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The Void is experiencing extremely high call volumes right now. Please hold. Your screaming is very important to us.
The Void is experiencing extremely high call volumes right now. Please hold. Your screaming is very important to us.
Thought of getting a Kagi account but not longer tempted after they announced working together with the Thiel-funded homophobe clowns at Brave. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Why is everyone like that, ugh.
It’s our 5th annual New Year’s party! Jerod & the gang review our predictions from last year, discuss what’s trending in the web world, make a few predictions for 2024 & even set some new resolutions for this year.
Frustrated by finding a great article that I wanted to share, but then realising that it's on medium so people would need accounts to read it. I'm in support of creators charging for content but the walling-off of intended-public content is a dark pattern.
Been a big week for documentation with #DependencyManagementData - I've added significant docs to the database schema and GraphQL schema and have started a "Understanding the data model" cookbook
Very cool to have received my first payout from Tidelift, from a company using one of the Open Source projects that I maintain 💸 Thanks very much to whoever it was, and looking forward to the income working towards me getting some longer-term financial support to continue maintaining the projects I do 🚀
Why is set -eu
not working? (2 mins read).
Why you may be finding set -u
in a shell script not exiting when set -e
is also present.
Absolutely loving the various versions of Down Under (original) that are out at the moment, like Luude ft. Colin Hay to this super chill cover that's just popped up on my Spotify Release Radar
Attached: 1 image #meme #mickeymouse #anticapitalism
Hello 2024! We’re kicking off the year with Dan Moore, author of ‘Letters to a New Developer’ — a blog series of letters of what Dan wished he had known when starting his developer career. We discuss the value of online communities for new developers, the importance of communication skills, and the need to stay relevan...
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Didier Lopes, Co-founder and CEO of OpenBB, joins me to share the story of how OpenBB went from receiving 4000 GitHub stars in the first 24 hours of the project to a fully funded company launching new monetization initiatives. Didier and I chat about his background, what led him to start OpenBB...
I wrote some code. It hurts to look at. https://moonbase.lgbt/blog/minimum-wage-clock/
I love clever uses of incentives and tech: Cities are using traffic lights near schools that start red and turn green if an approaching car isn't speeding. If you're good, you get to keep driving. If you're bad, you have to stop and wait for the light to turn green. The average speed on the road almost immediately dropped to the speed limit as people learned the rules. Instead of punishing people with tickets after the fact, it creates the behavior the city wants. https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/05/05/steal-this-idea-in-quebec-a-new-traffic-light-only-turns-green-for-safe-drivers/
I'd personally argue (and do argue, in fact!) that you should take the evidence of such agreements and facts to mean that you actually have nothing to lose by becoming... labor aware, let's say. Don't make my mistakes: reject ERGs, which are a way of tracking groups likely to unionize (hot tip: ERGs are for underrepresented groups, which are typically the groups most impacted by layoffs, so guess which groups are _probably_ a little more... labor aware?). Don't be quite so obviously pro-labor; they have enough lawyers and enough capital on hand to not give a single shit about whatever action you could potentially bring against them. But do form a union. Or a guild; there are too many companies owned by too few stockholders to _not_ also form agreements across company boundaries. And not one of those unions that's already waved the white flag to get their foot in the door, either. It's our best bet against the technological abuse we're seeing. RE: For anyone curious about this: if you formally disagree with the reason behind your layoff, congratulations! You're blacklisted. And if you follow up with compelling evidence of mistreatment, congratulations! You're DEFINITELY blacklisted and should probably follow that thread to whatever end it has for you. If you sign the settlement offer, which is probably what you're going to do because justice is about who has the most capital and they've cut off your funding, congrats, you're now _legally_ barred from working for any company they own ever again. It's standard language and they won't remove it. What's interesting, however, is much like a warlock pact, the only thing I'm _not_ barred from talking about is the specific agreement about what was considered a settlement. I can talk about literally everything else. I low-key suspect they do this so that particularly mouthy people (me) will discuss what happens when you try and face off against corporate and how even if you win, you lose. Why else let me freely talk about everything? RE: ...
2023's Music In Review (1 mins read).
What music was I listening to in 2023?
"I taught my kids about democracy last night. I had them vote on which movie to watch and what pizza to order. I then picked the pizza and which movie to watch because I'm the one with the money." #democracy #capitalism #fascism #goodgovernment #dadjokes
If I installed new server software that served websites 500% faster but also crashed sometimes, your first question would be "how frequent are the crashes?" and if I shrugged you'd back away slowly and start looking for my replacement. But with LLMs & hallucinations that's just normal operating conditions and you're a luddite if you ask too much about it.
I just learned the phrase "circus factor" ("If you or someone on your team ran away to join the circus, how stressful would it be for the rest of the team?") and I like it much better than the widely-used phrase "bus factor". https://mercedesbernard.com/speaking/minimize-circus-factor/
git blame, but it tells you who reviewed the code instead
new rule: if your company puts a LLM bot on the front lines of your customer support effort, your company should be legally bound to adhere to whatever the LLM bot states on your behalf. oh, you put a lying machine at the front door and it's telling people your product does things it doesn't actually do? and now you're stuck making your product do these things? maybe you'll think twice about deploying lying machines...
