#FOSS offers companies a good deal: Great, cheap software that can be used in all sorts of products and projects. But of course you can't just outsource the responsibility because it's maintained by some random person in Nebraska.
So I have a question for software #developers working in small and medium sized companies (big companies can pay themselves AND leave money for maintainers):
Would your company be interested in crowd-funded #codereviews of the FOSS projects you are using?
How do you manage to find time to code your personal projects and read tech literature?
My family is not even that big, but for me it's a constant struggle to reliably find 30-60 minutes a day to do my thing.
Most of the time there are house chores, or some apartment renovation, or my partner needs me to help with something, or it's time to go out, etc etc etc
#developers Our browser extension needs image-to-text conversion library (aka text extraction). I can’t pin down whatever library(s) most web services are using for this. Any leads appreciated. (Since the Mastodon API doesn’t provide access to its extractor, we need another solution.)
I would like to create a small #website as a starting point for #plugin developers who want to support #linux as a platform for #musicproduction. I plan to interview existing #linuxaudio#developers like u-he, TAL, AudioThing, Bitwig and others about this. Who of you would like to accompany and/or support me with this? 😊
App developers: if you use notifications very sparingly, for things that I actually care about, I'll leave them turned on and even appreciate them.
But if you abuse notifications and hit me with too many, I'll block notifications from your app. Globally. All of them. And then I'll forget about it, and never revisit that decision.
Once you hit that point, it's too late. You ain't coming back.
Think about it before you decide to do notifications.
@elly I feel your pain, but the battle was lost as soon as #developers started self-identifying as #FrontEnd or #BackEnd specialists. We asked for it.
And here’s where I shake my old “webmaster” cane and mutter about staying off my lawn: I started #WebDev in 1995 when skills were so new and thinly distributed that specialization was nigh impossible. It’s freakin’ hard to keep up with the ever-exploding web technology stack, but it can be done.