{"generator":"GNU social 2.0.2-dev","title":"Conversation","totalItems":3,"items":[{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/users\/nikitonsky","displayName":"Niki Tonsky","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/181016-original-tmp20231002142106.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/181016-96-20231002142107.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/181016-48-20231002142107.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/181016-24-20231002142107.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"181016"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/181016-96-20231002142107.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Fira Code, Clojure, DataScript, Humble UI","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/@nikitonsky","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"nikitonsky","displayName":"Niki Tonsky","note":"Fira Code, Clojure, DataScript, Humble UI"}},"content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@raiderrobert\" class=\"u-url mention\">@raiderrobert<\/a> software engineer without soft skills is just \u201cware engineer\u201d<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-31:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/users\/nikitonsky\/statuses\/115703796076224759","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/users\/nikitonsky\/statuses\/115703796076224759","objectType":"note","content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@raiderrobert\" class=\"u-url mention\">@raiderrobert<\/a> software engineer without soft skills is just \u201cware engineer\u201d<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/@nikitonsky\/115703796076224759","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/raiderrobert\/statuses\/115701296511260229","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@raiderrobert\/115701296511260229"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/raiderrobert"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-12-11:objectType=thread:nonce=502e40075158c55c","notice_info":{"local_id":"11694483","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-12-12T00:37:02+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/@nikitonsky\/115703796076224759"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/raiderrobert","displayName":"Robert Roskam","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/162202-original-tmp20260128183200.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/162202-96-20260129035512.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/162202-48-20260129035135.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/162202-24-20260129035512.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"162202"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/162202-96-20260129035512.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"I am deliberately eclectic. I write mostly about software engineering, and I also post #programminghumor, #gaming, #writing, #gamdev, and lots of other stuff.I tend to write stuff in #python these days with bits of #js \/ #go \/ #rust tossed in. Playing with #godot too! Engineer &amp; Manager","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@raiderrobert","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"raiderrobert","displayName":"Robert Roskam","note":"I am deliberately eclectic. I write mostly about software engineering, and I also post #programminghumor, #gaming, #writing, #gamdev, and lots of other stuff.I tend to write stuff in #python these days with bits of #js \/ #go \/ #rust tossed in. Playing with #godot too! Engineer &amp; Manager"}},"content":"<p>A software engineer without \"soft skills\" is 0.1x engineer.<\/p><p>We all know this guy. <\/p><p>The one that you make sure to never talk to customer. The one you always need to ensure you approach carefully. The one who's \"not good with people.\"<\/p><p>Yeah, that guy. <\/p><p>Software engineering is fundamentally a team sport. Even if he is very fast at typing in and recalling algorithms from memory, he'll make the entire org around him 1\/10 as effective.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-31:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/raiderrobert\/statuses\/115701296511260229","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/raiderrobert\/statuses\/115701296511260229","objectType":"note","content":"<p>A software engineer without \"soft skills\" is 0.1x engineer.<\/p><p>We all know this guy. <\/p><p>The one that you make sure to never talk to customer. The one you always need to ensure you approach carefully. The one who's \"not good with people.\"<\/p><p>Yeah, that guy. <\/p><p>Software engineering is fundamentally a team sport. Even if he is very fast at typing in and recalling algorithms from memory, he'll make the entire org around him 1\/10 as effective.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@raiderrobert\/115701296511260229","status_net":{"notice_id":null}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-12-11:objectType=thread:nonce=502e40075158c55c","notice_info":{"local_id":"11691136","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-12-11T14:38:36+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@raiderrobert\/115701296511260229"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/fedi.copyleft.org\/users\/bkuhn","displayName":"Bradley M. K\u00fchn","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/353589-original-tmp20260610031242.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/353589-96-20260611164645.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/353589-48-20260610031330.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/353589-24-20260612120108.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"353589"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/353589-96-20260611164645.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Software freedom activist since 1992. Copyleft theorist &amp; FOSS policy wonk. Expert in FOSS non-profit structures.Views expressed herein are mine &amp; not necessarily those of any organization w\/ which I&#39;m affiliated.Fediverse \u201cclaim to fame\u201d: Invented \u201cAffero clause\u201d of #Mastodon&#39;s license: https:\/\/ebb.org\/bkuhn\/blog\/2007\/11\/21\/stet-and-agplv31\u02e2\u1d57 #Linux:    0.99pl121\u02e2\u1d57 #Debian: \ud83e\uddca\ud83e\udd54Pronouns: he\/them#copyleft, #ethics for #LLMGenAI, #FOSS, #OpenSource, #AGPLv3, #GPL, #LGPL\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08","url":"https:\/\/fedi.copyleft.org\/@bkuhn","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"bkuhn","displayName":"Bradley M. K\u00fchn","note":"Software freedom activist since 1992. Copyleft theorist &amp; FOSS policy wonk. Expert in FOSS non-profit structures.Views expressed herein are mine &amp; not necessarily those of any organization w\/ which I&#39;m affiliated.Fediverse \u201cclaim to fame\u201d: Invented \u201cAffero clause\u201d of #Mastodon&#39;s license: https:\/\/ebb.org\/bkuhn\/blog\/2007\/11\/21\/stet-and-agplv31\u02e2\u1d57 #Linux:    0.99pl121\u02e2\u1d57 #Debian: \ud83e\uddca\ud83e\udd54Pronouns: he\/them#copyleft, #ethics for #LLMGenAI, #FOSS, #OpenSource, #AGPLv3, #GPL, #LGPL\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08"}},"content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@raiderrobert\" class=\"u-url mention\">@raiderrobert<\/a> I agree with you, but I encourage you to use the term \"interpersonal skills\", or \"political acumen\", or some phrase like that.  \"Soft skills\" as a phrase is specifically designed to make it sound like they are skills that are lesser-than. (I do thank you for putting in scare-quotes to hint at that point).<\/p><p>Meanwhile, this reminds me of an anecdote from my undergraduate. Names are changed in next post to protect the innocent &amp; guilty:<\/p><p>Cc: <a href=\"https:\/\/social.treehouse.systems\/@wwahammy\" class=\"u-url mention\">@wwahammy<\/a><\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-07-31:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/fedi.copyleft.org\/users\/bkuhn\/statuses\/115701415048781509","object":{"id":"https:\/\/fedi.copyleft.org\/users\/bkuhn\/statuses\/115701415048781509","objectType":"note","content":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@raiderrobert\" class=\"u-url mention\">@raiderrobert<\/a> I agree with you, but I encourage you to use the term \"interpersonal skills\", or \"political acumen\", or some phrase like that.  \"Soft skills\" as a phrase is specifically designed to make it sound like they are skills that are lesser-than. (I do thank you for putting in scare-quotes to hint at that point).<\/p><p>Meanwhile, this reminds me of an anecdote from my undergraduate. Names are changed in next post to protect the innocent &amp; guilty:<\/p><p>Cc: <a href=\"https:\/\/social.treehouse.systems\/@wwahammy\" class=\"u-url mention\">@wwahammy<\/a><\/p>","url":"https:\/\/fedi.copyleft.org\/@bkuhn\/115701415048781509","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/raiderrobert\/statuses\/115701296511260229","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@raiderrobert\/115701296511260229"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/person","id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/raiderrobert"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-12-11:objectType=thread:nonce=502e40075158c55c","notice_info":{"local_id":"11691137","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-12-11T14:38:35+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/fedi.copyleft.org\/@bkuhn\/115701415048781509"}],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/conversation\/5944069","rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html"}]}