Paying individual maintainers a couple of bucks a month is a really nice way to show appreciation.

Paying people to work full-time on open-source is how you get actual large-scale improvements to the language done quickly.

I'm really happy I'm on this team.

Hot take: 'years of experience' is a terrible metric for hiring 🌶

Open-source can be a huge talent discovery and mentorship opportunity, while still producing awesome software.

I chatted with Richard Littauer on the Sustain Open Source podcast about how mentorship in OSS can be a win-win 👇

I rarely agree with the conversation of 'lack of reciprocity' for FOSS maintainers. Reciprocity itself does not make sense to talk about in this situation imho.

But I do think that there is a double standard. Here is my example for today. Do better.

softwaremaxims.com/blog/2fa-commu…

I keep having to explain to people that building powerful DX is mainly hampered by the broken economics of the field.

So I wrote down a summary of these economics from my pov, hoping it helps inform the discussion. Let me know how wrong I am ;)

softwaremaxims.com/blog/economics…

And not fall for either-

Myth #1: The tech is moving to fast! Regulation can't keep up.

Myth #2: The 'real' concern is rogue AGI that poses 'existential risk' to humanity.

I just want to be clear: the things we call AIs right now are not intelligent. They are language models. They use probability to figure out what words go with what other words.

These people are, in fact, among the most judgmental of all because they automatically deem anyone with an interest in dress as being frivolous and unserious. As I've stated before, I think this is because fashion has been historically coded as a feminine interest.

i find that the people I rankle most here are involved in technology in some way (either through academia or the private sector). Many bristle at the idea that clothing can hold great meaning for a great number of people 🧵

If you're having trouble finding a bug in your Python code, I recommend adding type hints and doing static type checking. It won't help you fix your bug but it will give you a bunch of busywork to distract you from the problem!

I think I finally found a name to put on the work that needs to be done to bring all the fantastic ideas that come out of academia and esolang into the tooling for developers out there.

We Need More Process Engineering in Software
softwaremaxims.com/blog/process-e…

I interviewed Parker & Shannon (creator of the popular Oban library) for Code Code Ship:

“There are tremendous opportunities for commercial Elixir libraries.”

codecodeship.com/blog/2023-04-1…

menswear writers will be like, 'This garment was inspired by British polo players and carried American men from the jazz clubs of the Roaring 20s through the dark days of the Great Depression and onto college campuses of a booming postwar America,' and it's just an oxford shirt

Women posting pictures of themselves in next to nothing are a million times more worthy of respect than women posting tweets which absolve men of responsibility for their shitty actions and blaming the women they target

Join us for our April meeting! You don't want to miss out on a great presentation on that perennial bugaboo of developers--floating point numbers!

Thomas Depierre is going to share some of his hard-won experience wrestling with these beasties!

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Maybe the last 10 years of industries like VC were ponzi schemes purposefully designed to extract wealth from the public and leave the people with nothing. Maybe while we weren't looking, the engine of innovation got infiltrated by a group of frauds and crooks. Maybe.

We're very pleased to have Thomas Depierre talking to us next Tuesday April 11 on general subject of the ins and outs of floating point. Something every developer needs to know! Please join us!

Details (and RSVP) here:
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I was recently diagnosed at 36 & scared about telling ppl. Showed my mum the Rach Idowu decks today & she went through them going 'this one's DEFINITELY you' got to the RSD one&couldn't stop laughing about how accurate it was

Rach, you've taken a lot of pressure out of this!

Let's be clear:

An LLM does not create any new truths; they are architecturally incapable of abductive reasoning.

LLMs only generate statistically interesting strings of words that are surprisingly coherent yet untethered to any metric for truth.

People think that technical work can actually be completely specified, and thus easily securable by writing a few processes, and that writing and managing software is akin to a mechanical process like printing a note on paper.

It’s not.

Justin Cormack home skillet (@[email protected]) Docker's definition of what kind of open source it will support is pretty hostile - especially when you consider Docker's own rebirth from Open Source to a SaaS and Open Core company.

Paraphrased:

'If you live in abject poverty and work for free, you can continue to host some…