Today marks one year since I walked away from 360,000 followers on that other site joined this incredible community here! That was easily one of the most positive moves I've ever made, and I frankly haven't looked back. Thank you to @jerry and everyone else who keeps this place humming. Come to think of it, it's time to renew our annual support! https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors

So sick of the narrative around having productive days and maximising your productivity so I’m just gonna go and celebrate having an unproductive af day or two.

Most senior roles, technology or otherwise, should be able to strike a good balance between solving existing problems and creating new problems. In aggregate, they should solve more problems than they create, and this is how we make progress; fulfilling general goals but also agitating for improvements. One of my line managers once called this "looking for the right kind of trouble".

pex makes piping easier. Contribute to josharian/pex development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Matrix: Wow this Anderson guy is a slave to the system The Matrix 2023: Wow this guy had his own cube at work

Attached: 1 image my friends: why do we have to go to the movies AGAIN me:

Owning something is not a job ❤️

Cleaning up some old notes and finding the one about setting up a local Gitea server with duct tape CI processes because my employer's Gitlab instance was so slow it would break my flow and yeah I'm kinda DIY (not to be confused with "professional")

yeah sure enabling developers is great but have you ever bought hundreds of stickers with money that is not yours #devrel

Since I always vent about other language ecosystems when they suck, I want to also share a counterexample. Today I spent the day doing tooling integration and testing and compatibility work on https://github.com/FiloSottile/age.ts and things mostly just worked, including Node/Bun/esbuild, and ES Modules, and Typescript, and Puppeteer, and GitHub Actions. https://github.com/FiloSottile/age.ts/pull/14

I don’t know why people keep saying things to me

clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am in the waiting room wondering why pagliacci recommended this doctor

Attached: 1 image The W3C going for [brutal honesty here](https://www.w3.org/TR/2023/CR-rdf-canon-20231031/#how-to-read) I see

Some of you don't come from a family where "Is the political situation bad enough for us to flee the country?" is a regular topic of dinner conversation and it shows.

I just saw Stefan Bohacek made a WordPress plugin for Mastodon embeds. As Dave noted, the <iframe> for a Mastodon embed is very big, the resources aren’t cached across instances. With S…

My view on the state of social media in late 2023

Attached: 1 image “It’s shit, but it worked” – as @TheRealNooshu@hachyderm.io said himself, this slide doesn’t do the full story justice: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/ This reinforces why progressive enhancement is so very important. #PerfNow #WebDev

New on the blog: https://andy-bell.co.uk/how-im-using-the-fragments-of-social-media-now/ I think I’ve found the perfect balance: not trying to use all platforms the same, but leaning into what I think makes them good.

It&#8217;s been over a year since Elon Musk started the process of dismantling Twitter, which has resulted in lots of fragmentation. It&#8217;s also resulted in new platforms arriving and some even disappearing (cya later T2/Pebble). I think I&#8217;ve found the perfect balance, which I guess is an evolution of the holy trinity. Mastodon For work [&hellip;]

Smaller releases are safer releases

The Threads team is exploring a content publishing API I’ve replied to encourage them to consider adopting #micropub rather than defining their own unique API. They’ve committed to support ActivityPub …

Jamie Tanna Jamie (he/him) has been an Open Source contributor longer than he’s been working, finding an early interest in the differences between various Open Source and Free Software licenses and the ethical and moral obligations we should follow as folks building and consuming software. Jamie’s a strong believer in building Open-first where possible, and … Jamie Tanna Read More »

by the way I literally have trans friends say this in front of me and I thought "well that's not true because I'm not trans" and didn't say anything asddk;hgll;sdhggpiasdhd;iohsadasd

cis people do not think "I wish I could be trans", trans people think "I wish I could be trans", because they are, they just haven't realized it yet (or they're nonbinary, etc)