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Vanity top-level domains are all fun and games until the Taliban seizes your domain.
Vanity top-level domains are all fun and games until the Taliban seizes your domain.
Lots of men in tech see women in tech either as sexual tensions for their own enjoyment or as mentoring opportunities, but never as their equals. This needs to stop. #WomenInTech
Bolaji spotlights OSCA's Sustain conference, emphasizing its diverse workshops, notable attendance, and new mental health and data science working groups. He addresses self-care and workload management in the open-source community, offering strategies for maintaining physical health in demanding roles.

New releases♬ Go 1.21.7 and 1.20.14 released🧹 golangci-lint 1.56.1 released, including support for `--show-stats` and John's bugfixConferences and Meetups🇮🇱 Go Israel March 2024 hosted by Orca SecurityGo 1.22 Feature RundownOfficial announcement, release notes, and download linkCool interactive...

Week Notes 24#06 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-02-05?
We’re taking you back to the hallway track at THAT Conference where we have 3 MORE fun conversations: one with Samuel Goff about the future of energy, one with YouTuber Jess Chan about the future of content creation & one with Vanessa Villa / Noah Jenkins about ag tech & the future of food.

There's this course called the Missing Semester (https://missing.csail.mit.edu/) that teaches you the practical stuff like using the CLI, shell scripting, Git, Vim, etc. It was created for CS students who apparently don't learn these things in class. But as a biochemistry/microbiology major turned bioinformatician, I need the CS course instead!
This was such a great episode, there's some excellent learnings about building products, shipping awesome stuff, and just some great vibes
This week on The Changelog we’re talking with Nadia Odunayo, founder of StoryGraph. Nadia started out as a one woman dev and product team — she’s had to adjust and maneuver along way to becoming the Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads. We talk about the importance of customer research, the iterative nature of customer...

I've got a lot of web dev content in my feed reader and that's cool but every once in a while someone posts something completely unrelated to tech and I AM HERE FOR IT! Don't be afraid to write about your hobbies, music, movies, life. I love to read that. 💜
ADHD is like 50% not working, 50% working frantically to make up for the not working part, 50% thinking about the work I should be doing (but not actually working), and 50% not sleeping (but trying to).
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Mat Ryer, principal engineer at Grafana Labs and host of the Go Time podcast, shares what he's learned from more than a dozen years of writing HTTP services in Go.

Assortment of technology startup infrastructure recommendations
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OH: the collective noun for a group of software engineers is a “merge conflict”
Attached: 1 image Today in "Tell Me You're Neurodivergent without Telling Me You're Neurodivergent".

Oh so now I have to remember to use a whole NEW set of pronouns? What's next, memorizing everyone's individual name out the billions of possible names???
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I get that white guys have absolutely no reason to have to understand that their experience is not everyone’s considering the entire planet is catered to their perspective, but it is 2024 and the rest of us are very tired.
I will be attending
You wouldn’t put a mask on your face to protect yourselves but you will walk around with that ridiculous Apple headset 🤦🏼♀️
Massive thanks to our cohort of friendly, helpful and collaborative volunteers who made #SOOCon24 possible. Thanks for giving up your time to support the event 👏🏻
Well, I'm home after a great couple of days at #StateOfOpenCon #SOOCon24, which has given me lots to think about. There were some great talks, some really interesting hallway track conversations, and nice to meet friends old and new.
First of all a huge thank you to the organisers - there were so many of you behind the scenes doing such great work to make the event a massive success. I've seen the effort that it can take to do a single track conference let alone 8 tracks(!!!) so it's a huge result, and I hope y'all are gonna have some well deserved rest!
I'd like to say in particular a bit thank you for the work that @andypiper has been doing in the lead up to the conference to support the speakers, being warm, super helpful and supportive, as well as seeing them busy over the conference helping ensure everything was going well
And a big thanks to @AmandaBrock for all her excellent work with OpenUK and State of Open Con 🙌
I'll definitely be making my way back next year 👀 And I'll be (re)watching talks as they pop up!
Why do you have a footer on a website that features never-ending pages that populate more and more information as you scroll?
Our “what’s new in Go” correspondent, Carlana Johnson, joins Johnny & Ian to discuss what’s new with the latest iteration of Go in version 1.22.

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“He don’t miss!” — me, about myself, while reading my blog
Retired old people who aren't just ... busy being sick and dying give back to their communities in HUGE ways. We had someone's grandpa come to our robotics competition to cheer the team on. The old people in my building do all the serious political organizing and man the polls. I'm too busy working being in my 40s and all that. Raising retirement ages takes away more than just "retirement" ... it makes everything harder. Far as I'm concerned it should be 59.

