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codebase historian / professional computer wrangler, proud one-fifth of the australian bluesky user base (melbourne chapter)
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“the field access data contract is the typing!! the field access data contract is the typing!!” I scream, as I stare down refactoring a core part of the Python flask app I furiously shat out a few weeks ago with no static type-driven refactoring or compile checking available

*quake III announcer voice*

MS Teams is a modern day / corporate panopticon change my mind

newsroom.ibm.com/2025-02-27-i...

#TIL en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_C...

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

At risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.

i will never get over how mark zuckerberg spent the GDP of several small nations trying to convince people to have zoom work meetings in Minecraft