A person on the Internet opened a GitHub issue that the new version of software "eats babies". Why does anyone think that's an appropriate thing to say?

@iliana Troupe for Regression and Aggression of Network Safety

@iliana Team for Reducing And Nullifying Security.

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@iliana @iliana is this an...anti-attribution license?

@iliana "Crash-only software" is actually a thing and a completely valid system design philosophy as you reduce the set of possible outcomes to [success, crash]: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash-on

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I've been posting a lot more on twitter lately because the audience I have there -- a lot of techies, a lot of people folks who work at AWS -- needs a lot of this spelled out for them, moreso than here

I am so incredibly livid at our mayor for clearly not giving a shit, ignoring the demands of the people, and actively doing shit that proves how utterly fucking clueless white people are

I am so incredibly proud of the protesters and activists this entire past week -- as people made calls for police "reform" and "accountability", temporary institutions we tear down when it's convenient, our community today made the loud and clear demand to defund SPD

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antifascism does not end when the police are defunded

antifascism ends when there are no more fascists

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It never ceases to amaze me how simple code can be once you understand the problem you're solving.

@iliana Legacy software is successful software. Otherwise it wouldn't stay around.

A customer just literally wrote these words to me in an email: "I meant what I said when drunk last year."

I have spent all day on video conferencing calls.

3000-word blog post I started writing literally a month ago is all queued up to be published on Monday!

I just had a Zoom call with my dad and my sister. This is very weird.

"Second email, just to move it to the top of your inbox..""

wow, aggressive...

There's a readme in our repository with the subheading "no really" and it might just be my favorite thing in a readme.

Sometimes I think to myself: "Maybe software engineers shouldn't be allowed to use computers." Today is one of those days.

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