The legendary Ian Murdock
• Founded Debian in 1993 at age 20, while a Purdue undergrad
• Name "Debian" = Debra (his girlfriend) + Ian — she later became his wife
• Debian became the base for Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Raspberry Pi OS, hundreds of distros, arguably the most influential Linux project ever
• Worked at Sun Microsystems on Solaris
• Became Chief Operating System officer at Docker, right at the peak of container adoption
• Died December 28, 2015, age 42, officially ruled suicide
• His final hours: a series of distressed tweets describing a violent encounter with San Francisco police (claimed they beat him during an arrest), followed by increasingly erratic posts, then silence
• His Twitter account was deleted by the family shortly after; the tweets are preserved in archives
Debian is still going strong, 30+ years later, without him but his contributions can never be forgotten.
With #Java26 releasing later today, I’ve put together a demo project covering the key changes with code examples where applicable. I hope it may be of some interest.
https://t.co/GPoxafhN6s
🧰 Concevoir des objets utiles, sobres, faciles à réparer : depuis peu, des écoles d'ingénieurs initient leurs étudiants aux "low-techs", des pratiques visant à faire mieux avec moins, à rebours de l'image de haute technicité associée au métier #AFP
➡️ https://t.co/HdSLg0Z6XY
Quite sad that their new license https://t.co/176Bp6Uk1i isn’t very open…
It’s clearly trained on @jhipster code, but I can’t use it to develop @jhipster 😢
As of this year, Java has been developed under the reign of Oracle for longer than under Sun. And I think they've done an amazing job, despite what a lot of people said initially. More stuff going on in Java these days than ever.
Today is my 5th year anniversary at @Microsoft , working on Azure, AI and Java!
Quite an incredible adventure for a French guy who loves coding, so here’s a thread 🧵 ⬇️
As a library author, consider every config option you add a small defeat. Each new knob, each setting makes your lib a little bit harder to use. Be very careful with how you spend the complexity budget you have, and fight back as much as you can.
J'ai déjà parlé des excellents multi-account #containers sous @firefox. Un upgrade récent en fait définitivement une killer-feature : vous tapez l'URL, Firefox a gardé en mémoire le container à utiliser pour ce site. ❤️ @mozilla
Il n'y a aucun anonymat sur les réseaux dits sociaux.
Le pseudonymat protège la liberté d'expression, pas la délinquance.
En attaquant le pseudonymat, c'est à la liberté que Bertrand et Bouzou s'attaquent.
Après plus de vingt ans dans le secteur, je pense que j'ai à peu près fait le tour du métier de développeur. Il est temps que je passe à autre chose.
Je lance donc une activité de coach en estime de soi / motivation pour devs. Premier séminaire : "Un homme AZERTY en vaut deux"