"Coders confuse technical power with social change. They think: “If I can write the tool, I can fix the politics.” But tools reflect cultures. Without collective governance, tools just reproduce existing hierarchies."

Good post of @hamishcampbell which reminded me of Aaron Swartz's "all code is political" statement. Sadly, in the "teach all to code" we quietly left out socio-political part - because it makes tons of people uncomfortable.

https://hamishcampbell.com/why-teach-everyone-to-code-has-become-a-dead-end-slogan/

#devops #code #developers

"Coders confuse technical power with social change. They think: “If I can write the tool, I can fix the politics.” But tools reflect cultures. Without collective governance, tools just reproduce existing hierarchies."

Good post of @hamishcampbell which reminded me of Aaron Swartz's "all code is political" statement. Sadly, in the "teach all to code" we quietly left out socio-political part - because it makes tons of people uncomfortable.

https://hamishcampbell.com/why-teach-everyone-to-code-has-become-a-dead-end-slogan/

#devops #code #developers

♻️ Please boost! ♻️

Looking for frontend devs for volunteer open-source team at a humanitarian aid org! As a Frontend Developer at Distribute Aid (https://distributeaid.org), you’ll create new pages for our website and update/maintain existing ones, often working closely with our designers and other devs. Looking for mid/long-term commitment. Main goal is to finally get our website relaunched. Volunteer commitment is ~5h/week.

Stack: NextJS, TypeScript, Strapi, Radix UI

We’re looking for experienced devs who are reliable, organised, and can communicate well. You do not need to know the full stack you’ll be working with. You just need to know how to learn and ask for help if you need it. Previous open source experience is nice but not strictly necessary. If you learn quickly and willingly, we can help you get started

It would be good if you have some availability overlapping with Central European Time and can make it to at least 1x tech hang per month and 1x sprint meeting per quarter (that’s ~4 meetings a month)

Our tech hangs are every Wednesday and Thursday from 6 to 8 pm CET/CEST and sprint meetings are during tech hang on the first Wednesday of each month

Our tech team is international and diverse—most of our team members are in some way marginalised—and leadership is fully queer/trans.

If you’re interested, please get in touch via tech@distributeaid.org. That comes directly to me as the Technical Program Manager. If you have any questions, you can ask me here too :)

#Developers #frontendDevs #frontend#OSS#FOSS #volunteering#NextJS #typescript#Strapi

♻️ Please boost! ♻️

Looking for frontend devs for volunteer open-source team at a humanitarian aid org! As a Frontend Developer at Distribute Aid (https://distributeaid.org), you’ll create new pages for our website and update/maintain existing ones, often working closely with our designers and other devs. Looking for mid/long-term commitment. Main goal is to finally get our website relaunched. Volunteer commitment is ~5h/week.

Stack: NextJS, TypeScript, Strapi, Radix UI

We’re looking for experienced devs who are reliable, organised, and can communicate well. You do not need to know the full stack you’ll be working with. You just need to know how to learn and ask for help if you need it. Previous open source experience is nice but not strictly necessary. If you learn quickly and willingly, we can help you get started

It would be good if you have some availability overlapping with Central European Time and can make it to at least 1x tech hang per month and 1x sprint meeting per quarter (that’s ~4 meetings a month)

Our tech hangs are every Wednesday and Thursday from 6 to 8 pm CET/CEST and sprint meetings are during tech hang on the first Wednesday of each month

Our tech team is international and diverse—most of our team members are in some way marginalised—and leadership is fully queer/trans.

If you’re interested, please get in touch via tech@distributeaid.org. That comes directly to me as the Technical Program Manager. If you have any questions, you can ask me here too :)

#Developers #frontendDevs #frontend#OSS#FOSS #volunteering#NextJS #typescript#Strapi

The latest FOSS Academic post involves more wrestling with the implications of #generativeAI for academic peer review:

https://fossacademic.tech/2025/08/06/reviewing-ai.html

In this post, I take observations from software #developers and #openSource podcasters (such as the folks at @latenightlinux ) about how genAI is swamping things like bug bounties and code reviews. This is similar to some of the issues faced by academic peer reviewers.

