After this codeforward conference and govai which was running at the same time, I got a better sense of the wild amount of fomo and hype and llms being pushed on teams without having real agency, and I get the anti-llms reaction by developers a bit more.
Also realized, through my new found lenses, how political software development is in companies (which I traumatizingly didn’t realize before), and damn am I glad to not be in this rat race.
#llms
1/
Stephen Augustus, the Head of Open Source at Cisco, shares his experiences and insights about contributing to and maintaining open source projects including Kubernetes and OpenSSF Scorecard. Stephen highlights the importance of building sustainable practices and the value of having product, program, and project management skills in open source projects. Discussions delve into the inner workings of the Kubernetes project, the role and functionality of the OpenSSF Scorecard, and the process of incorporating new contributors and projects. He further emphasizes the importance of transparency and intentionality in corporations' involvement in open source projects.
00:00 Introduction and Guest Background00:22 Stephen's Journey into Open Source and Kubernetes05:41 The Success Factors of Kubernetes06:09 Maintaining the Maintainers: The Balance of Work in Open Source06:28 The Role of Corporations in Open Source09:03 The Overwhelming Nature of Open Source Contribution10:10 The Impact of Kubernetes on Other Open Source Projects10:59 The Increasing Complexity in Full Stack Development12:29 The Importance of Open Source Project Management20:27 OpenSSF Scorecard
Guest:
Stephen Augustus is a Black engineering director and leader in open source communities.
He is the Head of Open Source at Cisco, working within the Strategy, Incubation, & Applications (SIA) organization.
For Kubernetes, he has co-founded transformational elements of the project, including the KEP (Kubernetes Enhancements Proposal) process, the Release Engineering subproject, and Working Group Naming. Stephen has also previously served as a chair for both SIG PM and SIG Azure.
He continues his work in Kubernetes as a Steering Committee member and a Chair for SIG Release.
Across the wider LF (Linux Foundation) ecosystem, Stephen has the pleasure of serving as a member of the OpenSSF Governing Board and the OpenAPI Initiative Business Governing Board.
Previously, he was a TODO Group Steering Committee member, a CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) TAG Contributor Strategy Chair, and one of the Program Chairs for KubeCon / CloudNativeCon, the cloud native community’s flagship conference.
He is a maintainer for the Scorecard and Dex projects, and a prolific contributor to CNCF projects, amongst the top 40 (as of writing) code/content committers, all-time.
In 2020, Stephen co-founded the Inclusive Naming Initiative, a cross-industry group dedicated to helping projects and companies make consistent, responsible choices to remove harmful language across codebases, standards, and documentation.
He has previously held positions at VMware (via Heptio), Red Hat, and CoreOS.
Stephen is based in New York City.
Wrote a new little tool to help determine the minimum OPA version needed to evaluate any provided Rego files. Published today as #mcov. I know *I* will use it extensively, but if it's helpful to anyone else, all the better. On that and some other projects I'm involved in my new "December hacks" blog.
https://www.eknert.com/blog/december-hacks
Measuring work linearly in hours makes no sense. I get progressively more useless the more hours I work. Those last hours are just really expensive theater that actually hurts people. Makes no sense.
Autism: I must eat breakfast at 9am
ADHD: oops forgot
Autism: that’s okay, we usually have our first meal of the day at lunch, 12pm on the dot
ADHD: I see your “12pm” and raise you “17.56pm”
Autism: I fucking hate you
This week on The Changelog we’re joined by Drew DeVault, talking about the Hare programming language. From the website, Hare is a systems programming language designed to be simple, stable, and robust. When we asked Drew why he created it, he said “[because] I wanted it to exist, and it did not exist.” Wise words. We d...
Automatically generate Go test boilerplate from your source code. - GitHub - cweill/gotests: Automatically generate Go test boilerplate from your source code.
This week we’re gleaming the KubeCon. Ok, some people say CubeCon, while others say KubeCon…we talk with Solomon Hykes about all things Dagger, Tammer Saleh and James McShane about going beyond cloud native with SuperOrbital, and Steve Francis and Spencer Smith about the state of Talos Linux and what they’re working on...
This time I do know who needs to hear this: Explicitly put your compensation range in the job description/listing. It saves everyone a lot of time. Oh, you're willing to go above that for the 'right' candidate? Then just say that too.
My dad has spent some of his retirement doing hobbyist machine learning projects. He heard the term “data lake” a while back and has taken to calling his datasets a “data swamp.” Feels like a …
[me releasing a feature] - I'm sure our users will adapt to this UI change we've been building it's not that hard to understand
[me experiencing a slight UI change as a user] - why the FUCK would you put THAT THERE oh my GOD everything is RUINED
Okay assessment done
I am fucking EXHAUSTED!!!!
He says I get no autism points for my emotive facial expressions and gesticulation (I’m the human emoji after all) but whilst not giving me a definitive diagnosis and I have to wait a week he says there are several areas that speak to an ADS diagnosis
Probably the fact I spent the entire two and a half hours staring outside the window whilst waxing lyrical about “I don’t know” or when asked to define specific emotions or “happiness is a lack of sadness I guess?” and “no I find most people irritating” and “I don’t really feel anything at all” when asked to talk about family stuff
And I’m going to send him my report from my private assessor :)
So fingers crossed I get declared autism
Started to shut down at the end so glad that’s over
Assessment step one: arrive to find the reception is never “manned” and I’m supposed to “wait until I’m called” so naturally I’m going more insane by the second wondering at what point should I wander the halls or go back downstairs to reception saying I haven’t been called but also if I leave then maybe they will call me when I’m not there and then I’ll miss my assessment and then I’ll just DIE!!!!!!
JavaScript Library to extract domains, subdomains and public suffixes from complex URIs. - GitHub - remusao/tldts: JavaScript Library to extract domains, subdomains and public suffixes from complex...
Wait, NORAD tracks my sleigh? In real-time?! This is outrageous! I never gave permission for this!
Goodness gracious, all I want to do is break into your houses and leave gifts relative to how good I think you’ve been, which I’ve been tracking meticulously in my book along with your constant whereabouts and sleeping patterns.
Learning my way through AWS Lambda, Serverless Framework, and AWS Step Functions.
On a totally unrelated note: remembering my aerospace class in high school where the teacher mentioned it was fun to watch the ultralight trend reimplement and reinvent established practices, and how we'd all probably see similar cycles a few times in our lives.
Announcements🔐 Go 1.21.5 & 1.20.12 pre-announcement🧊 Go 1.22 frozen, this time for realCommunity☕️ Mattproud's great Reddit answer for Java developers🐍 Another good blog post from Preslav about Python vs GoRich Hickey's talk about a similar subject🦪 Ralf Steube developed a really cool tool for...
Jamie Tanna
.
