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Software estimates are one of the oldest lies we tell ourselves. We all know they don't work, but pretend they mean something and later feel enraged when shit hits the fan. I focused a big part of my undergrad on software estimation. After graduating, I wrote plenty about the

Great response to McKinsey & Company's claim that they can measure software developer productivity, written by Kent Beck 🌻 and Gergely Orosz: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/measuring-de… Besides the general issue of focusing on effort/output, I keep being reminded of en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%… in this context...

Managing passwords in an #opensourceway and #Switzerland: Proton Pass I signed up today and will test. You should try, too. account.proton.me/pass/signup #ProtonPass

Hacktoberfest 2023 is nearly here! Check out the site to learn more about what to expect this year, from the change in rewards to hosting community events and participating in Hacktoberfest: hacktoberfest.com

On #GitHub actions, the feature to cancel previous runs on a new push is great (saves resources, ...). However, it contraticts the #mergequeue parallelism. There is a solution proposal at github.com/orgs/community…. Please #voteup! #community #opensource #greenit

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Following up on the investigation about "GitHub Discussions." We need the input from *Open Source maintainers* who use this feature on GitHub to understand your expectations and the real benefits of using this feature: qualtrics.nau.edu/jfe/form/SV_9n… #maintainers #OSS #GitHub

From "Eat your own dogfood" to "Drink your own champagne". Heard at #MercedesBenz #FOSSCon. - The term first appeared 2007: cio.com/article/274908…

How to identify ugly mass tourism places before you visit them? In Europe, they usually have certain retail stores (e.g. Spar) or bars (Irish pubs). But one thing defines them very precisely - quantity of Euronet ATMs. These yellow/blue🟨🟦 ATMs are designed to scam

Wer morgen „Guten Rutsch“ sagt, denkt daran, der Spruch kommt aus dem Yiddischen, also von JUDEN. An alle Antisemit*innen: ich schätze, ihr habt keinen Spruch für Silvester mehr. 🤷‍♀️😁😶

Natürlich ist es NICHT möglich, in Deutschland innerhalb von 48 Stunden eine #UG zu #gründen. Gründerplattform. Die #Notar|e haben einfach so kurzfristig keine Termine. Gut, so eine Gründung will wohlüberlegt sein und ein paar Tage machen ja nichts aus usw. Aaaber: #Sonderfall

#Eclipse also is part of #GoogleSummerOfCode. If someone is interested in getting onboarded into #opensource with impact. Please get in touch! #softwareengineering #java #gsoc.

To all followers having a #YouTrack (#JetBrains) account: Please vote up youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-285…. - There is an issue with #git #submodule|s that causes headaches for #JabRef contributors and #maintainers.

I’m seeing some “free market” simps defending Nature’s 12k open access fees. Guess it’s time to bring this back around.

Just pushed the first version of ECharts integration to DFLib. Now feel like we finally have a *full* data engineering solution for pure #Java: DataFrame (DFLib), Jupyter notebook (JJava kernel) and charts (dflib-echarts) 🦾🦾

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