Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardojmendez@mastodon.social
Technical Director @ Samsung NEXT Europe. \o/ Tech, Clojure, open source, privacy.
Here's "It's all about the curry", my Monkigras 2018 talk on software craft:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EB6F-nhT-c
Delivered a lot of talks over the years, but I gotta say this has been one of my favorites so far.
Sacrificing #privacy on the altar of #copyright:
"Implementation of Article 13 results in a total real-time filtering of every piece of content that will be uploaded to the internet."
Want to get a Great Firewall of Europe? Because that's how you get a Great Firewall of Europe.
https://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-stop-the-censorship-machinery-save-the-internet
Tomorrow the EU-parliament will vote whether to proceed with a #CopyrightDirective. You can read here about the impacts it would have in five languages, and might want to sign the petition, too:
https://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-stop-the-censorship-machinery-save-the-internet
#Amazon barely gives any discount on some books, compared to their child company BookDepository. Seems to me this happens mostly on titles with a smaller audience (e.g. Peter Watts).
On those cases, the Kindle book is about 50%-60% of the price, whereas in others it's common to see Kindle books that are almost the same price as the printed book.
Wouldn't surprise me if they're pushing to go #Kindle-only for anything that is not mass-market.
Twitter follows are the new spam.
Here's "It's all about the curry", my Monkigras 2018 talk on software craft:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EB6F-nhT-c
Delivered a lot of talks over the years, but I gotta say this has been one of my favorites so far.
The knights and ladies rode to hunt, their cats astride their gloved hands. They were released to pursue prey; some returned a mouse, others brought newt or frog, and some simply had a nap.
The noble whose cat seemed most content was declared the mistress or master of the hunt.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
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Theo Schlossnagle's Monkigras talk about ethics and software development is a must-watch - specially on this age where technology controls so much of people's daily lives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdZ_NjbLLfc
“Everybody is looking for talent. I’m looking for professionals.”
A Monkigras 2018 talk by Luis Villa on friction, how it has its uses, and how introducing friction can be a source of autonomy and help solve the #opensource sustainability problem.
"Oh, it also tracks your every move and taps your smartphone's microphone, supposedly in the name of helping to root out unauthorized match broadcasts in bars, restaurants and cafes." #privacy #futbol https://boingboing.net/2018/06/11/spanish-football-app-turns-use.html
Google is trying to patent an algorithm from public domain
Peter Watts can throw around scientific details or quantities in his stories which would be natural for his characters, but are conversions an average reader would never have had to make.
It just dawned on me Wolfram Alpha understands these, can help you subtitle Watts the way his _Blindsight_ characters subtitle each other's lingo.
We live in an age of informational plenty.
http://www.rifters.com/Eriophora-Root-Archive-Log-Ahzmundin-frag/derelict.htm
recommend checking out some short stories from the Freeze-Frame Revolution universe if you're in a mood for some hard sci-fi reading:
http://rifters.com/real/shorts/PeterWatts_Hotshot.pdf
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_09_14_reprint/
http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/PeterWatts_TheIsland.pdf
http://www.rifters.com/Eriophora-Root-Archive-Log-Ahzmundin-frag/derelict.htm
One thing I've learned over the years is that it takes a lot more skill to solve a problem by writing code that's simple rather than clever.
This is all from a 4-month period at the end of 2017. I'd used it myself for years and had run an on-site instance for a different team before which, albeit quirky, behaved much better.
Not sure what happened with them. Maybe it all got borked on the rush to add new features, maybe we joined at a bad time.
For a team willing to pay but which needed it to be plumbing and "just work", Gitlab fumbled every chance we gave them.
Some notes on #Gitlab, in case you're considering it:
- Usability is OK;
- SLA was a joke. We were paying for silver, but we didn't get replies to issues for days/weeks unless we raised a ruckus on Twitter;
- That doesn't mean the issues were solved, just acknowledged;
- Build runners may or may not start, depending on the weather;
- When we decided we going to self-host it, we found the export/import was broken, was a known issue for months, still unfixed.
It was a mess.
