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Thank you to this week's sponsor, Koyeb!Go 1.21.2 & 1.20.9 to release Oct 5Conferences🇺🇸 Go West Conference, Lehi, Utah, USA & Online, October 27🌐 Go-perf Meetup, CFP closes Oct 7, event early NovemberProposals & Bug Reports☕ Active: Add intern package🏎️ Closed: cmd/go: 1.21 regression in test...
Just seen a new favourite response to AI text. "Why should I bother to read something nobody could be bothered to write?"
I'm officially looking for new work! Contracts are great as they'd allow me to be a bit more flexible; but full time work is most ideal. Remote (US). My resume lives on my site at https://jacky.wtf/work. I'm open to Ruby, Rust and JavaScript roles currently. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/10/Mh0p)
This week we’re taking you to the hallway track of the final Strange Loop conference. First up is AnnMarie Thomas — an engineering, business, and education professor. AnnMarie gave one of the opening keynotes titled “Playing with Engineering.” We also caught up with many first-time and multi-time attendees who shared t...
Week Notes 23#39 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-09-25?
Welp, all my tweets are gone, aside from retweets as I couldn't be bothered to work out how to get rid of them, and a couple of notes to say I'm offski
I will be attending
Anyone else see "AI" and just switch off? If I'm looking for some new software or a SaaS, or I open an article and it mentions AI, I immediately go back or close the tab. I'm just so fed up of it appearing in *everything*. I get it has a use (I wouldn't even say it's a purpose) but it seems some products have gone hard on it and I'm just bored of hearing about it now.
Does anyone have any resources for managing neurodiverse people at work? I have an autistic+ADHD pal who needs support and adjustments made in how they work (e.g. better ways of tracking hours, trouble with being interrupted during a task, looming existential dread at unplanned meetings and most of all difficulty articulating needs) and it would be great to send them something they can show their manager.
In conversation w a friend, she was surprised when I said we won't have electricity after social collapse. She asked "why? What happens to electricity?" I had to then explain that infrastructure needs people to maintain and if things fall apart, nobody will keep the generators going or the wires in check. She seemed surprised by this. Is this why people don't seem worried about what's coming? They have no idea??? I was trying to hide my shock that I had to explain this to someone who isn't a child. I think I take too much for granted and assume too much of people's ability to be logical. Now her obsession with social issues at the expense of #ClimateCrisis makes sense. I was always wondering how someone on the left would not care about collapse. I have tried to explain before that as much as I share her concerns about the many dire issues that do need dealing with, none of it matters if climate change causes collapse. Then we won't have social housing, or equity, or any of the other things she cares about. (she was even part of a group that protested demanding "affordable gas") Her look of shock finally helped me realize that she has absolutely no idea what #ClimateCollapse means. No idea. I've been arguing with her all these years and she's had no idea. I don't even know what to say. There's no way she's the only one. Lots of well intentioned people say "yes climate is important but....". I am here to tell you that none of those other issues will even exist in the face of climate and social collapse. I don't know if the average person can even image the number of deaths that we are facing when the society we built loses electricity.
The longer I spend in the software industry the more I think that the primacy of "don't repeat yourself," in all its many forms and scales, is a tragic flaw. I think it is far, far harder than most anyone would like to admit, to write something that is usefully and sustainably reusable over any but the shortest distances in space and time.
The days feel like they're zooming by...
Introducing tweetus-deletus 🐦🪄💀 - a tool to automate deleting your tweets, through the browser (3 mins read).
Announcing the release of tweetus-deletus, a tool to delete all your tweets, driven through the browser with Playwright.
Reusing a browser session with Playwright (1 mins read).
How to re-use your existing browser sessions with Playwright.
