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Building "SQLite Internals: How The World's Most Used Database Works" 1st Free&Open Book.

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@flaskcon
@pymugdotcom

[gh: Abdur-RahmaanJ @osdotsystem]

My book on SQLite internals, the first free and open book on the subject now comes up first on Google.

https://t.co/S8bxVyy7mF

[gh: Abdur-RahmaanJ @osdotsystem]

Always nice to see French speakers.

[Hadi Basma @hadinbasma]

La communauté tech France, ça fait 4 ans je build dans la tech et j’ai monté 2 boites (j’ai exit la première). J’essaie de grossir sur x et de faire de nouvelles rencontre. Je follow back!

[gh: Abdur-RahmaanJ @osdotsystem]

@yacineMTB Not bad

[gh: Abdur-RahmaanJ @osdotsystem]

@LinusEkenstam Yeah and hit the cable car 2 mins later.

[gh: Abdur-RahmaanJ @osdotsystem]

@thesherlocker @mitsuhiko @Proton_Pass Went with this one ...

[gh: Abdur-RahmaanJ @osdotsystem]

@imranye Nice model! Hard agree!

[gh: Abdur-RahmaanJ @osdotsystem]

Time and again i dive into interesting stuffs. This time i fell into the Android rabbit hole. So, i am thinking of sharing my learning in diary format.

My first entry would be this:

I realised that well, to understand Android internals, it helps to know Linux kernel internals so as to know what concepts were added by Android and what were originally in the kernel to begin with.

From this i came to the realisation that for people who like to dive into internals, Linux is the starting point as many projects run on Linux and take advantage of specific Linux concepts.

So, if you are diving in Docker or Redis for example, and you know how it works well, you still would not understand it 100% as you understood the Linux part at surface level.

[gh: Abdur-RahmaanJ @osdotsystem]

What CN states is true. But, if you must give up other citizenships to retain the Japanese one, then it is understandable that one would prefer to go as much as one can without it!

[Shashank Mattoo @MattooShashank]

An Indian restaurant owner in Japan breaks down after his visa was rejected forcing him to return to India

"My kids only speak Japanese. I've worked hard for 30 years and bought a house. I haven't committed a crime and did my best. Is this humane?" he asks in a viral clip

[gh: Abdur-RahmaanJ @osdotsystem]

The docs is an underrated part!

[René Cannaò @rene_cannao]

Open source contribution is not only code.

It is also testing, feedback, bug reports, design discussions, documentation, operational experience, and explaining where real users struggle.

Healthy ecosystems need all of it.

#OpenSource #MySQL

[gh: Abdur-RahmaanJ @osdotsystem]

@rene_cannao Did not know about the summit. I was around. Would have loved to chat!

[gh: Abdur-RahmaanJ @osdotsystem]

@sudo_kelvin Fail of the day!

[gh: Abdur-RahmaanJ @osdotsystem]

Forgot to factor in quality.

[The Lunduke Journal @LundukeJournal]

DHH (Ruby on Rails & Omarchy creator):

"Being into open source and recoiling from vibe coding is a contradiction in terms. Either we are genuinely excited by giving freedom to many to change their software or we are frauds."

[gh: Abdur-RahmaanJ @osdotsystem]

Gross. Someone wants SF to fall!

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

saikat chakrabarti
> be first 10 at stripe
> clear 9 figures
> ladder-pull: don't want people to start startups
> donate $500K to Prop D, the 800% increase in gross receipts tax that blocks startups from staying in SF

^^ don't be this guy. don't be the ladder puller.

[gh: Abdur-RahmaanJ @osdotsystem]

Exactly the point. Blanket ban to signal something is wrong.

[Forrest Knight @ForrestPKnight]

I love yt-dlp, and frankly they can do what they want with their software, but it’s obvious they haven’t looked at the Bun code. It’s a competent port to Rust.

And I think folks who say “I won’t use this simply because AI wrote it” are in the same vein as vibe coders who don’t read their code. They are blindly trusting AI, but for them they are trusting it to be bad code like vibe coders are trusting it to be good code.

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[Jeremy Bernier @jeremybernier]

Meta was easily the most toxic company I've worked for. There's a reason the Chinese call it "Squid Game". Others refer to it as "Hunger Games" or "Lord of the Flies". I think they're all accurate.