Josh Simmons spends some time with Open Source Stories discussing the finer points of navigating open source dynamics, reflecting on the adoption of codes of conduct, and progress made towards increasing representation. Josh also coins the best tagline for open source.
@jwz@mastodon.social @anildash@me.dm http is stored in the balls
Open source is people and people are open source. Duane O’Brien talks about what he’s learned about supporting, connecting with, and caring for the critical human infrastructure of open source.
Interviews from Bret Fisher's live show. Topics cover container and cloud topics like Docker, Kubernetes, Swarm, Cloud Native development, DevOps, SRE, GitOps, DevSecOps, platform engineering, and the full software lifecycle. Full show notes and more info available at https://podcast.bretfisher.com
2023's Site In Review (2 mins read).
How did my site perform in 2023?
If someone tells you the last day of the year is 123123 just unfollow them, you don’t need that unsortable non-ISO8601 negativity in your life.
From selling stickers to creating one of the most popular projects on GitHub, Robby Russell looks back at the inception and unexpected rise of Oh My Zsh. Usefulness, creativity, and a good onboarding experience are key ingredients in this recipe.
Think we are more in need of a New Years Revolution am I right
Attached: 1 image A reminder to all of you for the new year
Week Notes 23#52 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-12-25?
Attached: 1 image My plans for tonight? I'm glad you asked. #NYE #HappyNewYear
Anexado: 1 imagem #2867 - DateTime
Attached: 1 image Anyone want to watch Firefly with me?
Week Notes 23#51 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-12-18?
#Firefox is by far the best browser on desktop. Let me be clear, I am not saying that because I am ideologically opposed to using Google products. I use YouTube and Google Workspaces. Chrome genuinely has nothing to offer over Firefox. If your website doesn't work in Firefox then I'm not using your website.
There's not a CEO in the world doing $7 million worth of work. Saying this is in line with exec compensation elsewhere is not a defense, it's an indictment. Nor is gender equity in pay an argument when ALL execs are overpaid and where pay equity is worst is at the entry level and among the precariat. Seriously, stop trying to justify a $7 million salary. Executive compensation is a PROBLEM, and while it's nothing specific to Mozilla, you can say this without pretending it's healthy. 2/2
I'd be happy that fireworks are going off at 7:30pm if I thought that would be it for the whole night. But you know it's just going to be nonstop and we can forget being able to take the dog outside without him running back inside terrified now
@james@strangeobject.space THIS is why I resent any type of "productivity measurement". If I as the person responsible for their (professional and sometimes very rarely personal) situation don't know how and what they feel and are working on, I should quit my job. I sometimes hear "but we need abstract measurements to hand up to executive management". No, you don't. Have a talk with them and tell them about the people you are working with. If they don't like this, this is not a good place to be. And regarding 'productivity': some people have a constant outfit of achievements or in software development tickets. That's productivity. But some people 'produce' less individual results, but removing them from the team would lower everyone's productivity. That's generativity. I don't know many colleagues taking this into account or even noticing it exists.
You'll be seeing lots of posts from people saying/boasting what they achieved in 2023. In case anyone needs to hear it... it's ok if all you did this year was get through it... You made it, good job.
DM: "The dragon rests on a hoard of gold." PC: "We gather the town's wealth and add it in. The dragon will surely create jobs now." -N. Ehlers
ONE WEIRD TRICK TO MAKE SURE YOU NEVER INCORRECTLY CONNECT YOUR USB 2/3 Throw the computer in the bin. Now you have no failed attempts, as you have no USB slots. Happy to help. 💜
"CoPilot writes code that's almost as good as the code I write myself" is certainly making a powerful point. It's just, well, I don't think it's making quite the point you think it is.
Hey hey hey hey you need to charge your noise cancelling headphones. It's fireworks night. Boost to help others. #NYE
If ever there was an argument against Intelligent Design it's the annual year release process. I mean, zero QA, no pre-release checks. They just YOLO whatever random crap got merged into the next year and don't care.
It's all very simple, you see. You're just confusing the entity named Mozilla with one of the four other entities it set up, all of which are also named Mozilla
The cognitive dissonance of people eschewing Mozilla cos of AI and big salaries and a problematic CEO And suggesting people move to Brave The crypto browser that also does AI The browser who is available through Epic Games Store Taking some share of ad revenue for itself instead of giving it to who it’s supposed to Suggesting affiliate links in the address bar The browser that’s installing pay to use software on Windows machines without asking for consent Helmed by Brendan Eich You know, the JavaScript creator Oh but he’s also the guy ousted as Mozilla’s CEO for donating to anti lgtbq propositions the same guy who seems to hold Covid conspiracy theories in his head Please use a fucking search engine some time 🤡