jawnsy

matthewskelton, 4 days ago to random

"Surprisingly, our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308716997_Gender_bias_in_open_source_Pull_request_acceptance_of_women_versus_men

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grimalkina, 1 month ago to random

Contest cultures ("constantly prove you belong! Prove you're smart! Everything here is a dog eat dog competition!") tear people down under the guise of "toughness" and "identifying brilliance." In psych, we know this is destructive to long term sustainable work and mastery. We know it's systematically leveled at marginalized folks more.

These beliefs are at the heart of it all. This cannot be what we continue to let define who belongs in technical work and cultures.

https://mastodon.world/

mattgodbolt, 14 hours ago to random

Happy 12th Birthday to the funny little project that stole my name

jawnsy, 29 days ago to random

"The enshittification of the services we once loved and still rely on represents a series of victories for the forces of evil over the forces of good – a victory for the people who want to use the internet to trap us, over the people who want to use the internet to set us free.

As it got harder for users to leave online services, it got easier to abuse users."

https://locusmag.com/2023/11/commentary-by-cory-doctorow-dont-be-evil/ by @pluralistic

nealcurtis, 5 days ago to random

AI = a massive spike in energy consumption and carbon emissions for the production of what is the intellectual equivalent of mechanically reclaimed meat, and yet it will be pursued by capitalists seeking to position themselves as a very small door with stiff hinges that is the only gateway to knowledge. It is nothing but a damaging power play dressed up as a benign service. 🐂💩

jawnsy, 3 months ago to random

Periodic reminder that this repository of Resilience Engineering resources, papers, talks, etc. is incredible.

If you build, operate, or use large-scale software systems, take a few minutes to peruse this library: https://github.com/lorin/resilience-engineering by @norootcause

skinnylatte, 4 days ago to random

I keep threatening to move to the ‘burbs and then I walk to everywhere I need in 20 minutes and I’m like, nvm

jawnsy, 1 month ago to random

As engineers, it's easy for us to measure inputs (how much time we're spending) and outputs (lines of code written or features produced), but what really matters are the business outcomes (customers acquired and retained, revenue growth metrics, profitability), which are less directly related.

It's always useful for us to step back and ask ourselves: what's the point?

jawnsy, 1 month ago to random

This is mostly how I use Twitter, er, X, too...

"The active use of platform X will be stopped and limited to monitoring."

https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/newsroom/2024/mastodon-for-all-university-employees/

jawnsy, 3 months ago to random

Very few software projects are successful over long periods of time. I think one explanation is that it is very challenging to evolve systems in ways that respect the needs of new users ("better" approaches to things, temptation to make backwards-incompatible changes) and existing users (backwards-compatibility is a virtue.)

In this respect, I think about these talks often:

https://youtu.be/2y5Pv4yN0b0 by @briangoetz

https://youtu.be/pEYpvYVlgQc by @rkatz & Carlos Panato

anderseknert, 13 hours ago to devops

It's been a month since the last release, but v0.22.0 of everyone's favorite #Rego linter, #Regal, is now out!

Featuring 3 new linter rules, language server support for code completion, and much more. Check out the release notes, and get your copy here!

https://github.com/StyraInc/regal/releases/tag/v0.22.0

#OPA #DevOps #DevSecOps #IAM

jawnsy, 7 months ago to random

Great talk about configuring sampling for OpenTelemetry traces: https://youtu.be/97RTSznmDH4 by @paigerduty

This is a rare situation where it's easy to achieve five nines or greater... 😅

jawnsy, 8 months ago to random

Looking through this list of libraries for working with JWTs, it seems that the highest-quality ones assume that keys are managed directly, instead of using a Vault, Cloud KMS, etc. to sign. This is true for Python and Go libraries at least. Why is that? https://jwt.io/libraries

jawnsy, 25 days ago to random

Insightful take about corporate contributions to open source, and whether IP is valuable:

"I’m sorry to be the one to have to break it to you, but most of the intellectual property that your company creates isn’t especially important and it’s certainly not business critical."

"What qualifies as critical intellectual property naturally varies by company and business, but you’ll probably know it when you see it."

https://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com/2024/01/open-source-contributions-and-the-risk-of-ip-exposure by @vmbrasseur

stuartmarks, 7 days ago to random

Jing Jing Palo Alto is closing after 38 years! It's the end of an era. I've had many good meals there. I remember when it opened, replacing a rather nondescript Chinese restaurant called the Four Seas, which looked like a repurposed diner with a counter and faded green vinyl booths. Looking forward to a takeout/delivery venture the owner mentions in the SFGate article.

(h/t @jddarcy)

https://www.jingjinggourmet.com/

https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/jing-jing-gourmet-palo-alto-closure-19459757.php

gbraad, 3 days ago to android

Listening to Bassdrive (using Foobar2000) on my #Android-based #Anbernic RG405M handheld game console. Best way to play retrogames... Like tetris!

luis_in_brief, 1 day ago to random

I would read the hell out of a deep analysis of the many layers (internal, external, technical, personal, systemic, etc., etc.) that have combined to make early Google so arguably less dumb than early OpenAI.

It isn’t just rose colored glasses, right? There was no equivalent of the shareholder coup, the ScarJo voice thing, etc.?

RuthMalan, 4 days ago to random

“ The ingredients for conceptual integrity are these: the talent(s) of the human designer(s)—all of them; the thing designed; the luck that brought the designers (and everything they needed) to the right place(s) at the right time(s); the luck of the thing designed to have the right ingredients.”

— Richard Gabriel, Designed as Designer

https://dreamsongs.com/Files/DesignedAsDesignerExpanded.pdf

rmoff, 1 month ago to random

Just another day on the #ApacheFlink user mailing list 🙃

👉For better or worse, understanding JARs is an unavoidable first step to using Flink if you're running it yourself.

👇 That's why I wrote about it a lot 😁

1️⃣ https://www.decodable.co/blog/flink-sql-and-the-joy-of-jars
2️⃣ https://www.decodable.co/blog/flink-sql-misconfiguration-misunderstanding-and-mishaps

jberi, 4 months ago to random

People who complain about SQL have never used AT commands.

jawnsy, 3 days ago to random

Humans shape technology and technology shapes us. Beyond the drama of change, there lie great opportunities for humanity.

"It follows that whenever we gain a new talent, we not only change our bodily capacities, we change the world. The ocean extends an invitation to the swimmer that it withholds from the person who has never learned to swim. With every skill we master, the world reshapes itself to reveal greater possibilities."

https://www.roughtype.com/?p=8783