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So many strangers have complimented me on my shirt today

"that's why they pay me the big bucks! 😀"

Open source business models are hard. A question I often get it why is it even open source? Here are some of my thoughts on that, and reasons why

I had a fab time speaking at Women in Tech, Notts! My talk “The Ripples from Pebbles” was written from the depths of my creative dreamer heart. I’m glad it resonated so much 🥹 The audience was engaging+supportive, esp with my croaky throat 💛 guess I’m feeling ready to speak at more events in 2025 👀

If, after quitting your job, you hear or get notified about your ex-leader doing these : Speaking negatively about your departure Undermining your decision by criticizing you, your new role or company Attempting to make you feel guilty Spreading resentment throughout the organisation Taking the resignation as a personal attack Prioritizing their own interests over those of the team Being absent or unavailable for the team during the transition Spreading gossip about you Delaying or writing vague performance appraisals or recommendations for you Displaying an “it’s all about me” attitude Failing to acknowledge their own mistakes or shortcomings Blaming others for failures or problems within the team These behaviours scream insecurity, selfishness, and a lack of confidence in building and retaining talent. They crush team morale, erode trust, and send a clear message to the rest of the team: ‘You’re disposable too.’

One of my toxic ADHD traits is that if paying a bill requires me to enter too much information, I just don't. Usually they then sign me up for this cool service called "collections" where they fill out all the info for me and all I have to do is enter my card number. It's very convenient. 11/10.

Someone once told me the 💜 represented “empathy” which is why it’s my heart of choice

With the recent Go module proxy issues... #BringBackGOPATH This is for you @skriptble.me.

Ok, here it is… filmed through the bottom of his glass water bowl🐰👅

“What do you mean you’re autistic? You’re so good with people.” Yea, I’ve spent my entire life studying people, trying to build the perfect mask to fit in. My personality is a patchwork of traits I’ve picked up from others, things I thought were cool, things that made me seem normal. I’m exhausted🫠

Sometimes I feel bad that I’m less fast at work because of burnout. Then I remember who/what gave me that burnout to begin with, AND how it negatively affects my life outside of work. And so I feel less bad

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‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

Had a great time chatting w Jeff Atwood about tech blogging! We knew he was a legendary blogger, but turns out he's a genuine super-nice guy too. https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/jeff-atwood-on-technical-blogging

Sharpie rainbowed American Flag Velcro patch as a an act of rebellion... 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸

Later this week, I'm going to see a lot of people I care deeply about and a lot of people who have the connections and resources to make a huge difference for the Matrix.org Foundation, the nonprofit I lead. For that, I am genuinely excited. Unfortunately, my excitement is

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So many billionaires so few guillotines

Exploring how static site generation and the small web movement represent acts of digital sovereignty. Why reviving old blogs and embracing simple HTML matters in an era of platform control.

A helpful article on checking your permissions for a GitHub repo via the API: https://www.jvt.me/posts/2025/01/02/what-access-github/

https://www.jvt.me/posts/2025/01/27/go-tools-124/ Super happy to see this headline :D

BATCH BUNCH #0002 is complete. A productive session comes to a close including serious bug hunting, tasty coffee drinking, and creative talk writing! See you next time? bonus spoilers: BB collectible item(s)/swag is also in the works. stay tuned. 🖱️⌨️🌐😌☕️

photo credits to @computerist.bsky.social! + sending healing vibes to BB co-organiser @www.jvt.me.web.brid.gy who's been battling a cold and wasn't able to make it 🤗

I inherited this project, and all I got was all these angry users - #opensource @www.jvt.me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK8CMcePn2A

🎶 It’s a TRON: Legacy soundtrack kinda day.

Getting All Comments From a Given User on a GitHub Discussion, by @www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me: https://www.jvt.me/posts/2025/01/08/github-discussion-comments/

where's the EO that we've all gotta rename our github branches back from `main` to `master`?

has anyone else's Release Radar gotten noticeably worse lately?? more artists i don't follow at the expense of ones i like, updating kind of randomly instead of fridays...

If I were to create a tool or anything related to containerization of software, I'd call it Tupper.

This video of mine from five years ago is aging depressingly well --- and it leaves me at once bitterly disappointed and steadfastly resolved https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px9OjW7GB0Q

@www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me Thank you for the kind words! When I’m at my keyboard I’ll share a link to the artwork so folks can print their own stickers, use on social, do whatever they like 🙂

@www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me Loved the talk, some of the example comments sounded very familiar! I think my worst/best tired maintainer story was dealing with a user who was very insistent I urgently fixed a minor CVE introduced by a depdencency, with a suggested fix that would have introduced a bigger problem (segfault in extremely specific conditions vs timestamps suddenly changing timezone).

@www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me I am just the carrier, @mizkirsten@mastodon.social is the person to thank! 👍🏻

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Attached: 1 image I'll be on the "Maintaining Open Source Software" panel next week at State Of Open Con :) https://stateofopencon.com/ #stateofopencon #soocon25