It is the year 714 B.C. You are immortal and have just invented money, and you call it "bucks". (For the moment, you decide against inventing inflation and compound interest.)

You start stashing 1000 Bucks every single day.

2739 years later: It is 2025. You *still* haven't reached ONE BILLION Bucks.

#NoBillionaires

“None of the stuff that we do would be possible without the Open Source software we use. It wasn’t even moral indignation; it was a sense of confusion: why aren’t we paying [Open Source maintainers]?"

@buttondown's Justin Duke on the @opensourcepledge blog ❤️

https://opensourcepledge.com/blog/story-of-buttondown/

By the way...

Folk know that the Pocket source code is published, right? (Well, most of it. There are a few deployment things that have private info that they're never going to publish because Security Keys and what-not, but that's different.)

No, you can't just spin up a Docker image with this stuff, (yet, nothing stopping you from building one, though) but the code is there for you to play with.

Yes, It Is Just Like The Nazis
Hey so remember Anne Frank? The Jewish young girl who hid in an attic and was killed by the Nazis? The emblematic person we think of when we think of victims of the Holocaust?

She did not die in a gas chamber or in a death camp. She died in a temporary' detention center for the mass deportations which preceded the death camps.
She was in that camp because a patriotic neighbor ratted her out to the German deportation force. She died, not of a bullet to the back of the head or choking on gas, but of typhus. She contracted typhus because the Nazis couldn't realistically deport people at the rate they wanted to, because before the death camps their infrastructure couldn't handle the sudden influx of ethnic minorities they had decided to imprison, and because they didn't care about the consequences of that so their deportation detention centers were unhygienic and prisoners were underfed and overcrowded.

And she was picked up by the deportation force not because she was an illegal citizen but because, just like the US is doing with asylum seekers, she was part of a formerly recognized class of citizens who were legally redefined to lack citizenship by a new administration.

Anne Frank is exactly like the children who have already died in the United State's detention camps. Exactly. Down to the very last detail. There. Is. Not. A.
Single. Difference.

So unless you want to fucking tell me that Anne goddamn Frank was not a victim of the Holocaust, y'all can shut the fuck up with that "stop making concentration camp comparisons, you're diminishing the suffering of the Holocaust" bullshit.

Its also worth noting that her family TRIED to flee to the US and was denied. She was in that camp partly because the US refused to let her refugee family immigrate.

Deep water.

My @smh cartoon.

I think one of the saddest things about the internet/instagram side hustle culture/late stage capitalism is that its convinced everyone they're supposed to be making money from their art and if they're not they are somehow a failure.

Creative expression is something you're just allowed to have, to do, to make yourself feel something, you can share it with other people if you want but it's only purpose is to exist

if you want to make money from your skills then fine but don't let it crush you

Every now and then I take a look at Milton Glaser's: The Designer's 12 steps to hell (think graphic design)
just to check how I'm doing, I think this needs a digital/ux version :(

#design #ethics

Today, we remember the more than 500,000 Roma murdered under the Nazi regime.

Their lives were extinguished, their culture suppressed, and their stories silenced.

80 years later, we remember the past and commit to do better in the future. We honour Roma’s legacy and continue to fight for a world where diversity is celebrated and where hatred has no place.

On #RomaHolocaustDay, we reemphasise our commitment to safeguard the rights of all minority groups.

#EU

If you’re at Romanian Testing Conference in Cluj-Napoca today, I’m speaking in two hours in the main hall about distributed tracing as a type of software bathymetry, using @grafana + k6 + Tempo + OTel . Come say hi!

#observability #testing