you cannot be a convincing impostor unless you know how to do your tasks

i go to mastodon. i complain about bug. rando says "treatment is simple. great clown maintainer is on github tonight. file an issue. that should fix your bug." i burst into tears. say: "but rando.... i am maintainer"

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Great post. No notes. What Elon Musk's X is getting right

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The Cypress.io situation is wild! https://currents.dev/posts/v13-blocking In short: when installing the Cypress npm package, on postinstall it checks what other packages you installed, and you're using any packages they don't like (e.g. tools for self-hosting that compete with their cloud service) then it refuses to run. More detailed summary from @jess@webtoo.ls here: https://twitter.com/_jessicasachs/status/1712043659330310488 Very hard to argue your product is good if you have to actively block your customers from even testing alternatives! Yikes.

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i have outright deleted a major patchset i wrote for a project under freedesktop.org stewardship, which someone else is probably going to write again in a year or two, because i realized the project had a real-name policy, and decided it wasn't worth it. i then lost motivation for the cool thing i was working on that needed me to write that patch this is not the intended effect of a "real-name" policy, but it is the actual effect. and, as the cool kids say, "the system is what it does". there is no such thing as a "real name". the concept of a "legal name" is fraught, and most certainly is not what you think it is, or what you are looking for, if you are a software developer. many assumptions you have about what a "legal name" is probably are not true. consider this: the name on my birth certificate is different than the name on my drivers license, and that is different from the names i am called by my friends. those names are all different from what is likely to be on my passport when i get it, and all of those are different than the name i publish my open source projects under. all of these, in different jurisdictions, might or might not be something you could consider a "legal name". which one do you want me to use when i submit a major feature to your library? are you going to turn me away if i try to submit it as "linear cannon"? why? if i have a website and contact information under that name, why does this matter? how is it substantially different than an author of fiction novels publishing under a pen name? does it change if i produce a piece of government-issued documentation with that name on it? why, or why not? if your real name policy does not answer these questions adequately, then there's a very good chance i'm just going to assume that you're going to turn me away, as has happened to me several times already RE: it would be nice if it were actually as easy to contribute to free/open source software as the developers and maintainers of such software claim it is but meritocracy is a lie, and bullshit policies and procedures (see: "real name" policy) scare away minorities who might otherwise do important work

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ffmpeg stands for the fast & the furious: motion picture experts group

Full stack developer, as in "my stack is full, please don't try to push anything else or my behavior will be undefined"

Your salary is just your employer's monthly subscription of you.

Reminder about private messages: someone with admin access can read your private messages. Oh you thought I was talking about Mastodon? No, I was talking about email.

Here’s a little gift for you: If you were actually lazy, you’d be enjoying it. You’d be having fun.

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“My god. The weapon is armed, the countdown has begun, and the only known copy of the override code is stored on this old Nokia 5510 with an empty battery. We’re doomed.” “Everybody chill the fuck out. I got this. Just gotta crack open the old cable drawer. Here you go.” “You have a Nokia 5510 charger, but why?! That phone hasn’t been sold in over 20 years!” “Let’s just say, I always knew this day would come.” “Wow. Your decision to never throw away cables just saved humanity honey…honey…time to wake up honey…”

I don't know how many biscuits it takes to be happy, but so far it's not twenty three.

Finally home after an awesome #DDDEastMidlands Great talks, great people, great chats! 💙

If you are against public carry of guns, but also think Jedi should be allowed to walk around with lightsabers for “religious reasons,” I’m sorry I cannot take you seriously.