boost from birdsite, software feedback
boosting https://twitter.com/zooba/status/1217150303406964736
It's actually a huge issue for most software - happy users rarely talk to you.
This is why developers add telemetry, or push surveys at you. Those who can afford focus groups and user research do them extensively.
Help out your favourite projects: tell them why you like them.
boost from birdsite, greed
boosting https://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1224448600962256897
Every day, in every way, The People Who Are Corporations look at the geese that lay their golden eggs and sharpen their axes because that goose might lay an egg today but there could be two inside it.
boost from birdsite, tips on working remote
boosting https://twitter.com/_jjphillips/status/1216159316924723200 (thread from January 11, 2020)
1) have an activity that signals the start of your work day and the end of your work day.
You work remote/at home/sometimes commute-less. You need something that signals your brain that test is over, play is paused, and work is commencing. Showers, walks, breakfast, whatever.
boost from birdsite, Python
boosting @`chris_swenson
Free Python course materials!
I put in a FOIA request to the NSA for their Python training materials and got back a 400-page printout of their COMP 3321 training course.
So, I scanned and OCR'd it. Here is a PDF (warning: 118 MB)
boost from birdsite, cw: police misconduct
boosting Sean Perryman
@`SeanPerryman3 thread https://twitter.com/SeanPerryman3/status/1227988707690545152
I want to speak less about Mayor Bloomberg and more about the program he misused and the people it impacted.
People often refer to #stopandfrisk as if it were simply a misguided police tactic. I believe they envision it as an unpleasant but brief encounter with the police.
boost from birdsite, privacy
boosting Bernard Tyers @`bernardtyers
Interesting development - Whimsical removes Google Analytics from their web service, citing":
"100% of our product decisions over the past year were based on strategy, qualitative feedback and our own needs."
Interesting.
boost from birdsite, pandemic and love
boosting https://twitter.com/dianabutlerbass/status/1237917493055967232 thread
We're going to have to take care of one another. Period. Not because we're great. Not because of a leader inspiring us.
But because we can be a people who love each other, who care for our neighbors.
boost from birdsite, cute inspiring comic
boosting https://twitter.com/korimichele/status/1247596376780951553
The weird bunny avatar is back for an illustrated version of a tweet thread I made three years ago about comics insecurity. I've luckily internalized most of this now, but maybe someone else might like to hear it. <3 I love you. Keep making.
(see link for several comic panel images)
boost from birdsite, Python
boosting @`mousevspython
This week I chatted with @`mpirnat
about #Python, @`PyOhio
and more!
https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2020/04/13/pydev-of-the-week-mike-pirnat/
boost from birdsite, Python, ACNH
boosting https://twitter.com/mpirnat/status/1247946734438924290
Python friends who do Animal Crossing, enjoy…
https://twitter.com/mpirnat_switch/status/1247932626393911298
#AnimalCrossing
#ACNH
#nintendoswitch
(a Python tee design that users can get in-game)
boost from birdsite, Love Never Dies
boosting https://twitter.com/clewisreviews/status/1254264537492131840
“Beneath a moonless Sky” like girl it was cloudy, that’s not that special
boost from birdsite, plus-size clothing
boosting https://twitter.com/twwings/status/1254474162351071233 regarding https://snagtights.com/
I bought some today, because these are literally THE BEST tights I've ever gotten and I want this company to live. No one else I've found does this level of quality with this colour range for fat people. plus chub rub shorts in cute colours for summer! sizes up to ~US 32
https://twitter.com/PoppyCocktails/status/1254144156169011203 with more info
boost from birdsite, managing remote workers
boosting thread https://twitter.com/ErinLThomasPhD/status/1256996152622415882
Dr. Erin L Thomas
@`ErinLThomasPhD
Employees are burning out. Concerned leaders are encouraging time off but folks aren’t taking it. Here’s my take on what’s going on (beyond typical flexibility stigma) and what empathetic managers can do about it./1
boost from birdsite, WisCon book
boosting https://twitter.com/GeekMelange/status/1258465488855871490
@`GeekMelange
I'm very, very proud to share that the WisCon Chronicles Volume 12: Boundaries and Bridges, coedited w/@`MsUppityness
is forthcoming from @`AqueductPress
later this month! It's at the printers & will be available to order soon!
http://www.aqueductpress.com/books/978-1-61976-191-9.php
[see links for cover, list of authors, and excerpt]
boost from birdsite, tooling for certs
boosting Alex Gaynor @`alex_gaynor
. @`paultag
and I built an SSH CA for AWS: https://github.com/hallowauth/hallow
It's written in Go and comes with a terraform module to deploy it and a CLI tool. You can use it to get MFA and short lived certs for SSH incredibly easily.
