Some days I can really relate to our office shredder:

A broken clock fixed by taping a working clock over it is a metaphor for every codebase you’ll encounter in your professional career as a software developer.

Oh, that thing I’ve been putting off for days? That insurmountable, torturous task? The thing that’s been haunting me with every step like a malevolent wraith? It took two minutes. I will not learn from this

moodboard for running a software company

Whenever news breaks of bad decisions a popular product, there's a flurry of recommendations of various alternatives, and in that mix there's always folks extolling the virtues of hosting your own.

As a person who works on security for an open source project, my spicy take is this: unless you enjoy being your own sysadmin (some folks do!), any hosted solution from a vendor that is currently reputable and currently has acceptable terms is a better, safer option than self-hosting.

Round 1. Lowest votes gets dropped. Vote with your heart. No clarifications. No second guesses. Please boost because it’s important.

People self-hosting services: who do you host them for?

And what is motivating you to do it? Learning fun tech? Protecting yourself again big corps, intelligence agencies, or something else?

🔄 Boosts welcome to help me get a broader picture

I co-wrote a cookbook for depressed people and other folks with zero spoons, only knives. It's not meant to be gourmet cooking so much as a survival guide for late stage capitalism. And you can get it for free!
https://traumbooks.itch.io/the-sad-bastard-cookbook

it's interesting that people complain that it's hard to find people on mastodon bc for me, it's the same as dreamwidth / twitter (and lj back in the day) -- i find the 'core' folks in my community, and then look at their following lists. (one of the things i find disorienting about tumblr is the inability to find people bc i can't do this)

i find it totally opaque how else to find people. i guess i've done friending memes on dw? maybe link hopping from people's reblogs? or that mysterious thing, the hashtag

Went to a radar museum today and frankly, more systems should have dedicated buttons called "pigeons"

Sweet teas are made of leaves
Some of them brown and some are green
I travel the world for the perfect tea
Everybody wants a Darjeeling

Some of them got to be brewed, yeah
Some of them got to be brewed by you
Some of them got to infuse yeah
Some of them got to be infused

HOLD the kettle (move the pot)
KEEP the kettle (nice n hot)
HOLD the kettle (move the pot)
KEEP that kettle.

🎹*sick synth solo*🎹

a lot of you here need this sticker. def not me though.

Pros of setting up my own fanfic archive: I get to decide what order to put them in
Cons of setting up my own fic archive: I have to decide what order to put them in

A friend attending #ICML just sent me a photo of this front runner for best poster award.

#Printmaking nerds! (That’s me!) Look at this amazing video from Dave Bull, who runs a gorgeous woodblock reproduction studio in Tokyo — they’re learning all kinds of stuff from reproducing #Hosukai drawings that were meant for printing but never got made: https://www.openculture.com/2023/07/a-collection-of-hokusais-drawings-are-being-carved-onto-woodblocks-printed-for-the-first-time-ever.html

(Gosh, I miss printmaking.)

It takes time to develop intuition about #accessibility concerns.

A step to take today is that if you are tasked with developing or designing *anything* that isn't static content, take a few minutes to search "accessible (component name)" to learn the expected interaction and how to test it.

If you're making something "new", determine the closest metaphor (modal? carousel? radio buttons? etc) and learn what it takes for the base component before trying to extend it.

A few days ago I went to a picnic and someone brought homemade meringues. They were astonishing - light, crispy on the outside but soft and fluffy on the inside, the best I've ever had. I took the bag around to other partygoers telling them how special these meringues were, as a kind of public service announcement to raise their profile compared to the cherries and chips-and-hummus &c. My voice was so quietly earnest that it verged on theatrical.

This is context for my social media demeanor.

Said by @foone, art by @/eagle-writes on Tumblr

I received a book! This was from Renegade Bindery's Tiny Book Bang, a collaborative miniature book exchange. I did the typesetting, and @kulapti bound it in an absolutely gorgeous red cloth binding.

The fic is Fahye's wangxian Gawain and the Green Knight au (https://archiveofourown.org/works/23277532), and I modeled the typesetting after William Morris and the Kelmscott Press.

i think a lot about how apparently, someone visiting pink floyd's studio in the mid-70s noticed they had several minimoogs set up with gaffer tape all over them, because when they got a sound they liked, they'd put the tape over the knobs so the settings wouldn't get changed, and invoice the record label for another fresh minimoog. i think this is how you're actually supposed to manage python software installations, just buy a new computer every time you finally get the correct packages set up