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Listened to API Evangelist Conversation with Pat Patterson, Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze by The API Evangelist Conversations by Kin Lane 
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This is the first actual edition of the API Evangelist Conversation podcast with my friend Pat Patterson, the Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze. Always enjoy learning from Pat as we dove into the meaning behind his title, as well as how Backblaze has standardized their API around the Amazon S3 storage API--essentially treating the API as the industry standard for storage.

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Reposted Alberto Cottica (@alberto_cottica@mastodon.green)
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Dear fellow Europeans, I am respectfully asking you to consider signing this European Citizen Initiative to institute a billionaire tax. It was invented by leading French economist Thomas Piketty; I read the whole thing, and it is technically excellent. Hit me if you have questions, but please sign it, it is important. https://www.tax-the-rich.eu/ It needs 1 million signatures (currently 300K) and seven countries over their threshold (currently three: Denmark, France, Germany). #economics #tax

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Reposted Ian Betteridge (@ianb@well.com)
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Remember everyone: if your CEO insists that you can only work at the office, only work when you’re at the office. Leave when your contracted hours end. Do not work at home. Take whatever your contracted breaks are. Oh and join a union. https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/ceo-andy-jassy-latest-update-on-amazon-return-to-office-manager-team-ratio

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Listened to E135: Riding the Homebrew Wave by Open Source Startup Podcast
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John Britton & Mike McQuaid are Co-Founders of Workbrew, the company that provides additional features and support for companies using Homebrew. Homebrew's main project, brew, is a wildly popular open source project with 40K GitHub stars and provides the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux). In this episode, we dig into John & Mike's history with Homebrew and their time together at GitHub, how Homebrew has kept projects simple over time and avoided feature creep, how Homebrew has managed to get a lot of value from contributors, how their ICP has shifted from mac admins to dev and security teams & more!

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Listened to "Kristen Bell" on Where Everybody Knows Your Name
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<p>Ted Danson is thrilled to introduce Woody Harrelson to his dear friend Kristen Bell! Woody is curious about her anti-aging methods plus her fateful meet cute with hubby Dax Shepard. Kristen shares how she juggles a schedule filled with family, an acting career, and jiu-jitsu badassery. Bonus: Ted and Kristen trade tips on how to deal with difficult people, in a silent but deadly way. </p><p> </p><p>Like watching your podcasts? Visit <a href="http://youtube.com/teamcoco">http://youtube.com/teamcoco</a> to see full episodes.</p>

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Listened to "Will Arnett" on Where Everybody Knows Your Name
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<p>Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson are reunited, and it feels so... nerve-wracking? For their first episode, the guys are joined by one of the funniest people they know, Will Arnett. Will gives them some podcasting tips from his gilded perch as co-host of the mega-hit podcast Smartless. They also get into Will's extreme Cheers fandom and his winding journey from getting kicked out of boarding school to starring in shows like Arrested Development and Murderville. Bonus: Woody's Gob Bluth impersonation.</p><p> </p><p>Like watching your podcasts? Visit <a href="http://youtube.com/teamcoco">http://youtube.com/teamcoco</a> to see full episodes.</p>

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Listened to The Fork in the Road: Understanding Community Dynamics | Open at Intel by PodBean Development 
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Taylor Dolezal from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation discusses his role as the Head of Ecosystem, working closely with end-users implementing CNCF projects. He shares his open source origin story, tracing back to high school programming experiences. We touched on community dynamics, experiences with project forks, and the evolving landscape of AI and its intersection with open source. We also discuss the importance of sustainability in open source communities and the critical role of vendor neutrality. 00:00 Introduction01:45 Open Source Origin Story11:04 Project Forks and Community Dynamics17:20 HashiCorp and OpenTofu: A Fork in the Road19:46 Navigating the AI Frontier23:28 The Challenges of AI Standardization26:17 The Importance of Vendor Neutrality28:02 Balancing Priorities in Open Source29:51 Sustaining Open Source Communities   Guest: Taylor Dolezal navigates the cloud native universe with a knack for puns and a keen eye for psychology. Living in the heart of LA, he blends tech innovation with mental insights, one punny cloud at a time. Avid reader, thinker, and cloud whisperer.  

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Reposted C J Silverio (@ceejbot@toot.cat)
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So: Mu. Ask a different question. You have dependencies. You will always have them. Choose them thoughtfully. Invent where it matters most to you, and re-use where it does not, and where you can benefit from somebody else's care & testing. Talk your employers into sponsoring the important ones if you can, because that will improve their quality. Probably. There is no such thing as free-as-in-lunch software. FIN

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Reposted Jens Bannmann (@tynstar@nerdculture.de)
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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange That EU law does not require a #CookieBanner unless the web site wants to track your clicks or sell your data. Because people do not understand this, they think "stupid EU law" instead of... - "website owner has no respect for consumer rights" - "website owner has no solid business plan and just hopes for a few bucks from the advertisement industry" #GDPR

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Listened to Unlocking Developer Potential | Open at Intel by PodBean Development 
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Katherine speaks with Demetris Cheatham, the Chief of Staff to the CEO of GitHub, about her unique perspective on the open source landscape. The discussion covers her experiences in various sectors and the impactful 'All In' project created to elevate developers from underrepresented backgrounds. They highlight the significance of community, the power of relationships, and the pivotal role of natural language and AI in making coding more accessible globally. The talk also addresses critical challenges like the digital divide, funding for diversity programs, and the importance of evolving diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in tech.   00:00 Introduction00:26 Connecting Through Open Source02:02 Role and Responsibilities at GitHub05:06 Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives09:16 Challenges in Computer Science Education12:51 Equity and Systemic Change16:21 The Journey to a Billion Developers24:07 Building Relationships in Open Source31:37 Final Thoughts and Takeaways   Sitting on GitHub’s Executive Leadership team, Demetris Cheatham is currently the Chief of Staff for the CEO of GitHub, where she acts as the CEO’s trusted partner to move all of software development forward. Demetris is particularly passionate about the evolving nature of open source in the age of AI. Before her time as COS to the CEO, Demetris was Senior Director for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Strategy at GitHub, the Global Diversity and Inclusion at Lead at Red Hat, and was the first woman and youngest Executive Director to lead the National Bar Association, the United States’ oldest and largest international network of over 65,000 predominantly African-American attorneys and judges.

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Listened to FLOSS Weekly: Episode 799: Still Open Source at Percona
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This week Jonathan chats with Lori Lorusso and Steve Hoffman, the Head of Community and SVP of engineering at Percona, the open source database experts. - You can join the conversation in&nbsp;, watch live or get the video version of the show on&nbsp;, as well as getting the full story and show links from&nbsp;. Oh, and follow&nbsp;! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Reposted Heather Buchel (@hbuchel@hachyderm.io)
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Also, if you're like me, and were raised to scoff at people who needed to hire cleaning services as it is a "rich lazy" person thing, I urge you to absolutely let go of that. The last two years I've been incredibly burnt out both from work and from, idk, probably 39 years of undiagnosed autism. If you can pay for an accommodation like this to help give yourself some space to breathe, do it.