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A lot of ppl write about how they wish blogs had better reply functionality and that's why blogging will always lose out to social media. They may list solutions to blog replies and even include …

therapist recommended trying CBT, now I still have anxiety /and/ my balls hurt

At the kind of mainstream developer conference where you overhear folks casually uttering phrases like “he didn’t really do anything too horrible” about Sam Bankman-Fried and I’m so glad to not in any way be part of this swamp. #SiliconValley

> "why do they call it a building when it's already been built?"

Attached: 1 image this is word for word what my last performance review said

Gentoo’s process for removing packages from the main gentoo package repository is designed to make me aware of it and give me time to react, and I really appreciate that.

Any #IndieWeb folk heading to #ffconf next week? I’m wondering if anyone fancies a little informal Homebrew Website Club, or maybe just a coffee or a pint.

After years of constantly lowering my prices, trying to get a vanishingly-small amount of sales on things I care about, I’ve decided to raise everything and make it uniform, across all of my music …

why on earth are the neighbors setting off fireworks, it’s not even novemb— oh. Oh.

Getting ready for KubeCon. It's going to be a mixed experience, not gonna lie. Our home is still filled with what would've been our lives, so I'm grateful for the travel distraction 💔 I'll have a few copies of her book for anyone who happens to find me at the conference : Where's Waldo : https://hackingcapitalism.io For the unfamiliar: the book is about modeling capitalism as a navigable system. The goal is to reach traditionally underrepresented folks who weren't Just Told How It Works.

I hit an important milestone as the open source fan in our relationship, my husband called windows bloated without being prompted to. #goals

I have just discovered that the phrase "to eat something" immediately sounds suspicious if you conjugate it: "I need to eat something": normal, fine, implies you need to decide what to eat. "I need to finish eating something": YOU ARE HIDING A VERY IMPORTANT DETAIL FROM ME

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)

Best time to buy Halloween stuff, he says, as he looks at the poop bags that are half off in the store

The benefit of Docker is that it makes it easy for folks to run software they don’t fully understand. The downside of Docker is that it makes it easy for folks to run software they don’t fully understand.

Forgetting to Post, a Note posted by Mark Sutherland, a developer and digital creative based in Leicester, UK

Holy heck, a functioning laptop and access to all the resources I need to work, and we aren't even done with the first week. I don't think this employer realizes how much better they are than the average.

The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their homeland. Here's the history and the facts.