Open Source North 2024
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Notes and things while attending Open Source North 2024.
Innovating Laziness (Greg Case)
- handwriting (communication)
- printing press
- industrial revolution
- jacquard loom
- ENIAC, first programmable electronic computer (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer)
- LLMs for language, literally, as in JSON to YAML etc
- XKCD automation (1205)
- putting a value on your time
- $0.03 per second (avg eng cost, incl pay & benefits)
- ex: tcin to dpci & inverse shell functions
- software jigs
- TIL
ganda
Had more food & coffee. Chatted with some sponsors.
Leadership Lessons from Office Space (Zach Hughes)
- dBase III Plus
- 1999 (y2k)
- Hawaiian shirts less scary 😂
- middle manager, people skills
- “why can’t customers bring directly to software people?”
- free staplers under some seats
Building Trustworthy Tech: Balancing Innovation with Privacy in the AI Age (Sri Harsha Gajavalli)
- woohoo, plugging DDG & Signal
How to Structure and Conduct Developer Interviews to Minimize Bias (Casie Siekman)
- Non-Violent Communication (Rosenburg has a book on it?)
- gender-neutral job titles & content
- easy to read (what reading level?)
- avoid ableist language
- brief w/ yourself immediately after interview
- retro on what went well or didn’t
Agile estimation — Is it possible to be good at estimating large projects? (Andy Miller)
- emacs has a psychotherapist 😂
- effort vs time
- diff between big & small project is the scope of the risk
- How Big Things Get Done book rec
- when to say no?
- when rep on the line? bs
- when it’s too risky?
- when it’s too complex? only if one giant estimate w/ no arch
Misc:
- https://addyosmani.com/dx/
- https://mtlynch.io/code-review-love/
- “required reading at my company”
- https://blog.savantly.net/human-skills-for-programming-pattern-recognition/
- https://medium.com/@puran.joshi307/tdd-with-copilot-f227cbc67c10
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