Exactly eight years ago, I published “Hello there!” on this website. Since then, I have published hundreds of articles. Persistent writing is excellent for many reasons and is the best thing I have ever done for my personal and professional development.

Attached: 1 image That time Warner Herzog killed it on Parks and Rec. "This was a holding cell for people who went insane on the assembly line." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4V1K1JCg_Q

I must have magic powers. I can put something down for 5 seconds and then it completely disappears.

Always pay attention to where people's eyes dart when they are talking to you. If their eyes go up and to the right it could mean there is a cool bird behind you over your left shoulder.

I recently added support for federated social networking features to my website. If you’re on a service like Mastodon, and you interact with a post that links to something on my website, it’ll show up …

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Attached: 1 image I got the #curl coaster. I must say it’s ridiculous, but also the coolest coaster I have now 🥲

playing just one game? what if i get bored? i could never be monogamous.

Today, if you publish a popular Go module on a URL and you lose control of the URL (through, eg, domain expiration and having the domain snatched up), you have a problem that's probably more or less impossible to deal with short of making blog/Fediverse/etc posts about the situation. Go module identity is tied to URLs with more or less no external override or way to automatically announce and see problems (individual people can override for their usage, but that doesn't scale).

Accidentally left freshly cut cat nip out over night. Let's just say it did not go unnoticed by the cats :ablobcatrave:

Our letting agent has started using a company called "Oh Goodlord" for its payment collection. Given the rent prices in London this seems on the nose

Content warning: Childhood trauma fun?

reminder to cargo-mommy enthusiasts: cargo-vibe already exists to provide your @buttplugio@buttplug.zone needs *and* cargo-subcommands are infinitely chainable

@www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me think it's online too but unsure of details of that! Think Meetup may share details.

Attached: 1 image They have made the new Ultimate Peter Parker unnecessarily hot. Fully on board with this.

Past-self just saved me 2+ hours by documenting how to do the thing that took ~3 hours to figure out and fix last time. Good job past-self. Also, good job current-self for remembering that past-self should have documented this and then going to find the doc.

I finally bought @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com's new book, You Deserve A Tech Union, because we do deserve one. And very amusingly, my learning & development budget covered it. ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽 https://abookapart.com/products/you-deserve-a-tech-union

Attached: 1 image it may have taken a year, but i'm pleased to announce my #newsletter now has a name in hindsight, it was an obvious choice https://citationneeded.mollywhite.net/ #CitationNeeded

“Colder than a witches tit” is a misnomer because all the witches I know have warm ones

Gonna give a talk ("Open Source: Boundaries, Burnout and Business”) and chat with folks about open source software at the first OpenUK Scottish meet up in Edinburgh on 22nd November 2023 from 6-9PM.

Would be lovely to see some of you there!

https://www.meetup.com/openuk-glasgow-edinburgh/events/296929069/

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