Try it out and give us feedback (issues/PRs)!
boost from birdsite, Delany book
boosting Jed @`elysdir . more info https://constellationpress.com/catalog/heavenly-breakfast/
The first book from my small press is now available for preorder!
https://twitter.com/ConstellaPress/status/1227286996017565696
@`ConstellaPress
The ebook of Samuel R. Delany’s essay/memoir _Heavenly Breakfast_, about his time in a commune/rock band in NYC in 1967-1968, is now available for preorder on Amazon.
Will be published this Friday, February 14.
Coming soon to Apple Books.
boost from birdsite, funerals
boosting thread https://twitter.com/iasmelaion/status/1245418443450404865 about a socially distanced funeral
i hope very much that i will not have to attend any more funerals like this in the coming year.
boost from birdsite, absurd advertising materials
boosting thread https://twitter.com/AndrewM_Webb/status/1245493805530451968
Andrew M. Webb
@AndrewM_Webb
I'm having trouble concentrating on science animations right now, so instead here are some screenshots from my favourite document on the planet.
These are taken from a 'work in progress' document from Pepsi's 2008 rebrand. Every figure is as incomprehensible as this one. 1/23
boost from birdsite, GoodReads alternative
boosting Recurse Center
@`recursecenter
This weekend's Joy of Computing:
Book Wyrm, a federated alternative to Goodreads that lets you track what you're reading and share it with friends. By @`tripofmice .
Try it out here: http://fedireads-test.glitch.me
https://joy.recurse.com/posts/690-book-wyrm-a-federated-social-reading-platform
boost from birdsite, WisCon
boosting thread about #wiscon #c44 #wiscon44 #WisCONline https://twitter.com/elysdir/status/1261773715852816387
Ever wanted to attend a feminist science fiction convention, for free, from your own home? Next weekend, you can! But you need to register by May 20.
boost from birdsite, paid remote gig
boosting Free Law Project
⚖
@`FreeLawProject
We are urgently looking for a technical summer intern to work on our massive collection of judicial financial disclosure reports. Please help spread the word! All the details here: https://free.law/hiring/ Questions: jobs@free.law
boost from birdsite, pandemic, usecon
boosting https://twitter.com/lotormatic/status/1261388197461757952
This crisis lays bare how much our economy depends on unpaid and underpaid labor. There's simply no functioning market without a foundation made up of things that markets can't provide on their own: healthcare, childcare, elder care, and all types of domestic labor.
boost from birdsite, WisCon
#WisCONline #wiscon44 #wiscon #wc44 boosting https://twitter.com/OtherwiseAward/status/1262838143985819650
Register by tomorrow (May 20th) for @`wisconsf3 so you can watch our auction Saturday night! List of auction items, and a trailer, at https://otherwiseaward.org/2020/05/otherwise-auction-wisconline-may-23
boost from birdsite, WisCon
boosting @`WisConSF3
Today is the LAST DAY to register for this year's virtual #WisCONline convention! Sales will close at 7PM Central Time (GMT-5); be sure to get in before then!
A reminder that if you registered for the original *in-person* #WisCon44 convention before it was cancelled, your membership was rolled over to NEXT year's con (#WisCon45 in 2021). Double-check that you re-registered for #WisCONline!
boost from birdsite, WisCon
boosting @`wisconSF3
Registration for #WisCon44 is open through Wednesday May 20. The default cost is $10, but you can also register for $0, $25, or $55.
http://wiscon.net/register/
boost from birdsite, Python, request for help
boosting Nicole Harris
@`nlhkabu
🐍
✨
Python people!
