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Reminder that if a cishet tech dude says "but 'guys' is a gender neutral term" ask them how many 'guys' they've slept with and watch them freak out

you cannot be a convincing impostor unless you know how to do your tasks

i go to mastodon. i complain about bug. rando says "treatment is simple. great clown maintainer is on github tonight. file an issue. that should fix your bug." i burst into tears. say: "but rando.... i am maintainer"

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Great post. No notes. What Elon Musk's X is getting right

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The Cypress.io situation is wild! https://currents.dev/posts/v13-blocking In short: when installing the Cypress npm package, on postinstall it checks what other packages you installed, and you're using any packages they don't like (e.g. tools for self-hosting that compete with their cloud service) then it refuses to run. More detailed summary from @jess@webtoo.ls here: https://twitter.com/_jessicasachs/status/1712043659330310488 Very hard to argue your product is good if you have to actively block your customers from even testing alternatives! Yikes.

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i have outright deleted a major patchset i wrote for a project under freedesktop.org stewardship, which someone else is probably going to write again in a year or two, because i realized the project had a real-name policy, and decided it wasn't worth it. i then lost motivation for the cool thing i was working on that needed me to write that patch this is not the intended effect of a "real-name" policy, but it is the actual effect. and, as the cool kids say, "the system is what it does". there is no such thing as a "real name". the concept of a "legal name" is fraught, and most certainly is not what you think it is, or what you are looking for, if you are a software developer. many assumptions you have about what a "legal name" is probably are not true. consider this: the name on my birth certificate is different than the name on my drivers license, and that is different from the names i am called by my friends. those names are all different from what is likely to be on my passport when i get it, and all of those are different than the name i publish my open source projects under. all of these, in different jurisdictions, might or might not be something you could consider a "legal name". which one do you want me to use when i submit a major feature to your library? are you going to turn me away if i try to submit it as "linear cannon"? why? if i have a website and contact information under that name, why does this matter? how is it substantially different than an author of fiction novels publishing under a pen name? does it change if i produce a piece of government-issued documentation with that name on it? why, or why not? if your real name policy does not answer these questions adequately, then there's a very good chance i'm just going to assume that you're going to turn me away, as has happened to me several times already RE: it would be nice if it were actually as easy to contribute to free/open source software as the developers and maintainers of such software claim it is but meritocracy is a lie, and bullshit policies and procedures (see: "real name" policy) scare away minorities who might otherwise do important work

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ffmpeg stands for the fast & the furious: motion picture experts group

Full stack developer, as in "my stack is full, please don't try to push anything else or my behavior will be undefined"

Your salary is just your employer's monthly subscription of you.

Reminder about private messages: someone with admin access can read your private messages. Oh you thought I was talking about Mastodon? No, I was talking about email.

Here’s a little gift for you: If you were actually lazy, you’d be enjoying it. You’d be having fun.

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“My god. The weapon is armed, the countdown has begun, and the only known copy of the override code is stored on this old Nokia 5510 with an empty battery. We’re doomed.” “Everybody chill the fuck out. I got this. Just gotta crack open the old cable drawer. Here you go.” “You have a Nokia 5510 charger, but why?! That phone hasn’t been sold in over 20 years!” “Let’s just say, I always knew this day would come.” “Wow. Your decision to never throw away cables just saved humanity honey…honey…time to wake up honey…”

I don't know how many biscuits it takes to be happy, but so far it's not twenty three.

Finally home after an awesome #DDDEastMidlands Great talks, great people, great chats! 💙

If you are against public carry of guns, but also think Jedi should be allowed to walk around with lightsabers for “religious reasons,” I’m sorry I cannot take you seriously.

Attached: 1 image Programmers fallacies about postcodes: - A postcode covers a small geographic area - A postcode is good enough to locate an end user for generating location suggestions - A postcode will be in a single timezone - A postcode only has a single state - A postcode has no exclaves/enclaves I would like you to meet 0872. Australia's largest postcode (I think), covers 3 states, has two cut outs (Warbuton and Alice Springs), and even still some mail outside of this area is routed via 0872

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Where do people find CFPs these days? CFPland seems to no longer exist… I found confs.tech, is that the most up to date one?

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Someone asked me recently, what is one quality that is career limiting that many people don't realize is career limiting? My answer? Being unable to deal with ambiguity. The more senior you get, the more there are is no right answer or plan figured out. That's your job.

We already had something that turned text prompts into art, it was called paying an artist.

Me typing professional emails: Your solulu is delulu. #business #contentcreator #tech #security #safety #privacy

Words not to use in OSS projects or other collaborative efforts: - Laughable - Stupid - Obvious etc etc It’s rude, ignorant, offensive etc

Attached: 1 image "NOBODY WANTS TO WORK ANY MORE!" A brief history of capitalists complaining that nobody wants to work for starvation wages Image by @paulisci@mstdn.ca

One of my favorite tools in my productivity toolbox for getting started on things I don’t particularly feel like doing is the inverse pomodoro. It’s basically what it sounds like: a timed work/break cycle, but the work and break times are reversed from a normal pomodoro. I usually set a 5 minute timer, do some work, and then do something relaxing or fun for 15 minutes. I usually find that after doing that once or twice, it’s pretty easy to flip to normal pomodoros.

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For everyone who feels insecure about your relationships with others - partners, friends, etc. - do they actually like me? Am I tricking them or deceiving them or what if I'm secretly a bad person?: Remember - the other people in the relationship with you are whole-ass people with their own thoughts, feelings, needs, desires, etc. These actual whole-ass people have their own agency, and have decided to spend their time on this earth with you. If you've not been intentionally misleading them or hiding things or tricking them into being with you, then it probably means they actually like you for who you are. You're probably not as good at hiding who you are as you think, which means they know the parts of you that suck, and they like you despite or even BECAUSE of the parts of you that suck. It's okay to simply trust those who love you to have chosen to love you because you're you.

“we can’t find any good candidates for this role” you’re auto-rejecting people with 20 years experience because they don’t have a degree and then AI-sorting the rest by how Jared their name is

Nothing but love for @www.jvt.me for helping with this! I saw Jamie speak at DevOpsDays maybe 4 years ago and knew he was an all-star I wanted to know one day. I'm thankful that DevOpsDays this year I finally made that happen and it already proven I should have prioritised it sooner! 🤩

So, funny story: remember how that Stanford professor described last years' layoffs as a "social contagion" exercise, where CEOs were just doing it because everyone else was doing it? https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/ Well everyone get your surprised face ready but it was in fact a coordinated effort by execs, large shareholders and hedge funds to cover up mismanagement and suppress wages: https://www.teamblind.com/post/How-we-got-here-Some-inside-scoops-from-Microsoft-on-handling-early-days-of-pandemic-to-cutting-over-20K-folks-in-2023-7ndQwLAU Did I say funny, I meant awful, typo sorry those keys are right next to each other.

Developers make legal decisions everyday without consulting a lawyer, just by choosing open source software to use. But how well-equipped are they to make judgement calls on legal documents? This month, we look at research around that very question. #OpenSource #Licenses #Research https://www.juliaferraioli.com/blog/2023/influential-articles-sept/

Stop. Putting. Important. Info. In. Discord. Put it on the actual web, where it is searchable.