Nik

@nikclayton
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Principled Software Engineer, Gentleman Programmer.

Current #Pachli steward (see link or follow @pachli)

#androiddev #mastodev #kotlin

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Bloghttps://write.as/nikclayton/
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Pachlihttps://pachli.app
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I've changed my mind. "Do not hallucinate" isn't the biggest tell in this industry. The biggest tell is how many people are happy to throw their professional dignity and even basic fundamental ideas about epistemology and causality overboard as soon as they can hit arbitrary made up numbers while escaping responsibility for the understanding, growth and well-being of other people. The biggest tell is this boomer-grade, generational-rugpull selfishness.

Claude is this industry's Sgt. Pepper.
John Major is a better former PM than Tony Blair will ever be iandunt.substack.com/p/john-major...

> The fediverse does not need more servers, it needs reasons for them to act like they owe each other something. The atmosphere does not need better tools, it has those, it needs the autonomy those tools enable to actually be taken up.

👍 @laurenshof in https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr164-the-pope-on-defederation/

FR#164 – The Pope on Defederation

This week, the Catholic Church wrote one of the better diagnoses of why decentralised social networks keep struggling.

connectedplaces.online

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It’s finally out! After tackling a bunch of issues (huge thanks to the F-Droid community for the incredible support), I’ve just launched my first open-source game: Tile Match.

I took an existing Android version, stripped out all the ads, and made the code completely free. You can grab it right now on F-Droid: search for "Tile Match" by Infrared Developer.

The GitLab page needs some love—but it’s live!

#OpenSource #F-Droid #IndieGame #TileMatch #AndroidDev

Occasionally, there are actual open positions for open social web / federated social developers. (I don't know the org, but looks interesting)

https://equalitie.org/careers/

Jobs @ eQualitie - eQualitie

We’re always on the lookout for passionate, talented individuals who believe in protecting human rights, privacy, and freedom of expression online. Our team is global, diverse, working together to make a meaningful impact in the digital space. No Open Positions? No Problem! If our values and work inspire you and you think you’d be a […]

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RE: https://androiddev.social/@luboganev/116578211442808240

So the thing about #PR review. It's an alternative / adjunct to #PairProgramming.

So if a colleague sends you something like that it's absolutely fine to book a meeting with them and have them walk through the #PullRequest with you.

It's not uncommon for the meeting to be cut short because during the explanation they realise they made a mistake, and it needs more work.

Public service announcement:

Reclaim SRE- Let's put Engineering back into Site Reliability Engineering
https://reclaimsre.com/
Reclaim SRE

Let's put Engineering back into Site Reliability Engineering.

you can use "ai" because you think you have to to keep your job, or even because you think it's useful for your work, but you don't have to simultaneously deny that it's hugely problematic. You can in fact just suffer the cognitive dissonance of using a bad thing without wasting the time of everyone around you with bad faith arguments designed to salve your wounded conscience
So, @[email protected] ate his Wheatties this morning