Likes from 25 October 2023

Two year mark at AWS today. Been a wild and mostly fun ride.

Gutted to be missing this week's #bordernone and #IndieWebCamp - however, I'm going to be in touch with the IndieWeb folks in an hour! It's been a while, but this evening, I will be hosting Homebrew Website Club Europe/London! ✨ Join us via Zoom to discuss things like: - Demos of personal website breakthroughs; - Discussion around the independent web - Get to know other members of the #IndieWeb No need to RSVP, just turn up! https://events.indieweb.org/2023/10/homebrew-website-club-europe-london-EGwYcCQw7FMz

Documentation for the Cash's Hermit

URL Patterns is now a proper standard: https://blog.whatwg.org/2023/10. It's maintained by the WHATWG: https://urlpattern.spec.whatwg.org/. For example, the pathname pattern `/blog/:title` will match `/blog/hello-world` but not `/blog/2012/02`. If you've worked with HTTP frameworks like Express.js in Node.js, this will look very familiar.

"You can’t be autistic - you can make eye contact!” Being autistic doesn’t mean I can’t *make* eye contact, rather that eye contact can be painful and overstimulating for me. Yet, I make it because I have to. If I didn’t, many would be hurt/angry, and I’d face further ostracism. Thanks for your pointless comment anyway from someone that clearly doesn't know what you're talking about. @actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe #actuallyautistic

In the Elevator EMPLOYEE 1: Monday joke. EMPLOYEE 2: Haha. EMPLOYEE 1: Weekend? EMPLOYEE 2: Weekend. Weekend? EMPLOYEE 1: Weekend. EMPLOYEE 2: Slow...

I feel like one of my bougiest traits is that I learnt to use an espresso machine by working at a tech company and not from working in hospitality

For the last six months or so I've been obsessed with POSSE, a decade-old idea about how to mix the best of blogging and social media. For a story and for The Vergecast, I tried to figure out how POSSE could work — and why it might not https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/23/23928550/posse-posting-activitypub-standard-twitter-tumblr-mastodon

I'm a long-time Linux user, and I've started using Windows 11 for work and… It's basically fine? There are no adverts in it that I can see. Multi-monitor support works. Lots of the deeper settings still retain their Win98 look & feel. Window snapping isn't quite as advanced as Wayland, but quite acceptable. About the worst thing I can say is that it moans my 40W USB-C charger isn't powerful enough. But it charges well enough. Doesn't seem remarkably different from XP TBH.

The reason I think we should stop DST is because I don't think it's right to give the govt an interest free loan on our daylight

It's like twice a year I stop to really reassess what and why I'm working on my side projects that I'd hope help push the envelope on how to engage people on the Internet. My fear of making something that exacerbates harm is why I only talk about it - and that's been set in place after working at Lyft (seriously, I don't understand how people work at companies that have way too much information on people and not freak out!)

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