GenghisKen Coar

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I'm a #software #developer, one of the founders of The Apache Software Foundation (#apache #ASF #TheASF #apachehttpd), I was on the board of the Open Source Initiative (#OSI), I use #linux almost exclusively, and I code mostly in #Ruby.

Over the last 40+ years, I've given hundreds of presentations in dozens of countries.

Oh, and I'm also ND, have a very literal sense of humor, and joke about just about everything.

Pronounshttps://pronoun.is/he/him/
Languagesen
OS of choiceLinux, VMS
Githubhttps://github.com/RoUS/
Project 2025's plans for the Justice Department

Dig in with me.

Law Dork

@blaine
Approximately half of my day job is explaining this to people deep in the implementation silos

…"our customers — and even our QA team — won't care that the bug isn't in your component, they'll call the whole product bad and end their session.

Help me get it fixed _from the end user's point of view_ or direct me to someone who can"

@evan @thisismissem

The relentless dominance of the PDF file format is a glaring sign that our tech progress is way less impressive than we sometimes like to believe. #hottake

My elder teen used the word "self-considerate" (as in her friend wasn't going along with what she wanted her to do but she understood that it was because the friend was respecting her own boundaries) and it is now part of my vocabulary.

I am not being difficult, I am being self-considerate.

#words #newwords #kidsthesedays

Melissa's Law Of Software

In any piece of software that has been in use for a while, no matter how well architected, there will be one file that:

a. provides the core functionality or most used interface, and
b. is a gnarly mess of patches, fixes, optimizations and half-completed re-factorings.

The older the software, the more anxiety this file generates in the engineers who maintain it.

Inline previous result and why you should edebug

This thread is not an endorsement of any candidate, or an exhaustive treatise on all of their policy positions. It's also not an indicator of who I'm voting for, or if Biden should step down, or anything silly like that.

This is sharing some cold facts that lots of white folk don't want to accept, and sharing information that so called "low information voters," (AKA Black people), have, that white voters don't have.

The "low information voters" know what you know! And things you don't know.

I don't understand why #Rackspace (and other cloud providers) don't have an option for "send me a text message if one of my servers goes down." I keep finding out about it situationally.
@schratze
Or, same book, consider the phrase "Transparent Hand" with Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand."
@schratze
Heh. Read David Brin's "Earth" and search for "#modalities."