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Content warning: Mental health
Attached: 1 image “if your web page doesn’t fit in one of these, you’re an idiot and you’re doing it wrong!” absolute🔥from dave at #SotB2023
Why did @dletorey@mastodon.social give everyone floppy disks as lanyards this year at #SotB2023? “If your homepage doesn’t fit on one of these, you’re an idiot and you’re doing it wrong!”
Attached: 1 image happy crocs and socks season for all who celebrate
Did #slack get rid of the ability to customise theme by Hex Code? Weirdly I can click "share" and get a copy of the hexcodes, but there's nowhere to set new ones that I can see? Every day Slack works further away from the independent non-corporate vibe we all used to appreciate.
Bisexual: [ ] Twice per sexual [ ] Once every two sexuals
This week we’re joined by Steve O’Grady, Principal Analyst & Co-founder at RedMonk. The topic today is the definition of open source, the constant pressure on the true definition of the term, and the seemingly small but vocal minority that aim to protect that definition. In Steve’s post Why Open Source Matters, he ...
Between and I took 8292 steps.
Hark! A person with #ADHD has decided that this will definitely be the time they will become focused and organised. The other 56 attempts were just a practice run and don't count. What are your favourite - Time trackers - Website/App blockers - Pomodoro Apps - Apps like Obsidian but not Obsidian - Organisational tools - Focus tools OSX/iOS and Websites :) :blobcatreading:
Attached: 1 image This is an example of trauma bonding at work.
I spent most of the day working on Meetable, my event listing website that powers https://events.indieweb.org and a few other sites. Some great new features and bugfixes! • Added passkeys for admin …
There was a time in my life when I was working on open source, like, every weeknight and weekend. I was contributing to tools I used as well as my own OSS projects. Just firing on all cylinders. After a few years I got super burned out (https://nolanlawson.com/2017/03/05/what-it-feels-like-to-be-an-open-source-maintainer/). These days I kind of feel like my weekends and evenings are sacred. I file bugs on browsers and OSS projects constantly, but I usually do it as part of my 9-to-5. Contributing to the commons is a noble cause, but man is it tiring.
More #strangeloop thoughts. I have a hard time gauging when sensory nuisances impact my stress level, so went with wearing ear protection as much as possible. I intentionally wore the big yellow gun range protectors not just to make it easier to find me, but to more openly show that wearing ear protection is a thing. Had I known it earlier, many conferences would have been much easier to attend. 1/
Do you already know the OnlyFans page of CERN? 🤣 https://onlyfans.web.cern.ch #nerdhumor
Running #MutationTests on something I'm working on has made me re-write parts of it into smaller, simpler units Nice :) #Testing
BREAKING NEWS: A generation that knows nothing about #RSS and #Atom has finally grown up. During the podcast recording today, a user in a live chat reached out to me saying that the #feed button on my personal site is broken 'cause it returns an #XML.
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Thank you to this week's sponsor, Koyeb!🇺🇸 GopherCon, San Diego, CA, USA, September 25-28OpenTofu (formerly OpenTF) officially joins the Linux FoundationBlog post: OpenTF is NOT the fork🔀 Proposal: testing: shuffle seed should be different when -shuffle=on and -count flag is setBlog posts➿ Go...
i’m gonna need someone to buy me all of these: https://www.redbubble.com/people/snazzyseagull/shop
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Between and I took 7809 steps.
Investigations into musl libc DNS resolver used in Alpine containers
The best part of any conference is going to bed afterwards
Happy to be reacquainted with a bunch of the UK IndieWeb community at State of the Browser 11 today, like old times! https://calumryan.com/notes/3672
Attached: 1 image Happy bi visibility day! Yes, I am married to a beautiful man who I love. But I'm #StillBi. Not gay. Same as we shouldn't assume a person's gender by how they look, we shouldn't assume a person's orientation by who their partner is. #BiVisibility #BiPride
Attached: 1 image “Side projects don’t need to be monetised to be valid. They don’t need to become NPM packages or open source projects.” @ohhelloana@mastodon.social #SotB2023
Attached: 1 image This is as close to a personal mantra I have. Fantastic talk @ohhelloana@mastodon.social
Sorry, what company removes their TOS they published a couple years previous for transparency, because it had a low view count? 🥺 no-one read our legal documentation 🥺 so we removed it 🥺 s-sorry 🥺 pls don't leave us we're only a small company 🥺 who made $1.808B, from June 2022 - June 2023 🥺 a 48.25% YoY increase 🥺 just a little guy 🥺 why are you doing this to me #unity
Intended audience: software engineers; anyone with checklists as part of their workflows or routines.
Between and I took 10530 steps.