Posts by Di4na@hachyderm.io
(DIR) Post #AVwemZipYiqVh87QnI by Di4na@hachyderm.io
2023-05-23T11:07:25Z
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@fasterthanlime i mean. Good enough that their exec teams keep leaving, they cannot provide financial statements and their UK auditor keep slamming them for lying in their financial statements.You know. Small stuff.
(DIR) Post #AVx24VUMKqreitryHg by Di4na@hachyderm.io
2023-05-23T15:42:37Z
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@xerz @fasterthanlime which one of the financial statements?For the exec https://sifted.eu/articles/revolut-execs-quit-senior-leaders
(DIR) Post #AWUEi04DiV2ZPKpYLQ by Di4na@hachyderm.io
2023-06-05T10:42:00Z
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@openfuture As someone working on Digital Infrastructure, I find it fascinating that the things you call for in this are... not infrastructural at all, but rather specific, high-level, and niche. There is a lot of digital commons and digital infrastructure in desperate need of support and work, to ensure that society keeps running—infrastructure in other words. But none of that is reflected in these calls. We get call for Mastodon or Peertube, but nothing for browsers or TLS or NTP or ...
(DIR) Post #AWUEi2v76oXSFxap4C by Di4na@hachyderm.io
2023-06-05T10:43:34Z
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@openfuture I do not want to diminish the importance of interoperable "social" tools. It is important and I am happy you do it. But murkying the waters of "Digital Infrastructure" will just steal visibility and resources that are already scarce for the infrastructure you build this stuff on top of.
(DIR) Post #AWqJWKPCDEKT7r10t6 by Di4na@hachyderm.io
2023-06-19T07:37:34Z
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Discoveries this weekend:Software Developer Experience problem is recursive. And we constantly fail to integrate that into our design.Example: Tree-sitter is an excellent parser generator to allow the next generation of language to kickstart their parser with great syntax highlighting and outline tokens. Love it. Really easy to use, too (until you need external). It has excellent testing integrated, great!It also has no LSP shipping with it or highlighting for its test format.
(DIR) Post #AWqJWNEfgoh1u579Oq by Di4na@hachyderm.io
2023-06-19T07:39:43Z
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Also, none of that is for its format itself.No extension in VScode to automatically run tests on save. Or to present some information about the rule just written or doctest it inline.Does it make it bad? No, ofc not. Does it make me want to write this before going deeper? Yes kinda...Does it show how hard it seems to be even for people that care deeply about DX like the tree-sitter authors to do it? Yeeeeep
(DIR) Post #AcNVkyV61MsdTHI6Hg by Di4na@hachyderm.io
2023-12-01T21:36:24Z
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@Wolven oh ffs. I agree with you (for years unknowingly) and so now i have one more massive treaty to add to the pile. And close to the top.How am i supposed to empty the pile at this speed!!! (Not. I know. Still. Damn you ;) )
(DIR) Post #AhVSBlHEon7jYQ1m8u by Di4na@hachyderm.io
2024-05-02T23:00:54Z
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For everyone that calls for ways to make open source more secure, or for all their magical solutions that will provide money and resources to FOSS maintainers, please read this.This is a rare account of the reality of maintainers, things that are hard, but also how much knowledge and niche expertise you need for *anything* in there.That is why just giving money to experts will not help that much. It is too hard to train experts in this. But we may make it easierhttp://rhaas.blogspot.com/2024/05/hacking-on-postgresql-is-really-hard.html
(DIR) Post #AhVSBnrTD3IJZMzjtY by Di4na@hachyderm.io
2024-05-02T23:02:30Z
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Like, whatever your scheme is, it needs to take something like this into account"There's one particular patch I remember committing - I won't mention which one - where I spent weeks and weeks of time reviewing the patch before committing it, and after committing it, I lost most of the next six to nine months fixing things I hadn't caught during review"
(DIR) Post #Ai3Oze965gSeUFpEsS by Di4na@hachyderm.io
2024-05-05T12:50:25Z
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Before writing a full blog post, I want to gather some reactions.What if we made it legally obligated that if an employee can show (putting aside the validation mechanism here, lot of options with different tradeoffs) they contribute to open source a bit (and i really mean a low amount. Even an obscure package count, even a few PR to fix real bug) on their non work time.Then the employer have to give them one more (paid) free day a week. 80% job for the salary of 100% one.
