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• Post #4376879

  RE: https://beige.party/@cap_ybarra/117035096000288076 Almost like you’d need to be a… pragmatic programmer

• Post #4250932

  I'm working on an arrangement of an Elton John track for string quartet, recording sessions coming up next week. Fascinating how preparing scores for layout is EXACTLY like typesetting a book. Which I've also done a lot of over the years ;)

• Post #4250931

  Remember when computers were *not* adversarial, privacy and soul-sucking demons shredding every aspect of humanity? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.

• Post #4250930

  Any networking fans (ethernet, wifi, dhcp, not interpersonal) here? Because my previous ISP is going bankrupt and due to physical limitations of long-run cables, I have to bring in the new Internet feed to the middle of the LAN, and the main Nighthawk router (which does NAT and DHCP) is not at all happy at having a WAN in the middle of its LAN. (ya got peanut butter in my chocolate!) Suggestions on the easiest, cleanest, safest way to address? (I can't run extra cables)

• Post #4250929

  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/117010256828308769 He's right, but *everything* is tradeoffs. There is rarely a concept of a single correct answer. We made that point hard back in The Pragmatic Programmer 1stEd, and not only has it not changed, I posit it's even MORE important today.

• Post #4212920

  I like the phrasing that Mastodon is actually "Social Media," and all that other stinking crapfest is Algorithmic Media.

• Post #4016392

  "Today, Silicon Valley’s centre of gravity is moving from the ‘Californian ideology’ – the 1990s fusion of counterculture libertarianism and digital utopianism – toward what the communication professor Fred Turner recently called the ‘Texan ideology’: a century-old fusion of resource exploitation and millenarian Christianity, the conviction that providential destiny justifies the conquest of nature and the extraction of its wealth." https://aeon.co/essays/silicon-valley-has-a-science-...

• Post #3968417

  RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116953206785519222 What. The. Actual. -- chrome grabs a *global* key shortcut without so much as a "by your leave, kind sir". One of the fatal sins of any product or dev team is assuming that your one piece of shit software is the ONLY thing your poor hapless users will ever run. See also: chrome memory usage.

• Post #2291146

  Happy May the Fourth. I still have my original poster from 1977. None of the "New Hope Part IV" nonsense. Just "Star Wars", as God intended ;)

• Post #2234607

  If you pitch me some AI-fueled bullshit service offering I shall call you and your mother vile names, cast doubt upon the legitimacy of your birth and your mother’s multiple partners, and indeed on the intimate nature of your own relationship. Then I will block your ass forevermore.

• Post #1932574

  Never, ever use GoDaddy. I mean I never have, for a variety of reasons, but this really takes the cake: https://anchor.host/godaddy-gave-a-domain-to-a-stranger-without-any-documentation/

• Post #1765791

  "All your data and compute is belong to us." The open web, personal ownership of data and computing hardware, open source itself, is all under attack at the moment. https://keepandroidopen.org/en/ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/california-introduces-age-verification-law https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/04/22/1631212/ai-tool-rips-off-open-source-software-without-violating-copyright

• Post #1730441

  Er, what do you mean, Backblaze silently doesn't actually backup everything? WTF? You had one job! https://rareese.com/posts/backblaze/

• Post #1549814

  Cool to see lists of "laws of software engineering" where several of them came from me ;) https://lawsofsoftwareengineering.com I am of course patting myself on the back, but srsly, when shit gets weird, go back and pay attention to fundamentals. There's a good reason why they are still around.

• Post #1549811

  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116446746750528326 All your data are belong to us

• Post #1549809

  This is the way: "The farm equipment industry spent 20 years adding complexity and cost. Ursa Ag is wagering that a significant number of farmers never wanted any of it." https://wheelfront.com/this-alberta-startup-sells-no-tech-tractors-for-half-price/

• Post #1157176

  Check out this interview with me, about life, the universe, "agile", seniority, AI, and more... YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0SmfRIzD34&list=PLdfyO9jh6Ls6fEFmEVdJXFM0ZCJZ7s__b&index=1 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2Dx2WlmmSz8YHIztUzjLJ0?si=820d3d5d2b96411d Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/einfach-gel%C3%B6st/id1872365636 RSS: https://api.riverside.fm/hosting/UINh3V57.rss

• Post #904185

  Shocked, I say. https://browsergate.eu

• Post #535880

  "Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time,”—Jean-Michel Basquiat

• Post #322819

  RE: https://mastodon.world/@exchgr/116046762378374692 Quelle surprise.