Roll call who’s still here?

It’s been a min yall lol

Boss was in India demoing an app I wrote from scratch, minus a printer feature I insisted was necessary. Get a call from my boss: “I don’t need you to tell me you told me so, I need a printer and supporting functionality”

Being a dev in South Africa (at the time) meant that availability wasn’t the best. I drove out to a supplier, got the required hardware (on personal funds) and wrote the library. Had it all done and updated in 24 hours.

My boss refused to pay for the printer or give me any time in lieu. Started looking for jobs the same day.

My uncle was a programmer. My whole extended family lived very close together, so I saw him almost every weekend. He would tell me tall tales about the war between corporations and open source. I started hating all things Microsoft and advocating for Linux. For my 12th birthday, he gave me a computer he had recently fixed. Of course, it had Ubuntu Linux.

That's when he started teaching me the basics: Bash, Lisp, and C. I know some of you are tired of the cliche "I started coding at 12 and built my first OS at 16," but of course that's not reality. I really just wrote simple math formulas like chicarronera^[1] for my homework, a super simple text-input videogame, and a button-filled GUI. That's nothing compared to what I do now, so I won't dare put that into my resume. But it did give me an advantage over my peers, and by the time I had to self-learn web development for my job, my uncle had already given me all of these tools.

[1] Spanish slang for the quadratic equation. Literally means "street vendor who sells chicharron". The formula is taught so fierce in school that even street vendors must know it.

Hope everyone is staying safe!

I fucking hate computers (today). That's all. Thanks.

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oh no.

First of all, a great channel to follow and where all this is from: https://youtube.com/watch/...

It listed a lot of open source news I missed myself and I'm sure others did too, for those that are too lazy to watch the video or open the description, I've stripped away the links and "X version got released" just to give an idea of what he covers.

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GNOME and KDE announced they would work together on building better Linux desktops at Linux App Summit.

XRDesktop, a VR enabled Linux desktop, will allow you to use your Linux programs while wearing your VR headset.

Responding to the european commission's fines, Google announced that it would allow other search engines to be present at Android's setup.

Manjaro will allow users to pick between FreeOffice, Libre Office, or no office suite at all.

The Igalia team announced that they are working to make Pitivi compatible with Final Cut Pro X

Microsoft might be bringing its Teams software to Linux.

Martin Wimpress from the Canonical SnapCraft team gave an interview to TechRepublic, on Snaps

A discussion took place on how to improve Linux desktop performance in low ram scenarios.

A KDE vulnerability has been outed publicly before notifying the developers.

Nvidia has open sourced a bunch of documentation for its GPUs

Linux Journal announced they would cease their publication.

Kdenlive 19.08 has been released, bringing 3 point editing and a bunch of keyboard shortcuts

The Linux on Dex project now allows to run Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on a samsung smartphone.

According to protondb, we passed the 6000 playable games mark, out of 9 thousand for which users have created a report

GNOME Feeds has been released on flathub, a simple app to read RSS feeds on GNOME

The enlightenment desktop released its first version in 2 years, enlightenment 0.23.0.

Linux celebrated its 28th birthday

Microsoft announced that they would bring exFAT support to the linux kernel.

Thundebird 68 was released with an interface redesign

Collabora has published an update on their work on viglrenderer, a solution to emulate a gpu while using a virtual machine through Qemu.

barcode upgrade

Got a new job in a new team.

Someone had to learn that software. I said I could.

I was punched by old team most of the time because they did not want to transfer the ownership to us, they had to and I had to learn that
Software.

I made it, worked hard to automate daily stuffs.

Described each victory in my year review with manager.

Each thank you, I poked my Manager to promote me if she thinks I deserve.

I got promoted a year later.

This is what happens every time I look at Microsoft’s C# docs after someone tells me to

When you are done with classic variable names and decide to get creative. F#ed up names.

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