Notices by Drew DeVault (sir@cmpwn.com), page 2

Listen.

DON'T

USE

SLACK

FOR

FOSS

PROJECTS

Don't use JavaScript to mess with scrolling please

Actually, don't use JavaScript please

If you use the term "C/C++" I hate you and everything you stand for

Reminder that taking that cushy looking job at Google or Facebook makes you complicit in world's greatest mass erosion of privacy at scale. You can say goodbye to any of your side projects, too.

Apparently my account has been suspended on mastodon.social, which explains why a dozen people over the past month have contacted me with trouble following my account. I guess that means all 256,596 mastodon.social users don't want to see my posts

@Wolf480pl this is my workflow for contributing to github projects:

- git commit
- git send-e... wait a sec
- git checkout -b some-feature
- git checkout -
- git reset --hard HEAD^
- git checkout -
- go find my web browser
- go to github.com/that project
- make a fork*
- git remote rename origin upstream *
- git remote add origin git@github.com... *
- git push -u origin some-feature
- refresh my web browser
- click the "pull request" button
- click "submit pull request"
- git checkout -
- git branch -u upstream/master

and my preferred workflow:

- git commit
- search README for email addresses *
- git config sendemail.to that@address.org *
- git config format.subjectPrefix 'PATCH some-project' *
- git send-email HEAD^

* only done once per project

https://www.xkcd.com/743/

The only thing Nvidia has done for you is take hundreds of dollars of your money in exchange for a shitty driver

But people who spend hundreds of hours of their spare time making free software for you are clearly the villans

Reminder to all the people writing wannabe top replacements in node or python or ruby right now:

A performance monitoring tool which is the biggest CPU hog on your system is fucking dumb

solarized is a disgusting color scheme and people who use it should be ashamed of themselves

Fuck you GitHub, and fuck anyone else who only supports mainstream web browsers
Not supporting engines like QtWebKit makes you an asshole and stifles innovation

MFW someone probably blocked me because they misread "direct threats to defederate" as "death threats"

Here's an idea: instead of making follow bots, just let your federation grow organically. If you just follow everyone you see then your federated timeline will be a bunch of noise, but if you just federate as you interact with people the federated timeline will be mostly discussions relevant to your interests.