Notices by Jan Lehnardt :couchdb: (janl@narrativ.es), page 3

@cwebber a global trans strike day would probably stop the internet, so we should maybe start planning that.

> The ASF is Hiring a Senior Engineer, Tooling to develop important foundation tools to improve the secure supply chain for ASF releases, along with delivering software systems to help streamline foundation operations, such as the Board Agenda tool.

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You’ll be hard pressed to find a more impactful position that is paid and open source. Please come and help us :)

https://www.indeed.com/job/senior-software-engineer-tooling-001ef6abb5b7639b

Had a git workflow epiphany this morning because it went (mildly) badly for the second or third time and I’m finally seeing the pattern:

Very early on in a project, when folder structure, naming conventions and little test-spike-code are all being tried out, a PR based workflow is worse because the nature of the changes will likely make the PRs long running, because lots has to be nailed down before it is “good”…

… but it will definitely make integrating all PRs take forever because they touch so much structure.

The alternative is everyone committing to main/trunk and forbidding force pushes. The trade-off is that everybody has to deal with everybody else’s changes, but it will be a net benefit because those integration decisions happen closer to the changes and and committers likely working time overlapping for out of band coordination.

@mattly this probably mainly to get some safety on cheap gadgets, but of a hammer tho

This one I fully read. The best collection of time zone oddities that I’ve ever seen. The first three highlights are already very fun:

“- Asia/Kathmandu has a weird offset from UTC

- Africa/Casablanca doesn’t fit into the timezone model cleanly, so it’s hard-coded

- America/Nuuk does daylight savings at -01:00 (yes, with a negative)”

https://ssoready.com/blog/engineering/truths-programmers-timezones/

confession time: I never used Google Reader.

Your “these three certified psychopaths are getting into AI, what are you waiting for?” post is saying more about you than you think.

Committing the mortal sin of posting about Blues Guy on Mastodon.

@alexglow she’s just the best and personally the first comedian that made jokes that were 100% attuned to my brain. What a revelation in the 90s!

I’ve since seen her a couple of times, including the training sessions for the German show in front of 50 people.

And even met her once at a hotel breakfast after her show in Cardiff. Just the loveliest human.

I’m so glad you finally got to see her <3

It looks like as usual, something like this already exists, it’s just not accessible to newcomers: https://mast.solarisfire.com/@solarisfire/113492440324722556

Back to the drawing board.

I’m pondering how one would model starter packs on fedi.

I’m imagining an app you can log into with your fedi account that lets you a) create one or more lists of usernames with a theme b) browse all lists and follow lists made by others.

Would fedi culture suggest that accounts would want to opt-in before they can be added to a list, or would an opt-out be enough?

@tante right, that’s the important point. These things need to be integrated at the first point of contact (an app, or the main server web interface).

Reminder that the current Berlin city government is aiming for holding the Olympic Games in 1936 + 100 = 2036.

This is bad from every conceivable angle.

Thank you The Onion, I needed that. 😂

This is why I see the BlueSky lifetime as a grace period for fedi to get its act together. It’ll be a lot of work, we better start now. https://mastodon.social/@molily/113480811492965996

@mrtoto they shipped search tho :)

@mrtoto (I know I know :) — Also QPs are coming and they will include controls about who can QP, which is very nice.

@mrtoto WP has stopped tho

1MWh! 🤘☀️

We crossed the mark this morning with our 2kWh balcony solar plant (on top of the car port) plus 3.2kWh battery.

~147kWh were fed back into the grid, the rest we used directly.

Repeating almost everyone who’s going through this for the first time: this exceeds my expectations by ~30%.