Obviously you’d have to write “To ___” and “From ___” in the accompanying card, as including PII is a real no-no.

Isn’t that dangerous? No-one really knows what magnets are.

Of course not.

It occurs to me anyway that making Fediverse apps in the shape and likeness of corporate media was a mistake. Even without the ever-present feed algorithms, people still post as though they are in an attention economy in these formats because they were conditioned to do so for years.

I understand that this was done to make adoption and migration easier, but I feel like the Fediverse ultimately needs to succeed on its own terms.

I think the worst software-gore I remember seeing was a web app that dumped all the data to the browser as a huge XML file and then had JavaScript translate the contents of the xml into views. That probably wouldn’t even sound that far off the reservation now if it was JSON, thanks to the sleepless efforts of the JavaScript industrial complex, but back then you’d just render pages and return them.

Remembered this film this morning while listening to Tricky, and weird it is that Tricky is in it (and Lee Evans!). It’s like Eurotrash: The Movie with Bruno The Singing Bartender there as a thin veneer of Hollywood respectability.

I was a senior developer within my first year, so I guess this tracks with the mid-wit theory. Now I’m well beyond that level I answer all questions with “it depends”.

How can seagulls be real if our eyes are not real?

Is that Sam Altman now?

Calling a tune a “banger” makes you sound like you’re from the 1940s.

lol no

We’re always making plans for Nigel.

RIP Anthony Bourdain

The bit in the film where they said “The pachys are roaming outside of their area” hit very differently in the UK.

P2P tunnelling could be a thing, but obv there are issues with having a stranger’s traffic coming out of your home network range. I guess they can’t really lock out all traffic from AWS and Azure, so cloud data centres are an option.

So they’re blocking Youtube? A few copyrighted things knocking around on there last I checked.

It makes sense for distributed teams of contributors working on many features with governance what gets into main. For small co-located teams where probably collaboration and chronology are more important, not so much, but it’s the cool thing so people try use it for that anyway.

Fuck DHH and fuck anyone who gives him the time of day.

I would build this microservice architecture out of a desire to do good, but through me it would wield a power too terrible to comprehend.

A model, idiot.