It’s October 1 — the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act takes effect today!
Do you know where the personal data lives in your organization? What tools are you using to track this and maintain records?
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Edward Thomson
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Edward Thomson
@ethomson
Product at @TrustVanta focusing on privacy and data security. Formerly @Vercel, @GitHub, @Microsoft. Maintainer of @libgit2.
Cambridge, UK Beigetreten Nisan 2008
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Throughout my career, I’ve focused on developer tools… mostly because I checked the wrong box on a form once…
Christoph Nakazawa@cnakazawa
I don't understand why squash merging is not the default on GitHub. The other options make no sense, and just slow things down. Similarly, it's confusing that people *still* use `git merge`. It makes everything so complicated. Always rebase, never merge.
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Yesterday was my cake day at @GitHub. 🎂 12 years working on some of the biggest opportunities in software and open source, and it feels like the next 12 years will be nothing like the last.
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@jldec Personally, I'm a big v0 fan; it nailed a weird React server component refactoring that I had been struggling with.
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@jldec He's used a variety of different tools, he regularly shoots me a slack describing the pros/cons of whatever he's using today.
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I thought "vibe coding" was silly... until I watched my design counterpart — who has never written a line of code in his life — create a real outcome. Watching him succeed with these tools was the breakthrough for me to become a believer.
What made vibe coding real for _you_?
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@webprofusion Wow, that's incredible. a) which rowing machine? b) is it public / open source?
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@ethomson While kneeling down to stroke a cat (!) I asked lovable to create an app for Bluetooth enabled rowing machines to track stats. It's immediately made something that looked the part, but it took a couple of prompts to get it to actually work, so about 3 prompts in total.
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Celebrating by watching @ethomson's really cool talk on hidden Git features and functionality at NDC London last week
youtu.be/DZI0Zl-1JqQ
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Perhaps my finest contribution to Vercel was printing the LFG stickers.
Evil Rabbit@evilrabbit_
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@matheusfrndes @vercel In other words, if @rauchg was the original tastemaker behind Vercel, how did he get the rest of the company to think that way. Careful hiring? Indoctrination? Something else?
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@matheusfrndes @vercel I’d love to unpack that another layer - how and why does it have great taste? And how do you keep an entire company having “good taste”? How do you scale tastemaking?
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What’s an example of a developer tool with “great taste”? And why? What does that phrase mean to you?
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@ethomson I feel like it's been somewhat abandoned, but I know people created Terraform providers for it and could Terraform apply pizza.
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Update: it didn’t arrive in March… new delivery date: September. A rare Amazon logistics failure, but what a complete failure it is.
Edward Thomson@ethomson
Update: it has not yet arrived, but it still has a month to get here!
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@rauchg @SwiftOnSecurity Finally; this is the year of macOS on the desktop.
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macOS has finally got xeyes(1) — i can finally migrate
GIF
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@_sarahyo American in UK, the dream: I get US and UK holidays. In fact: there’s no such thing as a holiday.
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Anyone else completely forget about their local public holidays because everyone they work with is overseas?
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@rauchg @bryan_johnson Guaranteed *only* five, or is five the low bar?
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Would you switch your diet and lifestyle to @bryan_johnson’s if it *guaranteed* you an extra 5 years of healthy living?
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@sdf_pubnix Wow. Somewhere in the world, there is a tape of Mathematica 2.2 that will run on that bad boy.
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Welcome to our first m88k machine to be brought online. A Data General AViiON running DG/UX R4.11. Connect and interact with the past 'ssh menu@tty.sdf.org' or login as 'menu' on connect.sdf.org #community #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #retrogaming #unix
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