Similarly to eggs, you could have labelling for #software that goes something like "This software was created by #developers outside of the corporate campus"
Hi everyone.
I am a software researcher working in the energy space.
My research is around P2P, blockchain and the use of Hydrogen.
My latest paper is -https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.09.107
In my spare time I play guitar and drums, grow my own veg, and play with the dogs on the beach!
Why is my camera on so much at work? Why are my physical reactions deliberately exaggerated?
This is one of the first things I learnt as a teacher - there will always be people in the class who will help by giving silent feedback and encouragement, no matter how nervous and unsure you are.
The same happens in sales presentations, in keynote talks, or performing on a stage - there will always be at least 1 person in the audience who helps you know whether or not you are landing your message or performance.
Those people are invaluable to presenters.
Those people help us keep the energy going.
Those people help us know when we need to explain more or differently.
Those people help us know when we need to switch to a different topic because what we prepared isn't working as we hoped.
Those people help us be better presenters, better teachers, better performers.
Once I understood this, I wanted to be one of those people when I'm in an audience. [1/2]
Why exaggerate? Especially on our tiny boxes in our video calls, small changes aren't easily visible.
The same is often true from a stage or a lecture theatre when you're one person in a big audience - we notice you because your movements stand out from the crowd.
Obviously being on camera so much, and being so conscious of how I am on camera, is work and often tiring.
Especially given my seniority, giving public encouragement, welcome, and help is something I consider a core part of my job.
Given the ongoing pandemic means I'm fully remote in a corporate world where there is always a tendency towards in-person chauvinism - and even before the pandemic this chauvinism was relevant as someone working in a satellite office rather than at HQ - being more consistently visible is also in part a way to compensate for that exclusion tendency. [2/2]
Was suggested #Obsidian by multiple friends yesterday as a note taking app. Currently I use #Typora, but I'm interested to see what this has goin' for it.
Now this is really nice to see. My employer's software platform and services have been evaluated by Everest Group and ranked as number one in vision and capability! It's awesome to have this recognition of our hard work to change the way the world works!
I've been in #software#design and development for a long time and it's been good to me, I've gotten to work on stuff that doesn't do harm, isn't invasive, tries to respect privacy etc, so pretty low on the moral compromise scale, and I've been given a lot of agency and authority, but folks, I'm bored as hell with it. I like leading teams and guiding careers and making neat apps and all but as I near some apex of experience I'm running out of fucks to give. The ultimate fake problem, I know.
Tech hive mind: In my #software development class, I used to demonstrate the deployment pipeline by deploying a super-simple Flask app to Heroku, and then having students do something similar in a homework assignment. Now that Heroku has nuked the free tiers, does anyone have suggestions for alternative platforms we could use?
Some requirements: must be able to run #Python apps, must have a free tier, and it must not require students to provide a credit card (btw, Heroku does have a "for students" plan, but students would have to apply for it and would still need to provide a credit card, so that's a no-go for us)
Now that I'm officially moved to the new account, I'll post my #introduction again. I’m an #openSource Evangelist for #Intel (check out the Open at Intel podcast) and a nerdy podcaster on @reality2cast and FLOSS Weekly on @twitnews where my interests are expanding more and more into #privacy and #security. I am also a #Linux Journal alum and a huge fan of #Drupal, the open web, user and privacy-respecting #hardware and #software, #antique ceramics, and really good #food and #wine.
A few years ago I started reading Software Lead Weekly. This is a weekly newsletter that roundups a bunch of really great articles and resources on engineering management and technical leadership. In one edition the concept of a Manager README was shared and I thought it sounded fantastic.
A Manager README is a document that you can share with your team to outline your own my leadership style. I recently finished writing my own here:
I sometimes have the feeling that there is certain kinds of essential #software that either requires developers to already be assholes to be able to build it effectively, or working on it turns the developers into assholes. This is stuff that we all need, that society is built upon. I appreciate the work, but personally want nothing to do with those communities. Yet it is also important that essential software is free software and open to contributions. It is a paradox I often think about.
Today I'm remembering one of the coolest space things ever: Voyager 2's S-band radio receiver has been broken for 44 years, and yet we can still talk to it.
Back in 1978 the primary receiver failed, and the team discovered the backup receiver had a faulty capacitor in the PLL circuit that adjusted for Doppler shift. Since then, Voyager 2's receive bandwidth has been much narrower, and the band-pass window wanders back and forth by a few hundred Hz with temp changes.
@danderson The JPL team over the entire span of the voyager project deserve accolades. But what stands out is the philosophy of of making use of limited resources. Back here on earth, continuous improvement bloats software, which obsoletes hardware, which drives sales and creates e-waste. If only we treated the earth as a limited resource? #earth#resources#software#bloatware#e-waste