Week Notes 23#41 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-10-09?
Week Notes 23#41 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-10-09?
Ring fit fucking slaps
Another day, another HN comment thread that's mostly full of people complaining about someone's use of furry art in a technical post. This time, however, it's not me, Xe, or Cendyne that they're bitching about! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37887426
Summary: we are leaving Twitter because Elon Musk is encouraging hate and division. See you on LinkedIn and Mastodon!

You don't need to mansplain, you need a good pegging and to STFU. ๐โ
The whole bad space thing and blocking tech.lgbt from other instances is absolutely insane. Some of the instances involved haven't blocked mastodon.social (which is full of basically anything and tons of random abuse because it's so big), but are blocking tech.lgbt. As usual, queer people are hyper-scrutinised, and all it takes is one terminally online with an unhealthy obsession to find a way to frame an entire community as fundamentally evil based on some questionable disagreements. Don't use block lists. You really don't want your blocking decisions to be based on people who add things to a list on a whim with no accountability and oversight. But even outside of block lists... god when are progressive communities going to get over this obsession with performative punishment and branding people as bad? I've never seen this instance allow bad people to stay, moderators always take care of things, and they're usually pretty responsive. It's beyond absurd to block tech.lgbt
Attached: 1 image This is why the GOV.UK Prototype Kit is so important https://twitter.com/ahiggi/status/1625596779688239116 #accessibility #govukPrototypeKit #design

Attached: 1 image Current status: https://bukk.it/sorry-void.jpg

Attached: 1 image There seems to be a small pricing error at this bar. Which we are totally not abusing.

Attached: 1 image i'm sorry this gaming chair is called what

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I've been sent some bone-conducting Bluetooth headphone which - so the manufacturer says - are waterproof. I don't have a swimming pool at home (๐ข ) so I'm going to try them out in the shower. There won't be any videos - but if this thing electrocutes my head please know that I died doing what I love; dicking around with weird gadgets from China.
The second annual Petaluma Pride Festival was a wild success, and waaay bigger than anticipated. Now it's time to rest, recover, ... and do the bookkeeping.
Really dislike that in Android 14 I now can't disable Nearby Share and so it permanently takes up a space in the sharing intent ๐ก
Attached: 1 image Adults need badges too #adulting

This is the 7th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Ana โฆ
I spend an unreasonable amount of time making sure my blog renders well even if CSS isn't loaded. Whether it's a dodgy Internet connection, a text-only browser, or something else - it's nice knowing that my blog is in a logical order and perfectly usable without decorations. So fire up Lynx or w3m and take a look at your site. What do you need to change?
Just found the Google Sound Amplifier app for people who need ambient noises amplified. Really useful! Needs headphones in but definitely boosts. Except it only uses the phone microphone. You can't attach a different microphone and set it to use that. Alternatives?
Attached: 1 image Iโm starting something new! ๐ค๐ Own Your Web is a newsletter for anyone who wants to design, build, create, and publish on the Web. Whether you want to get started with your own personal website or level up as a designer, developer, or independent creator working with the ever-changing material of the Web, this little email is for you. ๐โ Sign up here: ๐ https://matthiasott.com/newsletter #OwnYourWeb #newsletter #web RT=โค๏ธ

Google recently killed off Pixel Pass, a service that would upgrade your Pixel phone after two years and include some extra goodies, like YT Premium, and 200 GB of Drive. It lasted for only 23 mont...

"Why women dey less likely to ask questions for public?" - BBC News Pidgin https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/c72d7rrr989o
Between and I took 7461 steps.
Gerhard joins us for the 12th Kaizen and this time talk about what we DIDNโT do. We were holding S3 wrong, we put some cash back in our pockets, we enabled HTTP/3, Brotli compression, and Fastly websockets, we improved our SLOs, we improved Changelog Nightly, and weโre going to KubeCon 2023 in Chicago.

