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  • Do any of you program on non-US keyboard layouts?

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  • I use UK standard layout, and Apple UK for work. It always takes me a few minutes to switch between them, but both are absolutely fine for programming. Just the odd placement of # that bothers me a little, but I tend to use that only for Python comments - which I tend to do more commonly from a keyboard shortcut anyway.

  • Tips for getting contract work

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  • As mentioned, LinkedIn seems to be the prime spot for getting initial work in both employed and contracted work, currently.

    Long term, you want to "always be networking", as much work will come from word of mouth. Make sure to be creating contacts and relationships at each job you do get, as you never know who the next lot of work might come from.

    I did some contracting for a brief period. My second contract came from the personal assistant of the Managing Director for the first job. We chatted a few times whilst I was working there, and it turned out her husband ran a software firm and was in need of my skill set. My understanding is that this type of situation is not uncommon.

  • Zed is now open source

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  • Currently, it is non-extensible - or at least it lacks a plugin system. It is also OSX only, which is obviously a downside if you're not on that platform, however it doesn't run on electron and should be far more performant. Here are some measures taken by a user last year.

  • Lemmy Release v0.19.3 - A Few Bugfixes

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  • Perhaps not major, but I'd just like shout out my PR which was merged in this release:https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/2322

    It adds another view to Registration Applications to show only denied applications, helpful for identifying spam applications and rule circumventers. I know a few people have been asking for something similar to this.

  • Why did Adobe open source Magento?

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  • The same reason a lot of companies support a community edition. It means that people can use, learn and become experienced with the product without forking over a tonne of money.

    This results in a larger number of developers, add-ons and community surrounding the product.

    This makes it a more appealing product for companies looking to build a business using it.

    It's the same reason you can use AWS for free, get some JetBrains products for free and often find community editions for similar products to Magento.

  • What's happening?

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  • Well TIL. Didn't think to search for it. I am in my thirties and have lived in the UK my whole life, and I have never encountered or heard of such a device until now!Given that, I think it's really creative name to use for such a purpose 👍

  • What's happening?

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  • Great effort keeping the instance together. I'm very impressed, and grateful for both your efforts. It's probably just going over my head, but what is the inspiration for the name "Teasmade"? Is it a play on Tea and Maid?

  • Migrated my self-hosted Nextcloud to AIO and I absolutely love it

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  • As in, I have Nginx running on my server and use it as a reverse proxy to access a variety of apps and services. But can't get it playing nicely with AIO Nextcloud.

  • Migrated my self-hosted Nextcloud to AIO and I absolutely love it

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  • Yes I've not managed to solve this yet. For me, it's hosting AIO behind my existing Nginx.

  • Recycling: Plans for electrical goods to be included in UK collections

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  • My district council has collected small electrical items for asong as I can remember. I was surprised to find out that not all councils do this.

    As much as I think it's a good thing for councils to have control over their local budgets (so long as they're funded adequately...), I think it's a poor system to let councils take on individual recycling contracts. The buying power alone should make a unified contract more economical. It's mad that moving from one town to another can put you into a council that offers a poorer service, likely for a similar cost (if comparing neighbouring councils).

    Link to the recycling policy for my district

  • 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!!

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  • Care to give a summary on why you think they should be blocked ahead of any bad acting? Yes, there is some concern about Meta attempting EEE, but ultimately they're a large platform that can bring a lot of users and attention to the Fediverse. There's nothing preventing large instances from blocking them down the line, and with user level instance blocking coming in 0.19 to Lemmy (not sure if Mastodon et al have something similar), you can block them personally yourself if you wish, rather than having that thrust upon you by your instance admins.

  • Woodpecker CI

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  • I've just transferred it over to you :)

  • The instances blocking Zuckerberg's Threads.net

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  • Yes. I get the idea, because federating with them is the "negative" option, but honestly it's just confusing and overly opinionated for an infographic.

  • Memoristik - (Open Source Project/Protocol Workgroup)

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  • Great. I've appointed you as mod and transferred the community.Reach out if you have any issues!

  • Woodpecker CI

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  • Memoristik - (Open Source Project/Protocol Workgroup)

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  • Hi @lanartri@programming.dev.I have created your requested community: !memoristik@programming.dev. As this is your own project, I have not created sidebar descriptions or anything like that and will leave this for you to do.

    Please make a post in the community and I will grant you mod status and transfer the community to you. I'd then ask that you get some rules thrown up in the sidebar, as a minimum.

  • Why do programmers need private offices with doors? (Do Not Disturb)

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  • I particularly enjoyed a recent company meeting that spent considerable time talking about the importance of flow state. It had an awkward pregnant pause when someone (usually very quiet) unmuted to ask, "is the policy to increase the number of days we must spend in our open-plan office kind of undermining this?". Literally all of our directors just shifted on their seats hoping another would answer that.

    Eventually, HR director stated "Not at all, that's what headphones are for!"

    Which was particularly delightful, as our tech director had only 20 minutes before stated how he would like to discourage people sitting in the office in silos with their headphones on.

  • Have your say: What is and isn't acceptable speech in the community.

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  • Absolutely second this.Let's not throw blanket bans out and create an echo chamber whilst stifling discussion.Those who break the spirit of the rules will be called out, downvoted, and argued with. This isn't a bad thing. Serial offenders will be apparent and can be dealt with on a case-by-case basis, with warnings and bans.

    I say this as an admin of another large instance, having to deal this this myself.

  • Have your say: What is and isn't acceptable speech in the community.

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  • I'd throw another one in for being against word filters. I think it's condescending, and ultimately words are really only bad in context. What if I want to quote someone who used the word? Or what about if a bread making community takes off, where the word is pretty appropriate.

    Certainly it's acceptable to remove posts, etc, when some words are used in certain ways, but I think this should be left to the discretion of the moderators.

    Ultimately, anyone here who wants to ignore the rules and use those words will get around the filters anyway.