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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
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
Mike McQuaid shares on the history of Homebrew, his involvement in open source, boundary setting, and what software sustainability means for him.
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Charlie Gerard is a highly accomplished software engineer and technologist. She’s worked at Stripe, Netlify, and Atlassian and authored the book, Practical Machine Learning in JavaScript. In her spare time, Charlie explores the field of human-computer interaction and builds interactive prototypes using hardware and machine learning. Some of her recent projects include building a DIY
For today’s episode, Asim is joined by Andrea Goulet, who has spent more than 20 years in the tech industry. She joins Asim as she tells her journey in the tech industry and how the idea of empathy has helped her develop some soft skills that may be productive for software engineers in the field. [00:39] Introduction of Andrea [2:00] About Empathy [04:56] Andrea’s Journey in Software [07:47] Frameworks on Empathy [10:27] Applications of Framework to Engineers [14:45] Taking Actions with Empathy [20:10] Tangible Benefits of Empathy [26:21] Task and Relationship Conflicts [28:59] How to Reach Andrea Defining Empathy Empathy is the moment an individual experiences when they have the power to make decisions and then act upon it. It is that moment when one’s thought process can read the feelings or foresee the consequences of the actions they are about to do. In the world of software and tech, empathy is not the main highlight to the work system, however, this underlying skill can be the butterfly effect that can change the course of productivity and outputs of software engineers. Essential Soft Skills Empathy is a soft skill that can be harnessed as a metaphor to create a better working environment not just for yourself, but for your co-workers as well. Rooting back to the decision-making moments, there comes a time where you have to consider factors such as rational or logical thinking, setting up boundaries, and proper communications, these are the trigger points where empathy plays a big role in creating a good working environment. The soft skill has worked on many software developers in terms of better work productivity as well as healthier and professional working relationships with colleagues. How to Connect with Andrea and Other References: Andrea’s Linkedin Heartware’s Website Corgibytes Website Empathy in Tech
Due to current events, let me remind y’all that not going to any talks at conferences has tangible consequences that will affect YOU too – eventually. Anyone making claims about this as anything else than a trade-off can be safely ignored: https://hynek.me/articles/hallway-track/
There are many good reasons to not go to every talk possible when attending conferences. However increasingly it became hip to boast about avoiding going to talks – encouraging others to follow suit. As a speaker, that rubs me the wrong way and I’ll try to explain why.
Open Source Summit looks great, sad to be missing it! But very excited to have #DevOpsDays London this week 👏🏽
Taking strong inspiration from Phil Nash I've just updated my /elsewhere/ page 👀
A hoy hoy! Our old friend Nick Nisi does his best to bring up TypeScript, Vim & Tmux as many times as possible while we discuss a new batch of web browsers, justify why we like the ones we do & try to figure out what it’d take to disrupt the status quo of Big Browser.
Thank you to this week's sponsor, Koyeb!So many conferences!🇺🇸 GopherCon, San Diego, CA, USA, September 25-28🎟️ Tickets still available🏨 Hotel discount extended to Monday, September 18🇮🇪 GopherCon Ireland, Dublin, November 2🏴 Fyne Conf, Edinburgh, November 3CFP open until October 6🇸🇬...
This week we’re joined by Haroon Meer from Thinkst — the makers of Canary and Canary Tokens. Haroon walks us through a network getting compromised, what it takes to deploy a Canary on your network, how they maintain low false-positive numbers, their thoughts and principles on building their business (major wisdom share...
Week Notes 23#37 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-09-11?
I will be attending
@lukas@indieweb.social @lornajane@indieweb.social @Philsturgeon@mastodon.green How about a swear jar for API conferences. Every time a speaker says Swagger, they have to pay Phil to plant another tree.
PLEASE stop calling them "soft skills" unless you're talking about the ability to whisper or properly fluff pillows. They're "core skills", the skills we need to communicate with, mentor, inspire, and manage others.
Love it or hate it, TypeScript is here to stay for the foreseeable future. But, what happens when widely adopted packages go completely Type free or remove TypeScript in favor of JS with type annotations? Join us to unpack these recent events with Rich Harris, creator of Svelte, as he walks us through the nuanced deci...
