Reposts from 9 November 2023

Observation: if you're someone who angrily rants about how terrible a bunch of software is: chances are extremely high you've never actually built any notable software used by non-trivial amounts of people. It's almost as if reading many many people shredding your work to pieces on the internet makes you mildly less inclined to do the same to others. Who could have guessed?

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OH: A coworker just shared a term she uses to describe meetings that go astray when certain coworkers bloviate. “Non-consensual TED talk.”

It takes 12,000 plays on Spotify for a band to make the same as you buying one of their T-shirts.

1. Read this: “Just as GitHub was founded on Git, today we are re-founded on Copilot.” https://github.blog/2023-11-08-universe-2023-copilot-transforms-github-into-the-ai-powered-developer-platform/ 2. Go here: https://codeberg.org/ #git #gitHub #codeberg #enshittification #BigTech #cooperative #dev