Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

i love rural bus stop names
also incredibly nerdy but the bus stop being called "protocase / 45drives" makes my server hardware nerd happy inside

There's a lot of money to be made in doing the "dirty jobs" of programming.

DevOps and maintaining legacy and DX are not glamorous jobs, but they're important.

They are as important as new features, flashy launches and high-powered new designs.

The fact you can just scroll through photos from Mars is mad.
This one was only taken 12 hours ago!

https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw-images/?order=sol+desc%2Cinstrument_sort+asc%2Csample_type_sort+asc%2C+date_taken+desc&per_page=50&page=0&mission=msl

A conversation today reminded me of something: I have come to see speaking badly about ones users as a sign of a bad programmer.

Disengagement, cynicism, callousness, suspicion… these things make bad software.

Simultaneously our industry has elevated these traits as signs of “rationality”.

Caring, empathy, curiosity, engagement, learning, compassion… these things make good software.

And they don’t get the hype they deserve.

Aside, but important: in my experience, disengagement especially, but also to some extent the others, are often an early warning sign of burnout. So if you feel you’re slipping into that, maybe get someone you can talk to, there might be more going on than you realize.

As it's the start of the semester at many schools, I beg of you to wear a mask to class if you are allowed to. One of my classes is meeting in a tiny, crowded room and everyone was breathing each other's air.

If your school is trying to ban masks, demand an exemption.

#Covid19 #ThePandemicIsNotOver

Oh get absolutely fucked

Hey! Please don't push yourself too far!

is anyone here really good at fontforge scripting or something

I need to add 300 glyphs to a font that are 10 diacritics on top of 31 different base characters (10 of them are already in the font)

recently, i've been collecting steam achievements you get for riding roombas

if anyone knows any other game where you can do this, please tell me
this is important!

@mike what was that you were saying about rack theft recently

Quick ask: GitHub + the Linux Foundation + Harvard University are partnering to research how open source is funded. We NEED more data in order to find ways to improve funding in the ecosystem

If your org/company funds OSS, could you take it please? and if you could pass it along to others: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/research/surveys/open-source-software-funding-survey-2024

as someone who has spent an inordinate amount of time obsessing over data remanence standards and hardware storage volatility, I have unfortunately become keenly aware that incredible amounts of sensitive data end up in the e-waste pile. most of the time as a result of negligence, or the false assumption that e-waste contractors will wipe equipment before resale, but often simply because there is no way to actually fully wipe the data on the equipment due to oversights in the design.

A shout out @SocialGaff for the use of his ingenious DIY drying rack.

#PrintMaking
#linocut
#RescueTransRescue

HEY FUN FACT: this was used as part of an Alexa/google home type thing! this is the "cloud" half, as in the part sitting in a warehouse somewhere.
It turns out every time the customer asked for something from the smart assistant, the WAV file was sent to the cloud box

where it is still stored. and I now have eleven thousand wave files

hello internet. my name is nora. i run a jewelry shop specializing in fused glass pride jewelry but i also am trying to make glass weird. a new product (the first picture) is a grab bag of strange glass bits and bobs called a kobold hoard, named for a favorite fantasy creature that loves shinies.

https://nora.jewelry/

i'm a one artist operation, though my husband helps pack orders and helps talk me through ideas. shares help me out.

#sellingonmastodon #jewelry #fusedglass