Random shower thought, Bell Labs worked by hiring endless smart people, there are endless smart people in OSS. Wrap them up in a liberal collective and adopt the projects in a co-op structure that is taken seriously by governments or the EU and you have a powerhouse.

What’s more likely? A gov framework will recognise it or these people will want to work under a public sector paper pusher 😂

Hmm, people want to build cool stuff and pay their bills, reminiscent of the Bell Labs ideal.

Interesting observation from a new member of our team, their mentor is focused on client success, where as I'm focused on delivery/development.

They say it's like one of us is a Sith and the other is a Jedi.

I didn't offer an opinion to complete the triad.

Gather.town are deprecating their free/value tiers and replacing them with services that cost more than Slack/Google Workspace.

I feel this is the end.

It's cute, but not worth it - another case where someone has tried to wedge AI into it and realised their upstream costs balloon.

We found this in the virtual office.

After being harassed by Google Workspace to constantly 'upgrade' with notifications masking as "Security Improvements", their support team told me to switch to scheduled release, and the notifications are gone. Posting it here in case it helps one other person save those 50px at the top of every doc and sheet.

Reminds me of the days of browser toolbar add-ons getting out of control.

First detection of clients that are vibe coding scripts to automate a browser to perform actions on a platform with first class support to automate.

Welcome to the rate limiter my friends.

When you've got great #tests, a great #ci_cd pipeline and a fantastic framework - the Symfony 7.3 upgrade is just a 10 minute job on release day.

#symfony #semver

Dunning Kruger

> Where people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities

…and in a GenAI world should be revised

> Where techbros and people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate the abilities of GenAI

People will be working at “Peak Stupid” for longer relying on statistical regurgitation and the decent down to the “Valley of Despair” much more of a career ending event than the managed thump it currently is.

With all the cover-ups and re-writing of history, maybe #Oracle should have come to my Kobayashi Maru workshop instead of desperately to hide the evidence.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/31/oracle_reported_breaches/

https://joind.in/event/php-east-midlands-unconference-2017/kobayashi-maru