Hi, I'm JamieTanna (he/him/his), and I'm currently a Senior Software Engineer at Elastic.
I currently live in Nottingham with my partner Anna Dodson and our cat Morph and our puppy Cookie.
I use my site as a method of blogging about my learnings, as well as sharing information about projects I have
previously, or are currently, working on in my spare time.
I'm a GNU/Linux user, a big advocate for the Free Software Movement, and the IndieWeb movement and I try to self host my own services where possible,
instead of relying on other providers.
I have ADHD (Inattentive Type) and am learning how to make my life work better around it.
Drop me an email at hi@jamietanna.co.uk, or
using any of the other social links below.
SAVE THE DATE Join us on Wednesday 6th November for the Fourth OpenUK Digital Meetup, our online-only event for OpenUK community members.
In this lunch-time webinar, we'll
@www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me this is such an important topic. It’s 15 years since some colleagues let me know how much less than the men in my team I was being paid. The knowledge helped me to negotiate a bit, and I remain grateful for their consideration and openness.
This week, Parul Singh shares the story of how she won a legal case over an ex-employer for ADHD discrimination.
Parul is a Recruitment Marketing Partner and Neurodiversity Advocate at xDesign, and an ex-tech recruiter. She was diagnosed with ADHD at aged 25 and uses her platform to awareness about neurodiversity in the workplace and in the recruitment process to build a more equitable future for neurodivergent people.
In order to make a bigger impact, she created a new role at xDesign, "Neurodiversity Advocate” in which she works closely with the People Team to lead the internal neurodiversity community. We all know how important it is to feel less alone. She also feeds into internal policies, processes and supports other neurodivergent employees at xDesign. As a woman of colour, she also puts a spotlight on intersectionality within Neurodiversity and the compounding impact that being from multiple minority groups has on barriers we face”
Topics:
00:00 What are your earliest ADHD memories
04:29 Unhealthy sources of dopamine
11:00 Misdiagnosed with depression + finally getting an ADHD diagnosis
18:47 Normalising ADHD in life + at work
22:38 How did you feel after your diagnosis?
28:52 Imposter syndrome
32:00 Winning a discrimination tribunal + Neurodiversity in business
38:13 What is disability discrimination?
Find Parul on LinkedIn 👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/theadhdtechrecruiter/
Here's the link to the ADHD/ND resources : https://theadhdtechrecruiter.notion.site/ADHD-Neurodiversity-Resources-1-0983dc5d52aa400d9225973d940b2287
Specific ones relating to this discussion:
👉 https://www.gmb.org.uk/sites/default/files/neurodiversity-law-guide.pdf
👉 https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/138118/Equality_Act_2010_-_Duty_on_employers_to_make_reasonable_adjustments_for....pdf
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The current chaos in Wordpress caused by Matt seems like a good time to remind folks that the Mastodon "community" websites and trademarks are 100% owned by one
This was a fun and decidedly humbling conversation with Ben Johnson about SQLite, databases, Litestream, and LiteFS.Links:Ben on GitHubLitestreamLiteFS
Shared: Matt Mullenweg’s Bull(enweg) https://bullenweg.com/.
If you're having trouble keeping track of the current Wordpress/Matt Mullenweg drama (things are escalating so rapidly!), this website posts regular updates.
#wordpress
wp shows that the world would be so much duller if successful people could just to go therapy and chill counting their stacks or something. smh what a clusterfuck.
I don't like wordpress as a tech stack all that much, but... i really admire wordpress for how it democratizes access to self-hosting and allowed so many people and businesses to own their online presence.
Sad to see it take such a hit, and hopefully it'll recover.
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Don’t just tell everyone the open web is great, go on the open web and tell everyone *why* it is great @sil@mastodon.social at #OggCamp24
On the topic of joining a #union and the collective bargaining port we as workers should work towards at #OggCamp2024, I'd also recommend discussing your salary with your colleagues!
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Mark your calendars for October 15 for OpenUK London community meetup "Can open source even be a business?" OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock will share the findings of the OpenUK Economics of Open Source Report; followed by the panel including Liam Crilly of NGINX, Lee Wright, GTM Leader Data Infrastructure, Amanda Brock of OpenUK, Matt Barker of Venafi, and Paula Kennedy of Syntasso, moderated by Jennifer Riggins. Sign up here: https://www.meetup.com/openuk/events/301997818/?utm_medium=referral&utm #openuk #openukmeetup #opensource
Really enjoyed #oggcamp2024. It's great that a conference based entirely around Open Source software and Freedom exists.
