It's often uneasy for me to share my experiences as a woman in tech, but this job market has me worried for everyone stuck somewhere harmful. I admire everyone who takes on "women in tech" speaking gigs but I am also angry for them and us.

https://ohhelloana.blog/woman-in-tech/

Did you know: #Forgejo always announces security updates in advance (usually at least one week beforehand) to give you time to prepare and be ready when the release is published.

Announcements are made via this tracker: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/security-announcements/issues. You can "watch" the repo or subscribe to the RSS feed to stay informed.

Kirby 5

Dieser Artikel ist – ich gebe es offen zu – eine kleine Liebeserklärung. Aber eine ehrliche. Mit Fallstricken, mit einer klaren Warnung, für wen Kirby nicht geeignet ist. Und mit dem Versuch, zu erklären, woher dieser besondere Reiz kommt.

https://graffiti.bayerwald.social/my-blog/kirby-5

#kirby #cms

This is *brutal*...

"There are no more juniors. There was a funeral for their passing in 2024. Nobody came. The machine does what they do now, but cheaper. Of course, juniors weren't valuable for what they produced, they were valuable for who they would become: the senior engineer who knows where the bodies are buried. We optimized for output, and abolished apprenticeship. A few years from now, we'll wonder where all the seniors are. We shot them. Nobody will remember."

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

ETA:
This is by @stevendotjs, who absolutely nails a bunch of things I've been feeling for a while now, but had no idea how to articulate...

Über den Satz „nur eine einfache Website" und darüber, warum Einfachheit im Web fast immer das Ergebnis vieler kleiner Entscheidungen ist und nicht ihr Ausgangspunkt, habe ich in meinem neuen Beitrag geschrieben.

https://christopherkurth.com/journal/mythos-einfache-website/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=WebSeries2026&utm_term=organic-post

For decades we optimized our websites to make it easier for search engine crawlers to extract data (meta tags, semantic HTML, sitemap.xml, microformats, etc.) to be found in the vast sea of information.

Now I'm thinking about how to be as useless for content scrapers as possible, without compromising quality/accessibility for humans. And how can we still be able to discover new stuff on the Net?

RE: https://twit.social/@jakek/116482667756877962

Here's the final draft. Riffing on some concepts Cory Doctorow @pluralistic writes about -- "process knowledge" and "communicative intent."

Bad bosses and naive ai Vibers don't appreciate process knowledge filling in the gaps in their communicative intent because they think their prompt says it all.

https://jakekara.com/blog/2026/05/04/expertise-byproduct

blogged: Github is sinking
https://dbushell.com/2026/04/29/github-is-sinking/

— the people do not yearn for Microsoft products

"The point is that vibe coding collapses the distance between idea and artifact from months to hours. When that distance collapses, every quality-control mechanism your organization developed over the last 30 years gets bypassed by default." by Dr. Jason Wingard

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonwingard/2026/04/23/vibe-coding-will-break-your-company/

#artificialintelligence #aipocalypse