I've been primarily on bsky but I also like the idea of mastodon. I haven't had time to sit down and really make it work for me, but I'm moderately optimistic.
Hello, world. I'm Golly, and I'm going to be posting about being a software developer and devlogs about making a text game that's currently just called "the merchant game". Fingers crossed this goes somewhere.
We've been quiet but busy at Sonorous Arts over the past few days.
A lot of work is going into improving the user experience on our website, and our internal services are receiving major upgrades.
We've also assigned a dedicated team to research future advancements, focusing on emerging technologies, creative tools, and new ways to bring more value to the community.
I’m adamantly _not_ a fan of LLMs trained on scraped publicly-available data, and that goes double when used for coding. And so many of the examples people put forward for using it to code are along the lines of “I asked it for an app to do X, and was up and running super-quick!”
That seems like a templating issue to me. My current day job is mostly #Rails, and its generators (built-in and extensible) allow for automating a lot of the boilerplate building models, migrations, etc. Sure you still need to do some customization, but even with the “LLM success stories” there’s always a bit where they say “I had to tweak a few things, but it worked!”
So would it be a crazy idea to have a collection of templates and or code snippets to do some task in some framework/environment? Tag it for easy search, etc. i.e., if I needed OAuth in my Rails app I could search “oauth rails” - maybe “oauth rails_8” if I know I want the latest major framework version. Integrate the result with my app, and move on.
I can see plenty of issues. For one thing it’d be basically stackoverflow, but with gists that are a bit more organized. So someone would still have to understand what was going on. But if they’re copying answers from SO or anywhere into their code without first looking at the _why_ of how it supposedly fixes the issue, that’s the first problem to address.
More generally, it’d be great if framework and other teams would put out these kind of things on their own, so someone finding them could be reasonably sure best practices had been observed. But having done dev and doc writing for decades, I know how overwhelmed everyone gets.
Hi friends!
I want to tell you all about a new thing I'm trying, where I'll accept bounties to work on specific features or bug fixes for Sharkey. If there's something you really want implemented, then you can make a donation and I'll prioritize that work over whatever other ticket I was going to work on.
To be clear, this is an agreement to work on a particular project, not a promise to finish it! I'll dedicate a certain amount of time to the work based on the size of the donation, and if I finish the work - then great! If not, I'll upload my progress to branch to either finish later or hand off to another interested party. I may choose to complete the work anyway if it's something that I also want, but that's not a gaurantee!
Pricing is in lose terms because tracking my hours or comtting to deadlines will take all the fun out of everything. Sorry if that's an issue, but I'm not willing to negotiate on this. I will make sure not to "count it" if I don't actually get much work done, so don't worry about picking a bad week and wasting your money. If I don't manage enough work when I initally plan to, then I'll just save my progress and resume when I have more time.
Time slots are broken down like this:
• $20 - I work on my lunch break. This is usually about an hour, so I probably won't complete a whole ticket unless it's something small.
• $30 - I dedicate an evening or two. The exact number of hours varies, but it's usually 2-4 per evening. I'll aim for at least 3 hours in total.
• $50 - It's my weekend project. Again, my availability varies - but sometimes I spend 12+ hours between Saturday and Sunday.
• $100 - This is my focus for the week. I won't devote any more Sharkey time than I would normally, but all of that time is devoted to this work item.
If this sounds like something you'd like, then please reply or send a DM! For this first trial phase, I've picked a curated list of tickets that I'm willing to work on. Assuming everything goes well, I'll add more options and open up the possibility of working on brand new ideas too. I hope this can be a good deal for everyone!
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Ticket options:
• #499 - enhancement: Context menu button for muting the instance of a post
• #548 - enhancement: Admin feature: Ability to safely reset MFA for end users
• #675 - enhancement: API Endpoint for validating scoped tokens, returning a list of assigned scopes
• #746 - bug: When editing a quote, the "quote" indicator and button are not aligned
• #836 - enhancement: Log IP Address of Registrants
• #910 - enhancement: Allow moderators to set a content warning on any post
• #943 - enhancement: Allow moderators to force a content warning for all posts by an instance
• #953 - enhancement: Investigate a better on-disk structure for drive files
• #997 - enhancement: Increase options for number of poll options
• #1001 - enhancement: Add option to delete all users from remote instance
• #1002 - bug: "Force Content Warning" does not apply to boosts
• #1008 - bug: Search menu does not lookup url containing emoji
• #1034 - enhancement: Multi select for adding notes to clips
• #1039 - enhancement: Add change UI language when logged out
• #1040 - enhancement: Hide alt-text
• #1065 - enhancement: Option to hide note that are replies to a reply of a note
• #1069 - bug: Send abuse reports to contact email
• #1070 - enhancement: Translate Content Warning
• #1071 - enhancement: Translate Alt Text
• #1072 - enhancement: Allow user to specify the source language for translation
• #1076 - enhancement: Support multiple hosts for email delivery
• #1106 - bug: Dont mark post as long for just including certain mfm
• #1110 - enhancement: Allow admins to change bio length limit
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Clarifications and Disclaimers:
1. As stated above, this is not a promise to complete any work item! I'll put effort in - that's the only gaurantee.
2. This is not a contract of employment or payment for services.
3. If something "important" comes up, then I may pause your work item to focus on that. Think urgent bugs, security issues, or project management responsibilities. This won't count against the promised effort.
