Startup Aims To Help Software Companies Shift To Usage-Based Pricing Models
The startup Metronome “claims to have developed a billing and data infrastructure platform that is capable of ‘reliably’ processing data at scale so that usage-based companies can iterate on business models without code changes,” reports TechCrunch. “It does this by providing businesses with real-time APIs for their customer … ⌘ Read more

Having been at several companies, I think I was happiest about my career when I didn’t have a fancy title and did not really know anyone else’s either What does a Principal Software Engineer do? | Hacker News

The consistent feature of all of your dysfunctional relationships is you Ask HN: Am I the only “unlucky” software engineer? | Hacker News

JavaScript : web apps

wut?! 😳 seriously?! 🤦‍♂️

Python : small tools

Okay 👌

Go: micro services

Umm bad generalization 🤣 – Example yarnd that powers most of Yarn.social 😂

Java: enterprise software

Yes! Oh gawd yes! 🤣 And Java™ needs to die a swift death!

C: crimes

Hmmm? 🤔 I feel this one is going to have some backslash and/or go the way of “Hacker” being misconstrued to mean entirely different/incorrect things as is what’s happening in the media (for various definitions of “media”).

🤔 👋 Reconsidering moving Yarn.social’s development back to Github: Speaking of which (I do not forget); @fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com and I were discussing over a video call two nights ago, as well as @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org who joined a bit later, about the the whole moved of all of my projects and their source code off of Github. Whilst some folks do understand and appreciate my utter disgust over what Microsoft and Copilot did by blatantly scraping open source software’s codebases without even so much as any attempt at attribution or respecting the licenes of many (if not all?) open source projects.

That being said however, @fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com makes a very good and valid argument for putting Yarn.social’s codebases, repositories and issues back on Github for reasons that make me “torn” over my own sense of morality and ethics.

But I can live with this as long as I continue to run and operate my new (yet to be off the ground) company “Self Hosted Pty Ltd” and where it operates it’s own code hosting, servicesa, tools, etc.

Plese comment here on your thoughts. Let us decide togetehr 🤗

#yarnsocial #github #opsnsource #copilot #microsoft

Trump’s Group has 30 days to remedy the violation, or their rights in the software are permanently terminated. SF Conservancy

I am out of popcorn, but might need some for this. 😂

It looks like @movq@www.uninformativ.de isn’t too active these days. This little piece of software is pretty neat!

this Nayib Bukele guy is pissing off all of the incumbent parties in El Salvador with his Nuevas Ideas party. i love it. mi mama es salvadoreña y me gustaría poder vivir ahí. tengo competências en competências sistemas de software y varios otros asuntos técnicos. gano bien y me encantaría participar en la economía salvadoreña. el problema es que soy lesbiana y uso el canabis (y otras plantas medicinales) por razones médicos y religiosos. no se se seria aceptada. tal vez haya otro modo para participar..

dick-hole software methodology

see also https://sunshinegardens.org/~xj9/chaotic-software/

Towards A Communal Software Movement https://communalsoftware.codeberg.page/

kill the rubber duck, and all software dies with it. kill the rubber duck.

“The art of destroying software” — https://dbohdan.com/art-of-destroying-software

i’d say in most cases, having another program in the mix is not the solution unless the problem is inherently technical and other software either misses the point, or solves a different (possibly overlapping) problem. its easy to think that hitting things with keyboards is a universal solution. especially if you have a lot of experience doing that. the common blindness of software people is the human elements that are often handled by other teams which eventually frame problems in technical terms for developers to deal with. then the naive developer goes home thinking they can replace the humans that make their work possible.

Are employees paid a proportional amount to the value they bring to their organization? I would say no. I do not believe every talented European is 40% as capable as the average developer in the US. I do not believe that the same software engineer that made $10k in India, suddenly brings 10x as much value due to a 1 year masters, once they move to the US. Ask HN: Should a remote employee’s salary be tied to their physical location? | Hacker News

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure — Goodhart’s law as phrased by Marilyn Strathern The Original Sin of Software Metrics (2014) | Hacker News

A short-and-sweet article on principles of successful teams: https://blog.brunomiranda.com/principles-of-successful-software-engineering-teams-41a65bfd56b3

In praise of rewriting — https://dbohdan.com/rewriting-software

Checking out http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html