Also, any #pyconus runners need to do a long run this weekend? I’m looking to do 16 miles at around a 10-12 minute pace on Saturday morning and would love some company for some/all of it.
On my way to #pyconus! I don’t get in til midnight local time tonight, so see folks tomorrow. I’ll be spending most of my time at the #django booth, so stop by if you want to say hi.
Do I know anyone who’s worked for or has intimate knowledge of the US 911 system?
I’m trying to confirm something: that E911 is nationally linked, and thus even if the emergency you’re calling about is far away, you should still simply call 911 (vs, trying to find a loc police/fire/rescue number in the area you’re calling about).
I’ve heard this from a few SAR and USFS folks, eg that people should simply call 911 instead of the park service about an overdue hiker, even from states away.
“We took our work seriously, but not ourselves” is such a perfect distillation of the 18F ethos. When we were successful (and we succeeded a lot) it was because we cared deeply, sincerely about others, and very little about ourselves and our egos. (When we failed, it was almost always because of ego.)
No wonder Trump had to kill it: that’s the precise opposite of the MAGA ethos, and 18F’s successs put the lie to the idea that compassion is weakness. https://toot.darkcooger.net/@mgwalker/114478573962781161
I got angry earlier this week about someone not following the usual process for reporting security issues in open source projects. So I decided to do something about it and wrote a guide on how to do it right:
This isn't at all novel territory, there are other (good) guides out there. And it's not gonna help people who can't be bothered. But if it helps just a couple well-intentioned folks do the right thing, that'll make me happy.
A lot of tech people, particularly more junior folks, are looking for jobs right now. A short but important note for them: newcomers should generally ignore career advice from people who've been in the field longer than 10 or 15 years.
The way the industry treats us is so dramatically different from the way it treats newcomers that most advice is just flat out wrong.
Whoaaaa I thought this would never happen. This isn’t gonna solve the problem completely — some Guys will never be able to resist the urge to Reply — but it should help with the unintentional pile-ons.
I knew it was coming but it doesn’t make it any easier. I’m heartbroken.
I’m so proud to have gotten to serve at 18F along with so many brilliant and dedicated public servants. We all did such amazing work, made people’s lives truly better, and these fuckers can never take that away from us.
