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that @www.jvt.me has me reworking my weekend as I look at my embarrassing dotfiles β¦ https://www.jvt.me/posts/2024/10/11/dotfiles/
that @www.jvt.me has me reworking my weekend as I look at my embarrassing dotfiles β¦ https://www.jvt.me/posts/2024/10/11/dotfiles/
John Nunemaker joins us to share his new thesis for acquiring Rails based SaaS apps. He's early days on his next big thing called Very Good Software and recently acquired Fireside, a podcast hosting service started by Dan Benjamin. This comes after many years since John's acquisition of a lifetime of Speakerdeck to Git...
Suspect a large part of the future will be "AIsbestos Removal". Asbestos was a wonder material which was going to revolutionise the world. Only then we discovered just how carcinogenic it was. And now, every day, we have to gently unpick it from the urban environment. How many companies will belatedly discover that a load-bearing process is actually riddled with AI? Then they'll have to pay to carefully remove it without any further environmental damage. Hence AIsbestos.
How I manage my dotfiles (8 mins read).
A deep dive into how managing my dotfiles has (not) evolved over the last 10 years.
The last time we did a roundup of our unpopular opinion polls, it was November of 2021! That's too long ago, so today we fix that bug. Join Go Time producer, Jerod Santo, as he ranks & reviews the most (un)popular opinions of 2022.
Attached: 1 image Would you work for free? π€― For 33% of the respondents to our open source maintainer survey, this is reality: they are not paid or not paid enough to make a living. With the new Fellowship program, we are investing directly in the people behind the code by paying maintainers of important open source components for their work. Applications are accepted until October 20th. Find more insights about the maintainer survey on our website.
Nice, see you there π
Abi Noda, co-founder and CEO at DX, joins the show to talk through data shared from the Stack Overflow 2024 Developer Survey, why devs are really unhappy, and what they're doing at DX to help orgs and teams to understand the metrics behind their developer's happiness and productivity.
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Good idea! I ended up finding I can use xdotool
to do it instead / also realised I could hold Shift
while in caps mode to type normally π«£
Between and I took 3741 steps.
Nice! This is one I've ended up needing to do a few times too
After trying the conference hotel breakfast I think Iβll be taking my morning repast elsewhere for the remainder of the week. #oggcamp
Bekah graduated from the Flatiron School Software Engineering program in May of 2019 and since then has spent time as a frontend developer, started the Virtual Coffee developer community, spent time in DevRel and has continued to mom her four kids. She currently co-hosts the Virtual Coffee podcast, tries to work on her postpartum wellness OSS project, and lifts heavy things in her free time. You can follow Bekah on Social Media https://twitter.com/BekahHW https://bekahhw.github.io/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/bekah-hawrot-weigel https://github.com/BekahHW https://www.youtube.com/@bekahhw Also check out these links from Bekah https://virtualcoffee.io/ PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST - Spotify: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-spotify - Apple Podcasts: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-apple - Google Podcasts: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-google - RSS: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-rss You can check out more episodes of Coffee and Open Source on https://www.coffeeandopensource.com/ββ Coffee and Open Source is hosted by Isaac Levin (https://twitter.com/isaacrlevin)
The ".io" top level domain might be gone soon. https://every.to/p/the-disappearance-of-an-internet-domain
Attached: 1 image How passive aggressive are you this morning?
How geopolitics can alter digital infrastructure
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Software developers may be simultaneously alarmed and flattered by how much psychologists have interacted with my work primarily to learn more about how software teams work and whether they can imitate this :)
Im in the UK later this week, talking at @oggcamp@mastodon.social! Itβll be a tasty intro to home automation and how to successfully irritate your loved ones with it. Oggcamp is the bestest free software conference there is, mainly because itβs in The North and filled with Northeners. More conferences that arenβt in London pls. #oggCamp #OggCamp2024 #HomeAutomation
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Why yes, #DependencyManagementData now has stickers π
Week Notes 24#40 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-09-30?
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mozilla withdrawing from mastodon due to a lack of funds but having enough money to finance shitty ai research is like finding out your local library closed because they spent all their money on an inflatable dinosaur exhibit
My to do list: Do everything! My desire for the day: Do nothing! Our compromise: Do something counter-productive!
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Them: Someone ought to do something! Me: You're someone! What are you going to do? Them: ββ. βββ βα΅’ββ ββββ. (Yes yes, structural inequality. Limited powers and knowledge. Access to tools. Etc.)
With OggCamp one week away, we thought we'd share some useful information you should know before next weekend! https://ogg.camp/news/know-before-you-go/ #OggCamp2024
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Stories of folks reaching Staff Engineer roles.
Free and open source software is, or can be, a public good. But, VM Brasseur finds that for some, it may have gotten disconnected from its open culture roots. In this open source story, VM talks about motivations behind FOSS, how they have shifted, and how those who work in free and open source software can help recenter principles of openness.
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Oh no! I've woke up this morning with a drive to start running tech events again! Someone stop me. Please! π
Do you find yourself exaggerating your emotional responses when you know you're being watched? Would you like your phone's selfie-camera to record your face when you receive a message so it can automatically reply π, π’, or π―? Blog post: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/10/performative-emotions/
Congrats π
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Don't do Agile, be agile (13 mins read).
Why you should ditch the framework and just vibe.
This week on The Business of Open Source, I talked with Allard Buijze, the CTO and founder at AxonIQ. We talked a lot about the importance of open source for getting feedback on your product and validating your idea β or not.Β One of the things we talked about was how the beginning of AxonIQ was...
In this episode, CRob sits down with Sarah Evans, security research technologist at Dell and Lisa Bradley, senior director of product and application security at Dell. They dig into the challenges of implementing secure open software at a complex ...