steven deobald

@deobald.bsky.social

228 Followers 164 Following

3rd wave open source, vipassana, chai, fixies, other stuff.

ramp is gone. dirt.
mario being a scientist with the text "science!"
UPSTREAM FIRST, cloud native desktop — align with allies!, own your metrics, gamers will save linux, succession planning, build an app ecosystem, can we get app devs to care about Flatpak Next? — maybe if we treat them better ... and the goal is contributors, Digital Sovereignty = Build Over Buy (sometimes), understanding the supply chain means reproducible builds, KDE and GNOME are **products**, Choice Quotes: "how do we make Ops people love the Linux desktop?" "every project has to have its AI conversation." "how do we make the linux desktop a billion-dollar industry?" (implied)
plant based
birds singing “hey ladies”, “single and honry”, “dee tee eff”, and a human saying “beautiful” over a cup of coffee
twisp and catsby stuffies
the cover of "the real world of technology" with a head and a floppy disk
busl license changes are impossible to measure/predict - see link
screencap of 6 different GTK builds
The role of the human As human developers we bring our skills and experience as an implicit harness to every codebase. We absorbed conventions and good practices, we have felt the cognitive pain of complexity, and we know that our name is on the commit. We also carry organisational alignment - awareness of what the team is trying to achieve, which technical debt is tolerated for business reasons, and what “good” looks like in this specific context. We go in small steps and at our human pace, which creates the thinking space for that experience to get triggered and applied. A coding agent has none of this: no social accountability, no aesthetic disgust at a 300-line function, no intuition that “we don't do it that way here,” and no organisational memory. It doesn't know which convention is load-bearing and which is just habit, or whether the technically correct solution fits what the team is trying to do. Harnesses are an attempt to externalise and make explicit what human developer experience brings to the table, but it can only go so far. Building a coherent system of guides and sensors and self-correction loops is expensive, so we have to prioritise with a clear goal in mind: A good harness should not necessarily aim to fully eliminate human input, but to direct it to where our input is most important.
An image of the gem.com Stripe application form from 3b1b.co/talent with many "placeholder" form fields.
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presidents choice beans and a coffee mug
chai in a pot
a boiling pot of ginger water for chai
macos apps, all with differently rounded corners
gtk app on linux
a beautiful build matrix... beautiful when it's all green, anyway.
the build passed. i sleep now.
build 1.2.15 of a long list of builds... please may it pass.
firefox 148 comes with "ai" ... great.
a "greyed out" save button icon that's actually blue tinted because apple is horrible at GUIs
github projects ui with subheaders like "this item is in review" for a column named "in review"
app store connect review screen where deleting an old build so you can upload a new one is a fun mystery in user interfaces.
downloading an ios 26.2 simulator @ 10.47 gigabytes
firefox plugin awaiting approval
a spotify recommendation for their "upbeat mix", including childish gambino
a microsoft azure suggestion that the user modify config with a "manifest editor", which is just editing the json directly. a warning saying that it "may cause errors"
a slimy embossed microsoft graphic with a clipart of a human in the middle of a circle
pali: dukkha, tanha, nibbana, & maggo sanskrit: duhkha, trshna, nirvana, & marg
a black and orange backpack with 4 laptops in it and a notebook and some pens
a flow chart starting at low-level (cpu, os, etc.) and branching up to browser, toolkits, html, react, vue, jquery, etc. at each level, some examples are given ("old reddit" for jquery, "figma" for canvas, "gtk/adwaita" for native toolkits)
a vintage 3-button mouse
the cover of shel silverstein's "the giving tree"
a dinner table full of dumplings and hands
meta knight va mawile … no.
a horizon fitness elliptical control panel opened to show the proprietary circuit board underneath, with parts labelled for future reference: amplifier, heart rate cables, fan area
three clay characters of "secret of mana"
text message: "i thought for sure they were gonna hack up some shitty nextjs dashboard"
a video of a propane inline heater and a small RV pump for an off-grid shower setup
usa salary = $250k USD cad salary = $237 CAD fuck you
an email from dell, announcing the end of windows 10 support
p: there is an egg out there? c: egg? p: egg for you no question mark
mossy soil in a nova scotia rain forest so dry it’s cracking.
a garmin body battery screen showing a value of 6 and a very high stress level and zero exercise
denture cream on a table
an rsvp card for my local hacker collective (called "collect") which contains a framework laptop on a table with three people sitting in front of a storefront
a tea cup with कड़क written on it
an airport chapel
a photo of panelists qianqian ye, ruth ikegah, and bastien guerry
a slide that says “open source is a sewer”
a coop bag from saskatchewan with a flat style drawing of a grain elevator on it.
an org chart with gnome foundation membership on top, gnome foundation underneath. "foundation" contains board of directors who employ the executive director, who employs the staff.
a cup of moon mist iced cream in front of a fake starry sky
the world's dorkiest hello world program written in rust and gtk
Aaditya Singh of GNOME Nepal, in front of an "End of 10" presentation explaining how to get support installing Linux on end-of-life Windows 10 laptops.