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I'm way too old to realize that people can't read me (which, come on, should be no surprise, kids never got me either) - I have realized that a bunch of people in my life think I am unhappy with them. When the truth is: I am in absolute awe of them, and feel deeply deficient in comparison. It does not help that I never realized this. How does one convince people that you think they are wonderful? Asking for a me.

What’s funny about being non-binary is that, to me, I’m the normal one. I think our whole thing just kind of works, no? You’re all just being silly about colors and stuff. We’re the main characters of gender, just admit it.

My supervisor complains that everyone is sick on any given day half the office is empty and yet he has noticed that I am always at my desk so he asks what my secret is and so I reply that I must be lucky as I adjust the straps on my mask.

Writing my thoughts down as I start a potentially long process of something and writing "Whatever and whenever it happens, I'm still me :)" just felt nice, a reminder to myself that ultimately I'm still the same, I might just have some more answers to some things in my life #Journalling

Attached: 1 image I really try not to be overly critical of local government, having worked there and knowing the pressures. But this advice in this day and age is indefensible. The service itself has a load balancer in front of it. All it needs is an HTTPS certificate and a routing rule to terminate HTTPS connections.

Tomorrow, toddler permitting, I will have time to update my talks page (https://ohhelloana.blog/talks/) to include my latest and future talks as well as the link to my most recent interview! I really enjoy doing the interviews & guest writing - I love the prompts and that I don't have to rush doing it. So yeah, I'm keen to do more of it! Let me know! 💖

I had a chat with @proactivepaul@mastodon.social about Barcamp. Turns out it’s not hosted in a bar, nor is it a camping trip. It’s a gathering of people geeking out over whatever they want to talk about. I’m looking forward to learning a lot of random facts next month! #bclxii

I don’t want to alarm you but we are getting dangerously close to the 10 year anniversary of The Force Awakens

bad game idea: French French Revolution whether that's a rhythm game involving deep tongue-kissing or guillotines is up to you

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. 💀​

Attached: 1 image This is why the GOV.UK Prototype Kit is so important https://twitter.com/ahiggi/status/1625596779688239116 #accessibility #govukPrototypeKit #design

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

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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 (😢 ) 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.

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 …

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?

"Why women dey less likely to ask questions for public?" - BBC News Pidgin https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/c72d7rrr989o

"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"

@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 doesn’t exist anymore

@www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me still a WIP but the author of “alt text reminder bot” has been working on this for a few years https://my.alt-text.org

@atpfm@mastodon.social good episode. On the topic of “life streams,” 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

Attached: 2 images It’s worth transitioning just so you can look good even after an afternoon of construction work. #trans

I did a thing👀 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 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/s/XzOl6SYR3V (Screenshot attached for saved-you-a-click convenience.)

I’m 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 here’s my contribution to it 💛 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

Content warning: terraform, other peoples code, formatting

What is curl? curl is an open source command line tool and embeddable library for transferring data over a network.

Attached: 1 image My cat refuses to sit in my lap, but insists on sitting in a basket that is in my lap. She gets in the basket and then meows at me until I put the basket in my lap 😂

I just tooted, in regard to the long ago removal of RSS feeds from Twxtter, Fxcebook etc, that they “shit those down to enhance lock-in”. I meant “shut those down” not “shit those down” but now in my headcanon “to shit down” means to enshittify a product by removing a feature that is beloved to users but obstructs profit-maximization.

Attached: 1 image Twitter removed one of the most wholesome bird references. It must have been a ton of work to build this brand and it's amazing how fast it can be destroyed.

Now that I’ve finally located Israel on a world map I’m ready to provide some insightful commentary on the current conflict. 1/567

What’s the place we buy stickers from now?

going around checking on all my twitter clones like i’m watering the plants

Just spent an hour debugging something because I had a “-“ instead of a “_”. Sometimes I can’t wait til AI takes over my job.

see the bad part about software development is that it involves thinking sometimes

Why crafting a good presentation title is annoyingly important, and annoyingly hard I hate choosing titles for my talks. Titles have to be…

Attached: 1 image My Droidcon London-themed swag is straight 🔥 Come find me during the conference to get some exclusive 🍝 and see the big reveal in person (I really hope it arrives in time) #dcldn23