Companies who look for OSS experience when hiring developers:
- 51%
Goal: empower people with disabilities to contribute to OSS
A11y v. Assistive Technologies
Goal: increase availability and adaption of OSS assistive technologies
#ato2025
All Things Open keynote on a11y -- GitHub
They ran a half-day session on their A11y processes on Sunday
- 70-90% of software today is OSS
Goal: Increase a11y of mainstream OSS projects
#ato2025
"the opposite of imposter syndrome" #ato2025
Aka 'vibe coding '
12 admins at OpenAI for this deployment
Microsoft now proud of being the #1 contributor to CNCF
From a keynote at #ato2025.
Quote: "hell has frozen over"
Might be big enough
While this was written about Oregon Ducks football,
It's a biting commentary about our culture today.
Achievement unlocked! Yesterday, I led a Conga line for the first time 🤣. (At a community disco dance.)
"Why is documentation important, and how we can make it better"
I talked about this in a YT podcast with twitter.com/rspaik: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok8P...
I've highlighted key points in a LI post: www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
As a Tech Writer, you can take 3 approaches to hackathons:
- Fix typos
- Clarify content
- Test procedures
I describe my experiences with such in www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-712190303...
Trivia. Vancouver Washington was once the prune capital of the world...
It's why I still mask up in airplanes (and airports)
Annular eclipse coming! Peak in about 100 minutes. Might be cloudy 🤣 in Vancouver WA
Seagulls in formation. All facing south
Seen this morning, by the "D" river. Bald eagle!
Bummer.
For us. It isn't all free. We had an all you can eat pancake breakfast over Labor Day. 200+ showed up. $7/person.
And we all pitched in, moving tables, chairs, etc. Actually promoted a sense of community!
And I can now brag that I scrambled 5 gallons of eggs 🤣
Our HOA works well for us. ~$650/yr/person, with a clubhouse, gym, and options for daily activities. Also pays for maintenance of shared areas. Yes, there are limits -- for outer appearance, they're reasonable (so far).
I wonder what Fitzgerald would say about the current epidemic of exclamation points... (🤣 Yes, I'm laughing at my own joke)
Covid. Day 8. This is my first time. (I've gotten the vaccine 5x).
Seems like Covid rebound (days 5-10) is a thing. (link bypasses paywall: www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/w...
I wish the 2023 booster was available a couple of weeks ago...
But I feel like the previous shots from 2022 and before helped me avoid feeling really awful (think Alex Leavy on "The Morning Show")
Covid. I've gotten vaccinated 5 times. The last time was November 2022. After each shot, it was as most 36 hours of lethargy.
I tested positive on Sunday. I'm still feeling it today. Just chatted with my wife for 3 min (she had it just before), and I'm exhausted.
1/2
I like the ideapod series... Or I used to like it until I discovered this bit .... https://ideapod.com/people-usually-happy-traits/
The prompts suggests the article was written with the help of ChatGPT
The wildfires on Maui are breaking my heart. The videos www.cnn.com/us/live-news/maui-wildfi... are devastating.
We hope to return when Maui is ready for us.
At fossy.us. Sriram Ramkrishna of Intel is working on new code for various GPUs. He's hoping to "write once" for all the GPUs.
Sounds familiar to this Tech Writer!