We spoke with Open source software developer and advocate Evan Prodromou about setting up a decentralized open source Twitter killer.

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“Why I like shell scripts Every machine has bash installed Other languages change faster Maintenance cost of bash scripts is lower Figured out something in the terminal? Paste it into a bash script verbatim Perfect glue language To glue together commands, nothing beats bash”

This is the reverse post of my highly popular Top 5 Worst Programming Languages post. 1 C A language for getting things done. It's finished and final. It will not change. There will be no new surprises, no new operators, and no unpublished packages. There are just source files. Write, compile, ship, repeat. You used it...

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The home team talks about Elon Musk’s big purchase, what counts as art, and why engineers become managers for the wrong reasons.

What Really Happened: Steve Jobs @ Xerox PARC '79

I found a really exciting video lecture by Guy L. Steele that I'd like to share with you. The title of the lecture is "Growing a Language". The main thing Guy Steele asks during the lecture is "If I want to help other persons to write all sorts of programs, should I design a small programming language or a large one?"...

1 Haskell The ultimate dont-get-anything-done language. You will spend all your time pretending to be clever by matching types and don't get the work done. Absolutely useless language made for exobrain academics to write papers no one will read. 2 Rust A language that is a syntax error. It looks like syntax error, it...

This is my personal story of starting the SRE organization at Uber. If you want advice rather than reminiscence, take a look at Trunk and Branches Model and Productivity in the age of hypergrowth. After I left SocialCode in 2014, I spent a month interviewing at a handful of companies trying to figure out what to do next. I was torn between two different paths: (1) leading engineering at a very small startup, or (2) taking a much smaller role at a fast growing company, with the expectation that growth would create opportunity.

The good and the bad. It's all ugly.

From two ports bridges to SmartSwitches

WT.Social, Mastodon, Slow Social, Sundayy: Alternatives to #Facebook, #Twitter and the like keep proliferating as devs look to build a better social network. #socialnetworks #developers

“Okay, now I'm being asked "What should Elon do to fix Twitter?" It looks like the takeover succeeded (easiest hostile takeover ever! I suspect the board secretly wanted to work with Elon, because WELL IT'S ELON).”

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Apple says that Server's most popular features have been integrated into macOS.

Just keep it under wraps.

With the recent news of Twitter’s board accepting Elon Musk’s offer to buy Twitter, some folks are talking about leaving Twitter. In the long scheme of things, being founded in 2006 makes Twitter a young company, but the internet is different and over the past 16 years it’s become a central platform for many folks working in the technology field (among many others). Twitter has become especially important for folks writing content online, to the extent that it’s the most effective distribution mechanism for many writers.

Rob Green spoke about the changing world of advertising and its shortcomings at the 2018 Digiday Video Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona.

BitTorrent usage has bounced back because there's too many streaming services, and too much exclusive content.

Amazon’s new Buy With Prime announced the arrival of Amazon Logistics as a Service, and is a big red flag for Shopify.

Obsidian enables you to create a set of linked documents with Markdown, supporting the creation of a knowledge base.

Meta, Microsoft and Intel are investing billions in developing this virtual world, but what if it turns out to be not that interesting?

Work cultures have undergone a dramatic change in the past two years. Data, automation and edge computing will transform everything.

The business benefits of network automation are sometimes lost in discussion about technology and tools. Guest Tim Fiola joins this episode of Heavy Networking to discuss how to engage the business at a cultural level so that network automation is properly embraced and supported by management.

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