Ariella @ellabellafull@librem.one

Art of Noise -- In Visible Silence

#music #vinyl

What is your favourite Christmas movie and why is it Gremlins ? 😁🎄🎞

@codemonkeymike I meant donating money hehe.

I like Mint. When I first got the Lenovo in my photo it came with Trisquel. But I've had others on there over the years, including Mint XFCE.

On my main tower I've Pop OS, for now.

I was looking for some new #vinyl, not a new #nightmare, but browsing random store collections is magical like that. 😋

Album: Being Special -- Sophia Kennedy

#music #musicislife

PS: don't know the artist, nor this album, and won't be buying

I also find this useful to remember given that code is temporary, will be refactored, or thrown out. But a day to day commitment to software that serves people doesn't depend on one effort persisting forever. It's the daily showing-up for people that continuously rewards and will be remembered. <3

All the software I wrote 1980s-2010s : gone. Tossed or refactored because of time, innovation, tool changes.

But the people the software helped? They remember and continue to thank. :)

But ultimately, you're in service to the betterment of lives of people, if it's by making a system suck less so that another can breathe more easily in their day, or via a very personal connective tissue in the expression of human culture and vulnerability, like a journal or medical app.

People are who you develop for. Architect, develop, test, for them. Stay soft. Stay humble. Stand beside them.

Remembering this will keep your heart connected and your mind innovating for great experiences.

I've been having a lot of fun discussing with developer colleagues on the WHO that they're developing for.

Agile delivery likes to say "value delivery" and "user journeys" but as one gets to flying through the Definition of Done many times per sprint, it can erode the need for stories to be discussions, with PEOPLE.

Also when overloaded, stories can degrade into implementation checklist, especially in sales/product delivery date obsessed cultures.

#SoftwareDevelopment #people

Just received the Fall 2022 #FSFBulletin . ❤️

My life is full of proprietary, locked software and computing devices: gaming consoles, Steam games, DRMed physical and digital media, cloud usage, e-commerce usage with awful trackers.

But I keep trying. I donate when I can, and have been replacing some devices. Switching producivity software has been easy. I use #LibreOffice, #emacs, #Gimp etc at work. It stimulates a lot of discussion in screen shares, "what tool is that?"

@fsf

Do technical problems exist and then people call us about them,

Or are they only made probable enough to exist when a technical person hears about them,

Or is it because technical people exist that they entangle a problem category called « technical »?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-universe-is-not-locally-real-and-the-physics-nobel-prize-winners-proved-it/

#local #real #observer #quantum #FamilyTechSupport #CallMom #Printer