@mattly my favorite open source licensing fun fact is that that disclaimer of warranty—popularized by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology License—is not actually permitted by the Uniform Commercial Code of Massachusetts. you can't disclaim the implied warranty of merchantability. (Although if you didn't sell it I don't think that the implication attaches…)
Posts
-
Github is telling me that because of my role in “the software supply chain” I am no longer allowed to disable 2FA on my account -
Github is telling me that because of my role in “the software supply chain” I am no longer allowed to disable 2FA on my account@mattly I have so much to quibble with here, but I just have to endorse your key insight that IT IS NOT A SUPPLY CHAIN and the "supply chain" verbiage and assumptions are corrosive and they chafe a little more every time I hear them.
However, you *should* turn on 2FA on Github (and everywhere else) because of the position of social and infrastructural trust that your packages place you into. I really want better language to describe this role that isn't "supply chain" based, but I don't have it
-
OMG BETTERDISPLAY JUST RELEASED 3.x AND IT SUPPORTS EXPLICIT COLOR MODE CHROMA SAMPLING CONFIGURATION AT LONG LAST OUR NIGHTMARE IS OVERthis thing is saving me an incredible amount of time, more than I would have really thought possible
-
Half of being a right-winger is just constantly being on the lookout for exciting new things to be scared of@jalefkowit point of order: this thing is neither exciting nor new
-
Why does Marky Mark want me to pray with him@jalefkowit crushing guilt from the hate crime he took 30 years to apologize for?
-
It's that time of year again: the Tidelift State of Open Maintainers report is out, based on a detailed survey of several hundred open source maintainers. There's a *lot* of information here—63 pages of results and analysis, including comparisons again...@luis_in_brief it's hard to focus on anything else when the itch is so very, very itchy. But long-term I think focusing entirely on paying maintainers is likely to be a self-limiting strategy. It's the upmarket death spiral (innovator's dilemma, chapter 4) but for volunteering. The bulk of the work is always going to be in maintenance, almost by definition, but the bulk of the *excitement* is in new development.
-
It's that time of year again: the Tidelift State of Open Maintainers report is out, based on a detailed survey of several hundred open source maintainers. There's a *lot* of information here—63 pages of results and analysis, including comparisons again...@luis_in_brief As much as I think this work is important and represents a near-term crisis that NEEDS addressing—maintainers are burning out, aging out, and maintenance still needs to happen—I think there's an even worse longer-term issue that this all gestures at: what about the *creation* / research side of the equation? The development of *new* open source powered the tech economy for decades, and even if we maintain what we've got, do we just not make any more?
-
What's funny about Oracle is like, most tech companies, people probably feel *skeevy* about, but also most tech cos have done 1 thing you Like.@darius by "dumb terminal" do you mean like a Sun Ray or is there some more contemporary version of this
-
What's funny about Oracle is like, most tech companies, people probably feel *skeevy* about, but also most tech cos have done 1 thing you Like.@mcc @jalefkowit this commitment is hardly ironclad and I assume it may go away at some point, but I estimate using it for the last few years has saved me at least $500 by this point https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier_topic-Always_Free_Resources.htm
-
What's funny about Oracle is like, most tech companies, people probably feel *skeevy* about, but also most tech cos have done 1 thing you Like.@mcc @jalefkowit this one comes with a stronger commitment that it will be $0 than I have received from other providers that it would remain $N. My previous provider, who shall remain nameless, started at $5/mo and through a series of end-of-life shell-game maneuvers eventually expected me to pay $75/mo for an equivalent service. So I tend to think of these things as price-over-time, and remain able to pivot off to a new provider with continuous local backups and ephemeral containers
-
What's funny about Oracle is like, most tech companies, people probably feel *skeevy* about, but also most tech cos have done 1 thing you Like.@mcc @jalefkowit oracle gave me a really good cloud computer for free
-
Please do not add genAI images to punch up your writing.This is hardly an original insight. Lots of other people are posting this exact advice. But I want to emphasize it because I just passed on linking to a page for like the 10th time this week because it included a big genAI hero image which looked like absolute shit. Scanning the article briefly it actually looked pretty good, it did not read like LLM slop, but it is a reputational risk to link to something that will give readers that immediate negative impression, and it's not worth it.
-
Please do not add genAI images to punch up your writing.But it isn't. Unless you are a *real* master with these tools there is an unavoidable sheen that they leave on the generated image. It's the smell, if there is such a thing. This is not just me; if you go anywhere that younger people are congregating online, "boomer art" is the *most* polite thing that they call this stuff. It damages your credibility. If you were lazy enough to fake the image, are you lazy enough to fake the facts? It is *much* worse than just having no image at all.
-
Please do not add genAI images to punch up your writing.I understand the appeal, I also wish I were a competent illustrator, I also see some genAI stuff that looks kinda neat, I learned about the dollar-bill rule when I was the layout editor for my high school newspaper, I understand wanting to break up big blocks of text with visual interest for lighter writing. This is why, when I can, I take custom photos or include relevant classical art in my blog. Sometimes I'll even just use a stock image. It feels like genAI is like that but more customized.
-
Please do not add genAI images to punch up your writing.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.
-
five years on I am still a little sad and disappointed that the rise of skywalker existsfive years on I am still a little sad and disappointed that the rise of skywalker exists
-
It's Friday, time for the Patreon update: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-update-111994982it'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
-
It's Friday, time for the Patreon update: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-update-111994982Which means it's also time to remind you that you can subscribe over at https://www.patreon.com/creatorglyph to support my open source work and stuff like https://blog.glyph.im/2024/09/python-macos-framework-builds.html if you find that sort of thing useful!
-
It's Friday, time for the Patreon update: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-update-111994982It's Friday, time for the Patreon update: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-update-111994982
-
I believe AI is going to kill us all if it is not eradicated and I have to spend a lot of time explaining that no, I don't mean it's going to become superintelligent https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/113028760435643985