Likes from 23 March 2024

You are allowed to have and do nice things for yourself.

The hard part about evaluating successful people who’ve been at a company for several years is it’s hard to determine if they’re good at getting things done or good at getting things done AT THAT COMPANY. Too many friends have shared stories of hiring ex-FAANG people who try to replay their previous company playbook without the same resources, culture or strategic advantages. This is important to filter for in interviews and interrogate yourself as well for similar tendencies.

all the testimonials on my site are from women (except one) and honestly I just feel lucky to have worked with so many badasses there's still so much progress to be made but sometimes I have to remember I haven't always been the only one in the room

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@nwp@mastodon.nzoss.nz Not only do I use it, I've also improved it! https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/08/an-update-to-the-atkinson-hyperlegible-font/

ACAB: All CEOs Are Bastards. #acab #corporatocracy

there's the amusing line of thought regarding the “source-available” proprietary licenses, which maintains they're targeted against the abuse of the free software by the large saas companies. and of course it's bullshit. large saas companies are big enough to take over maintenance of the latest non-encumbered version, throw funds and people at it, and even provide the result to the public (cf. elastic search and opensearch). or, if they feel like it, they may just buy out the whole company with its product instead of paying licence fees – if they really need it and there's no other way to get the required expertise. the people who actually get shafted by the license changes and embrace of the proprietary model are the other open source projects that depend on the now-closed software, and small-to-mid-sized companies.

The Elastic folks out here being reply guys downplaying the Redis license changes is so very on brand. 🤦🥴

Not only could we not rid ourselves of PDFs but now we're inventing ways to talk to them