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Some people stand on the shoulders of Giants, and are Appreciative. Others crawl over the backs of Giants, and are Dismissive.

Fun Fact about me: I am pretty much completely aphantasic.

Interesting and brave post: kennethreitz.org/essays/2025-...

When Values Eat Their Young: How Ideal-Driven Groups Drift into Their Own Shadow

August 2025 Picture this: A Slack channel for an open-source project that prominently displays "Be excellent to each other" in its community guideline

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Never trust anyone who has never said “Thank You” or “I’m Sorry.” Toxic people to be avoided.

If anyone does not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that house or town.

Really looking forward to the 2025 @allthingsopen.bsky.social conference this year. So incredible to see just how much #AllThingsOpen it has grown and how it has taken its rightful place as _the_ Open Source Event focused on Community and Collaboration. 1/2

Perfect? Far from it. But I never claim otherwise. I admit my failings and attempt to do better. Truth deserves no less.

I think about this scene a lot lately... for, hopefully, obvious reasons: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQic...

JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961) | Dr. Janning's Testimony | MGM

YouTube video by Amazon MGM Studios

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Check out my latest article: How Open Source Lost Its Way with AI www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-op... via @LinkedIn

How Open Source Lost Its Way with AI

There was a time, not that long ago, when Open Source was a force to be reckoned with. Open Source communities and foundations had the power, and the moral and ethical imperative, to drive and enforce...

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Bye-bye VirtualBox! www.theregister.com/2025/07/30/l...

Oracle VirtualBox licensing tweak lies in wait for unwary

: Java-like move could land those expecting free trial with a new bill

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OMG. gizmodo.com/billionaires...

Billionaires Convince Themselves AI Chatbots Are Close to Making New Scientific Discoveries

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You know, this has been my experience as well... For the most part, AI just "gets in the way" and tries _way_ too hard. johnwhiles.com/posts/mental...

AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why.

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I've had a long, long career. Some might even affix the adjective "illustrious" to it (not me though). But there's one thing I still take pride and joy from. In all that time, I've never had to code in Java.

Brian Wilson dead, but Mike Love still alive? There. Is. No. God.

You have to admit: the working concept of "everything is a file" is elegant and powerful as 'ef

I remain convinced that Advertising companies have 3 go-to plans for any new TV commercials: 1. Talking babies 2. Old people doing cool stuff/ being gangsta 3. People dancing All ads are variations on those themes.

So I wanted to standardize most of my work software tooling to a single language and the question was should I port my Go to Python, or my Python to Go? I've decided on Python being primary... it is just too useful, too universal, and too _fun_ to not be number 1.

Pretty excited by this #opensource release: Salesforce Agentforce SDK - A #Python #SDK for creating, managing, and deploying #AI #agents and prompt templates in #Salesforce. github.com/salesforce/a...

GitHub - salesforce/agent-sdk: Python SDK for creating, managing and running agents with Agentforce

Python SDK for creating, managing and running agents with Agentforce - salesforce/agent-sdk

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Crazy that tracking security issues is no longer deemed critical: www.csoonline.com/article/3963... But at least a group of existing members are trying to maintain things: www.thecvefoundation.org #opensource #security

I remember when floating point operations were _expensive_!