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This meeting could have been a nap

In typical fashion, today I got a shoutout in a company meeting from tech leadership for fixing a critical issue two weeks ago...just as it resurfaced 😅 The universe is mocking me 😂

Attached: 1 image "Down with the crown!" Spotted in Sheffield, UK

Idk why everyone is talking about gender segregation in chess today (and I don't care, so don't answer), but it's interesting to see the discussion veering accidentally close to the real question, which is "why is any competition gender segregated?" Is it 1) because men are obviously superior to women so it would be unfair to women to make them compete with men? Or maybe it's 2) the patriarchy dictates that a man must never have to lose to a woman. It's a mystery.

As previously mentioned, I quit my job. So now I'm no longer working for The Man. Instead, I am working for a man. Specifically: me1. I've launched Open Ideas Ltd. It's a bespoke computing consultancy …

New blog post inspired by @shanselman@hachyderm.io https://wbrawner.com/2023/08/15/more-blogging/ Thanks for the inspiration Scott!

My personal view is that given recent events, if contributing to a project requires signing a CLA with a company (instead of an independent organization) then you should only contribute to the project if you're getting paid for it. For example, if your employer wants you to send in bug fixes so you don't have to maintain them. This may be a bit strong, but executing a CLA outside your employer's eye may be legally hazardous anyway in a 'we own all the work you do anywhere' environment.

Reading through HN (I know, I know) about the #HashiCorp licensing change. Lots of folks get the rug pull and why it’s so shitty to the open source community. Folks defending HC, too. I’m just thinking about all the conferences who accepted talks about HC products only because they were open source. That’s free marketing. On the backbone of the open source community. Blessed with a certain kind of legitimacy. (Many conferences simple won’t accept “vendor” talks either at all or outside of paid slots.) I really hope open source conferences are pulling any accepted talks now that the licenses have changed. HC has fundamentally changed how DevRel needs to work at the company now. No longer able to pretend it’s about serving the OSS community.

Attached: 2 images Fun and heart warming #Linux #kernel contrib from 4-year old about "s" letter feeling sad and lonely at the end of line, missing header hilight as the all other letters have. ❤️ Copy from https://twitter.com/linux_deepin/status/1691396817039314945

Today I have: 🚚 taken delivery of a new sofa 📦 unpacked said sofa 🪜 carried a sofa up a flight of stairs ("PIVOT") 🛠️ built a sofa 🛋️ tastefully arranged sofa in lounge 🥱 sat exhausted on the new sofa Is it cocktail hour yet?

Attached: 1 image no one puts baby in a corner, he puts himself tyvm

Demo of two of Javascript's sharp edges. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Attached: 1 image When the BBC gets it *VERY* wrong so even muskland provides an important community context note. That's a "real terms" pay cut... or maybe more accurately, a negative real terms wage rise if you will. If inflation is at 7.9% and your wages rise at 7.8%, then your wages are "rising" slower than inflation.

Show your next google calendar event in polybar, swiftbar, i3-bar, simple-bar, bitbar or any other bar with custom scripts support - GitHub - rosenpin/i3-agenda: Show your next google calendar eve...

Getting FOMO while waiting on my copy of "You Deserve a Tech Union" to come. https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/you-deserve-a-tech-union-launch/ Glad it's already in so many peoples' hands and eager to see what people say, write and think about it. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/8/s5tK)

If you are running a new open source project that's ready to start its social media presence, I urge you to do it on Mastodon, the defaul...

What I do love from #pairing is that the lag between you evolve your mental model about the problem at hand, and you are able to communicate that to another team member is the shortest one. I can learn new stuff from the domain within minutes with a fast feedback loop as you gain when doing #TDD for example. But the important aspect is about how much time lapses between that little learning you had and the whole team is up to date to the enhanced model. That's why pairing + TDD is a super powerful combination of methodologies. Nowadays, if you combine with remote collaboration tools as #Miro, you are able to capture those learnings in a shared board that other colleagues can check in a regular basis.

Making a tech salary and still living paycheck to paycheck has been my life for the majority of my time in tech, and I want the narrative that it's not possible (or less likely) to be eliminated. Got paid yesterday and because of the fucking debt and expenses I have, I have $250 to my name. This is why I rail so hard for bringing up the floor on equality and stances.

Good luck to the OpenTF team, I hope Hashicorp does the right thing, but I believe they wont. I look forward to a new foundation managing a open source fork of Terraform. I appreciate the words of their manifesto! https://opentf.org/