Regarding the recent earthquake in Northern California, now is a good time to double check your earthqake kit. You should at a very minimum have a few days of food and water. CDC and CA/OR/WA state websites have further information:
cdc.gov/disasters/earthquake…#earthquake
Not to mention having a weeks worth of food, water, medicine, etc, might come in handy if there's more wildfires, supply chain disruptions, panic buying that cleans out supermarkets, *waves hands wildly at 2020*. Better to have it and not need it, then need it and not have it.
Started working on a Crystal port of my ffi-hunspell ruby library. There already are Crystal hunspell bindings. However I think it's important to port popular Ruby libraries over to Crystal to achieve library API compatibility, thus lowering the friction of porting app code over.
Thinking about holding off on releasing new software versions until after Jan 20th. If an attack does happen on Jan 20th, any new versions that suddenly show up before/on that day will be treated with suspicion. Also, people will be distracted by the inauguration either way.
bundler-audit 0.8.0 is ready to go. Also have a few minor version releases of other libraries to address Ruby 3.0 dependency changes (ex: SortedSet) queued up.
We live in a world where politicians think it's better to spend millions in tax dollars on security operations defending their boarders, that always fail, than to just give the migrants or the effected country some humanitarian aide.
invidious.snopyta.org/RlyYDfmZJHs?t=12
These people are so caught up in the "stop the steal" conspiracy fantasy they are unwittingly doing the FSBs job for them; that or they could be FSB... :|
invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=270F8s5T…
We found significant errors of judgment and procedure in a recent employee separation. We have reversed the separation, and our head of HR has taken personal accountability and resigned from GitHub. We apologize sincerely to the employee. github.blog/2021-01-17-updat…