"Environment issues are just incidents that happened to occur in a non-production environment"... so why do we treat them so differently?In this first episode of the 2024 season I reflect on how we handle incidents in non-prod environments.(Note: ...

Attached: 1 image Join us tomorrow afternoon at State of Open Con for a meetup of the Women of Open Source community! 2pm at the back of the delegate experience area, near the job board. See you there! #WomenOfOpenSource #WOOS #SOOCon #SOOCon24 #StateOfOpenCon

Attached: 1 image Hey! Look who it is! @www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me talking about dependence management at #soocon24 https://dmd.tanna.dev/

Quantifying your reliance on Open Source software (State of Open Con version) (20 mins read).

A writeup of my talk about the dependency-management-data project at the State of Open Con 2024 conference.
This isn't a subtoot of anyone, I'm just responding to something I read earlier and immediately forgot the source of: The reason that queer and trans people are so afraid right now is not because it's necessarily *worse* for us than it was in the 1990s. For me, it's worse now because it represents such an incredible backslide from the very recent past. It's also worse now because of how violent, specific, and individual the threats are. There is a sense that the gloves are off, and hurting us is overtly the point - the veneer of civility is gone. The fact that most people (off the Fediverse, largely) are not responding uniquely to this unique level of hostility is worrying, to me! There's also a demographic problem happening right now that was never present before: As we come out, and as we choose to be visible, our true number becomes more apparent. The other side doesn't seem very chill about the fact that like three queer or trans people could simultaneously citizen's-arrest every cop in the US! The transphobes are responding to the actuality of trans people now, not the fictional idea that someone, somewhere, was transgender. That is new, and I think it's dangerous. #trans #queer
It's truly an astounding failure of our society to let large companies just openly steal all information they can and then sell it on as if it's something they're making and the whole thing is totally normal and ethical. The wonders of the tech industry never cease.
I want to ask prospective employers what their technical debt management work flow looks like but I don't know if I'm ready to watch a stranger cry.
Here is a Fediwall set up to track #SOOCon24 #StateOfOpen https://andypiper.url.lol/soocon24
If you were interested in what Sarah Novotny mentioned at #StateOfOpenCon #SOOCon24 about understanding how much Open Source you use, as well as some of the risks of using it, y'all may be very interested to come to my talk about dependency-management-data which aims to give you exactly this, with just Free and Open Source and Open APIs 👀
A few hours until my talk at #StateOfOpenCon talk, and I'm now happy with my slides + writeup. Looking forward to share it with y'all 🛸
Why yes, yes I am wearing a custom #DependencyManagementData t-shirt to #StateOfOpenCon #SOOCon24 🤓 big thanks to Carol Gilabert for making it 🚀

We’re taking you to the hallway track at THAT Conference in Austin TX, where we have 3 fun conversations: one with our old friend Nick Nisi from JS Party, one with our new(ish) friend Amy Dutton from CompressedFM (who has been a guest on JS Party of late) & one with our brand new friend / long-time listener Andres ...

Listen to The Christmas Dinner Party (Live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall) from Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. A present from Ed, James and The Great Benito.Off Menu: The Christmas Dinner Party, recorded live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall on 20 December 2022.Featuring special guests:Nish KumarRosie JonesBob MortimerMunya ChawawaSindhu VeeTim KeyPlus contributions from Claudia Winkleman and Dan Aykroyd. Bob Mortimer's new novel The Satsuma Complex is out now. Buy it here. Tim Key's Festivical Playing Cards. Buy them here. Recorded by Southbank Centre. Edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design) and Amy Browne (illustrations).Follow Off Menu on Twitter and Instagram: @offmenuofficial.And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk for a list of restaurants recommended on the show.Watch Ed and James's YouTube series 'Just Puddings'. Watch here.

Framed this way, I feel like any team that has had layoffs needs to be very deliberate about not performing heroics to keep things running. **Let things fail** if they require going above and beyond. Otherwise the floor will be raised and it will no longer be “above and beyond”, just the expecta

Got some excellent swag recently from Tidelift for becoming a Tidelift Lifter last year 🙌 Love some high-quality swag, and 100% agree we should be supporting #OpenSource maintainers!

The same people who say it’s too hard to write alt text are now suddenly “prompt engineers” who literally write alt text to generate images
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?