Listened to Kubernetes is an anti-platform with Adam Jacob (Ship It! #126) Post details Adam Jacob remains optimistic about the future for infrastructure and is building new ideas to make it better. | Continue reading
Listened to https://chrischinchilla.com/podcast/workbrew-turning-homebrew-into-a-business-with-mike-mcquaid/ . | Continue reading
Reposted Cassidy (@cassidoo.co) Post details "I just need to get through this week," I say, every week | Continue reading
Listened to Russ Cox on passing the torch with Austin Clements & Cherry Mui (Go Time #333) Post details In this episode, we will be talking to Russ Cox, who joined the Go team at Google in 2008 and has been the Go project tech lead since 2012, about stepping back & handing over t … | Continue reading
Reposted Tixie Salander (@tixie@guerilla.studio) Post details Pay phones are disappearing to make it harder to escape the matrix | Continue reading
Reposted Paul Cantrell (@inthehands@hachyderm.io) Post details I’m a software developer with a bunch of industry experience. I’m also a comp sci professor, and whenever a CS alum working in industry comes to talk to the students, I always like to ask, “What do you wish you’d take … | Continue reading
A busy week at work An interesting OpenUK meetup this week around whether Open Source can be a business Announced our next OpenUK meetup, all about the IndieWeb 🎉 Very frustrating losing all my desktop (+ work) tabs - but managed to work out why Created my /slashes page C … | Continue reading
Listened to Cup o' Go | 🏕️ BIG questions: "Is excel immortal?" and "Is Go the right choice for my startup?" Post details Happy Sukkot 🏕️! Find John & Shay at cupogo.dev, where you can find links to our Slack channel, Swag store, Patreon community, and the entire C … | Continue reading
Listened to The Business of Open Source | Building your product with your customers with David Höck Post details This week on the Business of Open Source, I spoke with David Höck, co-founder of Vendure. We talked about switching licenses from MIT to GPL, the ways that Vendure is … | Continue reading
Listened to Ethics, Inclusivity, and the Future of Open Source - Jordan Harband by Schalk Neethling Post details Originally aired in December 2023: In this episode of the Mechanical Ink podcast, host Schalk Neethling speaks with guest Jordan Harband in a deep dive into the open-s … | Continue reading
Listened to Intel’s Katherine Druckman and the Impact of Developer Relations - What's in the SOSS? An OpenSSF Podcast Post details In this episode, CRob discusses the finer points of developer relations (DevRel) with Katherine Druckman, Open Source Evangelist at Intel and co-chai … | Continue reading
Listened to The Business of Open Source | Getting people to use the features you already have with Eric Holscher Post details This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Eric Holscher, co-founder of Read the Docs. We had a really far-ranging conversation that included … | Continue reading
Reposted John Carlsen 4 Harris&Walz🇺🇸 (@johnlogic@sfba.social) Post details I should add: If your employer doesn't increase your pay by at least 4% per year, the value of your pay is regressing, not keeping up with the average rate of inflation. If your employer i … | Continue reading
Listened to ‘Making friends was always IMPOSSIBLE’ - Parul Singh details late AuDHD diagnosis | ADHD Chatter Post details Listen to ‘Making friends was always IMPOSSIBLE’ - Parul Singh details late AuDHD diagnosis from ADHD Chatter. Parul Singh opens up about her late ADHD & … | Continue reading
Over the last week, I've upgraded my various (Arch btw) Linux machines' versions of Firefox Nightly to their latest - largely due to the announced zero-day - and have noticed that on each and every device it's ended up losing all my settings and open tabs. As someone with ADHD I … | Continue reading
Reposted https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/113312747025044845 . | Continue reading
Reposted Jess Rose (@jessie@mastodon.social) Post details Absolutely wild how many companies are adopting AI notetaking apps for meetings. Y'all'er just chill sending your planning, product direction and revenue details to some random third party in exchange for them doing the lo … | Continue reading
Reposted Sini Tuulia (@sinituulia@eldritch.cafe) Post details Attached: 1 image I should definitely have been doing something else. #ADHD #AuDHD #ExecutiveDysfunction | Continue reading
Reposted xsspup :blobhaj_hearttrans: (@xssfox@cloudisland.nz) Post details Attached: 1 image the problem is I build things in a way that I don't need to baby sit them - which means they get reliability as side effect. Slide from my "Cloud infrastructure for cloud infrastructure" … | Continue reading
I will be attending OpenUK Digital #4 The IndieWeb, Wed, Nov 6, 2024, 12:00 PM | Meetup Post details SAVE THE DATE Join us on Wednesday 6th November for the Fourth OpenUK Digital Meetup, our online-only event for OpenUK community members. In this lunch-time webinar, we'll | Continue reading
Last week I found out that Robb Knight has a site called called Slash Pages, which details common top-level URLs that are found at /. I'd found out about this as someone had started contributing a /salary page section, and looking at both my own site, and the list of pages that h … | Continue reading
Reposted lornajane (@lornajane@indieweb.social) Post details @www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me this is such an important topic. It’s 15 years since some colleagues let me know how much less than the men in my team I was being paid. The knowledge helped me to negotiate a bit, and I remain gr … | Continue reading
For some GitHub insights for work, I had it in my head to re-investigate SteamPipe, but as I started working with it I remembered that unfortunately it doesn't quite do I what I want and how I'd want it to work, so needed to implement it using the plain GitHub APIs Had a fun (sar … | Continue reading
As I write this post, I'm sitting on the train home from OggCamp 2024. It's been a good weekend - I've met some nice people, caught up with folks I've known for years, had some great food, listened to some great talks, and learned some cool new things. Telegram chat Something nic … | Continue reading
