Julien Deswaef @judeswae@toot.thoughtworks.com

The latest ThoughtWorks Tech Radar finally puts an end to the discussion on an urban legend among managers in the IT industry known as the "10x engineer".

https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques/10x-engineers

#ThoughtWorks #TechRadar #10xEngineer

The FidoNet chapter from BBS: The Documentary (2004) is I think required viewing for fediverse admins.

Bulletin board services (BBSes) were pre-web online communities with forums, mail, games, etc. FidoNet was/is basically a volunteer-run federation layer that let BBSes communicate with each other.

The video talks about FidoNet's growing pains, especially around governance & a mismatch between what users wanted and what the sysops felt was required to maintain the net.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cm6EFYktRQ

A browser extension that replaces occurrences of 'serverless' with 'cgi-bin'

https://github.com/ghuntley/serverless-to-cgi-bin
#newsbot

"Generosity and inclusivity are at times purported as primary drivers of maker culture. In maker spaces, we are expected to ‘share’ and ‘open source’ our discoveries, just as the space shares tools amongst members."

- Art Hack Practice (p. 4). Taylor and Francis.

I tried to use http://TalkToTransformer.com and GPT-2 to make a neural net generate a JavaScript function to add two numbers together.

Good news: It's valid syntax and returns a number!

Bad news: It's not exactly correct.

Three major ML platforms recognized "his" as a pronoun, but not "hers": https://medium.com/@robert.munro/bias-in-ai-3ea569f79d6a

#machine-learning #bias

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Embarrassed that I don't do more to customize my command line prompt.

Makes me feel like a wizard with a store-bought wand instead of a hand-carved one.