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Heads up: This blog post is very 2007, OG-blogger-esque. If you kids wondered what blog posts were like back then, this is a good representation. If you know, you know.Heads up #2: This is one of t…

I want open source maintainer to be a profession. A thing you start by joining something bigger than just yourself, and then you grow in it. And eventually spawn off your own thing, hopefully. 🗣️ @filippo@abyssdomain.expert https://youtu.be/OBWCM2G6_-I

Reading some stuff about how Mastodon has "failed" and being reminded that's diagnostic of abusive behaviour by the platform people are refusing to leave. https://the.webm.ink/lock-in-syndrome

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Releasing a product or feature without proper material that explains why anyone should care will likely lead to poor results. Try writing your “why” docs first. Before you write that first line of code. Not how it will work. WHY they should care.

Attached: 1 image Today I am disappointed and disgusted to say that #WesternDigital have sent me an email that has very important content in it, but it's inaccessible. They've suffered a data breach, but the information about said breach has been put into the email as an image. A #ScreenReader user without some level of tech knowledge would be unable to read that, and may actually think it's spam. To us, it goes straight to the line that says 'Copyright 2023 Western Digital' and skips all the salient points. Utterly disgusting behaviour from such a large company about such an important topic. If you're of a mind to do so, please boost to raise awareness. This email is seemingly *not* a drill.

If you’ve ever seen Quantum of Solace, you’ll see an example of what happens when you continue with a production during a writers’ strike. Awful movie, and it was in between Casino Royale and Skyfall which were great. I’ll be so upset if Disney ruin season 2 of Andor, given that will be the end of the whole thing. There won’t be a season 3, season 2 goes right up to the Rogue One movie https://gizmodo.com/andor-season-2-production-writers-strike-1850411776

Met Police doing a wonderful job with the UK's new authoritarian thought-crime laws to make sure everyone hears about a protest that would probably have gone unseen if ignored. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/06/head-of-uks-leading-anti-monarchy-group-arrested-at-coronation-protest

"Welcome to our gander reveal party!" "Don't you mean..." "No." Geese emerge from everywhere. There are no fireworks. Only geese. There are no balloons. Only chaos. There are no genders. Only honk.

I think I figured out an aesthetic reason why AI-in-everything has been annoying the hell out of me. They're all using the same API from the same source — okay maybe two or three sources but mostly not — converging all their interesting and distinct services into one indistinguishable oatmeal mashup. Oh you can help me write emails? How is that different from the ten other apps that hook up to ChatGPT to help me write emails?

Gotten a lot of questions about *porn* film festivals and what it’s like to attend one - so now I’m writing an article about it 🎬💋👀 AMA or tell me what you want to know!

my dad has been speaking to a royalist in his street and when my dad said we should get rid of the monarchy this bloke said "who would you have in charge instead... a load of transgenders?" and im obsessed with the idea that you can either have a king or a council of trans people

bruce bogbutter (@dorkusmalorkus_)Sat, 06 May 2023 14:32 +0000

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I’m now out of the police station. Still waiting for my colleagues. Make no mistake. There is no longer a right to peaceful protest in the UK. I have been told many times the monarch is there to defend our freedoms. Now our freedoms are under attack in his name.

Graham Smith 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 (@GrahamSmith_)Sat, 06 May 2023 22:30 +0000

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https://twitter.com/NotABigJerk/status/1654472801397403648

Your password must contain one letter, one uppercase letter, one number, one special character, one grawlix used in an Andy Capp comic where he stubs his toe, a currency symbol for a country that 40% of Americans haven’t heard of, and an ASCII picture of something naughty.

Grant Brisbee (@GrantBrisbee)Fri, 05 May 2023 14:52 +0000

me wearing my expensive online purchases only to realize the horrifying void is still in me

derek guy (@dieworkwear)Sat, 06 May 2023 21:21 +0000

great day to share some of my fav pics of princess diana hanging out and shaking hands w AIDS patients at a time when the disease was so stigmatized, nurses would leave trays of food outside of patients’ rooms for fear of catching it via touch

matt (@mattxiv)Sat, 06 May 2023 06:47 +0000

if i had a billion dollars i would probably blow it into open source projects highest ratio of return for money + philanthropy

Peer Richelsen 🗓🍊⚡️ (@peer_rich)Sat, 06 May 2023 22:15 +0000

YO WHY THE FUCK IS IT HAIRDRYER BUT HAIR IS DRIER

Sheps (@the_sheps)Fri, 05 May 2023 20:11 +0000

So happy to be hosting this at @incident_io HQ in London. Behind-closed-doors storytelling on incidents and engineering nightmares? Yes please.

