GitHub’s final resting place is likely to be the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44368813

Are you fixing the keyboards?

⏱💣go💥

Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub explained.

“Cancer” was Steve Ballmer’s term for open source software.

LinkedHub

Seems to be a done deal. GitHub while a money maker never went for big profits and was just as likely to make losses.

Expect to see a lot of talk about setting up a not for profit Github replacement. This will come to nothing but GitHub’s competitors will feel some benefits.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-03/microsoft-is-said-to-have-agreed-to-acquire-coding-site-github

This is starting to sound like a bubble but the world of tech has run out of dev leads and senior engineers everywhere. That even includes China and India.

Steve Yegge, ex-googler and habitual bombthrower 💣, says that the best way to improve your salary right now is not to stay at your current job but to look for another one. The skills you developed at one place are more valuable on the open market than they are within the company you are currently in.

All of this feels true, even in relative backwaters like Melbourne and Sydney.

https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/get-that-job-at-grab-eea6de1d8421