Please do not add genAI images to punch up your writing. You might think that it adds a nice little bit of visual pizazz to your content-marketing piece, but what you're actually doing is *making it look like content marketing* rather than a useful resource. To the extent that content marketing is an effective tactic, it is because you build trust with the customer by providing them valuable information. A genAI turd plopped on top of your writing is a signal that it will be worthless slop.
it's always just a little bit frustrating when I have to do one of these with mostly "here's some stuff that's in progress" and no big flashy new stuff to announce, mostly because my adult #ADHD addled brain cannot accept that some things take more than a week
@Gargron no, I posted the link about 10 minutes before I saw this. It's a bit inscrutable to have caching periods that long and no visibility into them. Please consider adding some kind of inspectable metadata somewhere, "preview last generated on" or somesuch, so that site authors can do something more than reloading a lot and hoping
@Gargron so, I tried adding this metadata to my website when I first heard about it, and it didn't work, but I didn't realize that I needed approval. I just added my blog to that list and saved my profile and I still don't see it. How do I debug this?
@hynek — don't use codecov, it keeps breaking intermittently, it wastes so much of your time, here's an easy zero-maintenance solution
also @hynek — oh btw every time the US has a holiday expect 100% of your CI using this alternative to codecov to start failing, here's a page-long annotated timeline of when and why that happened
@foone my sarcastic jokey defense mechanisms all crumble in the face of blatant injustice like this, I have nothing for you but “I am so sorry”. This fucking sucks and you have every right to be furious about it, if anything you seem positively sunny and gracious given the circumstances
@foone this has _got_ to be some kind of crime, right? like, not you having the wav files, but the fact that someone gave them to you. a HIPAA violation at the very least
@foone 8 years old?!! Is it in an industrial laundry facility in continuous 24/7 use? Are your clothes made exclusively of tungsten ring mail? What HAPPENED to this thing?
The difference between “continuous deployment”, “continuous delivery” and “continuous integration” is the difference between the eternal torments of sisyphus, tantalus and prometheus, respectively
It's Friday night, which means it's time to remind you you that if you like like my writing, or want to support my #python#opensource work, you can do so at my Patreon, and if you do so, you can get a little summary of the few things that I did this week. Just a quick one today, since I was off most of the week, but nevertheless, I *do* need a few more subscribers each week if I'm going to keep doing this thing, so please share and enjoy:
@eb I really hope that this causes an industry-wide reckoning with the common practice of letting your entire goddamn product rest on the shoulders of one overworked person having a slow mental health crisis without financially or operationally supporting them whatsoever. I want everyone who has an open source dependency to read this message https://www.mail-archive.com/xz-devel@tukaani.org/msg00567.html
At one point as a teenager I did arrange a physical swap of “hacking” software on floppy disks in a series of posts on a BBS using coded language. We rollerbladed to a laser tag arena and traded the disks inside. Everything I have done since then has been determinedly less cool, so I understand the yearning for the prelapsarian past, even if I recognize the impulse as problematic and reactionary. But we did lose something.
As everyone under 40 in infosec tires of the “Hackers” aesthetic plastered on everything by us tedious elder millennials, one thing that I think gets lost, particularly for younger folks, is that the movie isn’t just goofy camp. I mean, obviously, it’s heavily fictionalized, but there really *was* a hacking subculture kind of like the one depicted in it in New York in the 1990s. I barely grazed the outer periphery of it myself, and I sometimes wonder if anyone did a serious ethnography of it.
@foone having seen him talk about the process of making it on a few youtube videos now I am pretty resigned to just never get a KVM that meets my fussy requirements
he/himYou probably heard about me because I am the founder of the Twisted python networking engine open source project. But I’m also the author and maintainer of several other smaller projects, a writer and public speaker about software and the things software affects (i.e.: everything), and a productivity nerd due to my ADHD. I also post a lot about politics; I’d personally prefer to be apolitical but unfortunately the global rising tide of revanchist fascism is kind of dangerous to ignore.