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Attached: 1 image "just roll with it" genuinely the best advice
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FWIW employees can go to a board and demand the replacement of a CEO if they find them incompetent. It's worse for them if it goes public. *looks at employees at Mozilla*
What happens when you take two #define champs (Taylor Troesh, Thomas Eckert), a grizzled veteran (Adam Stacoviak), a british bard (Mat Ryer), a PhD (Carol Lee) & you pit them against each other in a game of fake tech definitions?! There's only one way to find out...
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In my experience as a manager and leader, I spend a lot of time trying to get engineers to care more about business outcomes than technical issues. Not because I think the technical issues don't matter. But because I know if that if you're not trying to understand business outcomes, your judgment about the technical issues is going to be much worse. Many engineers fundamentally do not believe this to be true. And it's one of the things that sets them at odds with leadership.
Just realised Sam Altman is the Willy Wonka of AI.
wow 95% of LGBTQ+ adults registered to vote (according to this recent HRC survey sampling ~2400 in Aug 2024) I don't know their sampling methodology but that's pretty wild compared to any other voting registration stat I've seen. Similar to covid vaccine stats which are also wildly good for us. Makes me think about how folks only look to marginalized groups on the national stage to talk about disparity & trauma and not to learn from us as a dynamic, taking action, motivated success story.
no country that has a death penalty has the right to lecture others about human rights
The UK helped usher in the coal era — now it’s closing its last remaining plant The Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottinghamshire is slated to close on September 30th, marking the end of coal power in the UK. It’s turning the page on an era of dirty energy that the UK helped usher in globally and now has to leave behind to meet climate goals. https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/23/24252195/last-coal-power-plant-close-climate-change-clean-energy
Anytime someone tells me they're pregnan I can't stop myself from blurting out EWW YOU HAD SEX WITH A BOY, i am 39 years old
What happens when the foundation behind a project isn't independent and empowered. The WordPress Foundation seems to not really be independent of Automattic or have any people working for it https://wordpressfoundation.org/about/financials/2023-financials/ Compare to @drupalassoc, @openjsf@social.lfx.dev and other more functional ones https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/113197135186493986
be careful not to mix up a mommy kink with a mummy kink; it’s all fun and games until she’s pulling your brain out through your nose
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I left the Social Web working group because of the eagerness of allowing known endorsements of digital violence having a say in the development of it. And now it's also a big sponsor of the new Foundation. Since ethics, for most, tends to be a sort of T-shirt you can get a conference and not something that's a lived value, as with it all, I do not trust anything coming out of it and those places. https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2024/pulling-from-fedi/ https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2024/deinvest-open-web/
I left the Social Web working group because of the eagerness of allowing known endorsements of digital violence having a say in the development of it. And now it's also a big sponsor of the new Foundation. Since ethics, for most, tends to be a sort of T-shirt you can get a conference and not something that's a lived value, as with it all, I do not trust anything coming out of it and those places. https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2024/pulling-from-fedi/ https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2024/deinvest-open-web/
<p>Ok, I should be sleeping right now, but what's happening is SO FUCKING CRAZY.</p><p>Long story short: WPEngine is suing Matt Mullenweg, Automattic and the WordPress foundation for slandering them. In return, Matt is suing them for trademark violation.