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why does everyone want to own the libs as an open source developer i own multiple libs i would happily pay people to take them from me you do not want to own libs. its so much work
why does everyone want to own the libs as an open source developer i own multiple libs i would happily pay people to take them from me you do not want to own libs. its so much work
Ty Franck (one half of James S.A. Corey) and Wes Chatham ('Amos Burton' on The Expanse) discuss their favorite space vacuum scenes and The Expanse S5E7.
I have not slept well at all. Instead of working on negotiating layoffs, leadership is taking this extended break to congratulate themselves for what they've done. Meanwhile, workers of all disciplines and levels are either scrambling to find work or understanding what next steps they can take. I truly don't understand how people who run layoffs sleep well at night - knowing that you've signed off on the destabilizing action of so many.
Hey babe wake up, new #Hacktoberfest site just dropped 👀🎃
Removing ANSI escape codes in Vim (1 mins read).
How to remove ANSI escape codes in (Neo)Vim.
Ty Franck (one half of James S.A. Corey) and Wes Chatham ('Amos Burton' on The Expanse) discuss S6E5 and that amazing meeting of the space queens at the end... as well as top 5 rival teamups in movies.
Creating global middleware for net/http
servers in Go (1 mins read).
How to wrap net/http
servers in Go with middleware(s) on every request.
Myself, along with almost 40 other workers (a large amount of @cfaworkers@union.place), were laid off from Code for America. Instead of working with workers to get a union contract, they gutted our stances. AFAIK, we will be getting COBRA covered until November 2023 and one month of severance. The workers wrote the following: https://cfaworkersunited.com/stories/2023/08/31/code-for-america-lays-off-35-colleagues
This week on The Changelog Adam is joined by Zach Lloyd, Founder & CEO of Warp. We talked with Zach last year about what it takes to build the terminal of the future, and today Adam catches up with Zach to see where they are at on that mission. They talk about the business model of Warp, how they measure success, r...
Very excited to be speaking at #TechMids2023 on October 20th about Quantifying your reliance on Open Source software, where we'll look at how you can get a better view of your organisation's Open Source and internal dependency usage using dependency-management-data 🎉
What Go versions are my modules and dependencies targeting? (1 mins read).
Without using go mod vendor
, how you can look at the version of Go that each of your modules and dependencies target.
Why is Go trying to upgrade my go.mod
to Go 1.21? (1 mins read).
Why you may be seeing Go trying to upgrade the Go version in your go.mod
to Go 1.21.
Our “what’s new in Go” correspondent Carl Johnson joins Johnny & Kris yet again to discuss what’s new with the latest iteration of Go in version 1.21.
Denver discusses JMP's goal to make phone numbers as flexible as emails, his role at Software Freedom Conservancy, and software compliance controversies.
Matthew discusses Snikket, improving XMPP for friendly communication while Stephen presents JMP, easing transitions from other platforms using XMPP.
Erik of Mythics discusses the challenges of transitioning open-source software to government departments and the need for technical and cultural support in sustaining open source in the public sector.
Karen discusses her SFC role, Copyleft licenses' significance, diversity initiative called Outreachy & her personal defibrillator pacemaker encounter, stressing the necessity for greater technological control.
Creating a Zoho Mail alias using the API (2 mins read).
How to use the Zoho Mail API to add an alias to your account.
Sam delves into the sustainability challenges faced by Mellium and similar projects, and his advocacy for support from larger companies and well-funded open-source initiatives.
Play Podcast (extra): Download (Duration: 17:41 — 14.5MB) Contributor license agreements aren’t very popular, but not having a CLA can cause problems for projects in the future. Gary can’t do things …
Ok Homelabbers, it’s time to unite! Join Adam and his new friend Techno Tim for 1.5 hours of homelab goodness. From networking and WiFi, virtualizing Ubuntu running Docker containers, to Home Assistant and automation, building a Kubernetes cluster, to gutting a perfectly good machine just to build exactly what you need...
