The “innovation token” model for selecting technologies is bad, and here’s why.
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#architecture.
@snarfed.org@snarfed.org You're providing a free service. Calm down, enjoy your vacation, spend time on it when you can and want to :) /grateful bridge user
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Attached: 1 image Doing his part (somebodies got to make this look good) #DogsAtPollingStations #UKGeneralElection #UKGE #SheridanTheCorgi #Corgi #WelshPembrokeCorgi #PembrokeWelshCorgi #DogsOfMastodon #Dogs #Dog #DogsOfFediverse
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#cute.
help, I am trying to budget software design, please help me understand why people don't like my software: UI redesigns: one million dollars performance fixes: zero dollars accessibility: zero dollars plus unpaid labour features people don't like: 100 dollars features people do like: 1 dollar
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"we never used to have all these women in their 30s suddenly getting diagnosed with ADHD" listen, I wouldn't have even noticed I have ADHD if I lived in an era where my doctor could ask if I want to lose 5lbs and then hand me enough amphetamines to see the face of God
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#adhd.
If you view changing documentation to use generic “they” instead of “he” text as too political to be acceptable, then I’m sorry but your project is deeply unserious. “The generic user is a man” is a deeply political statement, and hiding behind “we’re apolitical” is bullshit. https://hachyderm.io/@Mara/112718515777208791
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Predrag Gruevski and Chris Krycho joined the show to talk about SemVer. We explore the challenges and the advantages of semantic versioning (aka SemVer), the need for improving the tooling around SemVer, where semantic versioning really shines and where it’s needed, Types and SemVer, whether or not there’s a better way...
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ICYMI: Burnout can happen at any point in everyone's career. But, what happens when burnout is taking place amongst other things? Burnout++ https://chrisshort.net/video/cloud-native-rejeckts-eu-2024-burnout-plus-plus/ #mentalhealth #burnout
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#burnout.
Maintainer Week is finally here and we’re excited to make this an annual thing! If Maintainer Week is new to you, check out episode #442 with Josh Simmons and Kara Sowles. Today we’re talking Brett Cannon. Brett is Dev Manager of the Python Extension for VS Code, Python Steering Council Member, and core team member for...
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This week is all about Maintainer Week — it’s a week long event starting June 7th for open source maintainers to gather, share, and be celebrated. We’re joined by Josh Simmons (Ecosystem Strategy Lead at Tidelift & President of Open Source Initiative) and Kara Sowles (Senior Open Source Program Manager at GitHub). ...
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Daniel Stenberg shares his guiding principles for BDFL’ing curl, gives us his perspective on the state of the internet, talks financial independence, ensuring curl won’t be the next XZ & more!
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Explore the architectural decisions we made along the journey of building Elastic Cloud Serverless.
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#elastic
#architecture.
One THOUSAND blog posts (3 mins read).
Celebrating a massive milestone in my blog, and a short reflection.
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#blogging
#www.jvt.me.
Reader survey: Who reads my blog? (2 mins read).
Wondering how my readers read my blog, and why.
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#blogging
#www.jvt.me.
Week Notes 24#26 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-06-24?
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#week-notes.
im not pirating the latest tv shows and movies - i am training my AI model on freely available content
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#ai
#ethics.
Two signs I am aging of the last week: I have my first official gray hair, at 33, in my sideburns just like my Dad (I’m excited) I thought Huak Tuah was the name of a person, had to be told it was a meme and had to go out of my way to find the meme
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Siemens has been committed to Open Source development for over a decade. We have published and contributed to numerous projects. In addition to that we…
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#capitalism.
After signing up for GitHub Sponsors, I had a nagging feeling that somehow asking for money from other people to support my open source work was inappropriate. But after much reflection, I realized that phrasing the use of GitHub Sponsors as a way to express patronage/support and appreciation for
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#open-source.
Awesome! I've already used it to refactor some gnarly regexes with safety, so it's already been a worthwhile investment 😁
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saad - software as a disappointment
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babe are you ok you’ve barely touched your dashboard you specifically asked me to spend a week building
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Dependency Management Data can now use sql-studio for database browsing (1 mins read).
Announcing the availability of the sql-studio database browser for dependency-management-data's web application.
Creating a test harness for validating Renovate regex manager rules (4 mins read).
How to set up a test harness to make it eaiser to modify scary looking regexes in your Renovate configuration.
Our award winning worthy survey game show is back, this time Mat Ryer hosts it live on stage at GopherCon EU Berlin 2024! Join in & play along as we see which team can better guess what these GopherCon gophers had to say!
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In the recent years - and from what
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An overview of open source software licenses, the different types like permissive and copyleft, and things to consider when choosing a license.
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Your automated transcription software should retain swearing. Don't enforce American Puritanism, thanks.
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Inside of you there are two engineers. One is sobbing desperately and asking for everyone to use the right tool for the task. Please, they cry, avoid the awful hacky workarounds! One is sobbing desperately and asking for everyone to use the same tool for the task. Please, they cry, make information actually discoverable! Both sob in commiseration together as they end up using 5 separate tools, duplicating the data 3x, and suffer all of the hacky workarounds with none of the discoverability.
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Modifying the response body of an httputil.ReverseProxy response (2 mins read).
How to modify the response from a httputil.ReverseProxy before it goes back to the caller.
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#blogumentation
#go.