Michael Foord's 30 best practices for software development and testing

Free & #OpenSource contributor (#Linux + #GNOME + #GStreamer) since 2004. Now co-maintaining the most magical desktop productivity apps combo (@GettingThingsGNOME & GNOME Calendar) as their benevolent lean engineering manager + occasional User Interaction & UX designer.

Waging war on mediocrity & unsustainability in business.
Founder of @ideemarque + @atypica, and Managing Partner at @regento.

Ex-Collabora, ex-psy, ex-Shinra.
I don't roleplay but I wear a cloak. ❄️
#fedi22

Amid global hellscape, full of modern recreational flavor. Low Quality Sexiest. Surprisingly adequate. Fedizen since 2017. Founder, president and cruel intergalactic tyrant of Rogue Repairman Productions. Web developer for 30 years now (oh god). Writer that nobody reads; leader that nobody follows. Previously of Octodon. Previously of vmst.io. #writing #movies #cycling #kayaking #programming #php #python #wordpress #history #military

I'm a software engineer by trade, an electronics hobbyist and amateur guitarist by night, and a house-rabbit enthusiast and ambassador all the time.

I live in the windswept prairies of Canada.

#RabbitsOfMastodon #rabbit #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #RodentsOfMastodon #electronics #retro #1970s #70s #blinkenlights

"We spent decades trying to invent a sufficiently smart compiler when we should have been inventing a sufficiently empathetic one." — @benleedom

#Rust Compiler team member. If you have to search for answers when the compiler is talking to you, that's a bug.

There are no bad programmers, only insufficiently advanced compilers.

Cache-locality awareness evangelist. UTF-8 maximalist.

You can't "individual responsibility" your way out of systemic problems.

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Trans rights are human rights

Father, Linux Guy, Photographer

An #open-source and #decentralization advocate.
Interested in #linux, #programming, #python and #rust, #backpacking, #gardening, #cooking, #diy, #scfi, #fantasy, #poetry.

A dad, a wanderer, a thinker, a human. A decided optimist.

People deserve compassion.

"The world's vast and strange, Hara, but no vaster and no stranger than our minds are. Think of that sometimes." - Ursula LeGuin

Note: unpinned posts autodelete after 30 days.

A writer currently querying a two-book series set in a comic fantasy Australia. Harold is a failed alchemist, about to fail at dragon slaying. He is armed with a cheese knife. Princess Ruby has a stolen sword. She has it at Harold's throat. #WritingCommunity #AmQuerying

Fuck evil Czar Putin, Trump, Orban, Erdogan, Assad, Xi, Kim, and every dictator and all dictator-fellators.

s/climate change/fossil-fueled global heating/g

- Linux, Rust,
- Electric Conversion, PV, LiFePO, Hybrid Inverter,
- Billions of pairs of county-size counter-rotating open-air solid-earth habs for solar system carrying capacity of quadrillions of souls.

There is a Friend closer than a brother.
God created persons in His own image.
Let us reason together.

Waiting on my Psych Eval to write this bio.

#boostsWelcome

#circularEconomy #rightToQuiet #EBikes, #communityTheater #learnToDraw, #rakuLang #openSource #copyLeft, #decentralizedEducation #NVC #nonviolentCommunication, #cascadian #bikeTooter #linguist #sexEducation #NABeer #Antifragile #carLite #lowWaste #communityOrganizing #consentCulture

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Esperando mi evaluación psiquiátrica para escribir esto. imágenes perfiles describido en toots fijados.

Parent of 2 kids & a public servant striving for an open, collaborative government that respects privacy

Perth, Western Australia

At home I run linux (#bluefin, #bazzite) and #kubernetes on too many devices, love reading and decompress with my kids/spouse and a large #steam library. I love movement culture (perth parkour, cirquest) also but struggle to train regularly.

At work I lead the infrastructure operations for WA DGov - DTT

IT contractor, application architect and software developer
#dotnet #csharp #fullstack

#QueensU engineering alumnus, former #infantry soldier, rides #motorcycles, new to #sailing, #Spanish speaker (más o menos).

I've been on the internet longer than you have. This makes me more boring than you are. Topics of interest: programming, Rust, technical leadership, cats, electronic music, computer gaming, mechanical keyboards, fiction, writing.

Professor of Information studying just sustainability in IT: design, software, requirements, values, power, responsibility. Critical Systems Thinker, #TechOtherwise, just sustainability design, #degrowth.

Book INSOLVENT: How to Reorient Computing for Just Sustainability @MIT Press 2023 https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/insolvent

#T1D #PHPledge #MaskUp 🍉

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Dead bird @ChriBecker

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You probably heard about me because I am the founder of the Twisted python networking engine open source project. But I’m also the author and maintainer of several other smaller projects, a writer and public speaker about software and the things software affects (i.e.: everything), and a productivity nerd due to my ADHD. I also post a lot about politics; I’d personally prefer to be apolitical but unfortunately the global rising tide of revanchist fascism is kind of dangerous to ignore.

Open source operations guy. CorpNet SRE at Google (previously on AS15169, Chrome, Insider Risk) he/him

Plant Mom.

Currently working on https://amore.computer.

On some days I work on https://macrowave.co, https://kompressor.app or https://pagi.lucas.love.

Previously: https://futureland.tv

Currently looking for new freelance opportunities.

Interested in Swift, E2EE, offline-first apps and tools that truly serve their users.

Union data scientist and working parent. Interested in reproducible research methods (#r13y), #RStats, #JuliaLang, living sustainably (bicycling, walking, reducing, and reusing), being outside, and many nerdy hobbies (#TTRPG, #HamRadio).

A systems weaver. Conducting research on the intersection between free software and technopolitics at Lab Livre/UnB. Leading and organizing Outreachy, a Software Freedom Conservancy initiative. Photographing and feeding street cats.

Software engineer, former particle physicist, occasional blogger. I support the principle of cake.

Posting habits: ~60% #Monsterdon, ~20% #Python/#tech, ~20% funny/uplifting/entertaining content. Rare politics-related posts, always using popular hashtags so they can be filtered out. I typically don't boost posts with images unless they have #AltText.

#books #bookstodon #reading #scifi #fantasy #programming #C #CPlusPlus #Linux #Git #KDE #bash #fedi22