We checked out a feminist children’s book from the library. Bodies of all shapes and sizes, identity symbols all over, about the global sisterhood of girls.

But not even one trans girl, woman, or symbol anywhere in the book.

Once a terf, always a terf I guess.

So #jexer will be finding a new home shortly, because #GitLab continues to be the company that “wishes it was GitHub” rather than being happy as a company that “does its thing rather well”.

I was already annoyed with the “DevOps” CI/CD blah blah push from years ago, but I could turn all that off. I was also annoyed at how often I would have to grab a damn code from email to login, but again I lived with it. What created my ISSUE number 177 was all the “DevSecOps” AI bullshit, but again that was going to be a measured approach of a weeks-to-months kind of thing.

Not anymore. I am leaving #GitLab ASAP.

Because without notice, the “Issues” feature because renamed to “Work Items” and the URL was changed. (Because it helps “organize teams!” or some other bullshit that I YET AGAIN do not need or want.)

To the git hosting providers out there, you have one job: be a fixed point in cyberspace for a project’s code, issues, and other resources. A community might form around that point, but maybe not! You are not Social Media For Code Dorks, you are Glorified Modern FTP. When you change the externally-visible URLs to core features, you fail your job.

Fuck, not even SourceForge did this, and they started on goddamn cvs before subversion even existed! They’ve managed to go through multiple DVCS’es, multiple web hosting solutions, and survived a few years of parasitic owners and trashed reputation that frankly IMHO they have mostly paid for and are pretty fucking fine now.

It’s a win-win, honestly. GitLab doesn’t want projects like Jexer, and I just want to code in peace.

Just saw Tron Ares and it really isn’t bad. Leto is pretty good performance-wise, Jodie Turner-Smith is quite scary as a baddie, and Greta Lee portrays the most complex woman in the Tron universe and I really like her. It’s a really fitting conclusion to the Tron story, especially if no other movies come out.

The trailers for it really sucked, sadly. (Which is why I missed it in theaters: I wanted to see it but got busy and it slipped.) I’m not sure what kind of trailer would work though is the thing. If you never saw the other two Tron movies, then Ares will be crap; but if you have then it feels like a gem worthy of the others. A firm rejection of Dillinger and the tech bro AI slop ethos, yes!! The scene in the 80’s grid is a love letter to both of the prior films, but also: a Turing test for Ares; Flynn making his connections between a person from someone else’s grid, humanity, and divinity; and a bit of GenX honoring the achievements of the digital ancestors. There’s a lot to unpack.

So today someone posted a project that was originated with an AI prompt and is advertised as modern and sleek. I look inside the code and … Hmm.

Makes me glad I turned off merge requests on my stuff a few years ago.

It’s gotta be heartbreaking seeing things that once brought joy turned into whatever this is.

Seeing so much use of copilot/LLM in open source projects has me creeped out.

I can understand the professionals using it: they are being paid to ship more features faster, and you work to live not live to work. Fuck it, save time, go home at 5pm!

But if this is a person’s hobby time, why in the world would they pass up on the “actually having fun” part of it?

The whole point of the hobby – to me, anyway – is the learning, not the typing. Digging though actually-printed books; trying to interoperate with decades-old programs; feeling a connection with the engineers of old; and maybe someday writing up a post-mortem after putting it to rest.

It isn’t about the end result, it’s the process of getting there.