Reposts from 4 May 2024

I will attend MenderCon 2024—a remote conf for people who deal with legacy codebases 📅 May 16 📍 Remote 🎫 Pay what you want (suggested $5) There will be open-space sessions: you can bring up a topic you want to discuss Interested? Join us 😉 Details & registration: https://mendercon.com/

protip: drawing a hilariously bad artwork in MS Paint with a mouse is a much stronger quality signal that you care about the blog post than attaching an obvious AI generation

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Remarkably consistent pattern as to who still masks, at least in the anglo countries I've been in over the last two years: Mostly people of color, older folks, and when it's young white people usually disability is involved. Common thread, I suspect, is that these are the folks who stand to lose more if they get sick. I would that there were a greater showing of solidarity, but rugged individualism and all that 🤷🏻

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Attached: 1 image From a friend's discord #infosec #starWars

handing every lesbian a copy of ISO8601 so they can tell what is and isn’t a date

Attached: 1 image Did you know that Open Tech Fund has a NEW grant program just for FOSS projects? You can apply through May 17th! Join me, @senficon@ohai.social, Laura Cunningham, and Susan Kennedy on May 7th to learn more about the FOSS-maintenance-focused fund and how to apply: https://gh.io/otf-github Please help spread the word about this great initiative!

(the correct answer to "what is the plural of kubernetes" is "clinical depression", by the way)

Some people think scalability is the biggest challenge in tech. Some think it’s data privacy. I think the biggest challenge in tech is the constant internal battle between ideals and a fat pay check.

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a lot of people don't get this but software rots. Just like a physical piece of wood or machine, software rusts, software rots. It's content doesn't change, sure, but the world around it does. The same database you release today, wont work 10 years later perfectly. It'll rust. It won't handle new formats, old formats will introduce new features that will confuse and break your databases algorithm software rusts and rots. The only way to keep software from rusting, just like a good metallic tool, is polishing it, maintaining it, making sure it's nice and working

Grateful that Kendrick Lamar has no idea who I am