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If you missed my talk on project websites at Fosdem, you can check out the recording here. I was really excited to do this talk, because homepages are the most concrete and most publicly visible representation of a project’s positioning. Writing a decent homepage is impossible if your positionin

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Happy leap day! 😻

Broke: Licensing personal projects as AGPL so mega-co's can't use them. Woke; Writing personal projects in C, so mega-co's can't use them.

It was March 2022 when I sold CSS-Tricks to DigitalOcean. So it’s been just about 2 years now. This was me and my wife’s thinking: The negotiated sale price was fair. They are a big com…

nothing ruins my motivation to send fixes to your open source project more than to ask me to sign a CLA for it. sorry guys I'm just not that interested in reviewing a legal contract just to improve your software for free

adhd people so great and fast at autocompleting they start wondering whether they're actually conscious

@flameeyes@mastodon.social Hrmm I'm not sure I agree. Many big tech cos are allergic to the obligations of AGPLv3 because they're afraid of having to release their otherwise proprietary software. But there are plenty of companies who work with and extend AGPL'd software... there are no blockers to me as an individual as there would be with proprietary software.... and it conforms w the Four Freedoms and Open Source Definition. IMO the problem is with big tech and proprietary software, not the FOSS license.

"AGPLv3 is not free software" is a take I did not expect to run into among *checks notes* software freedom enthusiasts.

🥰 I have a client who pays me on time *every* month. 😡 And every single month I have to remind them to pay the VAT. I suspect I will not keep them as a client for much longer.

Phanpy now has a version of https://cohost.org 's best feature, and it works with your existing Mastodon/Fediverse account https://indieweb.social/@laurenshof/111997146906858162 TLDR: You follow 40 people, but the people who post infrequently tend to get their posts flooded off the TL by high-volume accounts such as me (mcc) asking cursed C# questions at odd hours. Wouldn't it be cool if you could get the best elements of a sort-by-last-post view and a sort-by-account view in a single screen? (See screenshots at link.)

luna im begging you please just post something normal

“so we can use createElement and appendChild to give the DOM a new <sub>…”

When I started writing and publishing open-source software about 15 years ago, I was pretty radical about it. I only used permissive licenses like MIT or BSD, as all I cared about was reach. Using a copyleft license with strings attached seemed to hinder that reach. Getting another A-category company

Shittier is an unconventional code formatting tool - rohitdhas/shittier

I go touch grass for a few days and when I come back C is illegal????

I’ve been a huge advocate for independent blogging for a while now, both for personal and professional reasons. In fact, I’ve written countless replies to early-career folks about documenting their …

Creating a quick CLI in Go is easy, but here are some patterns you can use to make your CLI easier to extend in the future

Explore how DevEx boosts productivity and innovation according to new research.

If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year, I don't blame you. There's a lot going on right now. It's a busy time. But let's pause and take a moment to celebrate that Elon Musk destroyed Twitter. I can't possibly

“Open Source Economics” and the “Open Source Economy” are regularly discussed in the context of how to improve open source software’s sustainability, contributor diversity and ecosystem quality. Too often, though, the use of the word “economics” brings incorrect assumptions about the problems to be solved.

Bruce Perens is angry. A veritable Jeremiah amid a throng of open source Pollyannas at OpenUK's State of Open Con 24 in London, the co-founder of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and the Open Source Definition, railed against what he sees as corporate capture of the movement he helped to kickstart.

Open source doesn't mean open build. Why open source projects aren't required to product all the builds.

What is it that makes you uncomfortable deploying at 5pm on a Friday? Let's talk about that.

Attached: 1 image Traveling while queer is so often an experience of weird looks, people trying to reconcile the beard and the skirt, quick vibe-checks when entering a business to make sure I feel safe. It's an absolute delight to stop into a little breakfast place as we're getting on the road, and have the big questions be about how we liked our drinks because the person making them was trying something new today. (The answer is that they were excellent.) Genuine friendliness to the queer couple in a small town is such a nice way to start a day.

Just saw a bumper sticker: “please let me merge before I cry” 😂

Make the compiler check your assumptions before any code runs.

A Go tool to auto generate methods for your enums. Contribute to dmarkham/enumer development by creating an account on GitHub.

I added some validation and link checking to this docs folder about a week ago. It's already pointed out something broken on three different pull requests. #DocOps turns out is a good investment, even though I was sure I knew what I was doing and these tools would help "other people" 😆

v8 is planning to add support for captureless lookbehinds to their regex engine. This would close a huge ReDoS vulnerability! And eventually make its way into Node👀 #v8 #regex #redos #re2 #node #nodejs #javascript https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=14435

my car only goes straight, maybe i need to top up the gender fluid

I am choosing to log off, but if anyone’s still thinking tech.lgbt is a good space, your admin David is currently propping up a conspiracy theory written by the Admin of woem.men about The Bad Space that refers to my instance and others as a cult that blocks a huge amount of trans femmes. Thank you for reigniting a genuinely traumatic time in mine and many other people’s lives. I look forward to the transphobia, erasure, threats upon me and mine, and whatever other bullying your friends have in store. Also, get fucked 👍

I've been getting a lot of those "your parcel couldn't be delivered" phishing attacks lately and if you're a human with a phone, you probably have been too. Just as a brief reminder, they look like this: These get through all the technical controls that exist at my telco and

Prompted by having read the prequel novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, I recently decided to re-read the Hunger Games novels. First of all, I was curious about the prequel - how can a prequel about the villain of the series tie in? The prequel tells the (love) story of a teenage Coriolanus Snow, who later becomes president (dictator would be the more appropriate term) of Panem. What an odd book to read, because how can you make a novel about an entitled narcissist, who treats people like possessions, possibly compelling? While his rise to patriotism is sometimes interesting, [...]

I am so fucking sick of “Oops!” And “Oh No!” In error messages. “omg bestie I’m like, sooooooo sorry, there was an error but I’m afraid that’s my little secret ;) try again dickhead” Please just tell me there was an authentication error. So I can Google it. And provide useful information to your exhausted support team.

Go first came onto my radar about 9 years ago when I came across MuMax during my PhD studies. While I’ve touched it briefly, I wouldn’t consider myself to have used it in anger until recently, when I started a job that uses it as one of it’s primary languages for API development. I’ve had experience in writing C and C++ code, but more recently I’ve done a lot of Python, so going back to Go has felt oddly like a throwback to those compiled languages I’ve used before, with a bit of modern sparkle.

Attached: 1 image 🎉 Random indieweb inspiration for the day: My daughter's college Advertising PR class is hand editing HTML+CSS for a project "about me" assignment in VSCode -- and that is so cool -- and it was one of the best "hey dad, guess what we are doing today" text messages of all time #indieweb #prouddad

OK, I got on the styling-my-#RSS-feeds & creating a /feeds page train 🚂 https://shellsharks.com/notes/2024/02/21/web-feed-makeover Shouout to @abf@mas.to, @cory@social.lol, @jimniels@mastodon.social & @robb@social.lol for the inspiration. Direct link to my web feeds: https://shellsharks.com/feeds #rss #openweb #indieweb #html #indiewebchat