Reddit is killing its blockchain based Community Points program because “the resourcing needed was unfortunately too high to justify”. An intern probably pointed out you could build an equivalent user points feature more quickly, cheaply and securely by just using a SQL database. Like, you know, Reddit’s existing karma system. 🙃 https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/17/reddit-is-phasing-out-community-points-blockchain-rewards/

Mmm, I had the loveliest of birthdays! I made some new cute friends, hung-out with mates, saw a fav person of mine, etc. Oh, and I looked like the cutest gothic lolita birthday princess you could imagine! 😸😸 Also thank you to everyone here who supports me who wished me a lovely birthday or sent me a gift, you're the best!

I’m very busy with Other Things in the run up to BarCamp on the 11th, so preparing a brand new talk would be a very silly thing to do. However, my stupid insomnia brain just thought of the perfect session idea, so now I’ve got to throw some slides together. Goodbye all of my free time until #bclxii

Attached: 1 image Did someone say #dcldn23 🍝🇬🇧 stickers... Find me at @droidconlondon@bird.makeup to get your hands on some of these!

Attached: 3 images Simplified for you --> Marc Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto as redaction poetry. See the whole work here: https://bengrosser.com/files/Techno-Optimist-Manifesto-Andreessen-redacted-by-Grosser.pdf

love how every time I have to sign in to Google for whatever reason, I get a whole bunch of TFA flows that lead back to the same device I’m signing in on, followed by a deluge of notifications both on-device and via email about the “SECURITY ALERT!!!!” about me having signed in. really wish people would stop using google forms for every fucking thing

Thank you lovely @techmids people for being such a great and engaged audience! Talking to you about your code, your skills and your #DocsAsCode future was excellent. If you'd like a copy of the slides, they are available here: https://noti.st/lornajane/73ScF3/docs-as-code-for-coders

For all the push back I get in some corners, there are always organizers who are eager to learn to do better. Thrilled to receive an email last night from a fellow FOSS foundation leader and organizer who wants to step up Health and Safety for their community! Progress comes drop by drop until suddenly the dam bursts. Today I am full of hope ✨ #HealthAndSafety #PublicHealthPledge #OpenSource

This isn't a programming question so it doesn't belong on stackoverflow. So I thought I would ask it here. I was curios about the origins of the project name. Why is it called Boto? Sorry for the n...

Always appreciated speakers who supply their content in blog format as well. I should do more of this!

Open source people: "We don't get any contributions from people who will help us with accessibility 😢 😢 😢 what do? " Also open source people: "We're using FuzzBingBang Style library so you never have to leave the DOM and or know CSS! also React, also, here is a really complicated state machine that controls way too much, also please make sure to weed through our types that look like ABSOLUTE GARGLED JIZZ we spit out into a file! Oh, were you looking for the HTML? HAHAHA what HTML!?"

the OpenSSL API is the gift that just keeps on giving And its like one of those gifts you get from an older relative that you rather wished they'd keep to themselves...

Mum's garden today 🌱 I miss her. 🖤

As we progress into Q4 and the end-of-year budget cycle for many organizations, I’d like to have a conversation about budget surplus, and how to steer those dollars away from marketing efforts and into your open source infrastructure. Yes, Budget Surplus Is A Thing We can call it “budget

Attached: 1 image Okay but there’s a really useful lesson here about meeting your customers/users where they’re at. Food is meant to be eaten. And people might want to eat it in the *wrong* way. And the company that says “well, we should probably make it safe for them to do so” is going to have an advantage over the companies that insist people behave “properly”. Insert cyber analogy here.

I am beyond thrilled to see the OSI stepping up with https://opensource.net/ and filling the gap after RH stopped supporting opensource.com. If you want to write a blog post about open source and need a place to publish it, the OSI team was super helpful and easy to work with!