(DIR) Post #Ai3OzgnaE82CiOmbGC by Di4na@hachyderm.io
2024-05-05T18:48:14Z
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@thisalex government. And equivalent exist for a lot of professions
(DIR) Post #Ai3OzhpkNZMLvOnqGu by Di4na@hachyderm.io
2024-05-05T12:52:27Z
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The idea behind is that even that would massively multiply time spent by maintainers on foss, support space for learning, and benefit everyone.Yes sure, it will be gamed. But would it still be worth it?Limited risk for everyone, support a hobbyist schedule/wants and all. And a very distributed solution that would adapt relatively naturally to fill even the nichest parts.Would the impact be worth it?
(DIR) Post #Ai3OziEYtJD1AMPewy by Di4na@hachyderm.io
2024-05-06T07:06:34Z
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@thisalex this already exist for a lot of them. Feel free to offer that if it does not in your case. I go for narrow because i go for what i can get and support politically
(DIR) Post #Ai3Ozl904RXiByplCK by Di4na@hachyderm.io
2024-05-05T12:58:33Z
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And for everyone that will want to bring UBI: yes i get you but it does solve a slightly different problem. Not against it, but i think it would still have impact even in UBI world.Also to everyone wanting to bring horter work week at all. I also agree with you. I picked the centrist "dealing with what i have in the moment" position for now, but I would take yours too.
(DIR) Post #AiFOY7tKEe5uWuqR4y by Di4na@hachyderm.io
2024-05-25T09:56:40Z
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Btw, if you liked my "I Am Not A Supplier" blogpost, I am searching for a job.Happy to pick a job that is mostly going to tell people working on this about the reality of the maintainer life. Just saying.https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-supplierhttps://www.softwaremaxims.com/resume#foss #opensource
(DIR) Post #AiH7AYI17rAOY2UGS8 by Di4na@hachyderm.io
2024-05-24T11:56:04Z
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I am looking for a new job. Elixir/erlang SWE and/or ops/SRE related. Size of the company does not matter. I have some ethical rules (gambling, blockchain and probably most AI company,...). I only work remotely from France. Yes I would prefer a FTE french contract, but I can do self employed contracts.You can find more about my career at https://www.softwaremaxims.com/resume#elixir #elixirlang #myelixirstatus #erlang #SRE #devops
(DIR) Post #AjLN3k7pIijhVehpVg by Di4na@hachyderm.io
2024-06-27T05:52:41Z
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@foone there is a reason i like "automate the boring things" book and recommend it widely And why AHK is such a massively installed piece of software
(DIR) Post #AkZ73K9a1wfuKtVRo0 by Di4na@hachyderm.io
2024-08-01T04:03:30Z
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@brainwane idk if you would count it as such, but everytime we mention this topic, i also think of https://firesidefiction.com/carborundorum-dev-null as a prior art.It is slightly to the side of this, and also directly in the center. If it makes sense.And thanks. It is a good story and useful one. Also one i have used, showing it to previous partners, to explain why I am cautious giving advices, and why i recommend a password manager. Because it is too easy as a partner to install stalkerware under the guise of help
(DIR) Post #AlMAtvpJ1oooqKputc by Di4na@hachyderm.io
2024-08-26T10:25:57Z
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@frescosecco object storage is already everywhere, it is basically how we side step that shitshow that is NFS and unix file system API.I have doubts on the programming model side though. If anything, i think going back to less abstractions (cough beam cough) is a more impactful change.But eh. We will see
(DIR) Post #AlRTplQqbQIsMlvDzU by Di4na@hachyderm.io
2024-08-29T00:22:05Z
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@foone the fun part ofc is that it is what vlc was built for originally...