</p><p>But, BUT, WPEngine has fired their first shot. And what a shot it is, friends:</p><img src="https://goblin.band/files/ccae0c7e-bcad-4df8-833e-198c82647f14" alt /><p></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Cease-and-Desist-Letter-to-Automattic-and-Request-to-Preserve-Documents-Sent.pdf">Link to the full letter</a></p><p>Some extracts:</p><blockquote><p>Stunningly, Automattic’s CEO Matthew Mullenweg threatened that if WP Engine did not agree to pay Automattic – his for-profit entity – a very large sum of money before his September 20th keynote address at the WordCamp US Convention, he was going to embark on a self-described “scorched earth nuclear approach” toward WP Engine within the WordPress community and beyond. When his outrageous financial demands were not met, Mr. Mullenweg carried out his threats by making repeated false claims disparaging WP Engine to its employees, its customers, and the world. Mr. Mullenweg has carried out this wrongful campaign against WP Engine in multiple outlets, including via his keynote address, across several public platforms like X,YouTube, and even on the <a target="_blank" href="http://Wordpress.org">Wordpress.org</a> site, and through the WordPress Admin panel for all WordPress users, including directly targeting WP Engine customers in their own private WordPress instances used to run their online businesses</p></blockquote><p></p><blockquote><p>During calls on September 17th and 19th, for instance, Automattic CFO Mark Davies told a WP Engine board member that Automattic would “go to war” if WP Engine did not agree to pay its competitor Automattic a significant percentage of its gross revenues – tens of millions of dollars in fact – on an ongoing basis. Mr. Davies suggested the payment ostensibly would be for a “license” to use certain trademarks like WordPress, even though WP Engine needs no such license. WP Engine’s uses of those marks to describe its services – as all companies in this space do – are fair uses under settled trademark law and consistent with WordPress’ own guidelines. Automattic’s CFO insisted that WP Engine provide its response to this demand immediately and later, on the day of the keynote, followed up with an email reiterating a claimed need for WP Engine to concede to the demands “before Matt makes his WCUS keynote at 3:45 p.m. PDT today.”</p></blockquote><p></p><blockquote><p>In parallel and throughout September 19 and 20, Mr. Mullenweg embarked on a series of harassing text messages and calls to WP Engine’s board member and also its CEO, threatening that if WP Engine did not agree to pay up prior to the start of Mr. Mullenweg’s livestreamed keynote address at 3:45pm on September 20, he would go “nuclear” on WP Engine, including by smearing its name, disparaging its directors and corporate officers, and banning WP Engine from WordPress community events.</p></blockquote><p>They... they have text message captures. In the pdf. Matt Mullenweg was trying to extort them ... by text messages. They seem to have the entire thing in the writting.</p><p></p><blockquote><p>In the final minutes leading up to his keynote address, Mr. Mullenweg sent one last missive: a photo of the WordCamp audience waiting to hear his speech, with the message that he could shift gears and turn his talk into “just a Q&A” if WP Engine agreed to pay up</p></blockquote><p>They finish requesting Automattic to "preserve, and not destroy, any and all documents or information in their possession, custody, or control that may be relevant to any dispute between WP Engine and Automattic". They are going to war, big time.</p><p>All this crap is just because they refuse to pay his protection money. And the guy has been stupid enough to put everything in writting.</p><p></p><p>Holy. Fucking. Shit.</p><p>HOLY FUCKING SHIT.</p><p>They are going to toast him alive</p> 📎
AI, taking complex topics and fucking them up, giving people bad information that’ll get them killed, all for the low low price of more energy and water than we have to spare. This is such a waste of time. https://mastodon.social/@emanuelmaiberg/113192736734791060
@tomasaschan Thanks for both pointers! I'll have to try that tools.go method to see how it works in practice. Also, LOL, as I just before you posted referred to Jamie as *the* "dependency guy" in the other thread https://elk.zone/hachyderm.io/@anderseknert/113191706986003922 Ping @charlieegan3 — we should look into this for Regal @www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me @arichtman@eigenmagic.net
@anderseknert @charlieegan3 @www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me @arichtman@eigenmagic.net Haha, I read that but didn't even realize it was the author of the post I linked. I just searched for something like "go tools.go" and took the first hit I recognized as one I read when learning how to use the pattern 🙈 The proposal had a few nice descriptions of requirements to make it work, too, so I recommend giving that a read too just to avoid some common mistakes that aren't super clearly pointed out in the blog post.
@arichtman@eigenmagic.net Hmm, not sure what that would refer to, tbh. You can definitely pin a dependency either to a tag (this is the default) or a commit/ref. But could be there are nuances/flaws to the approach I'm not aware of. Summoning @www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me as he's the "dependency guy" lol
Yeah not sure where that came from but as you say, you can pin to a tag/commit, and Go's module proxy stops you from having someone re-push the value of a tag, once it's had someone download a dependency.