4. If multiple donations are made around the same time, then I'll complete them in order of submission.
5. If a work item is completed before I get to your request, then I'll offer the chance to select another ticket instead.
6. You're welcome to ask how long I expect a particular item to take! I may not answer in hours, but I can give a relative estimate of complexity.
#Sharkey #FediDevs #FediDev #SoftwareDev
On #iOS (18) there ought to be a way to [Speak Text] time (easy, done) after alarm goes off via “Shortcuts” application!
Ideally spoken time would be alarm action/tone.
Setting the alarm from input is easily done. Combining the 2 needs work.
Could get the time for “alarm”; instead of [Create Alarm For], would calculate the time difference (wrt current time; already done previously for its own use) to [Wait] before “speak-time”.
Forest and desert, or We Know How To Write Software
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nt6m8qtRbz0
I enjoyed this talk by @kentbeck and Beth Andres-Beck (whom I briefly had the pleasure of working with last year). Are you in the forest or the desert?
Hi fedi! I'm Hazel, a transfem fox-girl software developer.
I've been around for a while, but a lot has changed and my previous intro is no longer accurate. You may know me from the staff of Transfem.Social and Void.Lgbt, or as a maintainer of Sharkey and ModShark.
To anyone meeting me for the first time: Hello and welcome to my profile! It's nice to meet you! I'm a polyamorous trans lesbian from the USA, and I'm part of a plural system (though my headmate isn't currently on fedi). I enjoy meeting other queer people, and I love spending time in our community here on fedi. Feel free to reach out if you have a question about queer experiences, or if you just want to chat!
My hobbies include open-source software development, retro-computing, and gaming. I have a number of open-source projects, and I'd love to hear about yours too! I don't have much time for gaming anymore, but my current interests are Honkai Star Rail, Genshin Impact, and TTRPGs. My favorite game to date is the original Life is Strange, which actually helped me discover my trans identity.
If any of this sounds like you, then feel free to drop a follow request. I'd love to hear from you! And finally, some emojis that make me happy:
#Introduction #Trans #Transfem #Queer #Lesbian #Polyam #Neurodivergent #Plural #Autistic #ADHD #Gaming #SoftwareDev #RetroComputing
@mathiasx and I were having an interesting back and forth, and his post got me thinking:
For all #softwaredev #programmer #cloudengineer types out there, what energy audit tools are out there right now that people could start leveraging to evaluate their code for being more efficient from a "reduce fossil fuel consumption" point of view?
Static analysis, CI tools, etc. All ideas welcome.
@grafana I feel like something like this is in your wheelhouse. Also, any @cncfambassadors in the environmental sustainment TAG know of some tooling?
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Starting June 1, 2024, the #argopy team will try to use Green Metrics Tools to estimate the energy and CO2 emissions from their GitHub activities
All results and methods explained here: https://argopy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/energy.html
Please boost for reach.
The Virtual Creators Guild needs Software devs (with experience in website design preferably) and artists/art-inclined individuals!
If you haven't heard of the Virtual Creators Guild, we're a volunteer organisation with the aim of aiding the working rights/general conditions for Vtubers/vtuber adjacents.
If you can at all lend a hand in aiding our organisation it would be greatly appreciated.
I recently had my 1 year anniversary on dice.camp, so it’s a good time to update my #introduction! I’m mostly on here to talk #TTRPG, and my interest is in the #NSR, with some #RuneQuest (#Glorantha, mostly), #Pathfinder2e, #PBTA, and other #indieTTRPG occasionally. I’m also working on my own sandbox #fantasy TTRPG, #TheYearsOfAdventure, as one half of Archstone Press.
I’m a #SoftwareDev by day, I live in #Boston, and I’m also interested in #urbanism, leftist politics, #climbing, and #skiing
hewwo this is my #introduction
i'm Nahuel or Nahara—whichever you prefer
24 y.o non-binary #SoftwareDev from #Argentina, passionate about #MyLittlePony , #HatsuneMiku
, and #GNOME
also into anime and games , especially #Osu and #ProjectDiva—though not a pro
i'll be sharing a mix of #programming, #gaming, #anime, and #Linux stuff
everything except must-share announcements will be limited to my followers
I'm an entrepreneur at our company Flowa, working on #ProductManagement #softwareDev #agileLeadership #responsiveOrganisations
And I watch a lot of #Football, now mainly #WWC2023 but also have a lingering interest in #epl #PremierLeague despite all the gross stuff that is happening there #MastodonFC