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• Post #3720623

  On this (https://werd.io/the-honest-truth-about-leaders-who-want-to-replace-their-workers-with-ai/); trying to foist #AI onto workers who are *already* very productive—the ones who know how to use a pivot table & VLOOKUP, how to automate processes using scripts, et cetera—is a great way to lose your best people. P.S. Lord does it suck to share links on #Mastodon. Markdown syntax support when?

• Post #3720622

  Warm breezes curl through Newly opened windows, yet Ice binds tender grass #haiku

• Post #3720621

  "Childcare is too expensive" Well yes, but also, why has childcare become so normalized as a need in the first place? Why is a single income rarely enough?

• Post #3720620

  You ever notice how critiques of capitalism are critiques of capitalism itself, whereas critiques of communism are almost exclusively about things that are not inherent to communism? Like, you can do communism without authoritarianism. You can't do capitalism without alienation, monopoly, and a huge underclass of poor people to exploit. Naturally, in the current political climate I certainly don't mean to publicly critique capitalism, but it sure is interesting to think about,...

• Post #3720619

  With respect, who designs these things? Do people really want to walk around looking like they've strapped an alien onto their wrist?

• Post #3720618

  Hey @DivineIntentions - respectfully, could you please stop clogging up the #incense hashtag with ads?

• Post #3720617

  "The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism" No surprise there! https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/opinion/office-work-wfh-bosses.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sFA.bgs3.K3ypnY2ckGew

• Post #3720616

  As a kid I really had no idea just how useful algebra was going to be. Like, want to ferment a vegetable? Calculate your salt with s=(s+w+p)r where w is water weight, p is produce weight, and r is salt ratio. I feel like if we had had projects that required us to use the stuff we were learning I would have been much more interested. I might be doing this stuff on paper today instead of using the numeric solver on my calculator. #math #algebra

• Post #3720615

  I wish that before companies bolted-on AI assistants to their products, they first considered whether they have been neglecting basic quality of life features like fuzzy search, trimming whitespace from inputs, good info hierarchy and discoverability, etc. Like, if your software is a labyrinth full of foot-guns, of course people are going to want a magic lamp.

• Post #3720614

  I wrote something uncharacteristically personal and political this time; I feel like there are probably an awful lot of people out there who can see themselves in this. https://nathanupchurch.com/blog/the-trauma-of-employment/ #blog #writing

• Post #3720613

  I’ve had enough of this heatwave, thanks. You can stop now.

• Post #3720612

  Some 91% of republicans think that I'm not American, despite being born a citizen. Explains a lot about how I was treated in Texas. https://www.ctinsider.com/columnist/article/philip-bump-family-history-what-makes-american-22326156.php #uspol

• Post #2772611

  Apropos of nothing; if you require a degree for a role that doesn't strictly need it (E.G., not a doctor, engineer, et cetera.) you're not an equal opportunity employer. #paperCeiling #classism

• Post #2772610

  Having an extremely strange issue with my #11ty website: the site builds just fine, but a copy of the same site will fail (both on the same machine and on a different one), whether I copy the files directly, or git pull & npm install. Absolutely bizarre - I'm pulling my hair out over here.

• Post #2772609

  Spooky stuff. https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken

• Post #2772608

  Things I would do if I didn't have to work. https://nathanupchurch.com/blog/what-would-you-do-if-you-didnt-have-to-work/ #blog #fullyAutomatedLuxuryGaySpaceCommunism

• Post #1748495

  Starting the day with some pinhead oats with banana and peanut butter, Middle Mountain Duck Shit Aroma Dan Cong Oolong from Yunnan Sourcing, and a stick of Tennendo's Kyara. Got to love Saturday mornings. #tea #incense

• Post #1748494

  The google pagespeed tool drives me nuts. Like, how on earth is my 21.7 KiB homepage taking over two seconds to load? It also knocked off points for the anti-AI directives in my robots.txt, and it complains about my self-hosted webfonts. Not that google would appreciate it at all if I let them track my site visitors by using their font hosting service, eh? #webdev #indieweb

• Post #1748493

  Apparently, I've been subscribed to a publication called "Meetings Today," which is all about… meetings. You can't make this stuff up. #corporate

• Post #1748492

  In case anyone is wondering how Windows 11 is doing… Forever disappointed I can't install GNU/Linux on my company-provided laptop. #windows #microSlop

• Post #1748491

  I reviewed three natural, whole-botanical incense varieties from The World Makes Scents. #incense #blog #review #fragrance https://nathanupchurch.com/blog/incense-review-the-world-makes-scents-hippy-hug-lavender-white-sage/

• Post #1748490

  I try again to make sweet agarwood incense—plus a bonus incense-ingredient quiz. #incense #blog #quiz #fragrance #craft #crafts #maker https://nathanupchurch.com/blog/revisiting-sweet-agarwood/

• Post #1285494

  Anyone know how to use commonjs plugins with an ESM config in #eleventy / #11ty? I am using import for everything, but there's one plugin that I'd like to use that is still using commonjs. Specifically: https://www.npmjs.com/package/eleventy-plugin-nesting-toc?activeTab=readme

• Post #1115052

  It is just me, or is anyone else facing a deluge of reading comprehension issues when trying to communicate with others these days? Like, I can write things clearly, in plain language, multiple times, with bullet points, and folk still aren't getting it. What is going on?!

• Post #1115051

  Needed to hear this today. https://bell.bz/wait-it-out/

• Post #668169

  This exercise stuff isn’t all that bad after all.

• Post #668166

  Hey @robb , I'm trying to follow your 11ty / PageFind tutorial and I'm running into some errors. Do you know what I might be doing wrong? 1. Error in your Eleventy config file 'eleventy.config.js'. (via EleventyConfigError) 2. There was a problem importing 'eleventy.config.js' via import(esm) (via EleventyImportError) 3. require is not defined in ES module scope, you can use import instead

• Post #668165

  Some thoughts on Eleventy becoming Build Awesome. https://nathanupchurch.com/blog/eleventy-becomes-build-awesome/ #eleventy #11ty #buildAwesome #webDev #indieWeb

• Post #505139

  So I'm writing a blog post about what it's like being a barista. Do you have any burning questions for a former barista that I can address? Please boost for reach! #coffee #cafe #blogPost #writing

• Post #440980

  For any drum and bass heads out there: Unglued just released a new single on Hospital Records and it's a banger. https://unglueddnb.bandcamp.com/album/who-dis #DnB #DrumAndBass #Drum&Bass #D&B #music