Setting up Mend Renovate Community Edition for GitLab.com on Fly.io (2 mins read).
How to set up Mend Renovate Community Edition on Fly.io, when integrating with GitLab.com.
How would you go about designing a dark mode theme? I'm looking to implement a dark theme for Datasette and wondering how's best to approach this 🤔
Nick celebrates a decade of writing everyone’s favorite language with guest Josh Goldberg, who contributes to TypeScript, maintains typescript-eslint, and is an all-around great person! Jerod is also here to join the celebration, but let’s keep that a secret from him!
If you work in tech and haven't heard about "being glue", I would say that it's vital to read about it: https://noidea.dog/glue by @whereistanya@hachyderm.io You'll either feel extremely heard, or it will open your eyes to what some of your (disproportionately female) coworkers struggle with on a regular basis.
Custom Advisories: the unsung hero of dependency-management-data (3 mins read).
How to use custom advisories with dependency-management-data to track packages that your organisation may not want to use.
Attached: 1 image Life is great here on the World Wide Web
Attached: 1 image "The only dangerous minority is the rich" Sticker seen in New Orleans, Louisiana
Week Notes 23#34 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-08-21?
In this classic episode, Bridger is nothing but class even when Ben Schwartz (Parks & Rec, The Afterparty) cruelly forces a gift on him. The two discuss wizards, terrible biology teachers, and local wildlife.
Zoomers & boomers: «IDGAF. It doesn’t affect me; everyone already has all my data—» Me: No. No, they do not. You *generate* data every time you touch that service, visit that site, patronise that business. Your data isn’t just your PII, and it isn’t finite. You are a living, breathing fountain of data that can be and is used in ways that harm the vulnerable and marginalised, even if it’s never used to harm *you* It’s not zero-sum. Limiting use & reducing dependence still counts as a good
Vagrant walks us through his role at Reproducible Builds and how its mission changes the face of Linux distros, Arch Linux, openSUSE, and F-Droid.
Has development of your favorite open source project stalled? Triage is sometimes a great way to get things moving again!
On August 10th, HashiCorp made the controversial decision to re-license some of the popular, formerly-open source project under the Business Source License (BUSL). Bryan and Adam spoke with founders of the OpenTF project, an effort to keep Terraform operating in the open.In addition to Bryan...
This week we’re talking to Andreas Kling about SerenityOS and Ladybird. Andreas started SerenityOS as a means of therapy. It’s self-described as a love letter to “‘90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core.” Andreas previously worked at Nokia and later at Apple on the WebKit team, so he had an itch to do somethi...
Ty Franck (one half of James S.A. Corey) is joined by a special guest... the Cara Gee ('Drummer' on The Expanse)! Cara stopped by to talk about her new cool Expanse Telltale game and Wes even shows up as well as a one of our patrons...
Turning on Caps Lock when the Caps Lock key is bound to a different key (1 mins read).
How to trigger a Caps Lock event when you've rebound the key to a differnet key.
Kris Nova joins Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about Mastodon. Kris runs Hachyderm, a Mastodon server. She shares her experience with Mastodon and the Fediverse.
Sorry I’ve been weird recently, and also in the past, and will also be in the future
Setting up real-time Slack notifications for GitHub (1 mins read).
How to get Slack's real-time notifications integrated with GitHub.
I will be attending
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Well I've definitely just used up all the luck I could've had in #ApexLegends 😅
Was thinking of making a horror movie. For one day every year all repos are public and there’s no checks on pull requests. No tests are allowed and CI/CD won’t block you. The Merge.
I'm interested in attending
.Managing Buildkite Agent Images with Renovate (1 mins read).
How to use Renovate to manage Buildkite Agent Images.
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Kris Nóva is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Twilio Inc. We hear about her incredible journey from a nerdy teen installing Linux on the family computer to becoming an outspoken voice in the tech community. Growing up in Texas with conserva...
Week Notes 23#33 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-08-14?