Colin Dean

@colindean
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Bon vivant, scholar, champion of the oppressed. Software engineer and community builder. My words are my own. Quotes and boosts are not necessarily my views, but something I want followers to see. Soms toot ik in Nederlands.
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GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team - Ian Duncan

Why GitHub Actions is the Internet Explorer of CI, and why Buildkite offers a better path forward for teams that care about developer experience.

Ian Duncan

Is anyone else seeing a FOUC on GitHub, both github.com and enterprise server, since the last release?

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I really appreciate the vulnerability that comes with writing something like this and releasing it to the public. We need to do a better job of recognizing these traits and supporting one another. 💕
https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-03-18-open_source_gave_me_everything_until_i_had_nothing_left_to_give
Open Source Gave Me Everything Until I Had Nothing Left to Give

I thought I was having a spiritual awakening. I was having a psychiatric emergency. I was at a tech conference in Sweden when it started. I hadn't slept in...

Kenneth Reitz
Code & Supply | Job Board: Engineering Manager at ACDHS

Interesting post: https://image.coop/blog/posts/2026/03/16/why-image-cooperative/

> Two years ago, we came across Valerie Young’s excellent talk, Inside Igalia: Scaling a Co-Op Beyond 100 Members. If you are still reading, you should probably add it to your watch list.

Love it, welcome!

Why we started Image Cooperative – Image Cooperative

“Hello, World!” from the Image Cooperative team

Wine 11 Rewrites How Linux Runs Windows Games At the Kernel Level - Slashdot

Linux gamers are seeing massive performance gains with Wine's new NTSYNC support, "which is a feature that has been years in the making and rewrites how Wine handles one of the most performance-sensitive operations in modern gaming," reports XDA Developers. Not every game will see a night-and-day di...

i do think it's funny how you can see the cultural difference between the US and europe's anti privacy laws. american ones are always called some shit like "perfect jesus protect children and honor the flag act" & the euro one is just "illegalize private conversations"

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
Nicole Ozer has been appointed as executive director of the Electronic Frontier
Foundation effective June 1!

Who is EFF's new ED? 🧵 (1/5)

New webapp who dis

After all, if the race to age-gate the internet was purely about child safety, we would expect its strongest supporters to be child-development experts or privacy advocates. Instead, the loudest advocates are organizations dedicated to policing sexuality, attacking LGBTQ+ folks and reproductive rights, and censoring anything that doesn’t fit within their worldview.

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/20/rep-finke-was-right-age-gating-isnt-about-kids-its-about-control/

Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control

When Rep. Leigh Finke spoke last month before the Minnesota House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee to testify against HF1434, a broad-sweeping proposal to age-gate the internet,…

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