Kristopher Johnson @oldmankris@mastodon.xyz

I literally want to choke out my iOS dev coworkers on a regular basis. They refer to the ‘X’ in every Apple product as ‘X’ and not “10”.

The petulant reactions from some of the Linux/open-source community over what Linus Torvalds himself said about his own dickish behaviour and that of the community writ large isn't surprising at all.

I expected It to happen. It serves as a reminder that no matter what you do and no matter what *they* tell you, they're unwilling to change and unreasonable to boot.

I think I'm starting to hate some of the Linux/tech community. Around every corner there's a reactionary element waiting to pop out, and it always makes me feel more disappointed in humanity.

Today, there was a thread regarding the new CoC of the Linux kernel. Inside people were bashing "SJWs" and being transphobic. Worse, those comments were upvoted. Similar things have happened in other threads, making it seem like the majority opinions within the tech world are those of reactionaries. I don't feel comfortable with that.

@thomasfuchs Also the Atari 1200XL: Coffee, cream, & chrome.

And TRS-80 Model 100, looked like The Future from 1960.

Man, it takes next to nothing to flip me from feeling really great at what I do, to feeling like a complete sham at the moment.

If you work with remote colleagues: check up on them semi-regularly.

It's easy to fall into a pattern of feeling that your work isn't helping anyone, or providing value.

#3 Atari 800 (1979)

An extremely pleasingly friendly yet futuristic design. Those yellow keys!

@thomasfuchs No list of computer aesthetics would be complete without the Pixar Image Computer.

Getting excited for this week's episode... we get to talk about The Thin Man!

Also, the number of gifs of William Powell and Myrna Loy kissing in this movie is much higher than I would have thought and I've seen the movie.

Before Linus, there was Dijkstra. The norm of equating technically proficiency with hostile arrogance has been part of CS since the start. Sad thing is, there are devs out there who feel, deep down, that you lose technical merit when you go soft. It’s such an unhealthy mindset.

Programming is frustrating, but it is for all of us. Why add onto that frustration by berating your colleagues?

So thoughts on today:

Whether or not Linus follows through with his reflection and finds a way to improve himself and make up for three decades of being hostile and regressive, I’m excited about the ripple effect of these things on the broader open source community.

👏 to this. My wife, mother, and mother in law are all primary school teachers. And I can tell you: the “school teachers have it easy because they finish work at 3 and get 12 weeks holiday a year” line is so utterly ignorant, it’s laughable.

In light of Dave Sharma’s comments about teachers working 3/4 of a full time job, it seems timely to share these calculations I did about my workload in 2014. #auspol https://lindamciver.wordpre…
https://twitter.com/lindamciver/status/1041572130507247616

Linux (!) just joined Apple, Microsoft, and Google in adopting the code of conduct I created, Contributor Covenant.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8a104f8b5867c682d994ffa7a74093c54469c11f

I love that the default Emacs scratch buffer text got into Mario Golf (GBC) somehow. I wonder if this was a mis-copy-and-paste from a developer, or if it was another case of a compiler taking random memory contents and using them for padding in the ROM...

Alt-Text letzter Boost:

"Can you fax the offer over to me?"

"Sorry... I can't fax form where I live."

"Oh, where is that?"

"2018. I live in 2018, Susan."

People who hate Richard Stallman seem to be more insufferable than Richard Stallman

They're like the Jehovah's Witnesses of RMS hate

"Here's a thing about security"

"Yes, but did you know RMS is a dick?"

What the devil does that have to do with anything?!