Emmanuele Bassi

@ebassi
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FLOSS project necromancer.

Geek, husband, lover, software developer, Londoner. Not necessarily in that order.

he/him

Proud #GTK and #GNOME dev; member of the GNOME Foundation.

"One of the people responsible for the failure of the Linux desktop", according to a random YouTube user.

Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad.

Webhttps://www.bassi.io
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Emmanuele Bassi2d ago
Some days it feels weird to have started a whole trend in application style
Emmanuele Bassi2d ago
Fesshole 🧻2d ago
The best preparation for being a parent wasn't NCT classes or books; it was managing a team of software engineers. My 4 and 2 year olds are far better at playing with others than those maladjusted coders.
Emmanuele Bassi4d ago
GNOME4d ago

Big news! Today we’re launching the GNOME Fellowship: funded positions for contributors to work on the GNOME project’s long-term sustainability. 🎉

We are starting with one 12-month fellowship; applications are open through April 20.

Find out more: https://fellowship.gnome.org/

#GNOME #OpenSource #GetFediHired

GNOME Fellowship

Critical work shouldn't wait for spare time. Become a GNOME Fellow!

GNOME Fellowship
Emmanuele Bassi5d ago
David Penfold 5d ago
We're hitting the Ponzi phase.
Emmanuele BassiMar 20
JordanMar 20
Every now and then people share languages with very minimal or very uniform syntax (think Lisp, or Haskell, or Forth) and go "look, all the noise is gone". And to each their own, and familiarity goes a long way, but I think I've pinned down my feelings about it, which is "that wasn't noise, that was signal; I was using as scaffolding when reading the code and now I have to wade through every token linearly".
Emmanuele BassiMar 20
The real problem with LLM/GenAI tooling is that I now have to spend a lot of my time dealing with, or writing, policies for projects I collaborate on, and I can't just say "don't", or give up, or fork, because I am not made of time and infinite resources, and self-immolation is a fundamentally stupid way to get the last word
Emmanuele BassiMar 20
tanteMar 20

"I admit, this is an innovation I did not see coming: Silicon Valley has invented the philosophical zombie from the classic thought experiment "lol how crazy would it be if there were a philosophical zombie.""

(Original title: Marc Andreessen is a philosophical zombie)

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/897566/marc-andreessen-is-a-philosophical-zombie

Marc Andreessen is a philosophical zombie

Andreessen caused a minor kerfuffle by saying on a podcast that he doesn’t introspect at all, and that in fact, people shouldn’t. What’s really going on?

The Verge
Emmanuele BassiMar 19

Rewatching Dan Olson's "The Future is a Dead Mall" after the announcement that Meta is killing off the metaverse. It's been almost three years to the dot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiZhdpLXZ8Q

Emmanuele BassiMar 19
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠Mar 18

Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.

While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a crow it came up that she has never been sat on by a cat. Like, not even once during childhood.

Another colleague admitted they also have never been sat on by a cat.

My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on by a cat.

🐈🐈‍⬛🐱

Have you ever been sat on by a cat?

Please boost for scientific accuracy.

Yes
91.4%
No
8.6%
Poll ended at .
Show threadEmmanuele BassiMar 19
Even without acquihires…