Notices by Nolan (nolan@toot.cafe), page 28

@Zathras Welcome! 👋

@hinterwaeldler BTW it looks like to fix this you may need to clear your cache AND unregister the Service Worker (type about:serviceworkers into the Firefox URL bar, find pinafore.social, click "unregister").

@hinterwaeldler Interesting, IndexedDB is being blocked. Are you in private browsing mode, or using an older version of Firefox, or using a privacy setting or extension that blocks IndexedDB, or...?

@strypey Thanks yup, there is an open issue about this. Haven't gotten to it yet! 😅 https://github.com/nolanlawson/pinafore/issues/163

@wohali Sure thing, happy to. :) Really loved your "Evolve or Perish" talk BTW; wish I could make the 2018 ApacheCon to see your next talk!

@c25l I've overheard at least one OSS team here say, "Hey, so-and-so has been really contributing a lot. Maybe we should put out an offer to them?" So it does happen both ways. 😊 But yeah, lots of "why buy the cow if you can get the milk for free" attitudes out there.

Also I will say I've met some exceptions to the rule. One OSS contributor on my team (don't want to name names, but they're well-known) truly seems to do OSS for the love of it. They don't really take breaks from GitHub AFAICT. And yet they also seem to have a healthy work-life balance, with a family, a home, a dog, hobbies, etc. Then again OSS is also a big part of their actual 9-to-5, which probably helps.

I don't believe I was contributing to open source purely for resume-padding, but I have to admit there was some amount of "chasing social-media points." I often looked forward to the first tweet after publishing a new project more than the project itself.

After taking a year "off" though, I really have to look back and ask how many of my projects made a lasting contribution. Plenty are still useful, but some were more interesting as temporary experiments. Maybe I chased too many of the latter.

I'm particularly struck by this quote:

'Successful open source developers get "acquihired" by a company who values their reputation and skills, which has the perverse effect of making them less noisy about how to make a living off of open source. Oftentimes, they slow or stop working on the projects that made them popular in the first place.'

As someone who recently burned out a bit on open-source and stopped contributing so much, I have to ask myself how much this describes me. 😕

Also if you haven't read Nadia Eghbal's "Roads and Bridges," it's a masterpiece on analyzing open-source communities and economics: https://www.fordfoundation.org/library/reports-and-studies/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure/

"Who pays the toolmakers?" by Nadia Eghbal https://medium.com/@nayafia/who-pays-the-toolmakers-70f13d16c17c

Food for thought on open-source sustainability and app dev sustainability.

@viv I'm still waiting for an official MS Store listing (I could probably jump the queue, but I prefer the normal route 😁), but in the meantime as long as you have Windows 10 in developer mode, you can install any PWA as a native app using https://preview.pwabuilder.com. Enter the URL, keep clicking "next," then click "download," then run the PowerShell script.

Note you can do this with any Mastodon instance as well, since the normal tootsuite frontend is a PWA too. 😊

@nick It's a-coming. I'm just lazy and scared. :P

@nick @ElfLord was saying the same thing