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The tragedy of the UK is that we grew up believing that our government would dispatch James Bond with his “license to kill” to dispatch megalomaniac media tycoons, water barons and mad billionaire rocket builders. The reality is Bond would probably turn up to award them their MBE.

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We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

Folks someone appears to be having a pizza party at the Pentagon www.pizzint.watch https://www.pizzint.watch/

Starting a personal blog on a domain you control is a power move in 2025 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Calling Britain “Pound Town”

Millennial retirement planning

Big thanks to @www.jvt.me for running the "What story does your dependency tree tell you about your org?" Great tooling on how to manage dependencies and surface up actionable data using dmd! You can catch this workshop at GopherconUK if you are attending!

The purpose of stickers is to Never Use Them so that when you die your friends can put them on your coffin

It’s weird seeing so many people scrambling to build oss documentation and tools for LLMs to work with software… where’s that same energy making documentation for the humans?

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I made this in 2021

TIL Slack stood for Searchable Log of All Communication and Knowledge. Now it stands for Salesforce Leaders Acquired Company Knowledge.

The next Manchester Go meetup is on the 30th of July at Fatsoma! This one though is a workshop so bring your laptop and follow along with @www.jvt.me on "What story does your dependency tree tell you about your org?". See you there and patch your vulnerabilities 👀 https://www.meetup.com/go-mcr/events/309017083

We finally did it! After recording an episode of @fallthrough.fm, @matthewsanabria.dev and I recorded our post show discussion (featuring @www.jvt.me!). That’ll be shipping alongside next week’s episode, which includes the wonderful @steveklabnik.com as well!

//event happening in 3h 58m// BATCH BUNCH #0006 (cupcake version) is today. Yes, we're superrrrrr excited for this one! 🧁😌 lu.ma/t3rviwh4

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github actions have github consequences

Pedro Pascal proves that sometimes the most masculine thing to do is to be vocally and unflinchingly supportive of vulnerable people.

i had some really stressful interactions on github yesterday and today. lets just remember many of us are doing this OSS work for free and to do good, kindness is appreciated

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dipshits in 2019: you people are NPCs, you don't even think for yourselves dipshits in 2025: I have outsourced my thinking to Clippy

It’s about to be MAINTAINER MONTH aka May If you have anything maintainer-centric going on in May, get it added to the website! maintainermonth.github.com http://maintainermonth.github.com

Lots of websites and apps now provide fee-free booking for UK train tickets to any destination, featuring split-ticketing and better options for identifying the best value fares. Yet, many people I …

Calling the United States a developed nation seems increasingly inappropriate

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Idk who needs to hear this but tech workers who have to have high salaries are still working class and should act (and be treated) accordingly. Tech workers have much more in common with miners and factory workers and secretaries and baristas than with management and executives.

Stop making those little AI image generator memes of yourself as a Barbie or a Ghibli character you are enriching evil companies and destroying the planet and this is like one of the easiest things you can just not do

Reddit commenters are shocked and appalled that 4chan's tech stack was out of date. Buddy do I have news for you about basically everywhere else

The “I hate all people (as a teen)” to “oh I have social anxiety (as an adult)” type of pipeline

me: i’ll do it when i have more time also me: *wastes free time feeling guilty about wasting free time*

We've published episode 14: APIs: Design Imperfectly, Improve Relentlessly. Happy Listening! https://share.transistor.fm/s/956fde8a

It's also the day for my favorite meme! If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.

If you’re still masking…thank you If you’re trying to educate others on the benefits of masks…thank you If you’re standing in solidarity with disabled & vulnerable people who’ve been cast aside for the last 5 years…thank you Its not easy being the lone masker in 2025, but we see & appreciate you

Alt text: “a page describing a list of things” My comrade in arms, please just copy and paste the actual freakin’ text

Neurodivergent Senior software engineers, how do you go about the interviews? Any advice you learned the hard way?

Attached: 1 image How does your calendar look on Wednesday? Join us for the online OpenUK digital meetup at lunchtime. I've pinned down two open source project maintainers from projects you might have heard of (Kubernetes and PHP) to get their open source stories and some advice that the rest of us can use! See you there https://www.meetup.com/openuk/events/306591774/?eventOrigin=home_next_event_you_are_hosting

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AAAHHHHHHHHH BE NICE TO OPEN SOURCE MAINTAINERS OH MY GOD. SOME OF YOU ARE SO RUDE, WHO RAISED YOU

BATCH BUNCH #0003 is complete. A fun-filled, productive session comes to a close! This time, we welcomed an attendee all the way from London and, universally, marveled at 'felting' being done IRL by another attendee. Hobbies FTW. See you next time? 🖱️⌨️🌐😌☕️

Question for OSS maintainers: what’s the most audacious work a company has ever asked you to do for free? I’ve heard of some projects being asked to fill out security questionnaires for free, but I don’t have a firsthand account of that and it got me curious about what else projects have been asked

Every time I’m forced to see Trump’s or Musk’s face I deserve compensation.

can't overthink if u don’t think at all

As I sit home with a terrible cold, I can’t help but be pissed that we decided as a society that we’re just cool with getting sick. We applied technology to water-borne and food-borne illness, and you generally don’t get sick that way anymore. But airborne? Nah, let’s keep getting sick.