IndieWeb post types

A decade ago, I successfully lobbied the UK Government to adopt an Open Standard. https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2014/07/how-i-got-the-uk-government-to-adopt-odf/ That then accidentally kicked off a new career for me as I became a dedicated standards policy wonk. I wonder what the next decade will bring?

I have a theory that for the last 10 years #faang companies who prefer Code Golf solutions in job interviews means they only end up hiring people who learned to beat the interview, and not actually have software engineering or critical thinking ability. At the same time the need for infinite growth, which is the only basic model SV understands, had driven profits over being a good landlord on the web. https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/112833989608905813

you can cite the deep magic to me if you want. i was there when it was written but I like hearing it from someone else's perspective. it's pretty cool that you're a witch, too.

Attached: 1 image Two tired parents after two weeks of traveling with kids. But last night we got a few hours of alone time and a great meal at a local restaurant in the middle of nowhere, and we really should be doing more of that.

I put the ass in assimilation

everyone's all star trek is so unrealistic because data makes millions of borg inactive just by sending one tiny command telling them to sleep wait what

I've been reminded of the existence of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and the contest is now over. I could watch that film any day. All day, even.

girl who's nonbinary for ideological reasons

A public service: https://donotreply.cards/wo/do-not-reply-if-this-week-you-are-an-expert-in-end-point-detection-response-software

Not being on twitter constantly is unambiguously healthier for me but I just did a sporadic check and instantly saw the most unhinged techbro shit and I do miss it just a little bit

Normal folks hating on C++: it’s an old and memory unsafe programming language. Me hating on C++: there is a convicted rapist and registered sex offender on the C++ committee and the committee leadership worked really hard to keep him there.

To the many people who keep replying with “haha my buttplug runs Linux” Well congratulations on having no audio in your butt

My blog, where i attempt to collect my thoughts and share the occasional interesting topic with others

Learning about the #indieweb movement has been one of the most interesting byproducts of joining Mastodon earlier this year. I particularly liked this talk transcript by Jamie Tanna as an introduction to the topic: https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/10/20/indieweb-talk/

Dependency Management Data - Jamie Tanna: https://dmd.tanna.dev/ Simon Willison's description: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/11/dependency-management-data/ HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37082941#37086006

When running Kubernetes on a cloud provider, rather than locally using minikube, it’s useful to know which node a pod is running on. The normal command to list pods doesn’t contain this information: $ kubectl get pod NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE neo4j-core-0 1/1 Running 0 6m neo4j-core-1 1/1 Running 0 6m neo4j-core-2 1/1 Running 0 2m I spent a while searching for a command that I could use before I came across Ta-Ching Chen’s blog post while looking for something else.

Content warning: US pol

You wouldn't get this problem with Linux 😊 https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/19/microsoft-windows-pcs-outage-blue-screen-of-death You would of course, get many other problems 🙃

Jealous of people who work on Windows PCs today that get an extra day off.

Make your tools work better for you.

It's so interesting how when you're a female leader you're never technical enough until you are and then you're too rigorous and inflexible. Love this labyrinth with no exit for us.