You also only pin, as there's no way to do a range, so IMO that makes it nicer and more explicit than other languages / toolchains with respect to pinning
strangeobject.space is shutting down at the end of 2024
Yeah I'm very much looking forward to // tool
landing as that'll push more folks to using a tools.go
style approach.
I'm seeing some folks who'll use a tools.go
in a separate Go module so then it doesn't impact the top-level dependency tree, on top of Go' s inbuilt module graph pruning
Also as much as I recommend tools.go
, there's still some things it can be awkward with ie golangci-lint
tracked as a source dependency can lead to issues (dependency version clashes, Go version incompatibility), as well as it not being the recommended use case
@anderseknert I've come to like the "tools.go pattern" for this: https://www.jvt.me/posts/2022/06/15/go-tools-dependency-management/
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Listen to Ep 258: Phil Dunster from Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. Ted Lasso’s Jamie Tartt (doo-doo-da-doo-da-doo), Phil Dunster, introduces some new vocabulary to the Dream Restaurant this week. And don’t forget, tune in to Comic Relief. Phil Dunster stars in ‘Oklahoma! in Concert’ at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 19th and 20th August. Get tickets at oklahomaconcert.co.uk Follow Phil on Instagram and Twitter @phildunster Recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).Follow Off Menu on Twitter and Instagram: @offmenuofficial.And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk for a list of restaurants recommended on the show.Watch Ed and James's YouTube series 'Just Puddings'. Watch here.
I was just adding a gig I’m going to on Last.fm when I saw my “member since” date: 16 August 2004 😯. That’s 20 years of scrobbling (since its Audioscrobbler days). Newer than my Gmail account but …
#103 Carolyn Stransky learning her way from journalist to developer and back
I'm very excited to be speaking at DTX London next week, at DevOps Exchange's talks takeover.\n\nI'll be talking about Quantifying your reliance on Open Source software and how you can use dependency-management-data to gain some really interesting insights into your dependency data.\n\nHope some of y'all can join me there
When the signal came, there was nothing subtle about it: every radio telescope on the planet redlined. First primes, then simple arithmetic, then basic vocabulary, each burst richer than the one before. Finally humanity received the most complex message yet. Thousands of researchers and ad hoc internet communities raced to decode it. "Are you crabs yet?" Hesitantly, humanity replied, "No." "Oh," came the reply. "Sorry to bother you." Silence followed.
Happy #BiVisibilityDay! I always take the opportunity to remind folks I'm bi because, if I don't, people make assumptions. You can be in a hetero relationship and be bi. You can be same-sex relationship and be bi. The distinction matters because bi folks face unique challenges. And, while research seems to indicate most people are bi (!!!), many people are afraid to come out because of the stigma. I'm here to tell you it's never too late to come out. Even if you're in a stable relationship, being closeted causes you harm. Do yourself a favor and join us in the sun ❤️💜💙 We'll be here to support you. #BiPride #Queer #LGBTQ #NotGayButGayIsOK
and talk about the 2024 Tidelift maintainer report. The report is pretty big and covers a ton of ground. We focus in a few of the statistics that should worry anyone who uses open source. We've known for a while developers are struggling, and the numbers back that up. This one feels like the old "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas". Show Notes
What parts of the Spotify Squad Model were challenging, and advice for leadings considering adopting the model.
If I’ve learned one thing from 15 years in tech it’s that men can be in the arena trying stuff and it ain’t matter how many times they fuck up but women have to land fully formed and perfect beyond reproach or they’re not serious people.
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I will be attending
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uBlue is trying to build the world's best Linux experience for developers and gamers. Jorge Castro joins Justin & Autumn to tell us how it's going.
Gerhard Lazu joins us for Kaizen 16! Our Pipe Dream™️ is becoming a reality, our custom feeds are shipping, our deploys are rolling out faster & our tooling is getting `just` right.
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Thanks! This looks like it was via my release announcement to reddit