IndieWeb post types

This content type is full of IndieWeb post types, which are all content types which allow me to take greater ownership of my own data. These are likely unrelated to my blog posts. You can find a better breakdown by actual post kind below:

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Liked Andrew (@andrewt@mathstodon.xyz)
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Here's the current state of the tech industry: A week or so ago I went for a big group meal and at the end they brought the card reader machine for us to pay and it had an option for us to go through an itemised bill, check some options, and pay for just those options (plus an equivalent fraction of the service charge). It was amazing! This genuinely saved us about half an hour of talking at cross-purposes and poking numbers into our own phone calculators and hoping nobody did the sums wrong and accidentally stole someone else's tip. I genuinely would consider going back there for future group meals despite the fact that I'd finished my food before Alec's arrived and he'd finished his before Darren's came, so thoroughly do I dislike the traditional bill-splitting process. And yet in terms of technology, it was nothing but a low-end smartphone running an app built entirely from OS-standard UI components. No AI, no invasion of privacy, no adverts, and I have to assume no VC funding or elaborate toolchain. Just a good idea implemented well, and genuinely we all went away commenting about how clever and useful it was. And I don't remember the previous time I experienced that. We know what people want. They want you to use the massive technological advances we've already made to build useful things that work. But apparently there's no money in that 🤷

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Liked i made a very hard decision this year - live laugh blog by undefined 
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a month ago i left a job i held for several years, a job that took me through a winding road of launching a product, going through an acquisition, lots of high points and lows...but ultimately i got to end the journey on my own terms, on my own time. i couldn't have asked for anything more, especially given the state of the world. i'm so very proud of my work at glitch and fastly, and it's special how i got to be one of just a handful of people who can say they have grown and lead millions of developers in creating the web and community! it was a lot of fucking work, though, and i need a break.

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Reposted Biped Earthling (@obeto@mas.to)
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"Substack CEO Chris Best said he didn't want to "engage in speculation" about statements like “all brown people are animals."" Given another opportunity to answer correctly by the interviewer, “You know this is a very bad response to this question, right? You’re aware that you’ve blundered into this. You should just say no. And I’m wondering what’s keeping you from just saying no," He declined. So, fuck him. And fuck his site. I'll NEVER use Substack. #BlackMastodon https://gizmodo.com/substack-ceo-doesnt-know-if-should-ban-overt-racism-1850337647

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Liked Alex Wilson-Davis (@probablyfine@tech.lgbt)
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Some try to keep on top of their emails by aspiring to reach Inbox Zero. I try to keep on top of my code by aspiring to reach Branches Zero. If you're taking continuous integration seriously, you should have zero branches most of the time, and they should only exist (a) if you're not doing trunk-based development and (b) for as short a time as possible.

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Reposted Owen (spoopy aspect) (@owen@mastodon.transneptune.net)
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If the Kubernetes material was honest about "your team will need recurrent annual training to remain current with this tool," adoption would crater overnight. That's not unique to Kubernetes, though it is fun to pick on them for it. _Nearly every_ significant infrastructure tool has this shape. Organizations that adopt these tools are unable to receive their value until their staff know how to use them, and that knowledge is deeply not self-sustaining.

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Reposted Marco Rogers (@polotek@social.polotek.net)
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In my experience as a manager and leader, I spend a lot of time trying to get engineers to care more about business outcomes than technical issues. Not because I think the technical issues don't matter. But because I know if that if you're not trying to understand business outcomes, your judgment about the technical issues is going to be much worse. Many engineers fundamentally do not believe this to be true. And it's one of the things that sets them at odds with leadership.

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Liked Cat Hicks (@grimalkina@mastodon.social)
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wow 95% of LGBTQ+ adults registered to vote (according to this recent HRC survey sampling ~2400 in Aug 2024) I don't know their sampling methodology but that's pretty wild compared to any other voting registration stat I've seen. Similar to covid vaccine stats which are also wildly good for us. Makes me think about how folks only look to marginalized groups on the national stage to talk about disparity & trauma and not to learn from us as a dynamic, taking action, motivated success story.