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"Unleash your Creativity with the power of Leonardo Ai " Maybe change that to "unleash your ability to generate images based on the *actual* talents of others with unethical art sourcing while claiming that you're a creative person because you don't care"
Which version of Go was used to compile this binary? (2 mins read).

How to use a few means to work out what version of Go a given binary was compiled with.
@cadey@pony.social Confluence is /dev/null as a service, but with added CVEs
@www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me I found explainxkcd a useful source when I made my own xkcd searcher (now a dead project) The transcript sections would be a good source for real alt text e.g. https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2840:_Earth_Layers Edit: explainxkcd is still alive; my searcher doesnโt exist anymore
@www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me still a WIP but the author of โalt text reminder botโ has been working on this for a few years https://my.alt-text.org
Absolutely love the summary pages ๐๐ฝ I manually do some of this while writing my Week Notes https://www.jvt.me/week-notes/2023/40/ but love the format of your summary pages - deffo gonna have a look at using Trakt ๐
@atpfm@mastodon.social good episode. On the topic of โlife streams,โ there are some people like me in the #IndieWeb community that use our websites for this purpose. I record every podcast I listen to on @overcastfm@mastodon.social automatically. Every show and movie through Trakt. Every significant place I go with Swarm. My location in realtime using Overland (https://overland.p3k.app), and more. My stream: https://cleverdevil.io/content/all A monthly summary of activity: https://cleverdevil.io/summary/2022/11
Ooh yeah this looks like it may be more what I want, thanks! That transcript should be a great start ๐
Thank you to this week's sponsor, Koyeb!Go 1.21.3 and 1.20.10 releasedProposalsRetracted: untyped builtin zeroAccepted: Move wiki to x/websiteRelated discussion (closed for now): Should the Go project stop importing GitHub PRs?Ongoing discussion: encoding/json/v2Checkout last week's episode for...

Between and I took 6046 steps.
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Interesting viewpoint, I like it! I'm a fan of keeping all the things forever (and maybe "deleting it" but keeping a copy myself) but I like your perspective too
Attached: 2 images Itโs worth transitioning just so you can look good even after an afternoon of construction work. #trans

Reminder that if a cishet tech dude says "but 'guys' is a gender neutral term" ask them how many 'guys' they've slept with and watch them freak out
I did a thing๐ https://thenewstack.io/mvp-or-tvp-why-your-internal-developer-platform-needs-both/ This is off the back of amazing work by @matthewskelton@mastodon.social / @manuelpais@mastodon.social with @TeamTopologies@mastodon.social and Gregor Hohpe. My hope is to get more eyes on the concepts of Thinnest Viable (in addition to Minimum Viable) Platforms and Floating Platforms. Let me know what you think!
Attached: 1 image @jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ https://reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/s/XzOl6SYR3V (Screenshot attached for saved-you-a-click convenience.)

Iโm so happy to have been featured in the latest edition of the beautiful https://peopleandblogs.com You can still sign up to their newsletter or subscribe to the RSS feed and check the previous editions on the website. But hereโs my contribution to it ๐ https://manuelmoreale.com/pb-ana-rodrigues
Deactivated my Microsoft account. That'll be over a decade of games, achievements, history, email and the like all gone once it's done. That was not an easy choice to make. And now I'll be alienating myself from anyone who plays on there. I still have my 360 (and a bunch of games to play on) so I'll keep that but I'll probably look to homebrew it so I can pull my stats into a SQLite database somewhere. I'm at the point now where I care a lot less if I "miss out". It'll be on Steam (because PC gaming - though still a cliff, once climbed - brings it to everyone) or GOG or what have you. I'm putting my faith into PC gaming, too. It's what got me into gaming (on library computers) and it's what keeps me interested. Never had a PlayStation so never had to worry about that. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/10/Qmwq)
Go implementation of the XDG Base Directory Specification and XDG user directories - GitHub - adrg/xdg: Go implementation of the XDG Base Directory Specification and XDG user directories
Utilising Renovate's local platform to make renovate-graph more efficient (2 mins read).

How using the local platform with renovate-graph can increase the performance of dependency extraction.