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TechBash 2025 Keynotes Announced - Don't miss Kevin Griffin and Nicole TIbaldi at the Kalahari Resort in November.
TechBash 2025 Keynotes Announced - Don't miss Kevin Griffin and Nicole TIbaldi at the Kalahari Resort in November.
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Announcing the TechBash 2025 K...
TechBash 2025 keynotes announced!
Don't miss @kevingriffin and Nicole Tibaldi at the Kalahari in the Poconos this fall: https://zc.vg/Sc71p?m=0
Oh dear, I just found #ValaLanguage which closely mimics #csharp syntax but with minimal/no dependencies and compiles to C.
This might be my new #programming language, esp since C# isn't widely used on #Linux systems.
I think this means I have to learn about C though. #Unity3D is quickly becoming a thing of my past, one way or another.
https://docs.vala.dev/tutorials/programming-language/main.html
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala/ValaForCSharpProgrammers
If you're in the #Cambridge area and looking for #work, like small very #startup-y environments, and appreciate good coffee/drinks and BBQs at an office* in a rural setting then they're ("we're"?) hiring: https://careers.flok.health/
Codebase is mainly Python and TypeScript with some Rust on the side, but things are very much a moving target.
Oh, they're hiring in #physiotherapy too!
Software developers and physiotherapists... it isn't your normal software company. (And note that it is NOT a GenAI company.)
Hiring seems to be at least just as hard now as I recall from 10 years ago... and I know it's also hard from the job-seeking direction too, it took me months of mostly never even getting acknowledgements to applications for jobs I'd selected as a very good fit, taken the time to tailor cover letters for, etc... it was hell.
* 4 days per week on-site.
By the by, I'm a #SoftwareDev #LookingForWork - I'm Sydney based, although willing to relocate to Vatican City for the right role. I do everything from frontend to backend to infra, I love filling in gaps and uplifting my team and delving into scary legacy code.
Best with JS/Perl/C++/Java but can learn anything at this point. The tech is not as important as the team. I'm a big fan of observability and internal tooling to help the Support team.
One thing I will say about Rust, is that simply learning it has made me a better programmer. Similar to how a static-typed language teaches its users concepts about types, (which you may take for granted if you learned programming with Java and have never met a python developer,) Rust has taught me a lot of concepts related to memory safety and concurrency simply from using it to write software.
Declare Independence -
...don't let them do this to you!This are news about nodeponds-nerdletter itself!What started out as a daily experiment and to declare independence against the arbitrariness of modern social media (with persons like Elon Musk) - now came to a new point to declare independence. Read
https://nodeponds-nerdletter.de/declare-independence/
Software serial or
Software license?
Usually serial numbers prove ownership, while licenses have to be renewed.
Language matters.
The shifting of this language over the last 20 years is another example of the trend away from ownership towards leasing or renting or streaming *everything*.
Keynote: AI without the BS, for humans - Scott Hanselman - NDC London 2025.
Question for my fellow #CPP nerds - my boss says a method shouldn't be declared const because it writes to the database. I think, to be blunt, he's insane 
Not that I've told him that of course. AITA?
German tech needs its own path. Think small digital companies with deep focus. This fits our engineering culture.
#softwaredev #startup #germantech https://mertbulan.com/2025/02/24/we-dont-need-startups-we-need-digital-mittelstand/
It feels like some kind of wildly large scale prank that there are no working tutorials, KAppTemplate profiles or anything else to support Plasma 6.
I thought I might try writing a simple plasmoid just to see what's what and everything that should have been helpful is just wildly obtuse. Kcalc doesn't build following the tutorial to try to set up a KDE development environment. The only IDE it likes is KDevelop which doesn't appear to know KDE 6 exists.
Why make it so hard?
#SoftwareDev #Linux
Study Finds That People Who Entrust Tasks to AI Are Losing Critical Thinking Skills
https://futurism.com/study-ai-critical-thinking
AI is Creating a Generation of Illiterate Programmers | N’s Blog
https://nmn.gl/blog/ai-illiterate-programmers
I just read ...
“He who works with his hands is a laborer,” he quoted. “He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.”
… and I can’t decide what that makes me.
Hi fedi! 
I'm Hazel, a transfem fox-girl software developer.
I've been around for a while, but a lot has changed and my previous intro is no longer accurate. You may know me from the staff of Transfem.Social and Void.Lgbt, or as a maintainer of Sharkey and ModShark.
To anyone meeting me for the first time: Hello and welcome to my profile! It's nice to meet you! I'm a polyamorous trans lesbian from the USA, and I'm part of a plural system (though my headmate isn't currently on fedi). I enjoy meeting other queer people, and I love spending time in our community here on fedi. Feel free to reach out if you have a question about queer experiences, or if you just want to chat!
My hobbies include open-source software development, retro-computing, and gaming. I have a number of open-source projects, and I'd love to hear about yours too! I don't have much time for gaming anymore, but my current interests are Honkai Star Rail, Genshin Impact, and TTRPGs. My favorite game to date is the original Life is Strange, which actually helped me discover my trans identity.
If any of this sounds like you, then feel free to drop a follow request. I'd love to hear from you! And finally, some emojis that make me happy:
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