Also I wish there were laws against using tracker URLs on unsubscribe links.
I'm unsubscribing, you can already record that in your stuff, don't make me have to disable my DNS-based ad-blocker just to tell you that I don't want to receive your shitty emails.
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.”
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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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.
Code is cumulative overhead. The more you write, the more you have to maintain over time.
Self-hosted infrastructure is cumulative overhead. The more you configure and run, the more you have to …
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
I’ve never worked somewhere where I felt like we needed chaos engineering. We got more chaos than we could have asked for just from doing regular engineering.
Market and opportunity explorer for open-source software engineers. Find a dev job in Rust, Go, TypeScript, Solidity and get paid to work with open-source.
Hey, have you donated to Mozilla recently? Congratulations, you helped them fund their AI startup with $30 million.
👏 👏 👏
#mozilla #MozillaAI #MozillaVC #AI #VC https://mstdn.social/@dalfen/111943351660201503
so far:
- one "fuck you"
- one devil's advocate
- one "this guy doesn't understand open source"
- two "why can't they just"
- one confusing my site with jacobin.org
- one weird comment about the NSA
never change, HN, never change
There was a bit of a brouhaha earlier this week on the Fediverse because someone wanted to build a bridge between the ActivityPub-powered fediverse and the AT protocol-powered one, i.e. BlueSky. …
Note: I deleted >1000 words and decided to post a summary instead.
Jacob Kaplan Moss slacked me his article today because he knew I’d like it, and we have both had ongoing conversations for years about open-source Funding. It’s worth reading.
I mistakenly submitted the article to the orange website because I assumed someone else already had it. Oops.
I support funding open-source projects. We are trillions of dollars away from providing enough Funding for open-source software before I have the patience to set through any debates about the right or wrong way to fund them.
If you follow privacy news, you have probably heard that Skiff, an end-to-end encrypted productivity suite, announced that it has been acquired by Notion. We could not resist chiming in since Skiff was compared with CryptPad in the past.
Six years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own self-funded software business. This is a review of my last year and what I've learned so far about bootstrapping software businesses.
Momentous: Reflecting on the Second Annual State of Open Con Wow, can’t believe it has been a week since the State of Open Con 2024 kicked off! In the end, there were 208 impressive speakers over two days across eight tracks and over 150 sessions and activities. Plus a broad delegate experience space across the […]
I’ve been thinking about Mastodon and the fallout from Bridgy’s plan to connect ActivityPub servers to Bluesky. For a snapshot of how this blew up, see this GitHub issue discussion, now thankfully …
Here's a lovely thing.
"By and large", as in, "by and large, pizza is good", is a *nautical* expression, dating from the 18th shading back into the mists of the 17th century of English sailing ships.
"By" means "tending opposite the prevailing wind", and "large" means "tending with the prevailing wind".
So, "by and large" means "no matter which way your ship is headed relative to the wind".
I'm a poly-dork, and one of my dorkeries is language.
I cherish this fact.
Also, I cherish pizza.
friend: how'd the date go
me: she ghosted me
friend: she didn't show up?
me: no she turned up in a bedsheet with eyeholes cut out and now she won't stop haunting me
date, from another room: ooooOOOOOoooooo
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Google, following the industry trend to AI-all-the-things, has released Magika - a machine learning model which can identify file types. It claims it can outperform traditional methods by 20 per cent.
I pitted it against BSD File on something I figured Google hadn't included in its million-file-strong corpus: CU Amiga's Mega CD-ROM coverdisc from November 1995.
Magika identified... one file correctly, a plain-text document. File? File got 'em all, and quicker too.
(An unfair test, I know!)
Mastodon and brid.gy: yes, @snarfed.org@snarfed.org should have expected such a reaction from Mastodonians, and obviously didn’t research it. But fuck me I didn’t expect to see *every* single Weeb, Furry and gendernaut come out to rattle their maracas in his face and claim he was going to get people killed.
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A Small Girl with a Cat. 1889. https://www.meisterdrucke.ie/fine-art-prints/Théophile-Alexandre-Steinlen/78395/A-Small-Girl-with-a-Cat,-1889.html
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Honestly, blasting this out to every Amazon employee for Valentine's Day would have been a better move than the "fists of ham" messaging strategy around RTO.
How I switched my side project from using Amazon S3 for file hosting to using Tigris (which is built on Fly.io infrastructure). It was a good experience overall, but there were a few quirks.
If you missed my talks at FOSDEM, the slides / videos are online now. I was on an all-star panel about making a career out of open source, and I gave a talk in the community devroom about strategies for building healthy communities. You can find the links from my #fosdem speaker page: https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/speaker/XX3PMJ/
every john oliver segment:
"...that would be like if we made a sloth the white house's Chief Economist, YOU CAN'T COUNT THE MONEY SLOTHY, YOU'VE ONLY GOT THREE FINGERS!!! Anyway unless multilateral action is taken to stop the ongoing genocide in Palestine..."
In response to @cadey@pony.social's blog post about wanting retry loops in #Golang, I wrote terrible hack using using the proposed iterator syntax. https://go.dev/play/?v=gotip
var err error
for range backoff(&err, 1 * time.Second) {
if err = something1(); err != nil {
continue
}
if err = something2() ; err != nil {
continue
}
}
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This deserves to be on your timeline.
Trust me.
💙💙💙
Edit: Since this is blowing up, may I also suggest you follow me for more cute/wholesome posts? ;3
I’m uncomfortable with my appearance a lot and do not like to draw attention to myself as a sexual object and/or object of desire, so I’ll be brief but
Even in the test garments I wore for three hours for the purposes of fitting, adjustment and colour/feature choosing of this suit: if you were already attracted to me then you’d have awooga eyes if you could have seen me in them
Last summer I started to get clued in to how colonialism manifests in domain names, so I began to let a number of "my" domain names lapse.
One hadn't expired yet... but its time has come. This morning:
> Afghanistan ccTLD Network Information Center ( af NIC )
> inclusive.af has been suspended in the registry and will no longer be included in zone file generation. This means that any services connected with this domain, such as websites or email addresses will cease working shortly.
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Seeing Jack in the booth with Jay-Z and Beyonce at the Super Bowl is a reminder that Square bought Tidal as an answer to the question - how much would you pay for dinner with Jay-Z?
Jamie Tanna
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