@ErikJonker@mastodon.social @Edent@mastodon.social Here’s an article about our pilot project in Ghent seven years ago (!!!) now. Unfortunately, a conservative local government took power and cancelled our funding.
https://www.demorgen.be/nieuws/gent-wil-burgers-eigen-stukje-internet-geven~b92ec1b4/
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social @Edent@mastodon.social My goal with the Small Web (Kitten, Domain, and Place) is to launch as a paid service so we can pay the mortgage and then, hopefully as people use it and maybe even as other orgs host Domain instances, to go to the EU, etc., and say “it works – now support this with our taxes.”
We’ll see how it goes. The fact that we have had €zero EU funding to date doesn’t exactly fill me with hope.
APPLICATION TO BE ON YOUR PODCAST
Personal statement:
hello there, i am james
Skills:
i turn my trauma into humor
british accent
References:
my girlfriend thinks i am funny and cute
I finally got round to implementing dark mode for this site (the cobbler’s children have no shoes and all that…)
Here’s all the CSS I had to add:
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { /* Invert all elements on the body while attempting to not alter the hue substantially. */ body { filter: invert(100%) hue-rotate(180deg); } /* Workarounds and optical adjustments. */ /* Firefox workaround: Set the background colour for the html element separately because, unlike other browsers, Firefox doesn’t apply the filter to the root element’s background.
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Please don't do this.
We're in March, so I guess this content is not from 2024.
But I have no way to know if it's from 2023, 2022, or even older… 🤷♂️
https://hq.getmatter.com/updates
Ever been staying at a hotel and gotten annoyed that you always have to open a browser to log in for wireless access? Yup, me too. A recent instance was particularly frustrating and I had to pull out my favourite Swiss Army chainsaw in order to make my life a bit easier.
The hard part about evaluating successful people who’ve been at a company for several years is it’s hard to determine if they’re good at getting things done or good at getting things done AT THAT COMPANY.
Too many friends have shared stories of hiring ex-FAANG people who try to replay their previous company playbook without the same resources, culture or strategic advantages. This is important to filter for in interviews and interrogate yourself as well for similar tendencies.
all the testimonials on my site are from women (except one) and honestly I just feel lucky to have worked with so many badasses
there's still so much progress to be made but sometimes I have to remember I haven't always been the only one in the room
there's the amusing line of thought regarding the “source-available” proprietary licenses, which maintains they're targeted against the abuse of the free software by the large saas companies.
and of course it's bullshit.
large saas companies are big enough to take over maintenance of the latest non-encumbered version, throw funds and people at it, and even provide the result to the public (cf. elastic search and opensearch).
or, if they feel like it, they may just buy out the whole company with its product instead of paying licence fees – if they really need it and there's no other way to get the required expertise.
the people who actually get shafted by the license changes and embrace of the proprietary model are the other open source projects that depend on the now-closed software, and small-to-mid-sized companies.
I said it before, and I'll say it again:
Marco Inaros is every dude who ever learned to ape the language of feminism and race and gender studies specifically as a means to hit on women and manipulate real, legitimate grievances into a play to increase their own power. He's a gaslighting abuser. Plain as.
This font - Inclusive Sans - looks lovely.
https://www.oliviaking.com/inclusive-sans
Might try it on my eReader. I only wish it had a bold variant.
#Font
In this latest, they say: "Redis has been sponsoring the bulk of development alongside a dynamic community of developers eager to contribute".
I was just talking to @quaid about this, and he made an excellent point: if your company-sponsored open source project is still 95% company-developed, _you messed up several years ago_.
I've been at the OSS Growing Pains workshop focused on governance these last couple of days, and I've never felt more confident that I'm in the right place.
I'll be unpacking and riding on this experience for a while!
Deeply grateful to @shauna@social.coop for the invite, and to have spent time with amazing humans like @HeatherLeson@fosstodon.org, @silona@fosstodon.org, and @ntnsndr@social.coop ✨
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Met with two more Mastodon buddies. Great to see both @Marcus@k8s.social and @ringods at #KubeCon! And I got some awesome Giant Swarm t-shirts for the kids from Marcus ❤️
For fun I recently pimped out a ruby script that I had written for some testing with a little color and a spinner. If you have never used ANSI escape codes before I've put together a simple script that shows how easy it is. First let me say that if you are using ruby and
As Threads rolls out support for ActivityPub, Meta’s approach is to require each Threads user to manually enable fediverse integration. This was demoed yesterday at FediForum. It’s a perfectly …
There's been a thread about dependencies lately and the challenge of convincing developers to look at the full dependency chain.
I once maintained a C++ binary that included a PostScript interpreter, a JPEG decoder, a JavaScript interpreter, and a number of other utterly irrelevant pieces causing a huge factor increase in the size of the binary.
The culprit: A single logging statement that invoked a general-purpose printer that could print web stuff. Switching to sprintf fixed it.
me, sexy voice: baby im gonna take you to pound land
her: do you mean pound town?
me, holding a bag of off-brand wine gums, a wireless phone charger, and a tin of pedigree chum: nope
Thought for the day:
Billionaires are a symptom of poverty.
(Paraphrasing Iain Banks on money, but more specific to our times because we still need some way to allocate scarce resources, just: not like that.)
Jamie Tanna
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