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Attached: 1 image I’m on my way to #dddeastmidlands today. It’ll be great to see some friends from the #Umbraco community there as well as some of my podcaster friends and people I’ve met from the Nottingham Tech community.

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Attached: 1 image I’m on my way to #dddeastmidlands today. It’ll be great to see some friends from the #Umbraco community there as well as some of my podcaster friends and people I’ve met from the Nottingham Tech community.
Attached: 1 image Too soon, still too soon! But we are off! Just a few minutes until our keynote from @brunty@brunty.social #dddeastmidlands #eastmidlandstech
Between and I took 5911 steps.
Attached: 1 image Let’s go #DDDEastMidlands 🎉
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Attached: 1 image Anya would like to say good morning, and requests head bumps and ear scratches. #cat #caturday #catsofmastodon
Attached: 1 image The existence of a meatball sub implies the existence of a meatball dom.
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Leaving house: good for depression, bad for anxiety Staying at house: good for anxiety, bad for depression Standing directly in the doorway to achieve peak mental health.
I cannot understand why anyone would possibly want a chip in their head, but especially not one that *that guy* is responsible for.
Engineers who know how to both priortize work and create clarity are the only 10x people I recognize.
Where do people find CFPs these days? CFPland seems to no longer exist… I found confs.tech, is that the most up to date one?
Decorates stack traces with source code snippets. Contribute to laech/java-stacksrc development by creating an account on GitHub.
Looking forward to @dddem@mastodon.me.uk tomorrow! 🎉 Not looking forward to the 5am alarm. 😩
I’m on the train to #DDDEastMidlands! Probably about time I look at the talks that are happening tomorrow 😅
It's been just over a year since I wrote Analysing our dependency trees to determine where we should send Open Source contributions for Hacktoberfest which started off my journey with dependency-management-data and I'm super happy with the path it's taken me 🤓
Very excited to be attending and speaking at DDD East Midlands tomorrow 🎉 Looking forward to seeing some of the local tech community, and folks from further afield!
Attached: 1 image Continues to age like fine wine, like 15 years later
Someone asked me recently, what is one quality that is career limiting that many people don't realize is career limiting? My answer? Being unable to deal with ambiguity. The more senior you get, the more there are is no right answer or plan figured out. That's your job.
It's lightning talks day at work where once again I have produced 16 slides for a talk that's supposed to be 5 minutes long.
We already had something that turned text prompts into art, it was called paying an artist.
Me typing professional emails: Your solulu is delulu. #business #contentcreator #tech #security #safety #privacy
Attached: 1 image One of my favourite (and oh so simple) hacker tricks is to abuse JSON support in APIs and pass TRUE instead of the actual API key. If the code does loose comparison, you don't need the key! 😎 😈 🍿 https://securinglaravel.com/p/security-tip-type-juggling #PHP #Laravel
Words not to use in OSS projects or other collaborative efforts: - Laughable - Stupid - Obvious etc etc It’s rude, ignorant, offensive etc
Between and I took 4246 steps.
Announcing a $12,288 bounty (tripled to charity) for cracking the five seeds selected by the NSA in the '90s for the NIST elliptic curve standard.
Attached: 1 image "NOBODY WANTS TO WORK ANY MORE!" A brief history of capitalists complaining that nobody wants to work for starvation wages Image by @paulisci@mstdn.ca
I feel like everything you need to know about the Drew Barrymore kerfluffle is that when the writers' strike ended, her union writers decided they'd rather find new jobs than go back to working for her https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/drew-barrymore-show-writers-decline-return-1235606269/
One of my favorite tools in my productivity toolbox for getting started on things I don’t particularly feel like doing is the inverse pomodoro. It’s basically what it sounds like: a timed work/break cycle, but the work and break times are reversed from a normal pomodoro. I usually set a 5 minute timer, do some work, and then do something relaxing or fun for 15 minutes. I usually find that after doing that once or twice, it’s pretty easy to flip to normal pomodoros.
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Attached: 1 image Are you interested in working in open source? Check out hundreds of open positions and set up job alerts on #OSJobHub https://opensourcejobhub.com/ #jobs #career #OpenSource #Linux #kernel #developer #engineer #sales #marketing #DevOps #sysadmin
if i can offer younger developers any advice its this: develop a visceral allergy to complexity as soon as you can and nurture that allergy your whole life until it approaches debilitating. all else being equal complexity is bad. more "stuff" is bad, period. there are dopamine triggers and corporate metrics that may indicate otherwise but they are catastrophically wrong. fight to make simpler things. sometimes you really cannot, but thats a fight you need to have and lose if thats the case...
For everyone who feels insecure about your relationships with others - partners, friends, etc. - do they actually like me? Am I tricking them or deceiving them or what if I'm secretly a bad person?: Remember - the other people in the relationship with you are whole-ass people with their own thoughts, feelings, needs, desires, etc. These actual whole-ass people have their own agency, and have decided to spend their time on this earth with you. If you've not been intentionally misleading them or hiding things or tricking them into being with you, then it probably means they actually like you for who you are. You're probably not as good at hiding who you are as you think, which means they know the parts of you that suck, and they like you despite or even BECAUSE of the parts of you that suck. It's okay to simply trust those who love you to have chosen to love you because you're you.
Attached: 1 image "Increase of [hate crimes against trans people] may be due to comments in media and by politicians, says Home Office" What kind of evil person admits they're inciting violence and continues to do it? 🤯 #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Trans #Transgender
Attached: 2 images Did you know that JPL has a whole gallery of beautifully illustrated Halloween posters, based on real science? Perfect to print and decorate your space, use as a wallpaper on your computer or phone, or as a Zoom background. https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/alien-worlds/galaxy-of-horrors/
I used to think GitHub Codespaces would help popularise Gitpod but now realize it is the other way around. Gitpod is currently permitted to exist in the Visual Studio Code ecosystem to popularise GitHub Codespaces, and Microsoft can step in at any moment to create legal crises that strategically divide the market from a business perspective because, like Apple and their AppStore: it is their ecosystem that they control and they are in absolute control.
POV you're migrating some code to new dependencies and tests are failing and you're not sure why the change would do that but then you find out the tests have been failing for 3 years.
Have you ever been frustrated with your job? Maybe not burnt out, but getting close to there? You used to love what you did, and it felt so creative and empowering, but then it starts to feel a bit more cookie cutter.Have you ever been frustrated with your whole life? The daily grind has taken what you love and it... […]
Lost treasure. Conspiracy theories. Impossible tech demos. Jan Sloot claimed to have invented revolutionary data compression that could fit a full movie into a tiny smart card chip. Top executives and investors witnessed his demos and became true believers, ready to bankroll this company into the stratosphere. But was it all an elaborate illusion? Join me as I unravel the... […]
Content warning: rant, microsoft, azure DevOps
Boy math is watching (4) hours of p0rn a day but willing to pay (0) dollars for p0rn. #tech #contentcreator #socialmedia #nsfw #boymath
“we can’t find any good candidates for this role” you’re auto-rejecting people with 20 years experience because they don’t have a degree and then AI-sorting the rest by how Jared their name is
“Jared” is a real example from a real resume ranking tool!! https://qz.com/1427621/companies-are-on-the-hook-if-their-hiring-algorithms-are-biased
Sounds like a threat 👀
Nothing but love for @www.jvt.me for helping with this! I saw Jamie speak at DevOpsDays maybe 4 years ago and knew he was an all-star I wanted to know one day. I'm thankful that DevOpsDays this year I finally made that happen and it already proven I should have prioritised it sooner! 🤩