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• Post #4501800

  Just made the 2000th commit on Nitro Porter. Naturally, it was a fix for a static analysis error that slipped by me. 😂

• Post #4353587

  You can draw a line from the rise of 4chan to the Trump administration. Being a virulent, fascist asshole in public fully broke societal containment. Putting the lid back on that jar is more work than an election can do. Millennials & Zoomers will learn to organize, or we're gonna lose everything.

• Post #4283001

  Folks who think you're using "fascist" hyperbolically never stop to wonder who convinced them all uses of that word are hyperbolic... 🤔

• Post #4280790

  ⚠️ There are only 2 (two) good date formats: DMY (31 Jul 2026) for reading, narration, & natural language. ISO 8601 (2026-07-31) for lists, sorting, & technical accuracy. Most of the world already does this! Yes, really. 👋 If you don't... perhaps consider getting your shit together. 🤗 Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk. 🙇‍♂️

• Post #4141099

  4 folks hired me into software orgs in the last 15 years. How long each lasted in their role afterward, chronologically: ~12 months ~9 months ~6 months ~3 months So... if you're looking to leave your role in ~0 months... shoot me a job offer I guess. 😮‍💨 😂

• Post #4097241

  Yard sale day. Random teenager: “You seem like a dad. Or know dad things.” You're not wrong, kid. 😂

• Post #3949410

  me: the heartstopper movie is out… husband: we should rewatch the series first me: i find your terms agreeable we just binged season one and i am fully prepared to fight the entire world *right this minute* i don’t have the words to adequately convey what the series means to me, i am sure this is a therapy toot, but good lord the catharsis of watching high schoolers be… nearly mentally healthy

• Post #3889591

  Holy shit, Higher Logic's incompetence knows no bounds. https://open.vanillaforums.com/discussion/39625/vanilla-open-source-update

• Post #3889051

  Looks like Higher Logic unpublished the Vanilla Forums repo last week (that they stopped sharing code to last year). Good thing I totally saw that coming and made a fork. 😎 https://github.com/prosembler/vanilla

• Post #3792991

  People are organizing more. Like... all over. It's exhausting and slow. And hopeful. And resilient. The pendulum swings once more. If you haven't noticed it yet, I think you will soon.

• Post #3701311

  Latest way I made myself lol: A friend is thoughtfully polling a small group of us for the setting & theme of a TTRPG he's setting up. I'm a first-time player. We've been chatting about it for a couple days. I reply to the 6th poll and give a verbose answer re: availability. I wait a beat. Then: "anyway when do i decide im a bard"

• Post #3697516

  I believe I am soon to be the first person to migrate a #community out of #Discord with all its data intact. 😳

• Post #3627186

  Emoji-based post reactions were invented at Vanilla Forums in 2010 in Montreal. If you're reading this, you're now a significant % of the population that knows this. I'm pretty sure if a US tech monopoly had done it, *everyone* in tech would know, because they'd never shut up about it.

• Post #3546391

  I am pro-excommunication. I am also pro-governance, of the democratic variety. If you don't know where the lines are and aren't enforcing them, you're not governing at all. Fascists love to call *you* a fascist for having principles & enforcing any at all. They want to erase the lines to accrue power & validate their world view. Fuck 'em. It'll feel real bad. That's because you have empathy. Excommunicate them anyway. Come talk to me about it and I'll giv...

• Post #3545995

  "How to make a community newspaper" has never been encoded in software and I cannot convey how insane that is to me. I understand why, I'm just saying all the reasons are unhinged and the enemy.

• Post #2547192

  I'm still out here fretting about my outdated use of arrays in #PHP while companies tell their devs to stop reading code.

• Post #2547191

  What % of professional developers using version control don't really understand or actively use git staging? I think it's 80%, maybe more.

• Post #2547190

  Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day Finished this 1-season #anime series on Friday night. It's about a group of kids, 1 of whom died after an accidental fall in grade school, causing them to drift apart & cope independently. Now in high school, the friend's spirit suddenly appears to the group's former "leader" (only), causing them to reconnect and reexamine what happened that day, finally confronting their grief. Absolutely sobbed at the fi...

