Reposts from 2 November 2024

Does sustainable open source means more professional maintainers or does it mean more paid time for maintenance? I think the true revolution comes when every developer is encouraged and empowered to collaborate with the wider world. We need the contribution of the masses, not the professionalisation of the few.

Hello USA citizens. If you are choosing not to vote this year, or are voting for Trump, please unfollow me and then go and have your asshole violently filled with wasps.

🆕 blog! “A Cheap and Lazy way to create Mastodon Bots using… BlueSky?!” With the sad news that BotsIn.Space is closing down, I needed to find a new way to host some of my automated accounts. I didn't want to spin up an entirely new instance, or self-host anything. So here's what I ended up doing. RSS → BlueSky → Bridgy → Mastodon RSS to BlueSky I set […] 👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/11/a-cheap-and-lazy-way-to-create-mastodon-bots-using-bluesky/