The answer to problems in sociotechnical systems is not always "more software", "better software" or "open source software".
A lot of the time the best solution is _less software_ and sometimes even _no software_.
I love developer who say « we should not help everyone » and then go run "npm install". Damn the cognitive dissonance is real
« why so many of us are so pessimistic about AI; we can see very clearly the many ways it represents a threat to us, and to the things we care about. »
Gosh the water it requires.
Few months ago, I discovered a company, @shodo.io (they contacted me the same week, like the planets aligned, but I didn’t make it through the process). Definitely in the top 5 companies I want to work for, a company that’s human-first approach. Take a look at talks from their members.
That community can’t be that open can it?
Hello, nope
When the culture rewards compliance over honesty, no one dares to call out the real problems
We have a unique opportunity with npmx. We're building something very special together. I want to give myself the chance to focus on helping steward the project. I'm going to be working as an independent open source developer this year. Support my work and help me focus on npmx long-term 🙏
That take is even accurate when ego lead us to try and prove our expertise. Thanks for sharing the slides !
I’m going to add "thank you for your attention to this matter" at the end of every of my commit from now
+1
🙋♂️ so ... for reasons:
I would love to know people's frustrations with:
- the current npmjs.com
- admin user flows on npm web ui (and cli, locally)
🙏
I’ve learned to think of jobs I know nothing about as the hardest in the world. Take that person cleaning the streets, it has it own challenge I mean I’ve never cleaned more than a room or two. It creates some natural curiosity and I’m still amazed by little things, like a child
I love this. Are these the realtime costs ?
Open source and Europe’s digital future: EU public consultation now open. Link to participate
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what happened to tailwind is not a AI issue. I mean AI is an issue but the main issue is that as society we normalized extracting long-term value from open-source creators without sustainable compensation.
worth adding @scaleway.com #OVHCloud @clever.cloud
One capability of AI that I really like is its value as an accessibility tool; the others are less impressive.
At a certain point, learning depends less on money and more on connections, which can be even harder to access for those who come from poor backgrounds.
Why are all those tutorials turned into advertisements? Please don’t ruin them; they used to be great for learning new things.
yeah it should not get personal even when sad.
I’m still new here and trying to understand. If the impact of a PR can’t be seen from the public codebase, doesn’t that mean some constraints are not open? How does that fit with being open to contribution?
Let’s encourage the term “successful practices” in favor of “best practices”.
thx @mikebrocchi.bsky.social for generating a great image for my mission! 😎
Learned about MCP. Challenging and exciting. Great demo by @owulveryck.info at @devlille.fr
TIL: It's not widely known, but there is an upper limit to the width and height of elements that can be displayed in a browser. The values are as follows:
Safari: 33,554,428px
Chromium: 16,777,216px
dev.to/kohii/how-to...
#web #browser
What if it only works when it scales
Everyone says open source is about "just contributing" but no one tells you the actual first step is being seen