🐍
✨
The pip team needs your help!
Do you have complex project dependencies?
We want you to try to break pip's new dependency resolver...
Details here:
http://ei8fdb.org/thoughts/2020/05/test-pips-alpha-resolver-and-help-us-document-dependency-conflicts/
Please RT!
💛
💙
cc @`bernardtyers
@`simplysecureorg
@`ThePyPA
@`ThePSF
boost from birdsite, education
boosting https://twitter.com/gvwilson/status/1263114315642609672
Goal for 2020: figure out how to deliver instructor training effectively online when learners have unreliable internet connections. Zoom + Google Docs is great when connections are stable but unfair when they're not.
boost from birdsite, remote conventions
boosting https://twitter.com/andywingo/status/1263392704790032385
Andy Wingo
@`andywingo
in-person confs are third places where you can think different things, you have no domestic responsibilities or interruptions, and you can catch up w colleagues & friends over backchannel beverages. single-threaded video calls have none of that 🤷
boost from birdsite, Python
boosting Mariatta 🤦 @`mariatta
https://twitter.com/mariatta/status/1256288811190898688
#PythonLanguageSummit2020
Lightning Talks
- What do you need from pip, PyPI, and packaging? by Sumana Harihareswara
- A Retrospective on My "Multi-Core Python" Project by Eric Snow
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2020/04/lightning-talks-part-1.html
(7)
🧵
boost from birdsite, hiring
boosting https://twitter.com/fureigh/status/1267901162185019394
.@`ColorOfChange
is hiring for a *ton* of positions, some tech-specific, others not. Building power for Black people and winning real change. https://colorofchange.org/careers/ Pass it on.
And if we know each other and you apply, lmk.
boost from birdsite, free pair programming offer
boosting https://twitter.com/di_codes/status/1245079525156847616
Dustin Ingram
@`di_codes
Going to pair with @`EWDurbin
this Friday again, but starting next week anyone is welcome to grab some time at https://di.codes/pairing
Details below
👇
boost from birdsite, time humor
boosting
Dustin Ingram
@`di_codes
hey @pganssle now that you're "python time czar" or whatever, we should probably start a discussion about adding a few more hours to each day
feeling like this whole "days only have 24 hours" thing is definitely a bug
boost from birdsite, teleconferences
boosting Evan Prodromou
@`evanpro
Our remote @`W3C
advisory committee meeting this week has been revolutionary in format. All the presentations were pre-recorded and available to watch at leisure (synchronized speaker, slides and transcripts) a week ago. The conference was 2 days of synchronous Q&A and discussion.
boost from birdsite, programming humor
boosting amy nguyen
@`amyngyn
[looking at a test failure]
brain: what is reality? what if logic cannot be trusted? what if I must accept the futility of the premise of software being something that can be reasoned about, what if some mysteries can never be solved... oh haha I made a typo test is passing now
boost from birdsite, cybersecurity
Great idea. Filed an issue for PyPI: https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/7992
Boosting Runa Sandvik
@`runasand
This is a great feature and I wish other services would add it.
who boosted Nathaniel Gleicher
@`ngleicher
8/ To confirm whether an email claiming to be from Facebook is authentic, review recent emails we've sent in your Security and Login Settings: https://facebook.com/settings?... [brainwane did not click through to figure out what this URL is]
boost from birdsite, uspol
... Civic groups can do their part by encouraging voters to request absentee ballots now, instead of waiting closer to the election. Getting your request in early also aids in the production and mailing of ballots, which can be more effectively managed by mail vendors. #BeReady2020
boost from birdsite, FLOSS infrastructure
boosting Frederike Kaltheuner
@`F_Kaltheuner
Now this is an exciting new possibility: a German town is running their own @`jitsinews
server so that schools and local choir groups don’t have to rely on @`Skype
and @`zoom_us
Video conferencing as public infrastructure
Cc @`thenewpossible
#newpossible
boost from birdsite, COVID-19, poop
boosting @`JeremyKonyndyk thread at https://twitter.com/JeremyKonyndyk/status/1261131371189342208
Alright. There is a LOT of chatter on this website bashing those who are saying most of the country still isn't ready for a safe reopening.