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Reposted VM (Vicky) Brasseur (@vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com)
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The UK helped usher in the coal era — now it’s closing its last remaining plant The Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottinghamshire is slated to close on September 30th, marking the end of coal power in the UK. It’s turning the page on an era of dirty energy that the UK helped usher in globally and now has to leave behind to meet climate goals. https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/23/24252195/last-coal-power-plant-close-climate-change-clean-energy

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Liked Pelle Wessman (@voxpelli@mastodon.social)
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What happens when the foundation behind a project isn't independent and empowered. The WordPress Foundation seems to not really be independent of Automattic or have any people working for it https://wordpressfoundation.org/about/financials/2023-financials/ Compare to @drupalassoc, @openjsf@social.lfx.dev and other more functional ones https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/113197135186493986

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Liked unimplemented!("free the imagination") (@jalcine@todon.eu)
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I left the Social Web working group because of the eagerness of allowing known endorsements of digital violence having a say in the development of it. And now it's also a big sponsor of the new Foundation. Since ethics, for most, tends to be a sort of T-shirt you can get a conference and not something that's a lived value, as with it all, I do not trust anything coming out of it and those places. https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2024/pulling-from-fedi/ https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2024/deinvest-open-web/

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Reposted unimplemented!("free the imagination") (@jalcine@todon.eu)
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I left the Social Web working group because of the eagerness of allowing known endorsements of digital violence having a say in the development of it. And now it's also a big sponsor of the new Foundation. Since ethics, for most, tends to be a sort of T-shirt you can get a conference and not something that's a lived value, as with it all, I do not trust anything coming out of it and those places. https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2024/pulling-from-fedi/ https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2024/deinvest-open-web/

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Reposted @javi
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<p>Ok, I should be sleeping right now, but what's happening is SO FUCKING CRAZY.</p><p>Long story short: WPEngine is suing Matt Mullenweg, Automattic and the WordPress foundation for slandering them. In return, Matt is suing them for trademark violation.</p><p>But, BUT, WPEngine has fired their first shot. And what a shot it is, friends:</p><img src="https://goblin.band/files/ccae0c7e-bcad-4df8-833e-198c82647f14" alt /><p></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Cease-and-Desist-Letter-to-Automattic-and-Request-to-Preserve-Documents-Sent.pdf">Link to the full letter</a></p><p>Some extracts:</p><blockquote><p>Stunningly, Automattic’s CEO Matthew Mullenweg threatened that if WP Engine did not agree to pay Automattic – his for-profit entity – a very large sum of money before his September 20th keynote address at the WordCamp US Convention, he was going to embark on a self-described “scorched earth nuclear approach” toward WP Engine within the WordPress community and beyond. When his outrageous financial demands were not met, Mr. Mullenweg carried out his threats by making repeated false claims disparaging WP Engine to its employees, its customers, and the world. Mr. Mullenweg has carried out this wrongful campaign against WP Engine in multiple outlets, including via his keynote address, across several public platforms like X,YouTube, and even on the <a target="_blank" href="http://Wordpress.org">Wordpress.org</a> site, and through the WordPress Admin panel for all WordPress users, including directly targeting WP Engine customers in their own private WordPress instances used to run their online businesses</p></blockquote><p></p><blockquote><p>During calls on September 17th and 19th, for instance, Automattic CFO Mark Davies told a WP Engine board member that Automattic would “go to war” if WP Engine did not agree to pay its competitor Automattic a significant percentage of its gross revenues – tens of millions of dollars in fact – on an ongoing basis. Mr. Davies suggested the payment ostensibly would be for a “license” to use certain trademarks like WordPress, even though WP Engine needs no such license. WP Engine’s uses of those marks to describe its services – as all companies in this space do – are fair uses under settled trademark law and consistent with WordPress’ own guidelines. Automattic’s CFO insisted that WP Engine provide its response to this demand immediately and later, on the day of the keynote, followed up with an email reiterating a claimed need for WP Engine to concede to the demands “before Matt makes his WCUS keynote at 3:45 p.m. PDT today.”</p></blockquote><p></p><blockquote><p>In parallel and throughout September 19 and 20, Mr. Mullenweg embarked on a series of harassing text messages and calls to WP Engine’s board member and also its CEO, threatening that if WP Engine did not agree to pay up prior to the start of Mr. Mullenweg’s livestreamed keynote address at 3:45pm on September 20, he would go “nuclear” on WP Engine, including by smearing its name, disparaging its directors and corporate officers, and banning WP Engine from WordPress community events.</p></blockquote><p>They... they have text message captures. In the pdf. Matt Mullenweg was trying to extort them ... by text messages. They seem to have the entire thing in the writting.</p><p></p><blockquote><p>In the final minutes leading up to his keynote address, Mr. Mullenweg sent one last missive: a photo of the WordCamp audience waiting to hear his speech, with the message that he could shift gears and turn his talk into “just a Q&amp;A” if WP Engine agreed to pay up</p></blockquote><p>They finish requesting Automattic to "preserve, and not destroy, any and all documents or information in their possession, custody, or control that may be relevant to any dispute between WP Engine and Automattic". They are going to war, big time.</p><p>All this crap is just because they refuse to pay his protection money. And the guy has been stupid enough to put everything in writting.</p><p></p><p>Holy. Fucking. Shit.</p><p>HOLY FUCKING SHIT.</p><p>They are going to toast him alive</p> 📎