Heather Burns

Simpler and monolith (an endlessly re-suggested reply) has it's place, but I see it as impossible for any "simple" solution to ever gain enough mindshare to win. A lot of people suggesting monoliths & hosted services, but they are never going to have the community, the presence of something like Kubernetes, which unites people, which people collaborate over, in the same way we all got to learn & experience & co-develop for Docker. The question posted somewhat gets it wrong, "Kubernetes became a thing after Docker became a thing (and so on," implies that they're different things, that tech is about different things, but in many ways Kubernetes is a natural extension & outgrowth, it is a part of the Docker scene, & has continuity with it. Kubernetes is a thing now, but it's patterns are still underspoken of, underpracticed, underdeployed to the rest of the software world. We will get better at being like Kubernetes, for great benefit. Folks learning how control-loops are advantageous, and learning to use universal API Servers for all their systems will continue to drive not just Kubernetes, but the patterns underlying Kubernetes further into our applications & services & technologies. Tech like KCP[1] is an early indicator of this interest, in using the soul of kubernetes if not it's specific machinery, by creating an independent, non-Kubernetes, but Kubernetes compatible API Server. Having universal storage, having autonomic system control are huge advantages when system…

This is a vile bit of legislation. See https://webdevlaw.uk/2022/07/11/your-compliance-obligations-under-the-…

From the actual bill: > whose content is viewed more widely than a minimum threshold to be defined and set by OFCOM. Given the recent history of UK online regulation [2], I think it's save to assume the "minimum threshold" will be extremely low. [1] https://docs.reclaimthenet.org/onlinesafety_rm_rep_0708.pdf [2] https://webdevlaw.uk/2022/07/11/your-compliance-obligations-under-the-…

*she Although i can't find any clear statement of pronouns [1] https://webdevlaw.uk/about/ [2] https://twitter.com/WebDevLaw

Related: https://webdevlaw.uk/2021/01/30/why-generation-x-will-save-the-web/

Some would say the Bill is a symptom of Facebook Derangement Syndrome https://webdevlaw.uk/2020/12/09/facebook-derangement-syndrome/ Based on those they are consulting with that seems justfied.

It's not unique to the US. See this story related to the UK for example: https://webdevlaw.uk/2016/08/22/uk-conference-speaker-visa/ In fact, the UK appears to require a different visa for this purpose. (And it's not clear to me from a couple of things I've read that the Tourist Waiver Program covers paid engagements in the US arranged in advance--though there is a Business Waiver Program.) Getting paid to speak at a conference can definitely raise issues if you're used to just getting a standard visa for tourism or just attending a conference.

Perhaps I am being naive, and I will confess that I'm not entirely sure that the future will be as I predicted (but I'm not going to edit my initial comment, out of respect for those disagreeing with me). But I will think this quote from one of the bill's most dogged critics is illustrative[0]: > ... this Bill, whatever DCMS and its ministers may claim, is not a “fixing” Bill, one which has been designed to be constructive and positive in order to fix problems. It is a “getting” Bill, once which has been designed to be vindictive and negative in order to get specific companies. OnlyFans in this particular example, the usual suspects in others. > The second is that this Bill has been designed by people who are so out of touch that OnlyFans is their idea of the average small digital business. > And the third is that this Bill has been designed by people who are so out of touch that they think the harms issues raised by OnlyFans are the harms issues in the average small digital business. As for your distrust of the government, my opinion on this comes from that same position. My complacency rests not on their goodwill (because I don't think they have any) but on their disinterest in actually understanding anything. [0] https://webdevlaw.uk/2022/07/13/heres-why-your-project-is-in-scope-of-…