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IndieWeb post types
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:
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Big work news: Altium has accepted a $5.9bn offer from Renesas https://finance.yahoo.com/news/japan-renesas-buy-software-firm-233644945.html
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If you follow privacy news, you have probably heard that Skiff, an end-to-end encrypted productivity suite, announced that it has been acquired by Notion. We could not resist chiming in since Skiff was compared with CryptPad in the past.

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If you have a problem with maintainers getting paid then you have a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate.

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Six years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own self-funded software business. This is a review of my last year and what I've learned so far about bootstrapping software businesses.

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Momentous: Reflecting on the Second Annual State of Open Con Wow, canât believe it has been a week since the State of Open Con 2024 kicked off! In the end, there were 208 impressive speakers over two days across eight tracks and over 150 sessions and activities. Plus a broad delegate experience space across the [âŚ]

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Iâve been thinking about Mastodon and the fallout from Bridgyâs plan to connect ActivityPub servers to Bluesky. For a snapshot of how this blew up, see this GitHub issue discussion, now thankfully âŚ
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Here's a lovely thing. "By and large", as in, "by and large, pizza is good", is a *nautical* expression, dating from the 18th shading back into the mists of the 17th century of English sailing ships. "By" means "tending opposite the prevailing wind", and "large" means "tending with the prevailing wind". So, "by and large" means "no matter which way your ship is headed relative to the wind". I'm a poly-dork, and one of my dorkeries is language. I cherish this fact. Also, I cherish pizza.
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You expel the furries? Wherever they go gains a better tech industry. You may not like this, but it's a demonstrable fact.
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Attached: 1 image I feel powerless in the face of the rampant adoption of A.I. with little to no societal safeguarding or legal protection, so I make jokes while the driverless steamroller slowly crushes us all to death.

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friend: how'd the date go me: she ghosted me friend: she didn't show up? me: no she turned up in a bedsheet with eyeholes cut out and now she won't stop haunting me date, from another room: ooooOOOOOoooooo
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phone calls are all spam. emails are all spam. text messages are all spam. if you want to reach me, pin a note to my door with a jeweled dagger or don't waste my time.
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Attached: 2 images Google, following the industry trend to AI-all-the-things, has released Magika - a machine learning model which can identify file types. It claims it can outperform traditional methods by 20 per cent. I pitted it against BSD File on something I figured Google hadn't included in its million-file-strong corpus: CU Amiga's Mega CD-ROM coverdisc from November 1995. Magika identified... one file correctly, a plain-text document. File? File got 'em all, and quicker too. (An unfair test, I know!)

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Robby has a conversation with John Nunemaker, the Owner at âBox Out Sportsâ and âFewer & Fasterâ, about the crucial importance of keeping dependencies and versions up to date when maintaining software projects, the benefits of using tools like Dependabot to help with dependency management, how dangerous a change is from a dependency, how John enjoys seeking out the dark corners of a codebase to improve those areas, and much more. Stay tuned!

Very excited to see that the videos from #StateOfOpenCon #SOOCon24 are up - so if you missed my talk Quantifying Your Reliance on Open Source Software with #DependencyManagementData, you can find the recording on YouTube.
If you're interested, also check out the slides and the full talk writeup.

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In this episode of The Business of Open Source, I talked with four-time entrepreneur Mike Schwartz, CEO and founder of Gluu as well as the host of Open Source Underdogs podcast, about his long career in entrepreneurship. Hereâs some particularly interesting things to take out of this...

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Beautiful API references from Swagger/OpenAPI files ⨠- scalar/scalar
Between and I took 3595 steps.
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As part of the preparation for Open Source Founders Summit, Iâm interviewing both our speakers and our attendees for a special podcast thatâs hyper focused on one thing. In this episode I spoke with Peter Zaitsev, founder of Percona, about sales. We talked about the specifics of sales as a...

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Mastodon and brid.gy: yes, @snarfed.org@snarfed.org should have expected such a reaction from Mastodonians, and obviously didnât research it. But fuck me I didnât expect to see *every* single Weeb, Furry and gendernaut come out to rattle their maracas in his face and claim he was going to get people killed.
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Attached: 1 image This is the energy I need

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Scott Chacon's FOSDEM 2024 talk on Git Tips and Tricks.Scott talks about:00:00 - Introduction01:06 - About Me (well, Scott Chacon)02:36 - How Well Do You Kno...

