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Liked Jason W (@jsw@tech.lgbt)
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Attached: 1 image Traveling while queer is so often an experience of weird looks, people trying to reconcile the beard and the skirt, quick vibe-checks when entering a business to make sure I feel safe. It's an absolute delight to stop into a little breakfast place as we're getting on the road, and have the big questions be about how we liked our drinks because the person making them was trying something new today. (The answer is that they were excellent.) Genuine friendliness to the queer couple in a small town is such a nice way to start a day.

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Liked lornajane (@lornajane@indieweb.social)
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I added some validation and link checking to this docs folder about a week ago. It's already pointed out something broken on three different pull requests. #DocOps turns out is a good investment, even though I was sure I knew what I was doing and these tools would help "other people" 😆

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Liked james has logged off (@james@strangeobject.space)
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I am choosing to log off, but if anyone’s still thinking tech.lgbt is a good space, your admin David is currently propping up a conspiracy theory written by the Admin of woem.men about The Bad Space that refers to my instance and others as a cult that blocks a huge amount of trans femmes. Thank you for reigniting a genuinely traumatic time in mine and many other people’s lives. I look forward to the transphobia, erasure, threats upon me and mine, and whatever other bullying your friends have in store. Also, get fucked 👍

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Liked Propaganda and polyamory: Revisiting the Hunger Games
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Prompted by having read the prequel novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, I recently decided to re-read the Hunger Games novels. First of all, I was curious about the prequel - how can a prequel about the villain of the series tie in? The prequel tells the (love) story of a teenage Coriolanus Snow, who later becomes president (dictator would be the more appropriate term) of Panem. What an odd book to read, because how can you make a novel about an entitled narcissist, who treats people like possessions, possibly compelling? While his rise to patriotism is sometimes interesting, [...]

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Liked james is ??? (@james@strangeobject.space)
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I am so fucking sick of “Oops!” And “Oh No!” In error messages. “omg bestie I’m like, sooooooo sorry, there was an error but I’m afraid that’s my little secret ;) try again dickhead” Please just tell me there was an authentication error. So I can Google it. And provide useful information to your exhausted support team.

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Liked Go first impressions
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Go first came onto my radar about 9 years ago when I came across MuMax during my PhD studies. While I’ve touched it briefly, I wouldn’t consider myself to have used it in anger until recently, when I started a job that uses it as one of it’s primary languages for API development. I’ve had experience in writing C and C++ code, but more recently I’ve done a lot of Python, so going back to Go has felt oddly like a throwback to those compiled languages I’ve used before, with a bit of modern sparkle.

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Liked Jeff Sheets (@jeffsheets@hachyderm.io)
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Attached: 1 image 🎉 Random indieweb inspiration for the day: My daughter's college Advertising PR class is hand editing HTML+CSS for a project "about me" assignment in VSCode -- and that is so cool -- and it was one of the best "hey dad, guess what we are doing today" text messages of all time #indieweb #prouddad

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Liked shellsharks (@shellsharks@infosec.exchange)
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OK, I got on the styling-my-#RSS-feeds & creating a /feeds page train 🚂 https://shellsharks.com/notes/2024/02/21/web-feed-makeover Shouout to @abf@mas.to, @cory@social.lol, @jimniels@mastodon.social & @robb@social.lol for the inspiration. Direct link to my web feeds: https://shellsharks.com/feeds #rss #openweb #indieweb #html #indiewebchat

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Liked go run by breadchris 
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It may seem silly, but go run is my favorite part about go. Want to run your code? go run main.go. It is so stupidly simple that I could tell my mom about this command, and she would immediately understand. Like with most things in go, the real power in this command is in the effortless understanding of how to build and run everyone’s code. But I can run node main.

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Liked james is ??? (@james@strangeobject.space)
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Ah, another day on the Fediverse. What should be sup on today? **spins the wheel** The pointer spins round and around, past “everyone sends you pictures of their pets”, “you live post about this weeks mental breakdown”, “death threats” and “a nice simple conversation with a new mutual” It slows; moving gently past “spam wave”, “blocking is abuse” and “John Mastodon” Inching closer to its destination you hold your breath, it seems like it’s landing on “meta conversations about meta conversations” but you hope it will be “you will spend the day local-only posting to the people on your instance, checking in with them and asking how they’ve been” Alas, the pointer has picked its target. “admins can read your DMs btw”

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Liked Pete Ashton (@pete@social.coop)
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Attached: 1 image I dunno how new this is but The Guardian seems to have stripped all social media cruft from their byline header stuff and replaced it with a “Copy Link” button. Rather than change the Twitter buttons to Xs they just got rid of the whole farce. Nice to see.

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Liked Jerod Santo (@jerod@changelog.social)
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This was to a @changelog News submitter, but worth sharing publicly: “The post looked interesting, but I hadn't scrolled an inch before I was interrupted by your email newsletter signup overlay. This is a bad reading experience, which we consider when linking to content. A better place for something like this is at the bottom of the post, because it a) lets the reader actually _read_ your post, and b) assures they made it to the end, so might be interested in more of your content.”

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Liked james is ??? (@james@strangeobject.space)
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I think the ActivityPub based Fediverse is actually not a decentralised distributed network, but is in fact one single person. And that single person enjoys, very specifically, trying to trigger the fight/flight/faun response in me and taking bets with the other protocols on which one I’ll choose next. 🙈

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Liked 100 things you can do on your personal website | James' Coffee Blog
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One of my favourite things to do in my free time is to tinker with this website. Indeed, this website is the culmination of years of tinkering. I have added features like coffee shop maps that I can share with friends, a way for me to share my bio in two languages, a sitemap.xml file to help search engines find pages on my website, and more.

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Liked Simon Willison (@simon@simonwillison.net)
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Here's a good example of how I like to use issue threads. The issue opens with a description that includes relevant linked code snippets, documents some design decisions and micro-research I performed, includes the commit that fixes the issue, links to the docs and shows some follow-up work before linking to the release that incorporated the changes Goal is to tell the full story of the problem and its solution so I can fully understand it when I revisit much later https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2277