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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!

The thing about Conehead’s manifesto is, before even getting to the arguments, the technology he wants everyone to be optimistic about is FUCKING APPS and SCAMS. He’s equating himself and his pals to the biggest paradigm shifts in history when what he means is a new way to make the internet shit

The Pokemon Go programming language

Axenado: 1 imaxe

"We set the story points to zero at the end of the sprint" These new scrum techniques are amazing, yo!

having serious #AllThingsOpen FOMO today now thinking I should have gone even if it meant using my own budget

So, if I were going to make a tech manifesto, it might be something like: - protocols not platforms - coops and unions - technology should not actively hurt us - people not users - seven generations, seven continents - free markets require antitrust enforcement

sorry i just find it hilarious that either the nyt developed standards for their op-eds, or a fascist tech billionaire can’t buy their way into popular media

it’s funny that billionaires fascists are self publishing their own manifestos even the unabomber got in the nyt

Marc Andreessen's manifesto: https://technovia.co.uk/2023/10/16/marc-andreessens-manifesto.html

but seriously i think with marc andreessen going full-on jackbooted fascist with his fingers in all the cryptocurrency and machine learning artificial intelligence pies, we get a free pass at an "i told you so" when we say that all of this stuff is a stalking horse for the advancement of white supremacy

ROFL WTF https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/ 🤣 I know what the 16 in a16z stands for now: this could have been written by a 16 year old libertarian.

Watching S7E1 of Rick and Morty. The new voices aren't quite right, but on the plus side, they're also not being voiced by an abusive sex pest.

What I love about Silicon Valley venture capitalists is that that they love being loud and wrong. If I had spent the last few years shilling crypto as the next big thing in tech only for a bunch of my portfolio companies to turn out to be Ponzi schemes & grifts, I’d never write publicly again. I definitely wouldn’t write Bond villain style speeches about how AI ethics and trust & safety teams at tech companies are the enemy preventing you from colonizing the stars. 😬 https://fortune.com/2023/10/16/marc-andreessen-techno-optimist-manifesto-ai-50-billion-people-billionaire-vc/

It happened here on Mastodon for the first time: I got made angry by something other people were angry about, and which *I would never have heard of it wasn’t for other people being angry*. Social media induced rage has arrived in my happy place. :(

We disclosed this #hackerone report against #curl when someone asked Bard to find a vulnerability, and it hallucinated together something: https://hackerone.com/reports/2199174

Attached: 1 image scientific breakthrough: a thermometer that can tell the temperature with no sensors needed by measuring the proximity between my two cats, who do not normally like to snuggle with one another, you can tell that the heat in my house is broken #cats #catsofmastodon

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According to Google Search Console, this little web app of mine is performing very well! https://boroughs.dpope.uk All it does is tell you which London borough you’re in, which is apparently something that hundreds of people search for every month!

sorry but I won't let tech bros take the term "optimist" and turn it into their own thing

Nothing depresses me like the knowledge that I am going to have to spend some of my precious workday reading a manifesto.

Dear #OpenSource contributors: do not reformat the code. It takes a second to run the formatter, but it requires hours to review the massive patch to ensure there aren't any bad changes hiding among all the spaces and brackets moved around.

It's an "use this custom API that we built" instead of "follow this standard that worked since the 1990s" kind of day.

So many men’s first instinct is to be condescending, because they think it will immediately place them in a power position over me. But, like, you just told me this interaction matters to you – and you’re emotionally invested in winning it for some reason. With that knowledge alone I could crush you, baby boy

On October 11th, WireMock Inc together with the London Java Community organised a hack day in our new office in London. This event was held as a part of Hacktoberfest. We got 16 participants and worked together on a few projects like YAML configuration support in WireMock, OpenTelemetry integrations, improving documentation and Kotlin DSL, and more.

I'm way too old to realize that people can't read me (which, come on, should be no surprise, kids never got me either) - I have realized that a bunch of people in my life think I am unhappy with them. When the truth is: I am in absolute awe of them, and feel deeply deficient in comparison. It does not help that I never realized this. How does one convince people that you think they are wonderful? Asking for a me.

What’s funny about being non-binary is that, to me, I’m the normal one. I think our whole thing just kind of works, no? You’re all just being silly about colors and stuff. We’re the main characters of gender, just admit it.

My supervisor complains that everyone is sick on any given day half the office is empty and yet he has noticed that I am always at my desk so he asks what my secret is and so I reply that I must be lucky as I adjust the straps on my mask.

Writing my thoughts down as I start a potentially long process of something and writing "Whatever and whenever it happens, I'm still me :)" just felt nice, a reminder to myself that ultimately I'm still the same, I might just have some more answers to some things in my life #Journalling

Attached: 1 image I really try not to be overly critical of local government, having worked there and knowing the pressures. But this advice in this day and age is indefensible. The service itself has a load balancer in front of it. All it needs is an HTTPS certificate and a routing rule to terminate HTTPS connections.

Tomorrow, toddler permitting, I will have time to update my talks page (https://ohhelloana.blog/talks/) to include my latest and future talks as well as the link to my most recent interview! I really enjoy doing the interviews & guest writing - I love the prompts and that I don't have to rush doing it. So yeah, I'm keen to do more of it! Let me know! 💖

I had a chat with @proactivepaul@mastodon.social about Barcamp. Turns out it’s not hosted in a bar, nor is it a camping trip. It’s a gathering of people geeking out over whatever they want to talk about. I’m looking forward to learning a lot of random facts next month! #bclxii

I don’t want to alarm you but we are getting dangerously close to the 10 year anniversary of The Force Awakens

bad game idea: French French Revolution whether that's a rhythm game involving deep tongue-kissing or guillotines is up to you