• Post #2547188

  I've been employed as a developer by 4 companies that sold software. In ALL, I discovered at least one potentially-company-ending #security flaw. I also led #incident responses to active exploits in 3/4 that successfully contained breeches without catastrophic impacts. I want to believe this is all because I'm very good at my job. What I actually believe is that the bar for security knowledge & critical thinking is on the ground and I trip over it frequently by talkin...

• Post #2547187

  Ways I have uncovered critical show-stopping #security flaws: 1. Someone in marketing off-handedly mentioned something odd in their open source install of our software. 2. I ran standup for new team and heard a dev describe a feature I wasn't familiar with, so I asked 1 question. 3. I skimmed the code of an app we'd acquired before I started, but no one had inspected, because I had a feeling. 4. Someone in support noticed a user with an odd name and mentioned it in Slack.

• Post #2547186

  "It's OK that X isn't done securely because we do Y and Z checks too" is not a reassuring statement. What you actually are saying is: "I knew this was insecure and did it anyway" — that tells me all I need to know. The last time someone said that to me, you'll never guess what I found when I inspected Y & Z. Spoilers: My next task was to teach a medium-sized company how to handle a #security incident.

• Post #1435402

  For me, what eats the most time in Web development is uncertainty about how a particular thing behaves. Even *if* working as documented, edge cases abound. But to go faster with #AI, I'm supposed to stop understanding how *anything* behaves. OK. The thing that takes the most time when grocery shopping is understanding what I'm consuming, where it came from, and how much it costs. To go faster, I should throw whatever monopoly-owned processed shit is on sale into my cart. No...

• Post #1155415

  Hello #PHP folks, I have a rare job posting for my small team to share! We're helping to make career services more accessible to more students in higher ed. Even if you're not interested, I'd appreciate feedback on the post and referrals! Thanks https://jobs.lever.co/gouconnect/48195d9d-e216-4ce5-a6a5-a552361a710c

• Post #1155414

  I went to my first protest today, in Michigan's state capitol. My thanks to 50501's organizers for doing incredible work in just 2 days to put together a successful event. I highly recommend finding events like this to start getting comfortable with protesting. It's a lot to take in if you're an introvert, and you're going to need the practice. Things aren't going to get better magically. Dig in.

• Post #985719

  A temporal gateway sends you to a medieval village full of cold & death. You must use your knowledge to bring them steam power! You spend weeks laboriously drawing schematics with fragments of coal & build a wax mold, then travel afield collecting metal scraps. On return... their leader has burned the schematics & castings. "Thank you," he says sincerely, "this kept us warm while you were away!" #microfiction That's what it&...

• Post #942877

  Delighted to announce my project Nitro Porter, the only multi-platform community migration tool, was awarded a grant through the Open Social Fund established by @nlnet Since last autumn, I've explored a proof-of-concept for adding Discord as a "source" for migrations, the first time it's supported non-database exports. This funding will greatly expedite development & release of that feature, as well as adding new open source "targets"...

• Post #812666

  PHP's drop in "popularity" mirrors the post-2010 enshittification of the Web. The longer I am in this industry, the more I believe the monopolists spread FUD about it because there is nothing more dangerous to them than a dominant Web stack that cannot have its value captured & extracted by one of them, yet is capable of spinning up competitors overnight by a labor market they haven't homogenized & deskilled. #PHP might be the most dangerous We...

• Post #783620

  #AI is designed to kill off the open source commons, so maybe don't help it along while you're still in the commons' debt.

• Post #783314

  Many leaders don’t understand what makes a team operate efficiently. Usually, they want to measure it in time, but it's better evaluated by how much you can *remove.* on my blog: https://lincolnwebs.com/efficient-teams/ on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lincolnwebs_many-leaders-dont-understand-what-makes-share-7442681126571286528-dx3w

• Post #451590

  Software development is fundamentally a practice that removes friction & risk from human processes. To remove friction from software development itself by loading its output with risk is to misunderstand that purpose. #AI