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gnomespaceship··on GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values
In this case, you could say the original title is also misleading, or at least it doesn't say what it's really about, so imho the edit was justified
gnomespaceship··on GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values
You're wrong about the values. Since the start, GitLab's values were real and lived, unlike every other company I've been at. Only after Staples' takeover as CEO and C-suite changes, they started eroding rapidly, starting with Transparency.

Source: I'm ex-GitLab

gnomespaceship··on GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values
Not yet, they'll share it on June 1
gnomespaceship··on Deleteduser.com –A $15 PII Magnet
Here's his Mastodon thread with some hilarious updates: https://infosec.exchange/@SecureOwl/116404712213309413
gnomespaceship··on Show HN: How Useless Are You? A brutally honest skills check
It fails to generate a challenge for technical writing roles. Is this aimed only at engineers?
gnomespaceship··on How to be a leader when the vibes are off
Good essay!

Jason, if you read this - the form to subscribe doesn't work on Android (in Firefox or Chrome). I can't input my address or press the Subscribe button.

gnomespaceship··on Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/omnivore.app.html says down for more than a week.
gnomespaceship··on Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
https://omnivore.app is down. Hug of death perhaps?
gnomespaceship··on Sanding UI
One person I saw do this is Mia: https://www.tiktok.com/@heymiadotco

If you sort videos by popularity there's a lot I enjoyed where she does a "UX roast" of SaaS or streaming websites

gnomespaceship··on Vim Racer
There's Vim Adventure which is more tutorial than a game bit still: https://vim-adventures.com/
gnomespaceship··on Firefox address bar
Btw if you also use DuckDuckGo, you can start your search with "!hn" and "!r" bangs: https://duckduckgo.com/bangs
gnomespaceship··on Ask HN: Which tools/services have your favorite UI/UX?
Hi! You can copy the branch name at the bottom of the right sidebar with one click: https://i.imgur.com/O3StMBA.png

Or in the merge request widget, below the description: https://i.imgur.com/V72v9jj.png

gnomespaceship··on The Mental Benefits of Being Terrible at Something
I definitely get this with speaking foreign languages - English feels like a second mother tongue to me at this point, but even though I can create Spanish sentences, I get choked up when about to speak.
gnomespaceship··on [Study] Conversations Gone Awry: Detecting Early Signs of Conversational Failure
The paper looks at 50 million conversations across 16 million Wikipedia talk pages to create a framework for understanding linguistic markers of conversational trajectories. In a (very surprising) nutshell: if someone writes "Wow, you're coming off as a total d," the conversation is likely to end badly.
gnomespaceship··on I wandered off and built an IDE
Fortunately, I don't use Excel at work, but this was a very entertaining read. Thanks @anakic!