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I appreciate that infosec Twitter moved pretty effectively over to Mastodon, but woo boy is this not the place to go when I want useful updates when a war breaks out.

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Attending my 1st conf of 2023 (that too, one that's local to Nottingham) in the shape of @dddem@mastodon.me.uk had me wandering back into the wonder of it all ♥ Grateful to @jessicab@hachyderm.io & Moreton. I wish them the best of luck in passing the baton; looking forward to attending again in 2024! #dddeastmidlands

What a wonderful day it's been at @dddem@mastodon.me.uk today Made new friends, caught up with old friends, and got to hang out with friends that I've only known on a screen for years now My social spell slots are all empty, but my soul is full from wonderful company and conversations Thank you for a wonderful event, and my first in-person keynote! @computerist@mastodon.social @eli@hachyderm.io @carol@social.lol @rizbizkits@techhub.social @Marcus@k8s.social @johnwithbeard@mastodon.world @jessicab@hachyderm.io @geeksareforlife@mastodon.me.uk and many more, you're wonderful 💖 #DDDEastMidlands

Lovely to catch up with friends at #DDDEastMidlands. I’ve been inspired to write more thanks to @www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me; I learned some new things about microservices; and @computerist@mastodon.social’s talk about robots twisted my arm into buying a Raspberry Pi Pico!

@www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me @timokoola@indieweb.social Great read. I needed to hear the bit on not striving for perfectionism!

i've spent the last many months focussing all my energy into surviving in real life, so i've not been keeping my lifenotes up to date. i did take notes though, so now that i'm feeling a little better i've caught up with them: https://carol.gg/blog/lifenotes-28/ https://carol.gg/blog/lifenotes-29/ https://carol.gg/blog/lifenotes-30/ https://carol.gg/blog/lifenotes-31/ https://carol.gg/blog/lifenotes-32/ https://carol.gg/blog/lifenotes-33/ https://carol.gg/blog/lifenotes-34/

The first(?) season of Ahsoka's show wrapped up this week. I'm glad I decided to finish Star Wars Rebels before starting this one, as it ends up being largely a continuation of the ending of Rebels. …

I should not be needing to wear shorts for comfort in *October*

arrived at #DDDEastMidlands a false name and a false email is good enough to get you on to the NTU-guest wifi but you will need the prescribed username and password which you are then given it is valid for 2 devices max (yes, I have 3 devices, and hence 2 sets of credentials)

Attached: 1 image I’m on my way to #dddeastmidlands today. It’ll be great to see some friends from the #Umbraco community there as well as some of my podcaster friends and people I’ve met from the Nottingham Tech community.

Attached: 1 image Too soon, still too soon! But we are off! Just a few minutes until our keynote from @brunty@brunty.social #dddeastmidlands #eastmidlandstech

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Attached: 1 image Anya would like to say good morning, and requests head bumps and ear scratches. #cat #caturday #catsofmastodon

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Leaving house: good for depression, bad for anxiety Staying at house: good for anxiety, bad for depression Standing directly in the doorway to achieve peak mental health.

I cannot understand why anyone would possibly want a chip in their head, but especially not one that *that guy* is responsible for.

Engineers who know how to both priortize work and create clarity are the only 10x people I recognize.

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Looking forward to @dddem@mastodon.me.uk tomorrow! 🎉 Not looking forward to the 5am alarm. 😩

I’m on the train to #DDDEastMidlands! Probably about time I look at the talks that are happening tomorrow 😅

It's lightning talks day at work where once again I have produced 16 slides for a talk that's supposed to be 5 minutes long.

Attached: 1 image One of my favourite (and oh so simple) hacker tricks is to abuse JSON support in APIs and pass TRUE instead of the actual API key. If the code does loose comparison, you don't need the key! 😎 😈 🍿 https://securinglaravel.com/p/security-tip-type-juggling #PHP #Laravel

Announcing a $12,288 bounty (tripled to charity) for cracking the five seeds selected by the NSA in the '90s for the NIST elliptic curve standard.

I feel like everything you need to know about the Drew Barrymore kerfluffle is that when the writers' strike ended, her union writers decided they'd rather find new jobs than go back to working for her https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/drew-barrymore-show-writers-decline-return-1235606269/

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if i can offer younger developers any advice its this: develop a visceral allergy to complexity as soon as you can and nurture that allergy your whole life until it approaches debilitating. all else being equal complexity is bad. more "stuff" is bad, period. there are dopamine triggers and corporate metrics that may indicate otherwise but they are catastrophically wrong. fight to make simpler things. sometimes you really cannot, but thats a fight you need to have and lose if thats the case...

Attached: 1 image "Increase of [hate crimes against trans people] may be due to comments in media and by politicians, says Home Office" What kind of evil person admits they're inciting violence and continues to do it? 🤯 #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Trans #Transgender

Attached: 2 images Did you know that JPL has a whole gallery of beautifully illustrated Halloween posters, based on real science? Perfect to print and decorate your space, use as a wallpaper on your computer or phone, or as a Zoom background. https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/alien-worlds/galaxy-of-horrors/

I used to think GitHub Codespaces would help popularise Gitpod but now realize it is the other way around. Gitpod is currently permitted to exist in the Visual Studio Code ecosystem to popularise GitHub Codespaces, and Microsoft can step in at any moment to create legal crises that strategically divide the market from a business perspective because, like Apple and their AppStore: it is their ecosystem that they control and they are in absolute control.

POV you're migrating some code to new dependencies and tests are failing and you're not sure why the change would do that but then you find out the tests have been failing for 3 years.

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Boy math is watching (4) hours of p0rn a day but willing to pay (0) dollars for p0rn. #tech #contentcreator #socialmedia #nsfw #boymath

“Jared” is a real example from a real resume ranking tool!! https://qz.com/1427621/companies-are-on-the-hook-if-their-hiring-algorithms-are-biased

Nothing but love for @www.jvt.me for helping with this! I saw Jamie speak at DevOpsDays maybe 4 years ago and knew he was an all-star I wanted to know one day. I'm thankful that DevOpsDays this year I finally made that happen and it already proven I should have prioritised it sooner! 🤩

It maybe sounds obvious, but if there's one thing I learned from years building open source social platforms, it's this: very few people care about the ideology of your product. The only thing that matters to them is whether it fits their need - there's no way of shirking the responsibility to build the best possible solution. Ideology might (and should) matter to *you*. But it's not a replacement for being usable.

Annoyed by a company responding to my application with interest because it interrupted my flow writing a cover letter for another job application, in case you're wondering what hyperfocus looks like.

Attached: 3 images We had a lot of struggles with our dog early on, I can see why so many re-home puppies between 6 & 9 mo But we found a better dog trainer & she changed our lives (she’s also a people trainer / therapist with how good she’s been to us) Now Bramley has grown into such a wonderful dog, I’m really seeing just how good life can be with a fluffy companion like him This is the first holiday I’ve been on since we got him where my immediate thought isn’t “wooo no dog!” I miss him & his gorgeous face

I have, a number of times now, joined a P1/P2 incident bridge, and helped fix it from curiosity. I observe for a bit and gently push them to establish basic facts of their assumptions. I’m not even a party to the problem. Failure is interesting. And suddenly things start moving…

New career goal: be someone's anchor. Well, maybe not a big anchor, maybe a buoy or a small lighthouse? But yeah, be there for someone to rely on when there's pressure. Reading about people devaluing your work and what to do about it, by @mekkaokereke https://mekka-tech.com/posts/2018-08-09-the-difficulty-anchor/