Gerard Braad ✅ @gbraad@mastodon.social
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Principal Software Engineer / Team Lead @ Red Hat
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Apparently we now have the Lee Towers (yes, literally two towers) in Rotterdam because of a skit of Arjen Lubach.
If you're Dutch, and you know the singer Lee Towers, this is hilarious.
Used the @KittenBot1
MeowBit with the new SD-Wireless to add some character to the Mecanum-bot; Meet Winky https://github.com/gbraad/mecanum-meowbit-joyfrog-winky/
I modified the micro:bit Mecanum Omni:bot from @YahboomT (Super:bit-based), so you can use a @KittenBot1 JoyFrog controller: https://github.com/gbraad/microbit-superbit-joyfrog
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"The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds"
- Theo Jansen
"Blood money is fine with us", says GitLab: Vetting non-evil customers is 'time consuming, potentially distracting'
Code-hosting biz also bans staff from talking politics at work https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/16/gitlab_employees_gagged/
In reference to: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/b5a35716deb4f63299a23a40510475f5503c11c4
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RMS pulls a serious power move (read: dick move), unilaterally appointing a maintainer to Guile without consulting the other co-maintainers or community, because the current co-maintainers disagree with him on governance https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2019-10/msg00005.html
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Results of the first day of the World Solar Challenge 2019; Top 3 are all Dutch teams, followed by the Belgium team
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#Mastodon 3.0: A short overview of some of our newest features
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Operation of mastodon.social as well as my work on Mastodon development is funded through Patreon:
@Gargon just noticed you already put up a toot for this. Never heard of Wasabi, ...
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