Notices by James Broadhead (jbo@mastodon.social), page 3

Just had a chat with the CTO of a startup - 50 engineers, 60 services.
My take is that beyond around 3 engr/service, oncall and operational overhead eats productivity.

@jfreebo you might enjoy(?) this - https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

@jfreebo who owns the computer, and why do they keep it running?

Or beyond that -- have you ever tried to keep software running for more than a few years? It's not easy!

@O_DarcyW @Tupp_ed hook that up to a usb-c dongle for your phone, and you're good to go!

@falun smashing pumpkins is/are/were good though

Highlight of my day: smashing 6 pumpkins with a spade so they'd fit into our compost bin

Low-light: Pulling a muscle in my neck in a freak flower-arranging accident

I just realised that it's 2023 and I'm waiting for the Wheel of Time again

@vt52 @danhon YES

@mcc this? https://ploum.net/2023-08-01-splitting-the-web.html

@arrdem thanks for this thread - nixOS sounds closest to what you want. What makes it "lol" to you?

Today was the first day I heard it called "The Climate Emergency". Feels about right

@sturobson that looks _very good_

“The permanence of library collections may become a thing of the past,” said Jason Schultz, director of New York University’s Technology Law & Policy Clinic.

“I wish the publishers had not sued, but it demonstrates how important it is that libraries stand firm on buying, preserving and lending the treasures that are books.” -me, Digital Librarian

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/business/media/internet-archive-emergency-lending-library.html

Oh wow.

Bram has passed away.

That’s so sad. 😢

https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/tWahca9zkt4?pli=1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Moolenaar

I can’t help but think of this quote from an interview with him:

Q: How can the community ensure that the Vim project succeeds for the foreseeable future?

A: Keep me alive.

#Vim

I wonder if there's an open source keyboard out there which *looks and feels exactly the same* as SwiftKey. Or how much work it would be to take AnySoftKeyboard (which seems pretty close) and patch it until it's SwiftKey-identical, so I could get the SwiftKey experience plus whatever minor features I want.

It's rough with keyboards because it's something you use so constantly it's like it's part of you. The thought of switching to something else is like thinking about replacing a limb.

There's hardly any swearing here

this is the first good meme I've seen in like six months

@xor I can't answer your question directly, but you can use calibre to load your own books onto a Kindle that's always on airplane mode

@ironicaccount if that becomes a cultural touch-point, then Rian has done us all an enormous favour

@DemonTomatoDave That'll do, Dave, that'll do