Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

once again i find myself writing ruby at pycon

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

THE CODE REVIEW ANXIETY WORKBOOK IS OUT

https://developer-success-lab.gitbook.io/code-review-anxiety-workbook-1

This workbook takes the code review anxiety intervention that we designed and tested in our empirical research (https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/8k5a4) & 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

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.

The curl of #iris petals and the colour contrast is so delightful to me #bloomscrolling

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

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 https://pif.camp/ by train

check this out

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

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

@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_

@froztbyte historically the big problem was that i moved countries a lot due to reasons such as war, which comes with changing phone numbers a lot. i think i went through close to 8 or 10 phone numbers in my life already

signal is written with the assumption that you have one (1) phone number that never changes and that everyone knows

I love how strange new cactus paddles look when they first get started #plantas #cactus

White flag iris with green iridescent beetle at centre.
#Bloomscrolling #beetle

This comes at a price though: since our library dependencies are now dlopen() based they do not show up in the ELF metadata of our binaries anymore. And package managers such as dpkg/rpm generally look at that, and automatically translate those ELF dependencies into packaging dependencies.

Hence: at first glance, this means that we regress on this front: previously automatically determined dependencies have to be encoded manually again.

With v256 we are doing something about this.

ChatGPT in 4o mode is not running the new features yet

(In case you were confused as why the voice input/output isn't as good as it was in Monday's demos)
https://simonwillison.net/2024/May/15/chatgpt-in-4o-mode/

Pleased to announce a new #Jepsen report on Datomic Pro 1.0.7075. Datomic is an unusual system in many ways. Temporal! Immutable! Datalog! Strong Session Serializable*! We found that Datomic appears to offer Strong Session Serializable inter-transaction semantics, up to Strong Serializable when using sync or update transactions. However, *within* a transaction, updates appear as if executed concurrently, rather than sequentially. We hope you enjoy the report. 😃

https://jepsen.io/analyses/datomic-pro-1.0.7075

Random but: just before I got really ill I did a cool research project with my consultancy Catharsis about mid career women in tech using sudden pandemic WFH (along and despite its adversities) to advocate for being seen differently or to get chances that were denied when they were in person. Qualitative interviews with really cool stories about strategy in these moments. Then obviously I got crushed by illness so the data is just sitting on my shelf.

I should find the time to write it up 🥰