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A break from my normal content to share a quick life update
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WeWork is interesting in that they have *tons* of vacant office space, and I'm willing to rent some of it for a short period (for 3 employees for a couple of days), but they are unwilling to rent any of it out for less than a month (plus steep setup fees, etc).
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It is always great to catch up with ! In the most recent episode of the Hacking #OpenSource Business Podcast ( ) and I chatted with him on #opensource, #data, and !
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Open source is the purest form of collaboration for , who’s doing everything he can to take out the stress, add visibility, and get closer to a sustainable model.
Here's your Sunday read.
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Outstanding customer service is rare and underrated. You can make some hyper loyal customers.
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When ideological stubbornness meets a basic practicality judgements for FOSS. “Oh no, a corporate backed foundation wants to help us, this must be bad”
They could literally change their mind in a year and be in the exact same position they’re in now.
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Going to be in Oakland in December, Is anyone interested in getting together and chatting #opensource growth, metrics, and not? are gauging interest in doing a small meetup!
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& talk about if branding your project as the #opensource version of X is a good strategy. See the clip from ep4 of the Hacking #OpenSource Business Podcast
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It was an honor to be featured in the GitHub ReadME Project and tell my story with open source and why I started .
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"For example, Scarf told us Google has pulled down the Budibase Docker image over 150 times."
Congrats to on closing their latest round!
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Meet Budibase, a low-code open-source web app builder with automations tcrn.ch/3Wvzxff by @psawers
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Announcing devenv ✨
Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments
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What are common mistakes people make when gathering user feedback about their #opensource project? shares her advice and experience with & on the 4th episode of the Hacking #OpenSource Business Podcast.
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Open source is full of some of the brightest, kindest and most interesting people you’ll ever meet. After a few weeks of consecutive conferences and meeting lots of new people I’m feeling very grateful to be a part of it.
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Linux Foundation Member Summit this year has a very pleasant hallway track view
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Had a great conversation last wk with and for the Hacking #OpenSource Business Podcast. We recorded the show from , and covered the topic "How do you know if your #opensource project is any good?" Great advice inside!
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If nothing else Mastodon is introducing people into the whole Open Source tradition of trying to be enthusiastic about something really bad that doesn't work at all because you don't want to be rude to the maintainers and the thing you really want to use doesn't work anymore.
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Lots of people are very bad at talking to users and customer. If that sounds like you, listen to this great advice from on the episode of our podcast
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Scarf CEO @avi_press and cohost @MYonkovit just dropped the 4th episode of their hacking #opensource business podcast. @EmilyOmier stops by to chat about #opensource messaging and positioning!
youtube.com/watch?v=PeZ1Ix
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So much spam coming through my DMs in the past few weeks I have to close them :(
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So far, cohost still has a lot to work on but it's still way better than mastodon.
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Also their terms of service seem to be coming from the right place yet wholly insane?
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Having a look at cohost. I can't post yet to ask there, but am I understanding correctly that there's no mobile app?
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After Kubecon I am being hunted by an army of sales reps
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Scarf's UI finally looks as good as it performs!
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Scarf got some big upgrades today!
We've shipped a beautiful redesign of our #opensource maintainer dashboard. It's all the Scarf features you're used to but bundled into a cleaner and snappier UI.
V2 of our developer API is now in open beta: docs.scarf.sh/api-v2/
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I'm speaking at #AllThingsOpen tomorrow! Hope to see you there.
2022.allthingsopen.org/sessions/how-d
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I wonder what percent of corporate branded stickers are actually used.
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NFC-enabled business cards are way better than traditional business cards
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I came across an interesting past interview with Bjarne Stroustrup and nearly spat out my coffee when he said:
"Lots of people got their PHDs and made their careers out of forgetting about Simula or never knowing it."
youtube.com/watch?v=uTxRF5
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Dependabot: THANK YOU FOR MERGING MY PULL REQUEST. HERE IS 3 MORE OF THEM.
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This is an interesting question for the writing of both code and natural language, globally. What percent of our total writing output is performed by some form of auto completion? How fast is that number growing?
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Some of our engineers just told me they’d estimate 40% of the lines of code they produce are now written by the Github CoPilot AI
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Kind thanks to and for interviewing me on The Hacking Open Source Business Podcast:
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I’m in hell
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2.5 years into having a much more manageable passenger load in the pandemic, and Bart still manages to be one of the worst train systems out there. Oops sorry your train is cancelled.
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Make a neural network to output its input, and boom, plagiarism is legal now
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If neural network weights are derived works, than you can simply reframe literally any case of IP theft as the “output of a derived neural network”, ie your brain.
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