So, as we approach what would normally be summer pool season, here's a short analogy about pooping and accountability.
boost from birdsite, empowering users
boosting @`DavidSpinks [conversation ensues at https://twitter.com/DavidSpinks/status/1259854525558652928 ]
What value can you offer to power-users / ambassadors?
Love the SNAP framework from @`hollygfirestone :
Status - badges, titles, reputation
Networking - connections with curated peers
Access - to product managers, execs, beta testing
Perks - trainings, tickets to events, swag
boost from birdsite, guns in US
boosting thread https://twitter.com/jidk1187/status/1228326139283824640 by John Kaminar
@`jidk1187
THREAD. Folks, bear with me for a minute, please. I want to address a point that is often made by gun rights advocates, but which is a fallacy that civilians may not realize. In the interest of full disclosure, I served 30 years in the Army and Army Reserve, I’ve taught
boost from birdsite, USpol
boosting Nicole Sanchez
@`nmsanchez https://twitter.com/nmsanchez/status/1267470756654399488
A thought for this Monday, for ppl with white collar jobs and are still employed... That feeling that you have, “How can I just act like everything is normal?” Pay attention to it. It is your conscience talking to you
boost from birdsite, US and COVID-19
boosting @`scottros
Debating "reopening" in tech is less a straight red/blue, D/R sort of thing than a technocrats vs. libertarians schism. My latest for @`axios
boost from birdsite, econ
boosting thread https://twitter.com/rahaeli/status/1229140137826713603 that ends with
An educated workforce is necessary for economic prosperity, but educated or not, a workforce carrying punishing debt from doing exactly what we told them to do cannot drive a prosperous economy.
boost from birdsite, accessibility, offer
boosting https://twitter.com/AAT_transcribes/status/1268121127915859968/
Academic Audio Transcription
@`AAT_transcribes
Are you an anti-racist organisation mobilising urgently against racism in its various forms and who is creating video or audio content with no budget for transcription or closed captioning?
We will do this for you for free until further notice.
boost from birdsite, request for advice
boosting request for advice from Greg Wilson (not me) from https://twitter.com/gvwilson/status/1268178876884299777/
"Greg Wilson
@`gvwilson
What's the best book on Linux systems administration for people with data science backgrounds? Nemeth et al (https://amazon.ca/UNIX-Linux-System-Administration-Handbook/dp/0134277554/
) is too much, Ray & Ray (https://amazon.ca/Unix-Linux-Visual-QuickStart-Guide/dp/0321997549/) is more user-oriented than admin-oriented. Pointers?"
boost from birdsite, slightly obsolete USpol
boosting thread https://twitter.com/PeterClines/status/1230199784109006848
Okay, look, I know I've ranted about Michael Bloomberg a few times because he’s an out of touch billionaire idiot.
And he absolutely is, don’t get me wrong.
But I wanted to take a moment to explain why I think that’s a very bad thing for you and me and everyone you know.
boost from birdsite, danger of solar storms
boosting https://twitter.com/BadAstronomer/status/1230519464417849346 thread
Normally when it comes to cosmic dangers to Earth, I’m in the role of debunking people who overstate the danger.
Now I find myself trying to convince people that some dangers are real, and we need to take them very seriously.
Like, say, solar storms.
boost from birdsite, marshmallow experiment and precarity
boosting thread https://twitter.com/LeeFlower/status/1232058269801291778
This principle also applies to things like budgeting: a lot of people assume that poor people just need to be taught how to budget/save money, and nope. Folks who've lived lives where their liquid assets are insecure often make the smart decision not to amass liquid assets.
boost from birdsite, marshmallow experiment and precarity, child abuse
boosting https://twitter.com/LeeFlower/status/1232058269801291778
Also whenever I hear about the marshmallow study I think about a friend I had growing up whose mom was constantly lying to her face. "you can have a brownie if you clean the kitchen," so she'd clean it and her mom would say "no, I'm angry at you, you don't deserve a brownie."
boost from birdsite, AIDS activists, pandemic
boosting thread https://twitter.com/shananaomi/status/1240129879259131905
I have been thinking, even more often than I usually do, about the folks on the front lines of the AIDS epidemic. The doctors and nurses and researchers who brought epidemiology (and the CDC) into a new era. The public health officials who did (and didn’t) push science over fear.
