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reminder to update the copyright year in any files you touch

i used to write fedi software and contribute interesting meta and have thought-provoking discussions with well-known names and faces and believe in the power of community and the power of individuals to help each other and save lives and chart a collective better path forward. then something happened. hmmm

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sometimes i see someone on here from 2017 and they still have a following and still are well-liked and i wonder why i failed to achieve that

and then i remember i explicitly gave up on this place as a community and have no interest in maintaining social networks with the kinds of people or in the kinds of ways it would take to make that happen

and then i judge them

@aescling “what’s your covid risk profile and do you want to play smash”

@aescling weren’t there cute girls in your dsa book club you were interested in or smth

@Satsuma i wouldn't call being dismissive of a local food “pride”

by pride i mostly just mean caring passionately about certain local foods

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girlfriend’s sibling’s partner is from Everett and it’s amazing how much worse westsiders are at having regional pride

re: antagonism 

@wallhackio if @aescling doesn’t agree with this one i’m kicking her off the instance

i hardly think all journalists are geniuses but i have at least read An Good Piece Of Journalism

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programmers are geniuses? i haven’t encountered a single piece of software programming that i would consider genius in the past ten years

@akjcv i wish i could have had a life as a queer adult before facebook

@spacekookie anything which results in one big update a year instead of one small update every three days is an improvement to me

you cannot do agile if your product is an app being downloaded and used by people you have never met. sorry! pick a different paradigm

@akjcv software does require engineering, even if most software developers aren’t worthy of the title of engineer

@akjcv unfortunately open source’s development models have largely for the past decade been based on this assumption, that the goal of open source is to grow a community of users as large as possible, and that a community of users is in fact sufficient for a software community

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