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David Tennant implies the existence of Goliath Landlord
David Tennant implies the existence of Goliath Landlord
Ryan Barrett talks about protocols for the social web, and how to make them talk to each other.

Week Notes 24#05 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-01-29?
This week we talk with Isaac Schlueter, a founder at npm and Tier. We talk about the creation of npm, the early days of node, and the transition from CJS to ESM in node. We delve into the challenges of running a package registry (and a company) and his new company Tier. Tier is building a new way to define pricing for your products. https://github.com/isaacs https://www.tier.run https://node-tap.org https://fosstodon.org/@isaacs https://twitter.com/izs Episode sponsored By Raycast (https://www.raycast.com/) Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode. https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devtoolsfm/subscribe https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758 https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership

Mike Goldsmith, Staff Software Engineer at Honeycomb, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to talk about Open Telemetry, company culture, and the pros and cons of Go vs. .NET. Corey and Mike discuss why OTel is such an important tool, while pointing out its double-edged sword of being fully...

Technology meets economic empowerment in this episode featuring Angie Jones, Global Vice President of Developer Relations at TBD, a Block division. Angie sheds light on the role of decentralized technologies in shaping the future of digital identity and cross-border payments. Her journey from...

In this Mechanical Ink podcast episode, Schalk Neethling leads an in-depth conversation with Isaac Levin and Richard Littauer, exploring crucial aspects of open-source contribution, the impact of diversity in tech, and strategies for sustainable open-source projects.

Deffo getting FOMO by seeing friendly faces having a great time at #FOSDEM but looking forward to seeing some of y'all at #StateOfOpenCon š
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Happy 1st anniversary to Cup o' Go! š„³Proposalsgo build -json acceptedallow append(nil, arg) declined (playground link), because of existing alternativego vet: warn about recover in non-deferred function declined, because of lack of dataallow multiple spaces between method and path in mux: new...

Celebrating dependency-management-data's first birthday (6 mins read).

Reflecting on the last year of the project.
Angellica is joined by Neil S Primmer & Benji Vesterby to share their experience organizing āCapture the Flagā at GopherCon 2023. CTF events involve teams vying for supremacy as they strive to gather digital flags (presented as strings) and successfully submit them to the competition organizers. In essence, itās a ...

Today Iām joined by Federico Wengi, who is a Partner at SquareOne VC. In this conversation, Federico sheds light on the conversations heās had with many companies who consider making the pivot from a closed-source business strategy to an open-source strategy. Federico explains why itās so...

Hello 2024, it's Tech: Off-topic here! Mike (ā ā ā https://twitter.com/ukmadlzā ā ā ā https://mastodon.social/@ukmadlzā ) has brought in Ollie Read (ā ā ā ā https://twitter.com/ollieread https://phpc.social/@ollieread) to talk tech and what's happened recently. However, that barely happens and the tangents are strong. We end up talking about: Multitenancy in software (you can ask Ollie about that all you want) RGB & Camera stuff (thanks to tech difficulties) Gundam, Warhammer, and hobbyist "plastic crack" Corporations and patent fights https://news.sky.com/story/apple-watch-to-lose-feature-after-us-court-reinstates-sales-ban-over-patent-dispute-13050692 Super rich (plenty of tech money) spending lots of money to build a city... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/17/tech-billionaire-new-city-plan-california-forever-san-francisco Pothole robots https://news.sky.com/story/hertfordshire-worlds-first-pothole-preventing-robot-to-hit-roads-in-test-rollout-13045036 This episode has plenty of side quest adventures so enjoy the chaos

Shared this privately, but it's worth repeating it publicly: As a platform showing advertisements, you MUST have controls in place to allow people to opt out of certain categories of ads, e.g., those featuring violence, casinos/gambling, weight loss/AI body tuning, or alcohol/drug consumption. Not having that makes your platform unsafe and promotes an unhealthy society.
asking for a friendā can anyone hook me up with someone who knows about #techunions (#unionizing at a #tech company)? she and some of her colleagues just got screwed out of a raise based on sales and workflow metrics they had no control over and theyāre ready to revolt
It's hard to see why "clean" Git commits are useful if you've never done a good `git blame` or `git bisect`. It's also hard to see how useful `git blame` and `git bisect` can be if your Git commits are a mess. Not sure where I'm going with this. #git
We didn't even get out of January before we collectively trauma dumped so hard on Elmo that Sesame Street had to tweet mental health resources
i'm being asked to "develop a career plan", why can't people just be as surprised as i am that i'm still alive and leave it at that
github tip: you can use "redirect.github.com" when referencing an issue/PR from another repo inside an issue/PR in your repo this will avoid your issue getting backlinked into the other repo's issue, reducing noise. example: "github.com/nodejs/node/6969" becomes: "redirect.github.com/nodejs/node/6969"
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Heather Meeker talks about her latest book on how to make open-source projects profitable. She covers open source importance, economics, OSI's goal, and why Audacity is a great open-source project.

This show is supported by you! Consider joining as a Patreon member to support the show.Go 1.22RC2 releasedTake the new Go developer surveyLearning Go, 2nd edition now available for e-purchase, print coming soonListen to our interview with the author in Episode 44GopherCon talk by Russ Cox: Go...