The company culture is basically every man/woman for themselves. The performance review process (PSC) not only doesn't incentivize helping others, if anything it actually discourages it since everyone is stack ranked against each other. Imagine working on a team where every 6 months, one of you is going to get axed. Of course it's going to become toxic.

"Bottoms up" culture is a complete farce - it's just a way for leadership to offload accountability. The Tech Leads (TLs) have all the power - owning the relationships and tribal knowledge to gatekeep projects to their buddies. Managers are "people managers" with limited technical understanding, who basically aggregate TL feedback and create performance review packets to calibrate with other managers and IC7+. The takeaway is that your destiny is in the hands of the TLs, and TLs unlike managers have no responsibility for your career. There are no repercussions for unethical behavior. I've seen managers and TLs throw others under the bus and get away with it.

The only mission bonding the company together is individual self-preservation. Save your own ass to survive for another stock vesting, and throw someone else under the bus if you need to. That's why layoffs rarely impact directors/VPs or tenured IC7+ despite the fact that they're paid by far the most. Even this recent mass layoff that was supposed to "flatten" managers layers barely affected directors/VPs/IC7+, and fell predominantly on M1s - the lowest rung of the management chain.

The culture is extremely performative and focused on box ticking and optics. Everything is about PSC (the performance review system) and perception. This means tons of meetings, useless AI slop posts, and top-down initiatives that don't benefit anyone but maybe help tick off the impact box of some go-getter at the top. Impact is not enough - it has to have sufficient complexity. So complexity is added for complexity's sake.

The org I was in (Facebook ads) is 90% Chinese, and the entire leadership chain up to the VP level is Chinese. Mandarin is the primary language at the office, except in official meetings with non-speakers. Chinese work culture is very different from American work culture, with 996 (9am-9pm, 6 days/week), top-down nature, emphasis on saving face (eg. don't question your superiors), and toxicity being quite common. Naturally when an org is completely dominated by a single ethnicity that's notorious for not integrating, elements from their work culture seep in. Of the layoffs I witnessed in this org, 3/4 were not Chinese (just to be clear, most Chinese are very kind so don't take this as an attack. But it is a reality that I think most people outside this company are completely unaware of, and I question if leadership is even aware despite the fact that we're talking about the company HQ)

I had the most toxic manager of my life here. I watched him deliberately set up a new hire to fail, driving them to needing to see a psychiatrist for anxiety + depression, and getting them fired. Then he suddenly disappeared for 8 months, before leaving the company.

I could go on and on, but this is already pretty long and I think you get the point.

Yes there are a lot of great, kind people here. I managed to transfer out of my first team into a new team with a great manager where everyone was very smart, supportive, and hardworking.

But the company has its Squid Game reputation for a reason. Company culture comes from the top. It seems leadership is either too removed to notice, or maybe don't really care anymore because I guess they already made their billions and us plebs are expendable these days.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

This wild.

Two years ago, Google deleted a large customer’s account: Unisuper, an Australian retirement savings fund.

It seems they now blocked an even larger customer, cloud provider Railway.

This kind of story you never hear with AWS, Azure, or even Oracle. GCP 👎

[Nikolai Grigoriev @nikolaiG22]

Finally, Google has openly admitted that they are fighting @grapheneOS. They refuse to honor their own T&C of Pixel6a battery program "if you are using Graphene OS". GOS is based on the same Android and has Pixel 6a battery workaround. #TechAdvocay #google #grapheneos. Repost!

[gh: Abdur-RahmaanJ @osdotsystem]

@hardeep_gambhir The people of SF and the bay area are the real pillars. As long as they are around, the culture shall remain the same. But, some are leaving ...

[gh: Abdur-RahmaanJ @osdotsystem]

Haha

[Kyle Casterline @KyleACasterline]

My wife asked me for some cute characters to paint on on mugs

[gh: Abdur-RahmaanJ @osdotsystem]

Leaving LA for SF.#pyconus was an extraordinarily packed conference, very prodcutive for Py folks 👌.

[gh: Abdur-RahmaanJ @osdotsystem]

Today at #pyconus sprints, i

- Reviewed a flask-cahe PR
- Cleaned my flask-principal setup
- Got my first Beeware coin with 2 PRs
- Contributed to memray and pystack with 4 PRs

First time i explored around. Last time i was helping people with getting around the Pallets.