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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Reposted Geoffrey Thomas (@geofft@mastodon.social)
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@glyph @eb@social.coop I'm frustrated that big tech's efforts to increase core library security are "your project is too popular, you must use 2FA" and "the best reverse engineers in the world will find your bugs and put you on a 90 day disclosure deadline" and not "here is $100K/year and benefits to keep doing what you're doing at your own pace."

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Reposted Glyph (@glyph@mastodon.social)
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@eb@social.coop I really hope that this causes an industry-wide reckoning with the common practice of letting your entire goddamn product rest on the shoulders of one overworked person having a slow mental health crisis without financially or operationally supporting them whatsoever. I want everyone who has an open source dependency to read this message https://www.mail-archive.com/xz-devel@tukaani.org/msg00567.html

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Reposted danielle 🏳️‍🌈 (@endocrimes@toot.cat)
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It’s not surprising that a major security vulnerability is once again caused by maintainer burnout and someone stepping in to take over. We’ve all been talking about that risk for years. Sadly it’s also unsurprising that OSS teams still are going to need to plead with management to stay funded, and paid OSS maintainers will still do unpaid overtime to work with volunteers. 🙃.

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Listened to A RedMonk Conversation: Engaging with Developers on Hacker News (With Dan Moore) | PodServe.fm
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Join RedMonk analysts James Governor and Kate Holterhoff as they chat with Dan Moore about Hacker News, the social news website for developers. This conversation digs into significant questions concerning this network that include not only what makes it unique, but also the special sauce that makes developers flock there. Moore suggests strategies for vendors hoping to successfully engage this community, and more general best practices for becoming involved. This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on March 28, 2024.

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Reposted Rob Ricci :real: (@ricci@discuss.systems)
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Hey, with people in the news getting sentenced to prison, facing the possibility of prison time, etc., just a reminder: it is not desirable, nor funny, that violence in prison (including sexual violence), be a part of someone's punishment. Even people you really, really do not like who have done really super bad things. It is to the United State's shame that violence in prison is part of our carceral system, and we should not celebrate it, ever. We should seek to eliminate it.

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Liked Terence Eden (@Edent@mastodon.social)
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Found a whole new level of security incompetence. Went to type in my 2FA code, but nothing appeared on screen. They hadn't disabled pasting. Instead, they used JavaScript to ensure that only numbers could be typed in. But only numbers from the number row of my keyboard. I was using my NumPad which, as every good developer knows, uses different event codes! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/KeyboardEvent/code

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Listened to #72 - Give People What They Came For, with Jerod Santo
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Today I got the pleasure to chat with Jerod Santo, the Managing Editor at Changelog Media. Picture this – a podcast that not only uncovers the intricacies of Jerod's career but also shares some unconventional lessons learned from his work. From navigating the ever-evolving tech landscape to spearheading Changelog, Jerod brings a wealth of experience that transcends your typical engineer expectations and taps into the heart of what it means to build a sustainable developer community.

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Liked Representing State as interfaces in Go by Evan Moses 
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I made up a neat little pattern in Go the other day. It’s a way to represent a state change in a system by exposing different APIs for different states, while only holding state in a single underlying struct. I’m sure I’m not the first person to invent this, and it may already a name, so please let me know if you know of one. I’m going to show an instance of the pattern first and the motivation after.

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Listened to Going Open Source at Convex with James Cowling - Software Engineering Daily by SEDaily 
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Convex is a serverless backend platform to simplify fullstack application development. Its underlying database is written in Rust, and it uses TypeScript to integrate with reactive UI frameworks. The platform is growing, which has presented new reasons to make the code open source, and Convex recently released the source code for a self-managed version of

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Very open to supporting addition of more rules and custom advisories 😁

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Liked Terence Eden (@Edent@mastodon.social)
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Wondering what the world would look like if we implemented "Universal Basic Website". Entitle everyone to their own domain, a few GB of space, the ability to run simple apps / blogs / etc. What does the world look like if people aren't beholden to Flickr / Facebook / Google Photos to share their family albums? #UBI

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Liked Aral Balkan (@aral@mastodon.ar.al)
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@ErikJonker@mastodon.social @Edent@mastodon.social Here’s an article about our pilot project in Ghent seven years ago (!!!) now. Unfortunately, a conservative local government took power and cancelled our funding. https://www.demorgen.be/nieuws/gent-wil-burgers-eigen-stukje-internet-geven~b92ec1b4/

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Liked Aral Balkan (@aral@mastodon.ar.al)
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@ErikJonker@mastodon.social @Edent@mastodon.social My goal with the Small Web (Kitten, Domain, and Place) is to launch as a paid service so we can pay the mortgage and then, hopefully as people use it and maybe even as other orgs host Domain instances, to go to the EU, etc., and say “it works – now support this with our taxes.” We’ll see how it goes. The fact that we have had €zero EU funding to date doesn’t exactly fill me with hope.

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Reposted The Seven Voyages Of Steve (@sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)
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I feel like subscriptions have generally made software quality worse. There was an argument that having to make paid upgrades to generate revenue to pay salaries put pressure on companies to change things that didn’t need changing, just to get that upgrade money, and subs reflected the holistic task of careful maintenance better. But in practice what’s often happened is the subscription props up bad decisions on product direction, because subs have to keep paying either way.

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Reposted Eloy (@eloy@hsnl.social)
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@noracodes@tenforward.social IMHO you should pay for open source if you are making a profit on it. Lots of companies are reselling proprietary software and are paying for licenses without having specific feature wishes for the software, they just pay for the maintenance.

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Liked Implementing dark mode in a handful of lines of CSS with CSS filters
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I finally got round to implementing dark mode for this site (the cobbler’s children have no shoes and all that…) Here’s all the CSS I had to add: @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { /* Invert all elements on the body while attempting to not alter the hue substantially. */ body { filter: invert(100%) hue-rotate(180deg); } /* Workarounds and optical adjustments. */ /* Firefox workaround: Set the background colour for the html element separately because, unlike other browsers, Firefox doesn’t apply the filter to the root element’s background.