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This content type is full of IndieWeb post types, which are all content types which allow me to take greater ownership of my own data. These are likely unrelated to my blog posts. You can find a better breakdown by actual post kind below:
fedi tip: be considerate! if you're making an annoying post, try to make it annoying for the widest audience possible
You know why 🖕🏼
Thanks very much! Very interested to hear how you get on with it, very happy to chat more 🤓
Attached: 1 image Great opening talk at TechMids this morning. Loved this point by Molly Barnes that disabilities are acquired by people later in life. Sight and hearing loss, along with mobility issues come to most older people, not *old* people. #accessibility
I've also written a blog post about that 😁
Always appreciated speakers who supply their content in blog format as well. I should do more of this!
I will be attending
Thanks for the warm welcome at #TechMids2023 and for hearing about dependency-management-data!
Super happy to talk about it some more - today or afterwards - and hearing how you get on 🚀
Some links you may be interested in:
Greatly enjoying this #techMids talk from @www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me about software dependencies, but we haven’t got into SBOMs yet … it’s all good info!
Attached: 1 image TIL about https://endoflife.date from @www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me! Part of a great talk about understanding your dependencies at TechMids.
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Open source people: "We don't get any contributions from people who will help us with accessibility 😢 😢 😢 what do? " Also open source people: "We're using FuzzBingBang Style library so you never have to leave the DOM and or know CSS! also React, also, here is a really complicated state machine that controls way too much, also please make sure to weed through our types that look like ABSOLUTE GARGLED JIZZ we spit out into a file! Oh, were you looking for the HTML? HAHAHA what HTML!?"
the OpenSSL API is the gift that just keeps on giving And its like one of those gifts you get from an older relative that you rather wished they'd keep to themselves...
It does not wish to be perceived, and tbh, can you blame it?
Ty Franck (one half of James S.A. Corey) and Wes Chatham ('Amos Burton' on The Expanse) kickoff a long series of Quentin Tarantino films with the epic Kill Bill films. Of course, Wes had to do something different and screwed up the order of things... but we still love him anyway.
Leszek Manicki is the Engineering Manager at Wikimedia Germany. In this episode, we connect at the Open Source Summit in Bilbao to discuss what he has learned being a part of Wikimedia movement and how that inspired his talk at the summit, How Not To Make Open Source. Throughout our conversation,...
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The difference between nudes posted to OnlyFans for subscribers and the same nudes leaked to the public for the purpose of embarrassing one of your critics is consent, you moron.
I may be attending
Mum's garden today 🌱 I miss her. 🖤
Hate interruptions? Ever feel like you’ve lost your ability to focus on coding? Katie Wilde, VP of Engineering at Ambassador Labs, knows your pain and she’s on a crusade to help devs everywhere reclaim their focus. Spoiler: She's got a m...
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The wrong internal tools can hold your team back. So how do you find the right ones, and how the heck do you get engineers to adopt them once you do?On this week’s episode of Dev Interrupted, co-host Conor Bronsdon welcomes Debo Ray, co-founder &a...
As we progress into Q4 and the end-of-year budget cycle for many organizations, I’d like to have a conversation about budget surplus, and how to steer those dollars away from marketing efforts and into your open source infrastructure. Yes, Budget Surplus Is A Thing We can call it “budget
Attached: 1 image Okay but there’s a really useful lesson here about meeting your customers/users where they’re at. Food is meant to be eaten. And people might want to eat it in the *wrong* way. And the company that says “well, we should probably make it safe for them to do so” is going to have an advantage over the companies that insist people behave “properly”. Insert cyber analogy here.
I am beyond thrilled to see the OSI stepping up with https://opensource.net/ and filling the gap after RH stopped supporting opensource.com. If you want to write a blog post about open source and need a place to publish it, the OSI team was super helpful and easy to work with!
The thing about Conehead’s manifesto is, before even getting to the arguments, the technology he wants everyone to be optimistic about is FUCKING APPS and SCAMS. He’s equating himself and his pals to the biggest paradigm shifts in history when what he means is a new way to make the internet shit
The Pokemon Go programming language
Axenado: 1 imaxe
"We set the story points to zero at the end of the sprint" These new scrum techniques are amazing, yo!
the "i would never buy an NFT, just think of all the energy they pointlessly burn through" crowd sure has come around fast on "haha i got ChatGPT to write a poem about my butt"
having serious #AllThingsOpen FOMO today now thinking I should have gone even if it meant using my own budget
So, if I were going to make a tech manifesto, it might be something like: - protocols not platforms - coops and unions - technology should not actively hurt us - people not users - seven generations, seven continents - free markets require antitrust enforcement
Earlier I was thinking about smaller companies that sell themselves to big ones, and how sometimes no one cares or even notices (e.g. 7digital) that they sold out, vs companies like Bandcamp or flickr where everyone freaks out. It’s a sign of how special the company is to the people who use it. If you’re starting a company, that should be your goal: to create something that would make people freak out and sad if you sold out. A business loved that much is an accomplishment that can’t be measured in $ I started SomaFM because I couldn’t find what I wanted to listen to on the radio. I wanted to create something i would love rather than simply found a startup to make a bunch of money. Creating/Doing something people care about is much better than “increasing shareholder value”.
It’s the return of Friendly Competition, America’s favorite Game Show! In this edition, Silent Carl gains a voice in the form of Chat GPT. Will the other contestants be friendly towards Carl GPT? Competitive with Carl? Neither? Both? Listen and find out!
sorry i just find it hilarious that either the nyt developed standards for their op-eds, or a fascist tech billionaire can’t buy their way into popular media
it’s funny that billionaires fascists are self publishing their own manifestos even the unabomber got in the nyt
There are people who are still alive who were alive when it was illegal to be gay. Actually, if you're reading this you're one of them because its STILL illegal to be gay in about 70 countries and in the USA in only the past few days culturally controlling figures like Matt Walsh have supported "conversion therapy" for gay and queer people. Do not take sexual diversity for granted. Because its violently coercive enemies don't. 🏳️🌈 #gay #lesbian #lgbt #lgbtq #trans #nonbinary #queer
Marc Andreessen's manifesto: https://technovia.co.uk/2023/10/16/marc-andreessens-manifesto.html
anyone who declares every problem can be solved by technology is not a serious person 🙄
Every single commit message can be “WIP” for all I care if commits are small changes of well factored, simple code driven by well-written tests co-authored by people having face to face conversations and each one is safely delivered to production.
Please stop referring to Copilot and ChaptGPT as an amazing pairing partner. If you think your mob/pairing partner is there to help you type code in then you’ve misunderstood the real value of mobbing/pairing.
If you're fairly old & grew up in the UK you'll probably find this site fascinating http://cerealoffers.com
Attached: 1 image The past two nights I wrote a "thread reader app" for BlueSky. https://skyview.social Oh boy. The protocol is absolutely insane. RPC galore, responses are only partially typed. The docs are pretty much useless. But the "funniest" part is this: there's no privacy. And I don't mean missing DMs. All your posts are available through API endpoints. Without any authentication. By design. The "invite-only" thing may have you think otherwise. Here are my last 100 posts. https://bsky.social/xrpc/com.atproto.repo.listRecords?repo=badlogic.bsky.social&collection=app.bsky.feed.post