one of the onboarding projects for one of my coworkers was sun-setting a website. turn it into a static site, preserve the URLs, make it obvious that it's there for posterity but no longer being updated. years later she thinks that's one of the most satisfying feels: there is a process for letting things go. 🍂
People who keep shouting it's unethical to be on Twitter now I have some fucking questions. You still buying at fast fashion outlets? Driving cars? Flying in airplanes? You eating Tyson Chicken? Do you try to keep slave labor out of your coffee? Or do you just not like evil when it feels a little too in your face?
@voxpelli Just wanted to thank you for all your support and advocacy on StackAid. We've definitely been silent for a while. A few things have come up that demanded our attention elsewhere but we're still very committed to StackAid and are busy renewing our efforts.
Well, this is new. I'm part of something Award Winning! Good job all! https://twitter.com/InfobipDev/status/1700165580181946715?t=EbekRr5yh4qR4FrigHYXuQ&s=19
"Rockstar just proved how important piracy is for game preservation"
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/rockstar-just-proved-how-important-piracy-is-for-game-preservation/
> Discovered by modder ‘Silent’, the Steam version of Midnight Club 2 is actually the version that the scene group “Razor 1911” cracked back in 2003. Let me repeat that. Rockstar was selling on Steam a cracked copy of its game.
#digipres
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sure love when slack decides to a/b test a UI change on a per-server basis, when part of the change being a/b tested involves how you switch servers
Life is short. Use the fancy olive oil and the special salt. Drink the expensive wine and the fine spirits you've been saving. Get out the nice plates you're worried will break. Buy the guillotine you've had your eye on. Stake out and learn the routines of billionaires. Blow that rainy day money on turning inside sources. Don't waste your life on what-ifs. Behead them all and let the revolution sing.
This is a testament to just how hard cybersecurity is. Microsoft had the forethought to not store keys into crash dumps, had the forethought to build a secondary system to double check them, had the forethought to store them on an isolated network, but a cascading failure basically blitzed through all their security controls and allowed nation/state hackers to walk off with critical signing keys.
I'm fascinated by the phenomenon where someone is pushing to add a formal process for something because they don't want to talk to the one person who's doing the thing wrong. Signing the whole industry up for a conflict management course.
I want an apology from all the mansplainers that mocked my belief that privatizing NASA and relying this heavily on SpaceX would undermine the national security policy of the United States.
https://t.co/WoMI4XEPhE
Just heard that the second largest city in the UK has gone bankrupt. Went to see if it was on the UK section of The Guardian (so help me) but of course the top item there was about how the Prime Minister “is not backing down” on banning medical assistance for trans youth.
That entire country is *fucked*.
Normalize talking about about income, menstruation, mental health, and everything.
Shameful , aka “taboo”, topics are a form of control; a way to keep people in their place.
Shame benefits the patriarchy and the predator class. That’s why calling it what it is — the white supremacacist capitalist patriarchy— is proscribed as well.
Normalize it all
just waited FIFTY MINUTES to speak to virgin media on the phone and they dropped the call instead of picking it up :cry_intensifies:
(this is after 25 minutes last saturday and them not calling me back on sunday as they said they would)
I want to share with you a quick way to make illustrations on your website work in both light and dark mode:
.dark .invert-on-dark {
filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg);
}
Try it!
Toggle dark mode in the navigation bar and see the cover photo swi...
I hate it when you follow a link to a really great blog post and you're two paragraphs in thinking oh my god this is really good but then a modal popup window from substack asks you to subscribe to this newsletter and you have to hit "continue reading" to finish and then you wonder if this great blog entry will last on someone else's service that may not be around in a few years
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Hey I'm Jessica 👋
Previously Jess White, and have moved to a new account as I got married and changed my surname ✨
A few bullet points about me:
- Day job is Senior Principal Architect
- Director and co-founder of @dddem@mastodon.me.uk Conference
- On the Board of Directors for the .NET Foundation
- 4 X Microsoft MVP
- Occasionally do the public speaking thing
But I post about home life as well as tech life.
Nice to meet you 😊