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Coraline Ada Ehmke
Personal blog · where.coraline.codes/blogculturecareerprogramming
Coraline Ada Ehmke's personal blog at where.coraline.codes covers culture, career and programming. Since 2015, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Antisocial Coding: My Year at GitHub (2017)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Coraline Ada Ehmke's blog for her account of her year at GitHub, her views on the Opal and Ruby code of conduct, the OSI dispute with Eric S. Raymond, and hacker culture.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Coraline Ada Ehmke. Developer, speaker, writer, podcaster, and big-time open source troublemaker.
Most-linked posts?
- Antisocial Coding: My Year at GitHub (2017)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-10-23
- /blog/on-opalgate/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-11
What Hacker News says?
> Can't recall the name of the person GitHub miss-hired Coraline Ada Ehmke? https://where.coraline.codes/blog/my-year-at-github/
Comment linking /blog/my-year-at-github/
on ““About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today””Submitted Antisocial Coding: My Year at GitHub as a story · 711 points
HN discussionHacker culture has changed in the past ten years or so. The lodestar is no longer ESR's Jargon File, nor the GNU Manifesto, nor Steven Levy's Hackers . They're just ideals of what we think hacker culture should be, but that's not how hacker culture is actually practiced (if it ever was). As more and more queer and trans people have gotten involved with hacker culture, they've brought queer and trans political and ph…
Comment linking /writing/meritocracy/
on “Calling All Hackers”Submitted Antisocial Coding: My Year at GitHub as a story · 40 points
HN discussionA lot of the Codes of Conduct (especially the Ruby one) stem from activism by Coraline Ada Ehmke[0] For those who don't know her, quite an interesting person. She was notoriously fired from GitHub after a year after being hired to work on their anti-harassment platform. [0] https://where.coraline.codes/
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on “Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing views” from its CoC”Submitted Not Applicable: What Your Job Post Is Really Saying as a story · 26 points
HN discussionFWIW this looks like her current summary of the situation: https://where.coraline.codes/blog/ethical-source-osi-electio...
Comment linking /blog/ethical-source-osi-elections/
on “Open Source Initiative bans co-founder, Eric S Raymond”Submitted Why I Am Not Speaking at OSCON as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://where.coraline.codes/blog/on-opalgate/
Comment linking /blog/on-opalgate/
on “I am leaving llvm”- b8 · 2022-03-06
Submitted Antisocial Coding: My Year at GitHub (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion Not that I believe the fierceness of the assertion however. The CoC's writer's blogpost https://where.coraline.codes/blog/my-year-at-github/ certainly proves she has issues with the term "meritocracy" > At first I had my doubts. I was well aware of GitHub's very problematic past, from its promotion of meritocracy in place of a management system And most articles I have read detail the idea that "meritocracy" is inhe…
Comment linking /blog/my-year-at-github/
on “Linus Torvalds Back in Charge of Linux”The reason so many people are against “Code of Conducts” is because they are not used as a baseline for professional behavior (against which there would also be arguments in Open Source), but as a political cudgel to score points and enact things like: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignat... See also: http://dancerscode.com/blog/why-the-open-code-of-conduct-isn... But look at some instances f…
Comment linking /coraline_ehmke.pdf
on “GitHub Puts Open Code of Conduct on Pause”Thanks for linking that thread. It included a link to a discussion of adopting a CoC for the Ruby language project, which in turn linked to this https://where.coraline.codes/blog/on-opalgate/ - which provides some useful insight and context around that one Github issue from 2015 of which so many make so much. Given that the Opal maintainer was OK with it, and everyone involved came out unscathed, I see nothing of va…
Comment linking /blog/on-opalgate/
on “On holy wars, and a plea for peace”
