Lol I'd say something about the Wordpress thing but Occam's razor dictates that there's really nothing to add that hasn't been said.
This makes me want to pour over @ntnsndr@social.coop's book on governance sooner than later.
I'm highly skeptical of unaccountable hierarchical organizations (so much so I'm willing to threaten my stability over it) and this is why. Power corrupts.
A decision is made
Why I've decided to abandon wordpress for a static website.
https://lars-christian.com/a-decision-is-made/
#wordpress #webdev #indieweb #smallweb
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I'm missing my late Mum especially today. It's the first anniversary of her death, and to remember her we went to one of her favourite places: Westonbirt Arboretum.
I was very happy when my Aunt (Mum's twin sister) agreed to join my wife & I for the day; her love of trees parallels my Mum's, so we enjoyed a long afternoon of walking through the glorious forests, and in particular the Acer glade.
When somone says something like "our competitor isn't contributing to our open source project", there's an implied assumption that anyone *can* show up and contribute changes that are meaningful to them but against the interests of the project owners (and their commercial backers). That's just not how it works.
Despite that, submitting occasional PR's that have no chance of getting merged is probably the best way to expose that bullshit if/when it comes to that.
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Managed to get into the #OggCamp2024 board! If you wanna learn more about how at STF we support #opensource and talk about that, find me in the Graphene 1 room at 15:00 🤩
Software developers may be simultaneously alarmed and flattered by how much psychologists have interacted with my work primarily to learn more about how software teams work and whether they can imitate this :)
Do you find yourself exaggerating your emotional responses when you know you're being watched?
Would you like your phone's selfie-camera to record your face when you receive a message so it can automatically reply 😄, 😢, or 😯?
Blog post: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/10/performative-emotions/
I have to say, the amount of frustration I have in day-to-day work didn't decrease when I switched from MacOS to Linux on my workstation, but I did gain the ability to fix those frustrations and move on.
I took a few days off, left the house (this part was a mistake), caught an illness and now I'm back at work feeling rubbish and just not very clever!! Please nobody ask me any hard questions ...
Here's the current state of the tech industry:
A week or so ago I went for a big group meal and at the end they brought the card reader machine for us to pay and it had an option for us to go through an itemised bill, check some options, and pay for just those options (plus an equivalent fraction of the service charge). It was amazing! This genuinely saved us about half an hour of talking at cross-purposes and poking numbers into our own phone calculators and hoping nobody did the sums wrong and accidentally stole someone else's tip. I genuinely would consider going back there for future group meals despite the fact that I'd finished my food before Alec's arrived and he'd finished his before Darren's came, so thoroughly do I dislike the traditional bill-splitting process.
And yet in terms of technology, it was nothing but a low-end smartphone running an app built entirely from OS-standard UI components. No AI, no invasion of privacy, no adverts, and I have to assume no VC funding or elaborate toolchain. Just a good idea implemented well, and genuinely we all went away commenting about how clever and useful it was.
And I don't remember the previous time I experienced that. We know what people want. They want you to use the massive technological advances we've already made to build useful things that work. But apparently there's no money in that 🤷
a month ago i left a job i held for several years, a job that took me through a winding road of launching a product, going through an acquisition, lots of high points and lows...but ultimately i got to end the journey on my own terms, on my own time. i couldn't have asked for anything more, especially given the state of the world. i'm so very proud of my work at glitch and fastly, and it's special how i got to be one of just a handful of people who can say they have grown and lead millions of developers in creating the web and community! it was a lot of fucking work, though, and i need a break.
Some try to keep on top of their emails by aspiring to reach Inbox Zero.
I try to keep on top of my code by aspiring to reach Branches Zero.
If you're taking continuous integration seriously, you should have zero branches most of the time, and they should only exist (a) if you're not doing trunk-based development and (b) for as short a time as possible.
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*
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.
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
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/
Jamie Tanna
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