There’s a lot of chatter about measuring the productivity of software engineers, especially at work right now. This article gets to the heart of it: most metrics measure effort and output when we should be measuring outcome and impact.
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/measuring-developer-productivity
As an exercise, I tried seeing if I could make a quick middleware for adding content provinance manifests to media uploaded to Smolblog. And I think I’ll call this concept proved.
https://c2pa.org/specifications/specifications/1.3/explainer/Explainer.html https://github.com/smolblog/smolblog-core/pull/52
The studios’ (including Apple) behavior in these WGA and SAG/AFTRA strikes is… petty. Vindictive.
I’m really starting to buy the narrative that streaming is an across-the-board bomb. They can’t give viewer numbers to the unions because the shareholders would revolt.
Smolblog is now (mostly) Micropub compliant. The exceptions are undeleting (may not implement), multiple photos on the same request (can’t get that to work in WordPress) and some incorrect authentication responses (again, WordPress).
Building Smolblog: Open https://oddevan.com/2023/08/22/building-smolblog-open.html
Use Laravel’s Illuminate Database Query Builder With WordPress https://oddevan.com/2023/08/21/use-laravels-illuminate.html
This can’t be good…
Been thinking about streaming services lately
4 years ago I wanted a gaming PC. Bought an Alienware because I didn’t want to go through the hassle of buying/assembling compatible parts.
Now I can’t upgrade because Dell uses proprietary motherboards. So it looks like I’m building.
Taliesin Jaffe’s face—as Sam Riegel does his weekly ad-read—is the epitome of “It’s so nice to see other people having to hear this.”
Nothing like getting up at 5:30 AM to clean up your dog’s forceful rejection of last night’s food.
Except maybe finding out he wasn’t done yet.
Usually you listen to the code style plugin.
But sometimes you need to remind it who’s boss. And disable stupid rules.
Ok, anyone in my new social media orbit still play Animal Crossing on the switch? ‘Cause I’m hopefully set for some good turnip prices tomorrow afternoon…
It’s nothing but a mostly-blank Jekyll site right now, but I want to start collecting documentation for ActivityPub, Micropub, and other social web APIs, and I would love your help. github.com/smolblog/…
This isn’t even half-assed. Quarter-assed at best. I’d expect this from a smaller Google or Microsoft project that is under a new director with too much ego desperate to leave their mark and not enough people to tell them “no.”
Which, come to think of it… 🙄
It’s all about the little rituals.
The conversation around the impending thrediverse implies there’s this illusion of privacy people expect from Mastodon that just isn’t there. How would you communicate to a new user that content posted may end up on other servers, and there is no way to control what those servers do?
If there’s one thing the internet has taught me, it’s that there’s always someone else. Knowing we aren’t alone in whatever thing is such a powerful feeling.
Anyway, happy Pride Month to all who celebrate.
Trying to figure out if/how https://smolblog.com should work with this… 🤔
Based on what I can see in the spec, a server-side blog (like, say, WordPress, or something more smol 😉) could act as a relay for its posts. This ties the blog to the user’s public key and provides another avenue of distribution…