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To hell with 'Thank you for your service'! Have a meaningful conversation instead. Get to know veterans you encounter; it's more meaningful.

Packages downloaded thousands of times targeted people working on sensitive projects.

A comprehensive guide to funding open source software projects

I've been trying to invest more and more of my free time interacting with founders. I genuinely feel we've been through a lot with Sentry and I can provide some useful value to others. More so, I believe most people in this industry, most successful people, do others a disservice but not having honest conversations about the hardships and endurance it takes to succeed. As part of that I thought it'd be interesting, or at least therapeutic, to talk about some of the history in written form. I previously wrote about Sentry's Seed Funding, but I want to go deeper on some other topics this time around. I'm not entirely sure what future topics I'll cover, but hopefully you'll find some value in it.

BREAKING NEWS I just finished a cup of still warm coffee, in one sitting. Please clap. I no longer have ADHD.

Attached: 1 image Kinda sucks that Apple doesn't account for even the most basic of British spelling issues 😤

I'd like to celebrate Cruella getting the sack this morning but you know our Rishi is going to find someone even worse to replace her. There's no such thing as rock bottom with the Tories, especially in the Home Office.

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Happy happy Diwali, frens 🥰🥰🥰

In hindu mythology, there is casual violence committed on "demons" who are supposed to be terrible people. Today is a day that celebrates the death of one of those for the South Indian hindus. Given how hindus treat Indigenous people today, it is not lost on me that it is very likely that those "demons" were likely innocent folks upon whom we inflicted violence 2000 years ago and decided to cement that horror in a mythology conveniently claiming these folks deserved it. This is why I do not celebrate Diwali. The closer you peer into hinduism, the more oppressive it becomes.

I'd like to thank #Github for the onus to clean up my projects and get my house in order. No thanks to them for the reason behind it (Copilot). I'll have a full blogpost on it later. For now it's clean-up time.

I applied for UK citizenship towards the end of 2021. In this article, I describe my experience in full detail.

Attached: 1 image Can you spot the two times I went to a conference this month? 😂

I’m very adamant about using “toot” instead of “post”. I’ll die on this hill, but hopefully not today because I have lots of errands to run, like buying stamps at the toot office.

Exactly eight years ago, I published “Hello there!” on this website. Since then, I have published hundreds of articles. Persistent writing is excellent for many reasons and is the best thing I have ever done for my personal and professional development.

Attached: 1 image That time Warner Herzog killed it on Parks and Rec. "This was a holding cell for people who went insane on the assembly line." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4V1K1JCg_Q

I must have magic powers. I can put something down for 5 seconds and then it completely disappears.

Always pay attention to where people's eyes dart when they are talking to you. If their eyes go up and to the right it could mean there is a cool bird behind you over your left shoulder.

I recently added support for federated social networking features to my website. If you’re on a service like Mastodon, and you interact with a post that links to something on my website, it’ll show up …

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Attached: 1 image Looks like SIG-Security are still about in Chicago after #KubeCon 😂

Attached: 1 image I got the #curl coaster. I must say it’s ridiculous, but also the coolest coaster I have now 🥲

playing just one game? what if i get bored? i could never be monogamous.

Today, if you publish a popular Go module on a URL and you lose control of the URL (through, eg, domain expiration and having the domain snatched up), you have a problem that's probably more or less impossible to deal with short of making blog/Fediverse/etc posts about the situation. Go module identity is tied to URLs with more or less no external override or way to automatically announce and see problems (individual people can override for their usage, but that doesn't scale).

Accidentally left freshly cut cat nip out over night. Let's just say it did not go unnoticed by the cats :ablobcatrave:

Our letting agent has started using a company called "Oh Goodlord" for its payment collection. Given the rent prices in London this seems on the nose

Content warning: Childhood trauma fun?

reminder to cargo-mommy enthusiasts: cargo-vibe already exists to provide your @buttplugio@buttplug.zone needs *and* cargo-subcommands are infinitely chainable

@www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me think it's online too but unsure of details of that! Think Meetup may share details.

Attached: 1 image They have made the new Ultimate Peter Parker unnecessarily hot. Fully on board with this.

Past-self just saved me 2+ hours by documenting how to do the thing that took ~3 hours to figure out and fix last time. Good job past-self. Also, good job current-self for remembering that past-self should have documented this and then going to find the doc.

I finally bought @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com's new book, You Deserve A Tech Union, because we do deserve one. And very amusingly, my learning & development budget covered it. ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽 https://abookapart.com/products/you-deserve-a-tech-union

Attached: 1 image it may have taken a year, but i'm pleased to announce my #newsletter now has a name in hindsight, it was an obvious choice https://citationneeded.mollywhite.net/ #CitationNeeded

“Colder than a witches tit” is a misnomer because all the witches I know have warm ones

Gonna give a talk ("Open Source: Boundaries, Burnout and Business”) and chat with folks about open source software at the first OpenUK Scottish meet up in Edinburgh on 22nd November 2023 from 6-9PM.

Would be lovely to see some of you there!

https://www.meetup.com/openuk-glasgow-edinburgh/events/296929069/

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thinking today about back when I was in code school in SF one of the cofounders was OBSESSED with my two-character twitter handle, and even though I went by my birth name at the time, he would call me kf so I called him by his handle, too a year later, one of the staff told me that every time I did this, he would go upstairs in the office, slam doors, and tell the staff that I was insulting him for having a four-character handle 😂 anyway that’s how I got my name 🤣 #fragilemasculinity

An update that absolutely no one could've seen coming**: One of the companies using AI instead of qualified copywriters to draft their career guide blog posts is now realizing that these texts are highly generic, repetitive, and of little value for readers. They will have to be redone, and a lot of time and resources were wasted. Awww. 😏 (** Just kidding. This was, of course, utterly predictable.) #AI #Fail

Attached: 1 image I'll be honest, when I tell Chinese manufacturers that I'm happy to review anything USB-C powered, I wasn't expecting them to send me a... *puts glasses on* oh! Just a microphone.

Hot take: a virtual hackathon is “just” an online open source community tuned for onboarding and “my first app” programs. The real unlock is long term maintenance and useful apps that get devs paid.

@sil@mastodon.social Not sure if you saw this; https://clig.dev/ - seems in line with what I think I've seen you previously wrote (and if it isn't, I'd love to hear your views on why not 😃)

some naive networking greybeard once wrote that a good URL never changes, or something but URLs do change because everything changes, and the expectations around their longevity and change are one place where people exert power and have power used over them. if people rely on a URL they're actually relying on a stream of labor. There is no "static" content, all data storage requires some portion of ongoing renewal: new materials and ongoing human care.

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