#academicchatter#FOSSacademic

The latest FOSS Academic post involves more wrestling with the implications of #generativeAI for academic peer review:

https://fossacademic.tech/2025/08/06/reviewing-ai.html

In this post, I take observations from software #developers and #openSource podcasters (such as the folks at @latenightlinux ) about how genAI is swamping things like bug bounties and code reviews. This is similar to some of the issues faced by academic peer reviewers.

#academicchatter#FOSSacademic

Hey #elixir folks, do you know any agencies that have both #ux #ui #designer and #Developers

I want to start workign with an agency that can help with design work, but also potentially support some dev stuff as we rewrite in elixir

Hey #elixir folks, do you know any agencies that have both #ux #ui #designer and #Developers

I want to start workign with an agency that can help with design work, but also potentially support some dev stuff as we rewrite in elixir

Hey #FediHire , meet @Dominicd3213

He's an embedded systems and #fullstack #developer who loves making machines move and websites work. By day, he wires up #Robots with ROS 2, #arduino and LIDAR; by night, he wrangles #react#TypeScript and #MongoDB into sleek, responsive interfaces. Built #AI chat tools, and co-founded a trading platform.

He lives where code meets circuits, and believes great tech should be powerful and weird.

Anyone need a bright young guy like this?

#Developers

Hey #FediHire , meet @Dominicd3213

He's an embedded systems and #fullstack #developer who loves making machines move and websites work. By day, he wires up #Robots with ROS 2, #arduino and LIDAR; by night, he wrangles #react#TypeScript and #MongoDB into sleek, responsive interfaces. Built #AI chat tools, and co-founded a trading platform.

He lives where code meets circuits, and believes great tech should be powerful and weird.

Anyone need a bright young guy like this?

#Developers

> When #developers are allowed to use #AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against #developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%.

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

> When #developers are allowed to use #AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against #developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%.

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

I'm having a "special" day today so I'll break the cycle and just spread some love.

Someone in my feed said thanks to #foss #developers and I enjoy that sentiment.

Thank you to all who make #opensource software and make this world a little bit better. You are doing important work.

I know money would be great but a sincere thank you is all I have atm.

To everyone using foss software. Maybe spread some love as well. :)

#fosslove #thankfoss

I'm having a "special" day today so I'll break the cycle and just spread some love.

Someone in my feed said thanks to #foss #developers and I enjoy that sentiment.

Thank you to all who make #opensource software and make this world a little bit better. You are doing important work.

I know money would be great but a sincere thank you is all I have atm.

To everyone using foss software. Maybe spread some love as well. :)

#fosslove #thankfoss

An open call to #Android #developers! The #EuropeanCommission needs help evaluating #GooglePlay's #security claims. I'm going to do what I can. Anyone with knowledge of how app installation, uninstallation, sandboxing, signing, etc. could really help here. If you want to contribute, please reach out!

#DigitalMarketsAct#EU#Google#GooglePlayServices #policy

An open call to #Android #developers! The #EuropeanCommission needs help evaluating #GooglePlay's #security claims. I'm going to do what I can. Anyone with knowledge of how app installation, uninstallation, sandboxing, signing, etc. could really help here. If you want to contribute, please reach out!

#DigitalMarketsAct#EU#Google#GooglePlayServices #policy

• AFAIK the only Firefox OS #phone offered in the #EU was a #SimLock'd / #NetLock'd #Prepaid device sold in #Spain, where they demanded #KYC for the #SIM, making it impossible to legally obtain it back then without having to fly down to #Spain, ID at a store, fly back and then be overcharged for #DataRoaming!

IMHO, @Mozilla / #Mozilla cannot be trusted at all!

• AFAIK the only Firefox OS #phone offered in the #EU was a #SimLock'd / #NetLock'd #Prepaid device sold in #Spain, where they demanded #KYC for the #SIM, making it impossible to legally obtain it back then without having to fly down to #Spain, ID at a store, fly back and then be overcharged for #DataRoaming!

IMHO, @Mozilla / #Mozilla cannot be trusted at all!