...
boost from birdsite, AIDS activists, pandemic
...
If you are self-quarantined with roommates or a “cousin but not really a cousin” or someone from your family’s hometown - or your partner or boyfriend or anyone you are not (or could not in the 1980s be) legally married to - you are continuing this reinvention of family....
boost from birdsite, copyright abolition
I'm reflecting on this. Thread from birdsite is https://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1244482662435340289
Throw out copyright as a concept and the big money fight goes from who controls the content to who controls the platforms.
Can't really see that being the downfall of something like the House of Mouse, personally. Money still wins, and they still have the infrastructure.
boost from birdsite, police oversight
boosting https://twitter.com/thieman/status/1005167009552887808 from June 2018
Travis Thieman
@`thieman
I'm in rural Pennsylvania and can't stop thinking about the middle story in this local newspaper [image of a news story regarding a mysterious Project X relating to a rural police station]
cybersecurity
Neel Patel has now implemented https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/pull/8170#issue-440366108 on http://PyPI.org to help protect Python package maintainers (and, thus, users). Thanks, Neel, and thanks @`di_codes
for the reviews!
boost from birdsite, nitter link, existential thoughts
boosting Karen Healey @`kehealey
The universe doesn't care about us, so we need to care about each other. Justice doesn't exist as a substance, but as a process we engage in.
thread: https://nitter.net/kehealey/status/1293686704499392515#m
boost from birdsite, nitter link, humorous short video, pandemic
boosting https://nitter.net/EssayMnktl/status/1296252961509855232#m [humorous threats of violence but no onscreen violence]
This is how all my fights go
"THAT'S CONSIDERATE OF YOU"
...
"AND YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT SMALL BUSINESSES!"
https://nitter.net/TheKaranMenon/status/1296180741550702592
How school bullies are expected to act now.
boost from birdsite, nitter link, PyPI scraping
boosting Dustin Ingram @`di_codes
[see charts at https://nitter.net/di_codes/status/1298754797529694209#m ]
Hello! If you are the proud owner of a Golang script currently scraping the hell out of @`pypi, you might notice that it has stopped working!
@`EWDurbin and I would like to have a chat with you! Email us at admin@pypi.org k thx!
boost from birdsite, nitter link, sustainability in open source, maintainership
boosting thread https://nitter.net/luis_in_brief/status/1298122482549833728#m by Luis Villa:
If you're an individual developer who wants to have an independent community whose voice is heard at the decision-making table, figure out how to get paid by many companies, not just one. We're here to help you with that @`tidelift .
boost from birdsite, call for talks and performances
boosting @`baconandcoconut
Did you know that this year's @`seagl CFP is looking for "Performance ART?" We are, or it is! If performance art for FOSS audience is the invitation you've been waiting for to be your best self, this is 100% your moment. https://seagl.org/news/2020/07/14/CFP-open.html
boost from birdsite, nitter link to thread, platforms and harassment
boosting Luis Villa
https://nitter.net/luis_in_brief/status/1299144360441782272#m
Thread. Kudos to James for having the guts to shut it down. (This didn't start as a subtweet of all the enablers at Facebook, but 🤷♂️)
boost from birdsite, nitter link to thread, changes in Python packaging
boosting https://nitter.net/sethmlarson/status/1289302542355062784#m
👉 Important thread for Python users:
The Pip team is shipping a new dependency resolver and needs *your* help to find issues. Everyone who tries it will know their projects are future-proof and issues can be fixed before they're shipped. That's a win-win!
So how can you help?
boost from birdsite, advice for creators
boosting Zen Cho @`zenaldehyde
Are you an aspiring creator/freelancer? As someone who's occasionally in the position to make recommendations, let me BEG you to make a website. All you want is a simple professional place on the internet that shows
- what you've done
- what you can do
- how to contact you
boost from birdsite, advice for creators
boosting Zen Cho some more:
I know people are like "I haven't done anything worthy of putting up a website yet", but it is most helpful if you're just starting out. I can't tell you how annoying it is when I'm like "commission this brilliant short story writer" and all they have is a defunct Tumblr
boost from birdsite, python
Boosting @`bernardtyers
Are you a #PythonProgramming #pip user?