Open source may have a reputation of being just for nerds, but it's about *so much more* than just tinkering with code.
You don't need to be a coder to benefit. When things are open source any bad behaviour (i.e. tracking, telemetry, privacy violations) hiding in our software has nowhere to hide.
This becomes more important as we become increasingly reliant on our devices.
People who attend a conference talk but who proceed to open their laptop and work: get the fuck out and do that elsewhere. You’re more annoying than herpes.
Thanks for those who came to my talk at #OggCamp2024, "89 things I know about Git commits (abridged version)" based on blog post of the same name - glad I resisted doing a couple of slide changes in the ~90 seconds before I went up on stage 🫣
Shay Nehmad on how writing is the key to becoming a better engineer, how to do it, and more.Links:* Cup O' Go podcast* Code Complete book* Shay's blog* Obsidian and Logseq
News🧑🔧 Go 1.23.2 + 1.22.8 released, mostly backports of fixes ⏲️ High-Resolution Timers on Windows🌬️ New release for Air🔨 Interesting post about code shelf lifeInterview with WillemSite: https://www.willem.dev/Twitter: https://x.com/willemschotsLI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willem-schots/
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At "Into the multiverse: a parallel universe where neurotypicals are the weird ones" with Parul Singh, in Cotton Theatre.
#OggCamp2024 #OggCamp24 #OggCamp
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I’m at @oggcamp@mastodon.social today, immersing myself in my FOSS community! The unconference is shaping up nicely and the schedule is on joind.in!
#oggcamp2024
Today on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Chris Holmes, co-founder and CEO of Greymatter. Greymatter is deeply involved in the open source ecosystem and maintains the Go Envoy Control Plane, but Chris is adamant that it is not an open source company. We had a great discussion about why...
Go Time co-host, Johnny Boursiquot, joins Adam & Jerod to discuss not making the (first) cut, applying Founder Mode, being a cog (or not), realizing that companies are posting fake engineering jobs & the (maybe) imminent demise of the .io TLD.
John Nunemaker joins us to share his new thesis for acquiring Rails based SaaS apps. He's early days on his next big thing called Very Good Software and recently acquired Fireside, a podcast hosting service started by Dan Benjamin. This comes after many years since John's acquisition of a lifetime of Speakerdeck to Git...
Suspect a large part of the future will be "AIsbestos Removal".
Asbestos was a wonder material which was going to revolutionise the world. Only then we discovered just how carcinogenic it was.
And now, every day, we have to gently unpick it from the urban environment.
How many companies will belatedly discover that a load-bearing process is actually riddled with AI? Then they'll have to pay to carefully remove it without any further environmental damage.
Hence AIsbestos.
The last time we did a roundup of our unpopular opinion polls, it was November of 2021!
That's too long ago, so today we fix that bug. Join Go Time producer, Jerod Santo, as he ranks & reviews the most (un)popular opinions of 2022.
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Would you work for free? 🤯
For 33% of the respondents to our open source maintainer survey, this is reality: they are not paid or not paid enough to make a living.
With the new Fellowship program, we are investing directly in the people behind the code by paying maintainers of important open source components for their work. Applications are accepted until October 20th. Find more insights about the maintainer survey on our website.
Abi Noda, co-founder and CEO at DX, joins the show to talk through data shared from the Stack Overflow 2024 Developer Survey, why devs are really unhappy, and what they're doing at DX to help orgs and teams to understand the metrics behind their developer's happiness and productivity.
Bekah graduated from the Flatiron School Software Engineering program in May of 2019 and since then has spent time as a frontend developer, started the Virtual Coffee developer community, spent time in DevRel and has continued to mom her four kids. She currently co-hosts the Virtual Coffee podcast, tries to work on her postpartum wellness OSS project, and lifts heavy things in her free time.
You can follow Bekah on Social Media
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Also check out these links from Bekah
https://virtualcoffee.io/
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Im in the UK later this week, talking at @oggcamp@mastodon.social! It’ll be a tasty intro to home automation and how to successfully irritate your loved ones with it.
Oggcamp is the bestest free software conference there is, mainly because it’s in The North and filled with Northeners. More conferences that aren’t in London pls.
#oggCamp #OggCamp2024 #HomeAutomation
mozilla withdrawing from mastodon due to a lack of funds but having enough money to finance shitty ai research is like finding out your local library closed because they spent all their money on an inflatable dinosaur exhibit
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
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.
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.
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
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.