How can we get founders of open source companies together to share ideas, share strategies and tactics and build a community not just of open source practitioners, but of open source business owners? We create a conference/summit/retreat to bring them together to learn and to work on their...

@BlackAzizAnansi@mas.to Companies will lay off half their staff before they admit that spending billions on real estate was a mistake
This week weāre going deep on security and what it takes to shift left, seriously. Adam is joined by Justin Garrison (co-host of Ship It), plus two members of the BoxyHQ team ā Deepak Prabhakara, Co-founder & CEO and Schalk Neethling, Community Manager and DevRel as well as fellow Changelog Slack member. We discuss...

The plenary speakers for #StateOfOpenCon are up on the website - and, the whole schedule is packed with fantastic expertise. Exciting to be a liaison for all of these speakers! Some community tickets are available. https://stateofopencon.com
Even if you ignore everything else, all the theft and fraud and exploitation, all the waste, all the manipulation, all of it. Generative AI is still unreliable. I don't understand why people are so eager to use an unreliable tool. Like, yeah, I love those wobbly hammers! It makes no sense.
LinkedIn loves to tell me that my post has received a bunch of impressions, but I haven't gotten a single conversion from it, so I guess that tells me everything I need to know about that platform.
I don't put projects on the back burner. I put them under the floorboards, where the ever-louder beating of their hearts drives me slowly to madness. #ADHD #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #neurodiverse #neurodivergence #ADHDmemes
not sure who to attribute this to - there is NO reason any of us should have to "thrive in a fast paced environment" or "work well under pressure." most of our daily work is not an emergency and our culture of fake urgency and immediacy just to make more profit for people in the c-suite is burning people out. stop sending people into fight or flight and expecting them to bend over backward because you dont know how plan or manage resources properly
Week Notes 24#04 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-01-22?
The thing about #tech #layoffs that people who havenāt been through it often donāt understand is that morale never recovers. The employees who remain will never have the same relationship with that company, bosses or peers. Watching people you respect pack their stuff and crying on the phone with their spouses is something that never goes away. When I survived a layoff in my 20s I became a ādo exactly what the ticket saysā person. I stopped suggesting ideas, providing feedback, believing anything a manager told me. If you are a company considering layoffs, especially a profitable company, you should approach it as āthis department will have 100% turnoverā. The second I got another job offer I left that company and six months later nobody who had been there at the time of layoffs remained. Iāve seen that pattern play out multiple times.
Introducing insight into your dependencies' health in dependency-management-data (2 mins read).

How you can use the new dependency health functionality to better understand your dependencies.
Oof, just heard about a massive dick move scenario for corporations that somehow hadn't occurred to me before: 1) Mandatory Return to Office 2) Employee moves to be near office 3) Employee is laid off Like, seriously, fuck these companies into the sun
It *really* grosses me out when I see/hear YouTubers and Podcasters promoting BetterHelp. They should have gone out of business when this happened. https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/cases-proceedings/2023169-betterhelp-inc-matter https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/03/ftc-ban-betterhelp-revealing-consumers-data-including-sensitive-mental-health-information-facebook
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Talking to people about your big rewrite/re-architecture project feels a bit like talking to people about your imaginary friend ā people are really polite about it but keeping giving you that āare you serious?ā look
Please, don't force me to log in. One aspect of software enshittification that really grinds my gears is that more and more apps require you to create accounts and login. https://hamatti.org/posts/please-dont-force-me-to-log-in/
gaze not into the abyss, for they shall make you the editor of the international standard of abyssal management
If you've ever wondered why some Wi-Fi is free (like in hotels), it's because typically data about your browsing is sold to countless ad companies that will happily buy it. Had to use the hotel WiFi recently on a trip, and after clicking "agree" to their terms of service, the Little Snitch firewall on my Mac went bonkers. I must have denied 20-30 outbound requests to advertising networks. It still worked, though, so I'm guessing I didn't manage to block all of it.
In this episode of the Mechanical Ink podcast, Deepak Prabhakara from BoxyHQ shared his journey in the tech world, starting from his early days in Bangalore, India. His story is one of passion for technology, leading to significant roles in startups and eventually founding BoxyHQ. The discussion centered around BoxyHQās solutions like single sign-on, directory sync, and audit logs, all designed to enhance enterprise readiness for startups and growing companies.

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Ben Haynes, the Founder and CEO of Directus, created an open-source project while working at his own agency in 2004. In this episode, we explore how he went from maintaining an open-source project to building an open-source company with a solid product-led growth strategy, and how heās achieved...

Love hitting publish on a release, and then seeing a "TODO" in the body of the notes that you'd not seen all the other times you'd read through it š
Related: There's a new oapi-codegen release out š
Some big new features, bug fixes and other bits of cleanup
Caroline details how she understands the boundaries of communities, what she observes in the open source communities, and how platforms influence communities.

Hey, you! You are beautiful, you are valid, and you are loved.
dependency-management-data now has a logo! (1 mins read).

Very excited to note that the project now has a logo.
Nicholas brings us on his journey sharing his story of becoming a developer, starting ESLint, and what heās doing to make sure everybody in the ESLint community is able to benefit from the money they are bringing in.
