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Everything smells like something. It wasn't until I left the equator that I realized, most places don't smell at all like home.

Flowers, for the temple. Onions and garlic, for the food. Durian, for dessert.

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A public service announcement with an expiration date: if you've loved my writing and science, I have a book proposal+sample chapter out on submission right now. The pitch is "The Psychology of Software Teams": a general audience, warmly human, accessible book for teams, leaders, and curious minds, filled to the brim with practitioner stories AND the new empirical social science of technology innovation. 🙌❤️

Let me know if you know editors who might be interested in this uniquely cool project.

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@mcc @mike @jernej__s this is how my brain works. I once used the "throw" keyword in a language that didn't support it because when it got to the invalid keyword it crashed, just like i wanted. computers are about creativity, not following the man's rules

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The list of accepted talks for the first-ever Choreographic Programming workshop is up! pldi24.sigplan.org/home/cp-202

Very excited to see this community growing.

See you in Copenhagen in June! 🇩🇰

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Sharing depthful open access materials that loads of people asked for based on our empirical research into pressing topics that impact so many developers 🥰 /on the same day literally struggling to find funds to even go to a conference, struggling to find a journal to publish our social science, struggling to get reviewers to not reject established social science methods because they're "not computer science" 🥲. Lord I love this work but the slog is so brutal and unnecessary

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THE CODE REVIEW ANXIETY WORKBOOK IS OUT

developer-success-lab.gitbook.

This workbook takes the code review anxiety intervention that we designed and tested in our empirical research (osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8k5a) & distills it into a self-paced workbook for you. It's designed for you to read & work through as many times as you wish and provides you with the tools you need to mitigate & manage your anxiety about giving or receiving code reviews.

@seresearchers #SoftwareEngineeering #developers #code

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Enormous news! the Python Software Foundation now has a 5 year commitment with Fastly to deliver @pypi, us.pycon.org, and much more. We appreciate you and your continued investment in the #python community, Fastly! #PyConUS

@matdevdug I'm also wondering how they're intending to implement this. I guess the plan is to weasel out by saying "oh, this is not used broadly across all customers, because some of them opted out, so doesn't count!"

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When I talk about digital privacy, there is always some smug genius who shrugs and tells me, "Who cares? We all know we don't have any privacy anyway." Nothing could be more wrong. Convincing you that the fight is already over to the way people in power get you to stop resisting.

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The difference between “continuous deployment”, “continuous delivery” and “continuous integration” is the difference between the eternal torments of sisyphus, tantalus and prometheus.

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Anyone in Germany or Austria (on the route between UK and Slovenia) up for hosting me + maybe other live coders for an gig/workshop around 27th July or 4th August? Looking for a stop-off on the way to pif.camp/ by train

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@lambda I think that does a disservice to the concerted work done by Microsoft and Google to enable exactly this kind of thing

it's hard to say what their intentions were, but it's actually quite difficult to have both of these technologies work, much less as well as they do

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check this out

thanks to VS Code, YoWASP Toolchain Extension, and WebUSB, you can now program FPGAs with nothing but your cellphone o:3

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spear phishing is how you feed when all you have is a data lake

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@spoltier @froztbyte I have basically never had it because it was either due to phone failure or the SIM no longer being accessible

so I just don't trust Signal with anything that's actually important for me, because _I need that to remain accessible_

@whitequark @froztbyte Signal is definitely biased towards it being better to lose your messages than there being any risk of someone else accessing them via any recovery mechanism.
You made me remember to try and setup the backup functionality, so I stumbled upon this page: support.signal.org/hc/en-us/ar

So, technically possible to change your number without losing messages, but only in ideal /orderly settings where you have access to the (old) phone Signal is installed on.

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@whitequark apparently they’re finally testing iOS file backups, as of two weeks ago

but yeah hard agree, i fucking hate losing my messages and Signal must have done it three times by now (gods forbid someone wipes their phone once in a blue moon) 🦋

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