e. hashman @ehashman@toot.cat

MAX POWER *dances to eurobeat*

I went on a day trip to Stony Brook yesterday and saw the world's weirdest hospital

clicky click click

Once upon a time he was sweet and innocent, and then he discovered the hellsite

@brennen I mean mostly I just figured out the issue under contention and then produced this dank meme while everyone else was arguing

Apparently my mom was digging through relics from when I was about 10 years old and found a bunch of letters from my classmates.

One of the boys was *extremely* impressed with how good I was at wrestling in gym class. Another really liked my cross-stitches 🙃

Buying myself some sparkly embroidery floss as a treat ✨

With luck I'll finish this weekend! #ehxstitch

I'm pretty sure this was my first FOSS contribution (and yes this predates me being on GitHub 🤣) http://git.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/?p=public/pyceo.git;a=commit;h=dd98f24e179fa82d8f28abcf9c3e4c7eacce890c

Still boggling that I will mark one decade working in tech this year

IT'S HAPPENING!!!!!!!!!! 🎯​ https://packages.debian.org/experimental/python3-full https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=983499

Think of how much cooler I could be if I had fingerless gloves

My hands are super cold for some reason so I have started wearing legwarmers on my arms. Fashion icon right here

Does anyone outside of public charities and Red Hat have a *business model* of hiring FOSS developers to work on existing community-run projects as *employees*?

I'd like to imagine a world where I'm compensated comparably just based on my FOSS work compared to what my employer pays me now? But I honestly can't.

I'm incredibly lucky, and I'd rather expand these kinds of opportunities than create yet another employee/contractor divide.

I feel like it's not fair to compare "gainfully employed with benefits" to "can eke by enough of a living to not starve, but still an independent contractor." Not sustainable, and pretty dependent on externalities like "universal healthcare" and "social safety net" to work

Slowly coalescing some feelings into the idea that $pay_the_maintainer platforms are basically the gig economy for open source. FOSS sustainability conversations always seem to focus around pay (and not very much of it) as opposed to time (full-time jobs with good benefits)

Good morning it's not even 9am and I've already found myself arguing about static vs dynamic linking, yes I need better hobbies

I was prompted to renew eha.sh today which then reminded me to update eha.sh/about

to my non-(US) techie followers, if this seems high a) it is b) it's still below market for that job segment in major CoL areas c) employers wouldn't be paying this if they weren't making MORE than that from employees d) yes this is why I work in tech, to buy freedom

ah I've just caught up on the TL going nuts earlier over someone asking for 185k base as a senior dev at "mid to large sized cos" in the US and meanwhile I'm like "uh that seems low for large companies" so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ y'all need to #talkpay more