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I may be attending
.Go’s known for it’s fantastic standard library, but there are some places where the libraries can be challenging to use. The html/template package is one of those places. So what alternatives do we have? On today’s episode we’re talking about Templ, an HTML templating language for Go that has great developer tooling. C...
TIL that I can use my fingerprint to log in with i3lock-color
🕵️ I thought it'd not worked before last time I looked, but similar to logging in on a TTY, I just need to enter an empty password, then I can auth via my fingerprint 👏
💧️ ppl with ADHD are not in a hurry because they're impatient. they're in a hurry because they know if they don't do this now they're just gonna forget about it
Building dynamic jobs with BuildKite (2 mins read).
How to dynamically generate job configuration for BuildKite, while running inside a pipeline.
Devin and Timmy discuss Music Blocks, a creative software for music education, enabling exploration of concepts and composition from scratch.
Aaron talks about Snowdrift's journey, challenges, recent milestone, and its current standing as a debt-free entity with a dedicated team.
On today’s show Adam is joined by John Nunemaker (an old friend). For some of you listening you might remember John’s appearance on The Changelog #11, which was basically forever ago. Or his company Ordered List — they made Gauges, Harmony, and Speaker Deck which was quite popular in its time — so much so that they att...
Author, journalist, travel writer & software engineer Jon Evans joins us to weigh in on the cultural history (and present-day sentiment) of AI doom. Along the way, we talk plausible Sci-Fi, ultrasound drug delivery, the maybe-evolving laws of physics & even weirder stuff.
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I've been asked to comment on what I think the biggest tech trend in 2024 will be? Short answer: Slavery and let me tell you why. Data is the lifeblood that allows any machine learning model to perform its task. It’s not magic. It’s not the so-called “AI” being intelligent or intuitive. It’s statistics. And as the tech sector delves into rapid developments of specialised LLMs that they can further commoditise, they will require vast amounts of diverse data to train—leading to what some have called as data hunting. And unfortunately, all of us who have posted even a single piece of content online are all part of this—whether we like it or not. We are now part of a universal digital sweatshop that transcends international borders. Our labour is ignored and uncompensated based on the capitalist belief that since we shared content freely, companies have the right to monetise it whenever they want. Time and time again, as we have seen in recent news, companies have collected our data without explicit consent. And when they do ask for ‘consent’, they give us word salad in the user agreements or just ask us to opt our way out of the inferno that they manufactured. The aggressive collection of data paves the way for a future where a few corporations will have disproportionate control over vast datasets, which they can exploit for unwarranted targeted advertising, surveillance and practices that would reinforce biases or unfairly influence individual choices and behaviours. And let’s not forget the second step in the process where people (they call as taskers), mostly from the Global South, are hired for 2 USD a day to classify images, videos and texts so that your LLMs will not spew out gibberish. This is the reality behind your glamorous “AI” models. While “AI” companies in the developed world reap huge profits, the groundwork is outsourced to workers in Bangladesh, Kenya, the Philippines and India. But it is fine, isn’t it? As long as we don’t see them. Out of sight, out of mind.
Setting up a matrix for GitHub Actions with Go's go.mod
and specific versions (2 mins read).
How to use a Go setup matrix in GitHub Actions that can target the go.mod
version and arbitrary other version(s).
Thank you to this week's sponsor, Koyeb!🆕 Go 1.21.1 & 1.20.8 released⚒️ Related: Tool dependencies proposal has been accepted, and here's the design document link. We got you covered ;)🎫 Conference updates🇮🇳 GopherCon India TOMORROW - shoutout Rishi Chandwani for bringing it to our attention🇬🇧...
Workers: DO NOT OVERWORK YOURSELF to avoid getting laid off. - You’re damaging your life and health. - Your employer doesn’t actually notice (no, really, they don’t.) - Your behavior enables future mismanagement of resources. - When layoffs come, you’re gonna get laid off anyway. Remember that a company’s job is to extract maximum work from you for minimum pay, so your job is to extract maximum pay for minimum work. Somewhere in the middle, both parties find an equilibrium that they agree on. Do not voluntarily modify your side of the bargain to your detriment. #FridayDevAdvice
Week Notes 23#36 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-09-04?