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Ever been staying at a hotel and gotten annoyed that you always have to open a browser to log in for wireless access? Yup, me too. A recent instance was particularly frustrating and I had to pull out my favourite Swiss Army chainsaw in order to make my life a bit easier.

You are allowed to have and do nice things for yourself.

The hard part about evaluating successful people who’ve been at a company for several years is it’s hard to determine if they’re good at getting things done or good at getting things done AT THAT COMPANY. Too many friends have shared stories of hiring ex-FAANG people who try to replay their previous company playbook without the same resources, culture or strategic advantages. This is important to filter for in interviews and interrogate yourself as well for similar tendencies.

all the testimonials on my site are from women (except one) and honestly I just feel lucky to have worked with so many badasses there's still so much progress to be made but sometimes I have to remember I haven't always been the only one in the room

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@nwp@mastodon.nzoss.nz Not only do I use it, I've also improved it! https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/08/an-update-to-the-atkinson-hyperlegible-font/

ACAB: All CEOs Are Bastards. #acab #corporatocracy

there's the amusing line of thought regarding the “source-available” proprietary licenses, which maintains they're targeted against the abuse of the free software by the large saas companies. and of course it's bullshit. large saas companies are big enough to take over maintenance of the latest non-encumbered version, throw funds and people at it, and even provide the result to the public (cf. elastic search and opensearch). or, if they feel like it, they may just buy out the whole company with its product instead of paying licence fees – if they really need it and there's no other way to get the required expertise. the people who actually get shafted by the license changes and embrace of the proprietary model are the other open source projects that depend on the now-closed software, and small-to-mid-sized companies.

The Elastic folks out here being reply guys downplaying the Redis license changes is so very on brand. 🤦🥴

Not only could we not rid ourselves of PDFs but now we're inventing ways to talk to them

I said it before, and I'll say it again: Marco Inaros is every dude who ever learned to ape the language of feminism and race and gender studies specifically as a means to hit on women and manipulate real, legitimate grievances into a play to increase their own power. He's a gaslighting abuser. Plain as.

A text typeface designed for accessibility and legibility for all readers.

This font - Inclusive Sans - looks lovely. https://www.oliviaking.com/inclusive-sans Might try it on my eReader. I only wish it had a bold variant. #Font

Anyone got a new brain? I'd really like mine to give me a fucking break and let me recover 🧠

In this latest, they say: "Redis has been sponsoring the bulk of development alongside a dynamic community of developers eager to contribute". I was just talking to @quaid about this, and he made an excellent point: if your company-sponsored open source project is still 95% company-developed, _you messed up several years ago_.

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My therapist told me to do something that scares me so I had sex with Werner Herzog

I've been at the OSS Growing Pains workshop focused on governance these last couple of days, and I've never felt more confident that I'm in the right place. I'll be unpacking and riding on this experience for a while! Deeply grateful to @shauna@social.coop for the invite, and to have spent time with amazing humans like @HeatherLeson@fosstodon.org, @silona@fosstodon.org, and @ntnsndr@social.coop ✨

Daughter: Can I keep the night light on? Me: and provide the monsters with a beacon to your precise location? Use your head, sweetie.

Attached: 2 images Met with two more Mastodon buddies. Great to see both @Marcus@k8s.social and @ringods at #KubeCon! And I got some awesome Giant Swarm t-shirts for the kids from Marcus ❤️

For fun I recently pimped out a ruby script that I had written for some testing with a little color and a spinner. If you have never used ANSI escape codes before I've put together a simple script that shows how easy it is. First let me say that if you are using ruby and

@simon@simonwillison.net ironic that redis the color of deletion.

As Threads rolls out support for ActivityPub, Meta’s approach is to require each Threads user to manually enable fediverse integration. This was demoed yesterday at FediForum. It’s a perfectly …

@manton But imagine the outrage if they automatically opted everyone in? 😬

There's been a thread about dependencies lately and the challenge of convincing developers to look at the full dependency chain. I once maintained a C++ binary that included a PostScript interpreter, a JPEG decoder, a JavaScript interpreter, and a number of other utterly irrelevant pieces causing a huge factor increase in the size of the binary. The culprit: A single logging statement that invoked a general-purpose printer that could print web stuff. Switching to sprintf fixed it.

me, sexy voice: baby im gonna take you to pound land her: do you mean pound town? me, holding a bag of off-brand wine gums, a wireless phone charger, and a tin of pedigree chum: nope

Thought for the day: Billionaires are a symptom of poverty. (Paraphrasing Iain Banks on money, but more specific to our times because we still need some way to allocate scarce resources, just: not like that.)

"Billionaires are a symptom of poverty." Every once in a while I'm reminded that my "wasting time" on this site is not wasting time, because it's how I can incredible ideas or articulations like this.

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Seems to be massive disconnect between the #AI hype pushed in the #KubeCon key notes vs. what the audience actually cares about. I don’t think I ever heard this many people complaining about them in the past.

Attached: 1 image Unrelated to anything else going on today, but this was a rather nice feature in #DuckDuckGo I wasn't aware of before.

I love RSS, but one thing I don't like is that readers typically homogenize the appearance of posts from different sources, which is fine that's how aggregators work. But I miss seeing the flair of individual websites so I often find myself clicking thru entries to see their site designs. I kind of want a stylesheet element in the RSS feeds and feed readers could have a toggle where you can view each feed's entries with their custom styles. I understand how that could break things though.

I’m a strong believer in automated tests - and a moderately disciplined author of them. Software engineering is exceptionally hard to get functionally correct, and even harder to avoid regressing later. As my wise teammate Dave says, “Legacy code is any code that doesn’t have a test.”

Exciting times as we hike the W, and visit Torres del Paine.

Management's role isn't necessarily to break unions but to keep workers compliant with company objectives. If the company is open to a union, they'll only impede it (and keep lower management out of the loop) so much so to make it a burden for workers to manage. If they're more offensive, they'll do what Apple, Trader Joe's, GM, Microsoft, Walmart and other conventional businesses do: take a complete about-face from whatever purported values the company is about and use their own legal prowess to weaken the constitutional rights workers have (it's only a crime if you're tried and sentenced when it comes to companies weakening unions).