Is that a skill? How does one train one's "here's something interesting I found out" muscle?
At my previous job, we had a weekly Engineering-wide (5 teams, ~25 people) huddle. Talk about highlights of the week, interesting problems, good things we shipped, etc.
Some people always had a way of highlighting fascinating problems. I rarely could. When engaging in conversation, however, things were different: I could always bring up interesting problems from recent experience.
I think they're instances of the same problem.
Livebook - interactive notepad for Elixir and Nx https://github.com/elixir-nx/livebook | https://lobste.rs/s/f2nmt1 #elixir
It sure says something about me that I have opinions on rms's board position despite not knowing what either has been up to in the last decade.
But this statement from the FSF seems hard to dispute:
"He remains the most articulate philosopher and an unquestionably dedicated advocate of freedom in computing."
I noticed just today that @delta supports video calls via Jitsi.
What an elegant piece of software design (on top of messy protocols, no less.)
What's the gentilic for Mastodon? "Mastodonian"? I won't be able to toot my #introduction without knowing...