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veggieroll commented on LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor   libresprite.github.io/... · Posted by u/nicoloren
lachieh · 8 days ago
Aseprite is open source. The source is open for anyone to access right here: https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite

You might be confusing license with access. The product itself has a proprietary license. Even then, a majority of the libraries they produce are also available under the MIT license.

veggieroll · 8 days ago
Source available is not open source. Don’t try to redefine what open source means. It’s so insulting to volunteers hard work.
veggieroll commented on My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs   ddmckinnon.com/2026/02/11... · Posted by u/dmckinno
ef2k · 10 days ago
My hot take: the dedicated PM role is becoming optional. Engineers already understand feasibility and tradeoffs, and they often end up informing the PM anyway, which usually comes at the cost of meetings and slow decisions. With clear quarterly goals, engineering and design can own product together. They would shape scope, ship in increments, measure, and iterate. So the "product" function still exists, but its not a separate PM attached to it.
veggieroll · 10 days ago
> With clear quarterly goals

This requires a quality of product/program management and upper management buy-in that is rare in my experience.

The dynamic I've experienced is upper management giving the same incompetent teams projects over and over, having month after month of meetings with no deliveries and no real progress on the deliverable, and then eventually having to scramble and find someone else who can actually accomplish their goals.

Either that or so many things are broken that there's no possible way to prioritize beyond a few weeks because you can't let attention dip from any one spinning plate for too long or it'll fall.

veggieroll commented on Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies   ewtnnews.com/vatican/pope... · Posted by u/josephcsible
midtake · 19 days ago
The article seems to be overreacting to a small part of Pope Leo's talk. It seems to me his real point was that using AI to hasten writing homilies leads priests to treat this work as busy work instead of thoughtful, focused work.
veggieroll · 19 days ago
> overreacting to a small part of [a Pope]'s talk

As is Catholic tradition in the US

veggieroll commented on Evolving Git for the Next Decade   lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/AndrewDucker
imtringued · a month ago
Git needs to track software licenses on a per commit basis.
veggieroll · a month ago
Use trailers like has become common for LLM assisted code.

Co-Authored-By: Whatever LLM

License: WTFPL

veggieroll commented on Your Job Isn't Disappearing. It's Shrinking Around You in Real Time   newsletter.jantegze.com/p... · Posted by u/hunglee2
prng2021 · a month ago
The author gives this example of the problem and incorrect way to leverage AI:

"Sarah was relieved. She thought she could focus on high-value synthesis work. She’d take the agent’s output and refine it, add strategic insights, make it client-ready."

Then they propose a long winded solution which is essentially the same exact thing but uses the magical term "orchestrate" a few times to make it sound different.

veggieroll · a month ago
> add strategic insights

This claim has always been BS in my experience.

veggieroll commented on Many hells of WebDAV   candid.dev/blog/many-hell... · Posted by u/candiddevmike
Nextgrid · 2 months ago
> they can still sue and ruin your life.

Thus the suggestion to publish anonymously.

veggieroll · 2 months ago
I think it is unwise for a maintainer to accept anonymous contributions.
veggieroll commented on Many hells of WebDAV   candid.dev/blog/many-hell... · Posted by u/candiddevmike
Nextgrid · 2 months ago
Well the idea is that you determine the intention of the “IP issue” and act accordingly:

If there is an actual IP issue then even waiting after you’re out of the company will not resolve said IP issue. If you’re using your employer’s IP then waiting is unlikely (both legally and especially morally) to magically resolve it - it’s still your employer’s IP.

If it’s just to avoid red tape but otherwise the IP is yours and has nothing to do with your employer (aka you could’ve done it just as well even if you weren’t at your current employer, and your employer’s competitive advantage is not based on having a good WebDAV implementation) then it should be fine and you’re just taking a shortcut to save time on both sides.

Basically, if your employer is a vendor of WebDAV libraries, yeah of course there’s a (legal, or a least moral) issue. If not, then all fine.

(Obviously this is just opinion and not legal advice - but legality only matters if they can figure out who did it ;)

veggieroll · 2 months ago
I think the situation your missing is when the employer has a much much more aggressive stance to IP. Even if you are 100% confident that your contribution doesn't violate your employer's IP, they can still sue and ruin your life.

Some employers have an unbelievably unreasonable interpretation of non-compete and IP. They think they own everything their employees do, and even though they're wrong. That doesn't stop them from ruining you and whatever unfortunate open source project they set their sights on with vexatious litigation.

veggieroll commented on Many hells of WebDAV   candid.dev/blog/many-hell... · Posted by u/candiddevmike
Nextgrid · 2 months ago
Why not publish it anonymously?

If there's actual employer IP in there then just leaving said employer wouldn't magically clear it.

If there isn't and you're just trying to avoid red tape, then publishing it anonymously would work around the issue.

veggieroll · 2 months ago
I feel like it'd be kinda a jerk move to contribute anonymously when you know that might create an IP issue for an open source project. Even if the code truly has no IP issue, legal attention from an litigious company would likely be devastating to even a well resourced project.
veggieroll commented on Many hells of WebDAV   candid.dev/blog/many-hell... · Posted by u/candiddevmike
emersion · 2 months ago
Library maintainer here. Why not send a PR?
veggieroll · 2 months ago
I have some patches saved up coming your way once I leave my current employer, who doesn't allow external open source contributions. Though that is not for a few years probably.

Love the libraries BTW. Thank you for all of your hard work.

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