If you're able to see this post (on the Fediverse) yay! That means your admin hasn't blocked Bridgy Fed which I use to bridge my website with the Fediverse so I can chat to y'all.
This is likely due to recent discussion around the upcoming BlueSky bridge and opt-out being the default decision.
I don't dispute the freedom or choice to block Bridgy, and am definitely taking some time to think about how I feel about the varying thoughts, but the main thing is that it looks like several admins have blocked Bridgy altogether, resulting in not just the blocking of the upcoming BlueSky bridge (at a separate domain under brid.gy) but also classes Bridgy as Tier 0:
Tier 0 is a combined blocklist of only the worst actors, and it exists to provide one blocklist to which surely no one can object as a baseline for others. It's the perfect starting list for any new mastodon admin.
So it could be my time interacting with the Fediverse is going to be cut short, and I'll be screaming into the void very much moreso đ
Between and I took 3723 steps.
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Attached: 1 image A Small Girl with a Cat. 1889. https://www.meisterdrucke.ie/fine-art-prints/ThĂŠophile-Alexandre-Steinlen/78395/A-Small-Girl-with-a-Cat,-1889.html

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Our award winning worthy survey game show is back, this time Mat Ryer hosts it live on stage at GopherCon EU Athens 2024! Join in & play along as we see which team can better guess what these GopherCon gophers had to say!

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I love owning a house now it's like should we do preventative maintenance on (a million things) or should we put motorized blinds in to the family room for when we watch tv and films. This also explains why all software is bad.
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Attached: 1 image Honestly, blasting this out to every Amazon employee for Valentine's Day would have been a better move than the "fists of ham" messaging strategy around RTO.

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Imagine an AI assistant that could automatically surface a whole host of useful incident response data points with just a prompt. Well, you won't need to imagine for much longer. That's exactly what we built in Assistant, one of our newest features powered by AI. In this episode, you'll hear from Charlie, the project lead for Assistant, to get a peek behind this game-changing product. You'll hear him chat about: What went into building Assistant What the project timelines were What were some of the challenges the team faced What was it like learning the ropes of prompt engineering while building out Assistant ...and a lot more You can listen to our â AI announcement episode hereâ and our previous â episode on Suggested Summaries hereâ . Read our blog about Assistant.

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Man I hope members of that community read all my posts and see my nuance otherwise I am NOT going to be invited to the indieweb picnic :(
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Changelog Beats drops a new Dance Party album, Will McGuganâs new Toolong (tl) terminal app, Mitchell Baker is out as Mozilla CEO, Microsoftâs Jordi Adoumie announces sudo for Windows, Tatu Ylonen tells the tale of how they got SSH to be port 22 & Jack Lindamood gives an âEndorseâ or âRegretâ rating for ~50 differe...

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The open-source ecosystem experienced a monumental shift in 2023, as detailed by Martin Woodward, VP of Developer Relations at GitHub, on the Mechanical Ink Podcast. The Octoverse report highlighted that more first-time contributors joined the open-source community than ever before. But why?

Between and I took 4252 steps.
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How I switched my side project from using Amazon S3 for file hosting to using Tigris (which is built on Fly.io infrastructure). It was a good experience overall, but there were a few quirks.
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If you missed my talks at FOSDEM, the slides / videos are online now. I was on an all-star panel about making a career out of open source, and I gave a talk in the community devroom about strategies for building healthy communities. You can find the links from my #fosdem speaker page: https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/speaker/XX3PMJ/
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every john oliver segment: "...that would be like if we made a sloth the white house's Chief Economist, YOU CAN'T COUNT THE MONEY SLOTHY, YOU'VE ONLY GOT THREE FINGERS!!! Anyway unless multilateral action is taken to stop the ongoing genocide in Palestine..."
Between and I took 4723 steps.
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Shower thought: With all the data breaches, no matter how private you may be, somewhere in the world exists a hacker that knows exactly what kinks you're into, but is too shy to say hello.
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In response to @cadey@pony.social's blog post about wanting retry loops in #Golang, I wrote terrible hack using using the proposed iterator syntax. https://go.dev/play/?v=gotip var err error for range backoff(&err, 1 * time.Second) { if err = something1(); err != nil { continue } if err = something2() ; err != nil { continue } }
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Attached: 1 video This deserves to be on your timeline. Trust me. đđđ Edit: Since this is blowing up, may I also suggest you follow me for more cute/wholesome posts? ;3

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Would you like three months FREE Trade Union membership? Join Prospect between 12-18 February - https://prospect.org.uk/join/ I'm a member and they've been very useful to me in my professional life. If you're kind enough to mention my name when joining, I get a tenner. Happy to answer any questions. #JoinAUnion #TradeUnions
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To the people who are like âWhat did you expect to happen when you picked a .af domain, are you idiots?âYes, we were aware of the possibility of suspension from the startYes, we were aware that pol...

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Iâm uncomfortable with my appearance a lot and do not like to draw attention to myself as a sexual object and/or object of desire, so Iâll be brief but Even in the test garments I wore for three hours for the purposes of fitting, adjustment and colour/feature choosing of this suit: if you were already attracted to me then youâd have awooga eyes if you could have seen me in them
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@shockwaver@strangeobject.space I really like the term "temporarily-abled" for describing abled people for this reason. All abled people are only temporarily abled, unless they die suddenly while their bodies are still intact. The more people recognize the ephemeral nature of ability, the more compassionate we become as a society, I hope.