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linc

@linc@phpc.social

He/him. Web engineering leader deep in community building & education who thinks PHP & hypermedia are great. 🚀

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If I installed new server software that served websites 500% faster but also crashed sometimes, your first question would be "how frequent are the crashes?" and if I shrugged you'd back away slowly and start looking for my replacement.

But with LLMs & hallucinations that's just normal operating conditions and you're a luddite if you ask too much about it.

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“Amazon has launched a new ‘one-click to quit the union’ tool, and they’re relentlessly pushing it to every worker in their Coventry warehouse. […] If a worker scans the QR code and clicks the link, Amazon’s software automatically generates a letter from the worker and then emails it to the trade union, ending their membership.”

A legal challenge to some gnarly union-busting tactics that Amazon’s deployed in one of its warehouses in the UK: https://www.foxglove.org.uk/2024/05/02/legal-challenge-to-amazon-uks-new-one-click-to-quit-the-union-tool/

linc,
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@beep I’d like the names of the engineers that built this tbh. Let the world know the work they did.

ramsey, (edited ) to random
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Hey, everyone! I’m giving a keynote at @phptek in Chicago in April. I’m pretty excited about it, and I’d love to see you there.

Today is the last day for the Early Bird Discount, but you can get an even deeper discount by using my super-special speaker discount link: https://ti.to/phptek/phptek-2024/discount/speaker-Ramsey

That means you have to buy today to get the tickets at their lowest price. 🙂

For more info, see https://tek.phparch.com.

I hope I see you there!

linc,
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@ramsey Also looking forward to meeting @stevegrunwell irl finally and seeing @naderman for the first time in [checks notes] a decade 😮‍💨

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Is this a real thing people using Tailwind do because this made me actually lol at work
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72826605/how-to-style-nested-elements-based-on-parent-class-using-tailwind-css

linc,
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@hbuchel My impression is that using CSS well requires specialized knowledge, which our industry is actively trying to squelch with the labor arbitrage of "Javascript everywhere" so everyone has the same skillset. Enough folks have drank the Kool Aid on this they have a critical mass and don't understand they're undercutting their own labor by devaluing others' experience.

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This is part of the reason I couldn’t get to a good place (mentally) in order to do a real “Saving Open Source” talk at #PHPTek:

From @geerlingguy: “2024 is the year corporate open source died”

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/corporate-open-source-dead

linc, (edited )
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@ramsey Basically, you need significant contributions outside the company under the GPL without a CLA for it to "stick" — at least, that's my understanding of prevailing legal theory. I don't think most license strategies have been tested in court because they turn into protracted Google v Oracle messes because suddenly the entire industry cares.

linc,
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@ramsey I worked for a company that used GPLv2 with a CLA precisely so they could relicense. It's the "rules for thee, not for me" licensing tactic, used for when startups are concerned about their ability to sell out if all their code is GPL-bound. You basically use your accrued CLA rights to publish a "new" copy that isn't encumbered. I forked a GPLv2 project from that company but I don't have the CLAs so my fork is GPLv2 forever.

linc, to random
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Underrated lead engineer skill: Speaking as little as necessary in team meetings. It’s not collaborating if you guide every time.

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The feature I wish my music player had is "pause when this song is over".

linc, to random
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One of the best software engineers I ever worked with had a masters degree in music and no comp sci. For most software teams, owning your role in an ensemble is far more important than being able to write your own code compiler.

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It's funny how bad Google Workspace's tools are for transitioning employee data given how much they enjoy firing people.

linc, to random
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The easiest way to tell if a tech trend has legs is to verify many people care about it despite zero billionaires advocating for it.

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I had another "blogging Sunday" where I connected my nascent thoughts on trying to de-feudalize my own community, @ntnsndr's new book, Benjamin Shestakofsky's new book, and Tim Berners-Lee's open letter on the 35th anniversary of the Web. https://lincolnwebs.com/2024/03/17/feudalistic-software/

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Better to starve than to write this code. https://follow.ethanmarcotte.com/@beep/112379026661630833

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goddddamnit it's one thing when a delivery person is in a hurry or whatever & lies & says they tried to deliver but I wasn't home -- I get that.

But the goldang USPS carrier went to the trouble of filling out the coral "sorry we missed you" form, including my name & address & everything, and left it in my mailbox WHEN I WAS SITTING HERE IN MY APARTMENT ALL AFTERNOON.

linc,
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@rossgrady This is like FedEx’s hobby at my place. I work from home and my front door is made of glass. I know what they did.

USPS once fully stole a package for Amazon return with UPS, insisting they could do it too. It was gone forever, never received.

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@viticci @ismh86 @imyke Have you heard the Titanic theory that Jack is (or was supposed to be) a trans man? https://www.cracked.com/blog/the-much-better-movie-hiding-in-titanic

linc,
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@BenRiceM Not only is it a better movie, the plot actually makes sense now. I haven’t reshared a link in my community Discord that got more enthusiastic feedback than that one in a while. 😅

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    @josh Amen. 🙏 I unsubscribe like it’s going out of style and I still cannot keep my inbox subdued. I always prefer an RSS feed because then I can catchup when I’m free (fun) rather than having a todo list (the worst vibes).

    linc, to random
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    Kyle, the kid I helped raise, would've been 25 today. He was killed bicycling in a crosswalk by someone who chose to ignore red lights.

    My nephew's wife is still in a coma after an accident last month.

    Our car was totaled last week when someone turned in front of my husband (luckily he was fine, but still very sore).

    We don't need smarter cars. We don't need wider roads. We don't need stricter laws. We don't need technology disruption peddled by a billionaire.

    We need mass transit. Now.

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    Civilization is an infinite, cyclical game of one-upmanship between the systems builders and the systems gamers. When people say "late-stage capitalism" I hear "phase in the current cycle where the systems gamers are ahead."

    What bothers me is an implicit expectation that letting the system fail is going to work for anyone. People who believe that have never lived through a system failing. You move on by building something new, not waiting.

    linc,
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    This is a post about everything.

    AI is the fever dream of systems gamers that want to cement & control the current system as it stands.

    Trump's conviction is the old system holding against its most prolific gamer, but we're not sure for how much longer.

    The non-monopoly Web is where the Builders are scheming their comeback to reverse the tides once again.

    Our despair is why the cycle lasts as long as it does. We stop believing the building matters for a bit, and it infects everything.

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    AWS is an absolutely miserable user experience, top to bottom.

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    Yes. All of this. https://www.takahe.org.nz/heat-death-of-the-internet/

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    Who will I see at next week? I’m giving a keynote on Thursday, and I’m super nervous. It’s only the second keynote I’ve ever given, and the first one was over 10 years ago. 😬😰

    linc,
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    @ramsey 👋 🙋 Break a leg!

    linc, to random
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    The Web has decayed into a sad sack of shit since Covid, and I feel like Mastodon’s one of a few lifeboats trying to avoid being smashed on the modern Scylla & Charybdis of enshittification and labor arbitrage.

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    linc,
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    @josh If my dog gets too warm on a walk, he finds a nice patch of grass and just sprawls until he's done panting. I get no say in how long that is.

    linc, to random
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    Once upon a time someone studied when the most effective time of week was to send fundraiser messages and decided it was Tuesday afternoon.

    Now EVERYONE sends them then in an hours-long torrent, making it the worst possible time to send one.

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