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Join “Unplanned Maintenance” in SF and London! Off-the-record storytelling about security incidents and engineering nightmares, hosted by @tailscale + @indent + @incident_io May 16 5:30pm PT in SF 17:30 BST in London Get an invite: unplannedmaintenance.com/?e=2023-05-16

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Chris Evans (@evnsio)Sat, 06 May 2023 09:11 +0000

Join “Unplanned Maintenance” in SF and London! Off-the-record storytelling about security incidents and engineering nightmares, hosted by @tailscale + @indent + @incident_io May 16 5:30pm PT in SF 17:30 BST in London Get an invite: unplannedmaintenance.com/?e=2023-05-16

Tailscale (@Tailscale)Fri, 05 May 2023 15:57 +0000

Protest is fundamental to democracy. People must have the right to oppose having an unelected head of state, or more than £100m of public funds being spent on a coronation when millions rely on food banks. These arrests should concern us all.

Nadia Whittome MP (@NadiaWhittomeMP)Sat, 06 May 2023 09:14 +0000

Letter in today’s Guardian: “In recent years, the food bank has used grants from the national lottery to support its activities, but recent applications for funding have been unsuccessful. They have been told that much of the funding is going to events celebrating the coronation”

Haroon Siddique (@Haroon_Siddique)Sat, 06 May 2023 06:16 +0000

cool cool cool https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/110304013472307767 #acab

@element@mastodon.matrix.org miss when your name was riot

Attached: 1 image It turns out you can simply serve a file from a domain to use it as your bsky handle. So this guy is now S3. All of S3.

May the 4th be with you! Brand new OAuth shirts just launched: "I find your lack of security disturbing" Available in a variety of styles and also as a hacker hoodie! …

Hetzner goes arm64: https://ruby.social/@tisba/110317041230787536

Interesting! Just noticed that Hetzner Cloud is offering Arm64 VPS (Ampere). Was looking for a VPS hoster that offers arm64 and it's the first one I could find (in EU). Costs ~30% less compared to x86. https://www.hetzner.com/news/arm64-cloud

Hahahahahahaha. Tory scum. #UKpol

A bit of professional news on here; today is my last day @DeliverooEng! I've had an incredible time and worked with such brilliant people. However I'm so excited to be starting @monzo as a Staff Engineer 🎉! A company I love and a product I'm already all-in on; let's go!

James King (@ripixelcodes)Fri, 05 May 2023 10:29 +0000

https://twitter.com/ripixelcodes/status/1654433026061811714

We're going to miss you, Kingy 👑 You've been an awesome member of the team, all the best for the amazing things you're going to do next!

DeliverooEng (@DeliverooEng)Fri, 05 May 2023 15:44 +0000

I really don’t get why baby books are gendered. When it labels the unborn child the same sex as the baby I’m having; it flows fine; but when they name it the opposite I feel like I’m reading the wrong book. In a language where we have a non-gender option of words; it’s interesting to see in a book how comfortable they are at switching the unborn child’s gender.

Yesterday I used the "git filter-repo" command for the first time. Have not felt such a thrill of power/danger since I first learned about "git rebase -i".

Honestly a bit baffled by people who defend Elon Musk and DHH.

Whelp, hearing about the #shopify #layoffs — reports are 20% of the workforce, with Berlin 90% of the staff laid off. That really doesn't sound good.

If you haven’t changed Jest's defaults your tests might be fragile, order-dependent, or just downright wrong. Check out my blog post where I dig into Jest's settings, and how you can fix your tests. #javascript #node #jest #testing #unittest https://jamiemagee.co.uk/blog/your-jest-tests-might-be-wrong/

In honour of Guardians of the Galaxy in theaters Friday, here’s a screenshot of the time I forgot I had scheduled a COUPLES THERAPY session on a day we were shooting. #GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3

Karen Gillan (@karengillan)Wed, 03 May 2023 17:25 +0000

A command-line tool to easily kill processes running on a specified port. - GitHub - jkfran/killport: A command-line tool to easily kill processes running on a specified port.

I've been reading various entrepreneur books and blog posts1. One thing they all emphasise is that success often comes from finding a problem that you yourself would pay money to solve. And that's a …

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All of tech worried about Frankenstein's monster without giving any thought to the core concern that Frankenstein was kind of a dick and that's how you get Frankenstein's monster instead of Frankenstein's cool pal who's fun to be with.

Something I really don’t like is how “hate” is used so lightly — especially by tech folks. Same for “dead” too (tech doesn’t die it’s just sand that can think). Over the last couple of years, I oft…

Great article from @ShopifyEng on improving Ruby GC latency. But I feel like as a society maybe we’re spending these cycles in the wrong place? If we’re going to work on Garbage Collection, could we maybe look at some higher value use cases? Like, say the U.S. Supreme Court.

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“Shopify's monolith is deployed approximately every 30 minutes, so aside from weekends, we're pretty much constantly in that “warm-up phase” Shopify Engineering: Adventures in Garbage Collection: Improving GC Performance in our Massive Monolith (2023) shopify.engineering/adventures-in-…

Gene Kim (@RealGeneKim)Tue, 02 May 2023 14:05 +0000

DM of Engineering (@dmofengineering)Tue, 02 May 2023 15:47 +0000

Watching my nephew's 2nd grade concert (in the U.S.) and they started with an announcement about not posting any recordings but because of "respecting copyright" and to be mindful of filming/photos "for other's experience" but like... no mention of the children's privacy??? wat