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Can anyone recommend a good mastodon server for a non-profit? I’m giving advice to a non-profit that uses technology to deliver continuing medical education to developing nations with unreliable internet. I have no idea what would be the best server for them to join. Thank you!

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Good morning to readers. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

Some career news: I’m leaving NPR as part of the layoffs that dramatically reduced the company’s workforce.

I’ve decided to go back into Ukraine to keep reporting.

But this time, alone.

My Mom is laughing extremely hard because I showed her ChatGPT and started my prompt with “Please …
We really missed an opportunity to call logging, monitoring, alerting, and observability LMAO 😹
Remember when the mantra was "write boring code"? Can we do that again? Seeing way too many efforts to bring unnecessary complexity to engineering.
Teens: Mom have you found it yet?
Me: Huh, found what?
Teens: Don’t worry you’ll find it.
Me: Where?
Teens: We’re not saying but text us when you do.
Me: … Wait… it’s April Fools Day isn’t it!

I did some writing for the Shopify Engineering blog on What Being a Staff Developer Means at Shopify.

https://shopify.engineering/what-being-a-staff-developer-means-at-shopify

What Being a Staff Developer Means at Shopify

A staff developer is an individual contributor who can have the same scope of impact and seniority as an engineering manager.

Shopify
17: I’m sorry I wished all your plants would die… and your fields decay… It was the only curse I knew in Latin…
I’m changing teams at work and have such mixed feelings! Excited to dive into a new area and super sad to step away from working with so many awesome people!
Google nixes paying out remainder of maternity and medical leave for laid-off employees

Google's layoffs announced in January included employees who were on medical and maternity leave and who are now at risk of not getting paid out for time off.

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