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21 years ago, I got my first job out of college which came with this, my first ever business card. I was excited to have any job in the...

21 years ago, I got my first job out of college which came with this, my first ever business card. I was excited to have any job in the brutal economy I graduated into, but many folks scoffed at the title "Internet Technologist”. Proper developers had titles like “Application Engineer" or "Systems Developer I”. I was excited to be rid of it when I was eventually promoted.

Decades later, “Internet Technologist" is still the most apt title I've ever had and fits my entire career.

Glad y'all are enjoying this feature. A small number of you are reporting that Mastodon accounts are not being recognized as such in our...

Glad y'all are enjoying this feature. A small number of you are reporting that Mastodon accounts are not being recognized as such in our UI.

We make a NodeInfo request to non-obvious hosts to check server metadata. Requests to some hosts are hitting our aggressive timeout. We're working on making this process more resilient.

You may have better luck by removing and re-adding the link to re-trigger the check. In any event, links will still function as expected, even for verification.

You can now add up to four social account links to your GitHub profile which render with a sprinkling of formatting support for our most...

You can now add up to four social account links to your GitHub profile which render with a sprinkling of formatting support for our most popular platforms. Yes, the resulting links links will satisfy Mastodon verification requirements when rendered.

To get started, visit your profile and click the "Edit profile" button in the sidebar.

None of the five companies I purchased digital gifts from this year appear to have put any thought into experience of giving and receiving...

None of the five companies I purchased digital gifts from this year appear to have put any thought into experience of giving and receiving the gift in the actual analog world.

“Here… print out this ugly transactional email and shove it into a card, I guess. Just be thankful you managed not to irrevocably tie this purchase to your own account, okay?”

At least send me a presentable PDF that I can insert into a reusable jewel case or something. We’re 10 years in and haven’t figured this out?

I've read many requests to add Mastodon links to GitHub profiles for verification and discovery purposes. My team is working on allowing...

I've read many requests to add Mastodon links to GitHub profiles for verification and discovery purposes.

My team is working on allowing you to add a number of social profile links, but given upcoming holiday vacations, it won't ship until the new year. We don't want to rush something out at the potential cost of disrupting what is generally a quiet time for our engineers.

Ordinarily, I wouldn't talk about in progress work on social media, but y'all seem like you can keep a secret.

This week, I helped the Atom editor ride off into the sunset. Atom walked so VSCode could run, I guess. I'm not sure, I use vim.In any...

This week, I helped the Atom editor ride off into the sunset. Atom walked so VSCode could run, I guess. I'm not sure, I use vim.

In any event, the final atom issue before archiving was this one, which felt appropriate. https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/25755