That small number can easily be overwhelmed, their regressive clamor stilled, if the rest of the FOSS community simply stands up to be counted. Stands up to say that yes, they do want innovation and quality code. Stands up to say that yes, they do just want to have great software — but what makes a software good is skill, and audacity, and the ability to consider the future clearly rather than through the foggy lenses of nostalgia and privilege.
It’s time for the weekly flash challenge (and take a look at this prompt!)
You’ve only got until midnight Saturday to be a part of this week’s Flash Challenge!
Describe your relationship, don’t prescribe it.
The way you describe your relationship isn’t a dictation of how the people in the relationship must behave.
Rules aren’t always bad in relationships – if you follow these two rules.
I’m not aggressively anti-rule. Not anymore, at least, and I think I’m better for having a more nuanced position here.
It’s not the labels, it’s the behaviors that you justify with them.
As the conversation heated up on the Book of Faces, I found myself explaining to a girlfriend why simply having a hierarchy in your relationships was seen as a bad thing by some folks.
Hello sleepless pain my old friend…
I had another bad night with the RLS with sharp stabbing pains in both ankles and one wrist that left me staggering around, falling asleep standing up or awake and writhing in pain when lying down all night long.