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Kerrick Long (code)

kerrick@ruby.social

<p>This account is for code &amp; technology! I post my own code/tech-related posts here, and I boost others&#39; code/tech-related posts here.</p>

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  • Post #2455543

    I am always shocked and dismayed to be reminded why Congress had to enact the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967.

  • Post #2455540

    Have you heard about the recent controversy of copyleft-washing? Some folks are making alternatives to free software and releasing them under a lax, permissive non-copyleft free software license. In order for this to be legal, it must not be a derivative work, so the publishers will often claim it is a &amp;quot;clean room&amp;quot; re-implementation. By way of example: https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327 Now somebody has packaged up that process as a delightful satire website. https...

  • Post #2455537

    Wow, this spring really disappeared on me. We went straight from spring break to college visit season for the high schooler in the house, into tax season. I caught up with my email (triple digits!) and started getting back into open source, and then I got sick. Here&amp;#39;s hoping the chaos has subsided and I can do plenty this weekend.

  • Post #2383890

    &amp;quot;There is a space between features, should we choose to perceive it.&amp;quot; --@kentbeck https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/why-does-development-slow