I'm the type of person who loves open source not because I can use it for something, but because I can learn something from it.
06.03.2026 20:41
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I'm the type of person who loves open source not because I can use it for something, but because I can learn something from it.
I wrote about some things I'm struggling with in the technology industry, preceded by an appreciation for folk music.
Often, people reach out asking to use my work for free while framing it as helping me by giving me exposure.
When they find out I'm not chasing views and have standards for how my work is used, they get so mad. 😅
Class 8 - Guess it's time to go to a Deaf social. 😬
Today was the last class and I'm going to miss Barbara. 🥹 Maybe I can find another class with her in the future.
This is part of the reason they've never clicked for me.
I'm going to get distracted watching something load. Reading someone else's code is a high cognitive load chore for me. The way LLMs respond to correction creeps me out.
Also, I know how important the struggle is for learning and fun.
Lol bsky.app/profile/josh...
This is more self-deprecating than it sounds.
It's still wild to me that my writing and talks resonate with so many people.
Because outside of tech, I have heard a lot of negative feedback on my storytelling style. 😅
I can always tell which editors instinctively get my writing style and the ones who think "that has to be a typo" and accidentally change the meaning of a sentence entirely.
Abbey: "For years, I thought OSS just wasn’t for me (...). Curious about the hype I saw on Bluesky, I recently joined the npmx Discord server on a whim. My journey from lurker to contributor taught me a lot about OSS and gave me new confidence going into code reviews." 👏
It really sets the mood, I know
Alex @alex.bsky.team • 2h our userbase is already conspiracy brained enough about our rationale for suspensions without us making it this easy for them to accidentally entrap themselves
Uhhhmmm don’t love a Bluesky dev publicly calling the entire user base conspiracy brained.
If Bluesky users are prone to conspiracies @alex.bsky.team it’s because y’all place no value on communicating and don’t give people enough information, forcing them to come to their own conclusions.
Oh forgot the tiny pat of butter, barely visible behind the scone in the alt text. My bad.
A triangular scone with green spring onion pieces visible throughout on a blue plate on a black table. A matcha latte and knitting project sit in the background
My morning got a lot better when I remembered that I made spring onion and parmesan cheese scones last night.
after the war - very far away from home. Even after retiring from her long nursing career, she nursed my grandfather through lung cancer and extended his life significantly. She was known for many other things including her daylilies.
Papa served in the navy in WWII on an aircraft carrier and then became an HVAC engineer when that was cutting edge. Grandpa was also a WWII vet, farmer's son, and became a civil engineer. My home town still relies on his surveys. My grandma was a nurse during WWII and went to nursing school again
😭LMAO Why am I catching all the edge cases?! 😩😩😩It’s always me 😭😭😭 Bluesky Elder curse
Thanks for this Alex!
I have been watching a documentary called The Silk Road on Prime and it has been extremely cool.
And I'm not knocking experiments on college students. I'm published on a paper about one. That's how I got into research (which I loved).
But you can either use that sample population or act like it's very generalizable. Not both. And we're terrible at communicating that to the population at large
There's a reason that every time I see a pop psych article, I check the sample population.
95% of the time it's 50 white US college kids and yet the results are still treated like they're generalizable to everyone everywhere.
Every time I think "there's no way they could mess this up more," they prove me wrong
Ok even if this is just how ATProtocol moderation works... Has anyone other than @aliafonzy.blacksky.app gotten an email about it? 👀
Wait, wtf?
The technical solution to bluesky moderation requires an account that could be blocked.
And when the team realized that flaw, they didn't make it impossible to block the account or switch to another solution.
They're just sending an email threatening to suspend anyone who blocks it?
My nail artist just sent this video 🤣🐸
Writing tip #1: No matter where you are in the writing process, imagine your ideal audience and write for it – small, large, simple, complex: friends, family, community, scholars, activists, children, theatre-goers, the general public. You pick the combination & decide to whom you want to speak.
Another hit of @npmx.dev.
Wrote down my thoughts contributing to npmx over the past month. The future of open source is bright.
jonathanyeong.com/writing/npmx...
Sometimes I read stories about LLMs doing something "unexpected" and think "the prompter clearly never read an Amelia Bedelia book."
I'm glad you kept in Patak going "aaaaa" at Zorro
