Hello #IndieWeb enthusiasts. I’m holding an unofficial Homebrew Website Club at the Lord Nelson Inn near Brighton station tomorrow evening. I’ll be there around 17:30, wrapping up around 20:00. #ffconf folk most welcome!
I’ll post more information when I’ve found a spot, but if you look for a balding dude with a beard and a dubious waxed moustache the odds are good that you’ll find me.
Me: Oh, my editor can't have a look at stuff yet. I guess I get a Writer Snow Day.
🧠: Your side of the work in git. You could branch and…
Me: Can't hear you. Dum de dum de dum. Writer Snow Day. Tra la la. Doot de doo.
Interesting to hear @geerlingguy@mastodon.social describe Home Automation as something that should always be additive, because it’s so essential. I didn’t realise until there how much this matched with my views on the web, that important things should always be progressively enhanced.
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 …
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
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 …
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 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".
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")
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
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…