Few things bring me as much surprise joy as finding out that Bojangles has pork chop biscuits.
The Verge lays out in clear terms why a vote for Kamala Harris is a good one.
https://www.theverge.com/24282022/kamala-harris-endorsement-presidential-election-2024
I’m tired, y’all. Again.
TFW you’re trying to change your email address on Indeed because Glassdoor randomly doesn’t send emails to your personal domain and you never know when a company is using it so you try to change it but something is breaking somewhere and you can’t and you have no idea why.
Do I think Threads is the next great social network? No. But will I be spending an inordinate amount of time there? Also no. But thanks to Micro.blog, I can now inflict myself on the Threadiverse!
With the .io domain potentially set to disappear, I’m reminded that a good chunk of my online identity is tied up in a different country code. Not sure I need to do anything about it right this moment, but it’s worth remembering…
https://every.to/p/the-disappearance-of-an-internet-domain?utm_source=cassidoo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dont-block-your-blessings-jennifer-hudson https://eph.me
Sometimes the world is awesome, and the Northern Lights make it to South Carolina.
Really appreciated this essay by Loris Cro, especially this:
"Don’t you find it infuriating when lawyers and accountants fail to clarify how their respective domains work, making them unavoidable intermediaries of systems that in theory you should be able to navigate by yourself?
Whenever we fail to make simple things easy in software engineering, and webdev especially, we are failing society in the exact same way."
Hey, uh, what exactly does it want me to test?!
From the Ghost blog via @manton:
"One of the things we’re learning as we go is that ActivityPub is resource-intensive, and can be pretty expensive/difficult to run robustly."
A hard requirement for Smolblog is being able to run efficiently on cheap/shared hosts. Native AP is secondary to that… 😅
https://activitypub.ghost.org/beta-plans/ https://micro.blog/manton
I think this is the first hurricane I’ve had to properly deal with as an adult. So far we’re doing well, and we have neighbors and community helping each other.
If I may: there’s talk of reducing/restricting publicly available weather data. I hope this event shows how bad an idea that is.
I’m sympathetic to the idea of protecting the commons from freeloaders.
But WordPress.org blocking blogs on WP Engine from plugin updates? This feels like ego, not stewardship. And I don’t want to use MattPress.
Really appreciated this write up by @briancoords@mastodon.social that gets to the heart of my issues with Matt’s posts. (Via @salcode@phpc.social)
https://www.briancoords.com/the-wcus-closing-i-wish-wed-had/ https://micro.blog/briancoords@mastodon.social https://micro.blog/salcode@phpc.social
Matt Mullenweg recently made a post on the official WordPress blog titled WP Engine Is Not WordPress where he makes the point that WP Engine is unfairly leeching on the WordPress project.
If WP Engine’s accusations are true, Matt should remember that Automattic Is Not WordPress either.
https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine/ https://www.tumblr.com/jv/762458840886345728
Well, put my iPhone 12 mini to bed last night. Was hoping Apple would go back to mini-sized phones, but alas. Lasted 3.5 years, but I didn’t think it was going to last another one, so best to upgrade now.
But since there’s already a dedicated camera button, what should I use my action button for?
Reintroducing Smolblog https://oddevan.com/2024/09/20/reintroducing-smolblog.html
I’ve mentioned my project Smolblog more than a few times, talking about it in bits and pieces. So to get the whole pitch in one place, I made a ~20 min. video essay about why the Smolblog project exists, what I hope to accomplish, and how I’m doing it.
In today’s rabbit-trail adventure, the 11ty announcement of joining Font Awesome led to reading about Web Awesome which led to then looking up the existing UI library Shoelace, and after playing around with it I’m about ready to use it as the basis for my Svelte UI library. Not bad for a day!
https://www.11ty.dev/blog/eleventy-font-awesome/ https://blog.fontawesome.com/introducing-web-awesome/ https://shoelace.style/ https://ui.oddevan.com/
Anyone want to buy an M1 MacBook? 7-core GPU, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, Battery is “normal.” Runs Logic, Final Cut, and Motion well. Includes original charger + cable. Asking $450 OBO + shipping.
Starting to recognize a pattern: a person with no willingness to be persuaded says something politely inflammatory then chastises their detractors for not being more persuasive. And I have no patience for those that set rules of engagement they have no intention of following.