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Them: Someone ought to do something! Me: You're someone! What are you going to do? Them: ₙₒ. ₙₒₜ ₗᵢₖₑ ₜₕₐₜ. (Yes yes, structural inequality. Limited powers and knowledge. Access to tools. Etc.)

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Them: Someone ought to do something! Me: You're someone! What are you going to do? Them: ₙₒ. ₙₒₜ ₗᵢₖₑ ₜₕₐₜ. (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! 🙈
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 😄, 😢, or 😯? Blog post: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/10/performative-emotions/
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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 — or not. 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 ...
Jenn Turner of Fastly and Glitch shares her journey from journalism to open source, navigating a technical field as a non-technical contributor, and some tips on maintaining work-life balance.
Jenn Turner of Fastly and Glitch shares her journey from journalism to open source, navigating a technical field as a non-technical contributor, and some tips on maintaining work-life balance.
I have to say, the amount of frustration I have in day-to-day work didn't decrease when I switched from MacOS to Linux on my workstation, but I did gain the ability to fix those frustrations and move on.
Ohh gotcha I see what you mean - so it's actually that the map
isn't initialised (still one of the annoying things Go does, you have to make(map)
to initialise it), the key
being unused just stops us compiling.
I do agree it'd be useful to have a way to catch uninitialised map
s earlier!
@probablyfine the actual useful thing is for software developers to care about their writing skills, which is a vanishingly rare trait
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Start submitting your pull/merge requests, Hacktoberfest is here! If you haven't already, make sure you've registered for Hacktoberfest so that your PR/MRs created + accepted throughout October can be tracked. Get started: https://hacktoberfest.com/participation
I took a few days off, left the house (this part was a mistake), caught an illness and now I'm back at work feeling rubbish and just not very clever!! Please nobody ask me any hard questions ...
Variable key
isn't used?
Here's the current state of the tech industry: A week or so ago I went for a big group meal and at the end they brought the card reader machine for us to pay and it had an option for us to go through an itemised bill, check some options, and pay for just those options (plus an equivalent fraction of the service charge). It was amazing! This genuinely saved us about half an hour of talking at cross-purposes and poking numbers into our own phone calculators and hoping nobody did the sums wrong and accidentally stole someone else's tip. I genuinely would consider going back there for future group meals despite the fact that I'd finished my food before Alec's arrived and he'd finished his before Darren's came, so thoroughly do I dislike the traditional bill-splitting process. And yet in terms of technology, it was nothing but a low-end smartphone running an app built entirely from OS-standard UI components. No AI, no invasion of privacy, no adverts, and I have to assume no VC funding or elaborate toolchain. Just a good idea implemented well, and genuinely we all went away commenting about how clever and useful it was. And I don't remember the previous time I experienced that. We know what people want. They want you to use the massive technological advances we've already made to build useful things that work. But apparently there's no money in that 🤷
a month ago i left a job i held for several years, a job that took me through a winding road of launching a product, going through an acquisition, lots of high points and lows...but ultimately i got to end the journey on my own terms, on my own time. i couldn't have asked for anything more, especially given the state of the world. i'm so very proud of my work at glitch and fastly, and it's special how i got to be one of just a handful of people who can say they have grown and lead millions of developers in creating the web and community! it was a lot of fucking work, though, and i need a break.
Nick Nisi joins Adam and Jerod to talk about Karaoke, ARC and the business model of web browsers, this WordPress drama, and an epic bonus for Changelog ++ subscribers.
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PDF exporter for HTML presentations. Contribute to astefanutti/decktape development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Some Go web dev notes
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Simon is one of the best-known software engineers experimenting with LLMs to boost his own productivity: he’s been doing this for more than three years, blogging about it in the open.
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"Substack CEO Chris Best said he didn't want to "engage in speculation" about statements like “all brown people are animals."" Given another opportunity to answer correctly by the interviewer, “You know this is a very bad response to this question, right? You’re aware that you’ve blundered into this. You should just say no. And I’m wondering what’s keeping you from just saying no," He declined. So, fuck him. And fuck his site. I'll NEVER use Substack. #BlackMastodon https://gizmodo.com/substack-ceo-doesnt-know-if-should-ban-overt-racism-1850337647
Tech twitter ("tech X"?) is abuzz with Paul Graham's Founder Mode essay. How does that affect you or come into play when you're not a founder? Does it matter at all to you, your projects & your code?
Join us at Orca Security! New roles for Go Developers opened, hand in your CV (and tell 'em Shay sent you :) )Backend DeveloperRuntime Security ResearcherAgent DeveloperDevOps EngineerProposals🕸️ cmd/compile: relax wasm/wasm32 function import signature type constraints"Types" in the WASM spec🍗...
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If you missed it, you can catch the recording at https://www.youtube.com/live/yi5jPnyF9gc
In light of the whole word press situation, I would like to reiterate that free software institutions should be giving the same kind of attention and support to project governance as they do to licenses. It's badly overdue. I think we can say it's dereliction not to.
Some try to keep on top of their emails by aspiring to reach Inbox Zero. I try to keep on top of my code by aspiring to reach Branches Zero. If you're taking continuous integration seriously, you should have zero branches most of the time, and they should only exist (a) if you're not doing trunk-based development and (b) for as short a time as possible.
If the Kubernetes material was honest about "your team will need recurrent annual training to remain current with this tool," adoption would crater overnight. That's not unique to Kubernetes, though it is fun to pick on them for it. _Nearly every_ significant infrastructure tool has this shape. Organizations that adopt these tools are unable to receive their value until their staff know how to use them, and that knowledge is deeply not self-sustaining.