Listened to My Ex-Employer Discriminated Against My ADHD, So I Sued Them! Misdiagnosed with Depression - Parul Singh | Ep.12 by ADHD Chatter Post details This week, Parul Singh shares the story of how she won a legal case over an ex-employer for ADHD discrimination. Parul is a Re … | Continue reading
Reposted avdi.codes by Avdi Grimm Post details The current chaos in Wordpress caused by Matt seems like a good time to remind folks that the Mastodon "community" websites and trademarks are 100% owned by one | Continue reading
Listened to Significant Bits | Litestream and LiteFS with Ben Johnson Post details This was a fun and decidedly humbling conversation with Ben Johnson about SQLite, databases, Litestream, and LiteFS.Links:Ben on GitHubLitestreamLiteFS | Continue reading
Reposted Roy Tang 🇵🇭 (@roytang@indieweb.social) Post details Shared: Matt Mullenweg’s Bull(enweg) https://bullenweg.com/. If you're having trouble keeping track of the current Wordpress/Matt Mullenweg drama (things are escalating so rapidly!), this website posts r … | Continue reading
Reposted mnl mnl mnl mnl mnl (@mnl@hachyderm.io) Post details wp shows that the world would be so much duller if successful people could just to go therapy and chill counting their stacks or something. smh what a clusterfuck. I don't like wordpress as a tech stack all that much, … | Continue reading
Reposted lornajane (@lornajane@indieweb.social) Post details Attached: 1 image Don’t just tell everyone the open web is great, go on the open web and tell everyone *why* it is great @sil@mastodon.social at #OggCamp24 | Continue reading
Over the last month or so, there have been a couple of posts around how to manage local configuration (aka "dotfiles") - Better Dotfiles (discussion on Hacker News) and Managing dotfiles with chezmoi (discussion on Lobsters) - and it's made me reflect on my own usage. Instead of … | Continue reading
A busy-ish week back at work again Phaeleh's new album dropped, although I didn't realise it was an EP, not a full album. Still good though! Spent Wednesday afternoon down at DTX London Spoke about dependency-management-data, and was cool that it was recorded Nice to chat to the … | Continue reading
Over the last ~8 years in my career, I've worked on teams who do Agile, and who are actually agile. Although there has been some overlap, I've found that for the most part, teams who are actually trying hard to follow the frameworks or methodologies have ended up being less effec … | Continue reading
Something I have to do every so often is convert one of my talks from their web form in Reveal.js to a PDF. Ahead of speaking at DTX London tomorrow, I'm preparing a PDF as well as the web URL, and I've yet again forgotten how to do it, as it's just-infrequent-enough that I've no … | Continue reading
Yesterday I was working with one of my colleagues, who had an issue in one of their Git repos where a symbolic link (symlink) wasn't resolving correctly. The problem This turned out to be due to how MacOSX will by default set core.symlinks=false, as a security measure (via). This … | Continue reading
In Managing your Go tool versions with go.mod and a tools.go, I mentioned how you can use a tools.go to track any dependencies your project needs for i.e. linting or go generates. This is a very useful pattern and until the proposal to add a // tool directive in go.mod lands, is … | Continue reading
A lovely, wholesome, few days in Wells-next-the-Sea: We stayed at the very nice A Room in the Park It was a very good week weather wise, and we didn't have any rain until the last morning, and even then it was fairly light thankfully Walked a lot, between ~10-18k steps each day H … | Continue reading
Listened to AI tools for software engineers, but without the hype – with Simon Willison (DataSette, Lanyrd, Eventbrite) by Gergely Orosz Post details Simon is one of the best-known software engineers experimenting with LLMs to boost his own productivity: he’s been doing this for … | Continue reading
Reposted Biped Earthling (@obeto@mas.to) Post details "Substack CEO Chris Best said he didn't want to "engage in speculation" about statements like “all brown people are animals."" Given another opportunity to answer correctly by the interviewer, “You know this is a very bad resp … | Continue reading
Listened to "Founder Mode" at work when you're not a founder (Go Time #332) Post details Tech twitter ("tech X"?) is abuzz with Paul Graham's Founder Mode essay. How does that affect you or come into play when you're not a founder? Does it matter at all to you, your projects & yo … | Continue reading
With the performance management season mostly over, I've done a refresh on my CV - this can be your reminder to give yours a refresh. You don't need to be looking to keep it up to date! | Continue reading
Listened to Cup o' Go | 🐋🐋 Two Orcas swimming in a pod(cast); FDs, Aliases, and more with Maxim Vovshin Post details Join us at Orca Security! New roles for Go Developers opened, hand in your CV (and tell 'em Shay sent you :) )Backend DeveloperRuntime Security Res … | Continue reading
Reposted Jenniferplusplus (@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io) Post details In light of the whole word press situation, I would like to reiterate that free software institutions should be giving the same kind of attention and support to project governance as they do to licenses. It's … | Continue reading
Reposted Owen (spoopy aspect) (@owen@mastodon.transneptune.net) Post details If the Kubernetes material was honest about "your team will need recurrent annual training to remain current with this tool," adoption would crater overnight. That's not unique to Kubernetes, though it i … | Continue reading
Reposted Riley (@riley@fiera.social) Post details Attached: 1 image "just roll with it" genuinely the best advice | Continue reading
Listened to #define: piggyback with Carol Lee, Taylor Troesh, Thomas Eckert & Mat Ryer (Changelog & Friends #59) Post details What happens when you take two #define champs (Taylor Troesh, Thomas Eckert), a grizzled veteran (Adam Stacoviak), a british bard (Mat Ryer), a PhD (Carol … | Continue reading