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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

Attached: 1 image “Was Shakespeare into femboys?” Yes, but I need you to LOG OFF.

I couldn't get my preferred username (edent) on Discogs. So I'm now https://www.discogs.com/user/password_reset

Are you a #Backstage from #Spotify user or perhaps have considered the #OpenSource #IDP but found it overwhelming? Things are about to get simpler with new #NoCode and #Plugin options. Read my exclusive https://thenewstack.io/spotifys-backstage-roadmap-aims-to-speed-up-adoption/

Switching back to Firefox as my daily driver has not been without incident. I still can't rely on it for video calls (audio goes weird, apparently a regression was introduced recently), and it's crashy in a lossy way. I haven't had to put this much effort into restoring my tabs in years 😅 The sharp edges are worth it given the tradeoffs (weighing up privacy and the value of browser engine diversity), but my goodness I hope this gets better.

Attached: 1 image Well that was something else. Thanks @smashingconf for the opportunity to close out such an amazing show.

Attached: 1 image Seen on a car, but considering this for my new Github avatar.

Deciding on the next stage of my career [ ] Clown college (Ivy league level only) [ ] Medically induced coma [ ] International Man of Mystery [ ] Forrest Gump style run across USA

ActivityPub has arrived at WordPress.com. That’s amazing, @pfefferle! 👏🎉 https://wordpress.com/blog/2023/10/11/activitypub/

There’s a documentary out about legendary athlete that makes me think they might be Neuro Spice which is fascinating but we’re not supposed to talk about such things 😩

Attached: 1 image This new image from the James Webb #Space Telescope shows the spectacular Orion Nebula, packed with thousands of budding stars at ~1,300 light-years away.

Attached: 1 image A slide from a presentation I just finished.

Attached: 1 image I love how these casually genderswapped images illustrate how weird things are, and hint at how we could do better

> "Fixed leaving a specific type of item on a certain craft causing the item to disappear under certain circumstances" Gotta love the spoiler-free #OuterWilds changelog.

Today is the one-year anniversary of when I quit sharing personal milestones on Mastodon.

My decision to start a capital-B Blog (as opposed to microblogging, which I've been doing since I was a wee one on The Tumbler) was largely spur-of-the-momen...

Stéphane Graber's website -