Claims to the name Meta

Originally posted on mastodon.technology.

Things that have a better claim to the name "Meta":

• Meta-Wiki
• an IRC channel I'm in
• <meta>
• me (misspelled)
• The other MetaWiki

RIP Gary Paulsen

Originally posted on mastodon.technology.

https://comicbook.com/irl/news/gary-paulsen-writer-of-ya-hatchet-novels-dies-at-82/ :(

Hatchet and Winterdance are two of my favorite books, and my very worn copies still sit atop my bookshelf.

Python 3.10 is a trap

Originally posted on mastodon.technology.

Python 3.10 is a fantastic trap for everyone who uses YAML/Toml to configure CI, because writing an unquoted 3.10 will happily be normalized to 3.1.

Cross-building Windows binaries in Rust

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It was surprisingly simple to set up cross-building for #Windows binaries on my #Rust projects in CI: https://gitlab.com/legoktm/rust-ci-pipeline/-/commit/21c61d0412e6636c110fbd0461908c93ff5eda7c

And the one place I was using Unix-specific code has been caught at compile time \o/

Whenever I make new releases, Windows binaries will be uploaded by CI, but in the meantime here's my "hello world" test repo: https://gitlab.com/legoktm/test-rs/-/releases/0.1.11

DoJ report on SJSU

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The DoJ report is in, #SJSU actively suppressed and ignored reports of sexual harassment/assault from athletes and then retaliated against employees who tried to raise them: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-reaches-16m-agreement-remedy-title-ix-violations-san-jos-state-university

This has been going on for over a decade but really broke open after USA Today published their explosive story in April 2020: https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2020/04/17/san-jose-state-reinvestigates-trainer-claims-sexual-misconduct/5138353002/

The Spartan Daily covered how current athletes felt about the investigation: https://sjsunews.com/article/swimmers-scrutinize-investigation (I contributed to this one)

Google Groups to Mailman

Originally posted on mastodon.technology.

It is surprisingly straightforward to move a mailing list from Google Groups to #Mailman 3

Documented the entire process at <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailman#Import_from_Google_Groups>.