Do you have to deal with dependencies? What about conflicting dependencies?
If so, the pip UX Team want to hear from you: fill out this survey:
https://bit.ly/pip-ux-dependency-conflicts
and sign-up to our UX studies:
boost from birdsite, Portland, air quality
boosting Christie Koehler @`christi3k 1h ago @christi3k @christi3k
FYI Portland folks - As of yesterday lowes.com had furnace filters in stock and we just got a notification they'd shipped. Still gonna be a bit before they get here. But an option to consider, esp since this smoke is gonna stick around for a while yet.
boost from birdsite, request for installation help
boosting https://twitter.com/pbkalra/status/1306373719225503745
I hate to say it but I think spaCy does better POS tagging (not to mention entity tagging) than nltk, but it is easier to install.
As in I'd like to install spacy but I'm having trouble if anyone wants to help me...
boost from birdsite, nitter link, fun in-browser game
boosting https://nitter.net/recursecenter/status/1286020186643070977#m
A Skynet Simulator, by Ed Burnett. Seems harmless! skynetsimulator.com/
Source here if you want to confirm for yourself: https://github.com/edisgreat/skynet-simulator
boost from birdsite, nitter link, privacy/academia opportunity
boosting https://nitter.net/LeaKissner/status/1303707723142365191#m It's time to register for PEPR, you folks who want to do privacy engineering or bolding with respect. Because building better requires a deeply diverse group of us doing this work, there are grants available for students and those traditionally underrepresented.
boost from birdsite, nitter link, accessibility and tech
boosting thread https://nitter.net/whitecoatcapxg/status/1300610989445054464
Somebody needs to design a streaming platform that is designed to incorporate live captioning. @`youtube used to work, but it literally is useless now. They have abandoned and forsaken the idea of human-produced live captioning. @`zoom works...1/ But some events want a different sort of platform for their events. New platforms are springing up like mushrooms during the pandemic, but NOT ONE OF THEM
boost from birdsite, nitter link, Python packaging, interview video
boosting https://nitter.net/TWiT/status/1301570224030846976
What changes are coming to PIP, the most popular package installer on the @`pypi?
@`dsearls & @`aaronnewcomb talk with PIP project manager @`brainwane (who is also a comedian!) and release manager @`pradyunsg.
Listen & subscribe to FLOSS Weekly.
https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/594
boost from birdsite, nitter link, conference prep for organizers
boosting https://nitter.net/whitecoatcapxg/status/1306028441511264258
I don't know who needs to hear this, but captioners are in extraordinarily high demand right now. Chances of you getting something set up in one day, or same week, or often even same month, are slim. We'll try, but *please* start planning for your captioning needs far in advance!
...This brings up something that separates White Coat Captioning from some other companies:
boost from birdsite, nitter link, conference prep for organizers
... We don't take a job unless we are sure we have coverage and we know exactly who's covering it. As opposed to the way of doing business where a company takes every job that comes...
...through the door and then scrambles to find any old body to fill it. And often can't. And leaves the client hanging.
That is crappy, and we don't do that.
boost from birdsite, copyright abolition
Yeah, this is, as the line goes, about who controls the infrastructure.
boost from birdsite, copyright abolition
@brainwane It was a copyright abolitionist who convinced me not to be one. He was convinced that if copyright were abolished private actors would contract for the rights they really needed. And I thought of all of the awful platform terms of service I've read (even that I'd read ~10 years ago when I heard this), and... nope.
boost from birdsite, danger of solar storms
@brainwane well crap, that's one more thing for me to worry about ;)
boost from birdsite, danger of solar storms
@brion yeah :[
boost from birdsite, uspol
boosting John Dziurlaj
@`Dziurlaj
We’ve all heard about flattening the curve of COVID-19. This concept is also applicable to the election in November. In order for election officials to process an unprecedented amount of absentee requests, they need to come in little by little over time, not all at once....