny Boursiquot, joins Adam & Jerod to discuss not making the (first) cut, applying Founder Mode, being a cog (or not), realizing that companies are posting fake engineering jobs & the (maybe) imminent demise of the .io TLD.
Between and I took 10979 steps.
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Dave Eddy has learned systems programming the traditional way with books and man pages. Now he's sharing what he's learned, starting with bash.
Sorry in advance for the weekend side quest 🤓
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that @www.jvt.me has me reworking my weekend as I look at my embarrassing dotfiles … https://www.jvt.me/posts/2024/10/11/dotfiles/