dbread @dbread@qoto.org

I really appreciate this comment on the linked post on HN
The joy you find in your job does not come primarily from the company, organization, even its mission. It comes from good people you get to work with

After a lot of work, we're happy to announce the #PeerTube Android application is available on #fdroid 🎉

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.framasoft.peertube/

I was interviewed by Luca Rossi for his Refactoring podcast. We talk about the impact of AI, technical debt, the current state of agile software, and the metaphor of The Forest and The Desert.

https://refactoring.fm/p/growing-the-development-forest-with

Oh hey, that's me!

I'm thrilled to be featured in 'Per Anhalter durch die IT-Branche' (A Hitchhiker's Guide to the IT Industry), where I share insights into the freelancing life of a Creative Technologist. I'm extra honored to me mentioned besides so many great women in IT!

#PerAnhalterDurchDieIT

Meta under fire for making users automatically follow Trump & Vance on Facebook, blocks #Democrat & #DNC on Instagram

https://techissuestoday.com/meta-auto-follow-trump-vance-blocks-democrat-hashtags/

#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption #meta

Exterminate all rational AI scrapers.

Today I added an infinite-nonsense honeypot to my web site just to fuck with LLM scrapers, based on a "spicy autocomplete" program I wrote about 30 years ago. Well-behaved web crawlers will ignore it, but those "AI" people.... well, you know how they are.

I'm intentionally not linking to it here, but I'll bet you can find it pretty easily. It's kinda funny.
https://jwz.org/b/ykgX

Trust issues...