esparta @esparta@fosstodon.org

This is the most accessible C code I have ever seen and a really great open-source project. I always enjoyed @antirez pitching an idea, requesting and then carefully considering comments, slowly building new features.
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RT @antirez
Today I'm stepping down as Redis leader and maintainer. I published a blog post about this:

http://antirez.com/news/133

Thanks Redis community, you have my love <3
Thanks Redis Labs for the joint adventure s…
https://twitter.com/antirez/status/1277950585707397123

"How do I get started contributing to open source? What are some good entry-level tasks to work on?"

These are questions I am often asked, so here's the answer for everyone to read:

Scratch your own itches. Find bugs that are causing you problems, conspicuously missing features you would find useful, and implement them - in literally any free/open-source software you're using. Don't worry about not being familiar with the codebase or programming language or whatever, just solve one problem at a time.

Try this: next time you go to report a bug, report it, and immediately start working on a patch which fixes the problem.

Scratching your own itches is the best source of motivation and maximizes your productivity.

Often that means not contributing to my projects at all, if you're asking how to get started with a specific project. Maybe you like it because it's flawless 😉 (hah!), in which case it wouldn't need your help anyway. Go fix something which is bugging you in another project. Spread the contributor wealth around and eventually it'll come back to my projects, too.

reCAPTCHA and other absolutely unusable CAPTCHAs are probably the biggest usability nightmare currently. When your CAPTCHA disqualifies a user as a bot when they try to use the audio version because the visual version is hard to use or simply does not work you've completely and utterly failed as a developer.

Copying and pasting from a reddit thread because it's important.

firing rubber bullets at innocent person on their porch:

https://streamable.com/u2jzoo
cop way too excited to fuck some people up:

https://v.redd.it/jjclrdzp8x151
cop shooting rubber bullet at guy for saying "fuck you":

https://v.redd.it/zepg0b43ly151
cops breaking supplies for peaceful protestors:

https://v.redd.it/v8x8isj0xz151
nypd driving into protestors:

https://v.redd.it/mztm15kh00251 https://gfycat.com/misguidedrecklesscod
cops shoving an old dude to the ground:

https://v.redd.it/bluggpblrz151
police actively seeking out fights compilation:

https://v.redd.it/m82yxl4qh0251
cop driving at people aggressively on a campus:

https://v.redd.it/ngxvkoro60251
cop shooting rubber bullets at people watching from apartment:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Sarah_Mojarad/status/1266633046591078400?s=09
police shooting the press with rubber bullets:

https://v.redd.it/o3v8ps7rat151
police arresting a CNN reporter:

https://v.redd.it/yce9bpk8mo151
police doing a drive-by pepper spraying

https://mobile.twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1266193926316228609
photographer being pepper sprayed:

https://i.redd.it/4ix8f3j6dy151.jpg
guy with hands in the air gets his mask ripped off and pepper sprayed:

https://v.redd.it/wlx0gyoe21251
lady who was coming home with groceries who got a rubber bullet to the head:

https://i.redd.it/ns0uj557x0251.jpg
https://mobile.twitter.com/KevinRKrause/status/1266898396339675137
reporter blinded by rubber bullets:

https://mobile.twitter.com/KillerMartinis/status/1266618525600399361?s=19
reporter describes getting tear gassed:

https://mobile.twitter.com/mollyhf/status/1266911382613692422
couple getting yanked out of their car and tased for violating curfew:

https://mobile.twitter.com/GAFollowers/status/1266919104574865410?s=19
young woman gets shoved to the ground by officer:

https://mobile.twitter.com/whitney_hu/status/1266540710188195843?s=20
reporter sheltering in gas station is pepper sprayed: https://twitter.com/MichaelAdams317

reporter trying to get home gets window shot out: https://twitter.com/JaredGoyette/status/1266961243476299778
cops come at a guy for filming a police car burning:

https://twitter.com/johncusack/status/1266953514242228229
photographer arrested:

https://youtu.be/9wgkGLmphLE
Columbus police assaulting protestors:

https://twitter.com/KRobPhoto/status/1266796191469252610

Just a reminder kids: blaming protests & riots on outside agitators, as multiple politicians and commentators are now doing, is a ploy to trivialize and dismiss the legitimate concerns of minority groups.

I've made the decision to make a formal release of my book "The Mediocre Programmer" and keep it free for now. I was thining of making it available so folks could give me some $$ for it on various sites, but honestly I just need to get this out and get it off of my plate so I can focus on other things. Plus it's more of a book that I want to change the culture of programming and the way to change that culture is to the same way that my computing culture was changed: by sharing freely.

y'all going to laugh, but I really believed it. I drank the kool-aid. this was the mid-00s, a tech company with a motto "don't be evil" still felt daring rather than cringe – for an alienated techie like past me, at least; my politically aware friends tried to warn me; but I didn't realise that Google leveraged its fine-tuned advertising machinery also for recruiting, and I swallowed the whole thing.

One approach to learning git is to treat it like a necessary evil, something distracting you from the actual thing you're trying to do - you just want to write your program, god dammit. The better approach acknowledges that git is a tool you're likely to use every day, many times a day, for the next 30 years or more, and investing the next few hours into learning about it.