Content warning: yelling about the passage of time
What have I been upto this afternoon you ask? Writing a tool with #Playwright to allow me to delete all my posts on #Twitter without using an external service. Blog post hopefully this weekend (once I've ironed out the many bugs) 👀
If you made $10,000 every day and never spent a cent, from the time the Declaration of Independence was signed, to the time you are reading this, you would still not have a billion dollars. Tax billionaires out of existence. And actually redistribute the wealth to the people.
if ur api is restful how come i tired . check mate programmr
If you have to fire 16% of your company because you made bad decisions, why exactly should you keep YOUR job? https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/28/23894266/epic-games-layoffs-fortnite-unreal-engine
hey sorry I missed your text, I am processing a non-stop 24/7 onslaught of information with a brain designed to eat berries in a cave
*slaps roof of codebase I worked on two years ago* you can fit so much okay what the fuck like what fuck is the who fuckin who did this lmao now what in the fuck goin on here in this puppy
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With the release + rebrand of Mend Renovate Community Edition (previously known as Renovate On Prem), I've updated my post on running it on Fly.io to take into account the new config + naming
I'm interested in attending
.ElectricSQL is a project that offers a local-first sync layer for web and mobile apps, Ned Batchelder writes about the myth of the myth of “learning styles”, Carl Johnson thinks XML is better than YAML, Berkan Sasmaz defines and describes “idempotency” & HyperDX is an open source alternative Datadog or New Relic.
Sarah Rainsberger owns technical documentation at Astro. What was her path into open source and technology? It might surprise you. Sarah started as an avid user of the Astro project and turned it into a career. She chats with scott about how important technical writing and documentation is to the end user experience.
Stuart highlights invisible work in open source, emphasizing the importance of documenting and valuing such efforts.
There really should be a thing where once a year all the people who rely on an open source library get together and throw the maintainers of that library a big party. With pizza and cake. The works
Bit gutted to have received my official rejection from speaking at GitHub Universe, after being on the "alternate" (backup) list of speakers, but still chuffed to have made it that far! 1600+ talks proposed this year apparently 🙀
Using dependency-management-data with GitLab's Pipeline-specific CycloneDX SBOM exports (1 mins read).
How to take advantage of SBOM export functionality in GitLab 16.4 with dependency-management-data.
What do you do when you've attached your sense of self to work, and work suddenly feels meaningless? In this talk, Amy explores burnout, purpose and making m...
Michael Quiqley from NetFoundry joins Natalie to discuss Zero Trust concepts, why they are important for secure systems & how to implement them in Go.
Holy shit looks like the WGA pretty much got *everything it wanted*, including structural change. UNIONS WORK. https://www.wgacontract2023.org/the-campaign/summary-of-the-2023-wga-mba
For those who didn't make it to #DevOpsDays London, or who did and want to watch it again, my talk on dependency-management-data is now live on YouTube 👏🏼
it's actually very ugly how the mainstream tech industry continues to refuse to understand the meaning of consent you can't say "no" anymore, it's always "snooze" or "show less of this" or just "yes" with no other option
A backdoor can be meticulously documented, have limited access, include a variety of security measures, and be carefully developed with the best of intentions. But it's still… …a backdoor.
This week we’re joined by Steve O’Grady, Principal Analyst & Co-founder at RedMonk. The topic today is the definition of open source, the constant pressure on the true definition of the term, and the seemingly small but vocal minority that aim to protect that definition. In Steve’s post Why Open Source Matters, he ...
Week Notes 23#38 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-09-18?
Thank you to this week's sponsor, Koyeb!🇺🇸 GopherCon, San Diego, CA, USA, September 25-28OpenTofu (formerly OpenTF) officially joins the Linux FoundationBlog post: OpenTF is NOT the fork🔀 Proposal: testing: shuffle seed should be different when -shuffle=on and -count flag is setBlog posts➿ Go...
The best part of any conference is going to bed afterwards
Following on from a successful conversation that was had at #DevOpsDays Chicago, there was an Open Space yesterday all about #compensation and #salary at #DevOpsDays London, which of course I was super interested in, and happy to share my own salary history as well as some of the things that companies have done over the year.
Based on one of the questions I'll (soon ™️) be adding how much on-call is compensated, if not part of the salary
Had a great time doing an Ignite talk at #DevOpsDays London today about dependency-management-data - come say hey, there's so much more to it than I could squeeze into 5 minutes!
I've got a good getting started guide and a long-form post if you want a bit more depth
being a programmer is very liberating because i can turn any computer problem into a much weirder computer problem
Gotchas with pointing Go modules to a fork, when building an installable module (3 mins read).
A gotcha around how to pin a Go module to a fork, if you're building a module that should be go install
able.
New on the website is an archives page if you wanted a quicker way to go back through the many posts I've written! Could do with maybe adding a little more detail + some format changes, but a good solution for now