Shawn Hooper (he/him) 🇨🇦

shawnhooper@fosstodon.org

Long time web developer. <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/PHP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PHP</a>, mainly <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Laravel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Laravel</a> & <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/WordPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#WordPress</a>. I'm an advocate for an accessible & open web. Also learning more about engineering management, security, and privacy.I'm a conference speaker, teacher. I'm the Director of Engineering and Security @ Actionable.co I live in <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Ottawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Ottawa</a>, Canada (Unceeded territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation)Still sometimes do

Posts

Post #4387710
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/former-ctv-news-chief-anchor-lloyd-robertson-dies-at-92/ #canada #news
Post #4292453
My heart goes out to the casts and crews of all the shows booked at Meredian Theatres at Centrepointe. All shows have been cancelled for the rest of the year due to flooding on July 1st. This includes the upcoming productions of Frozen and Come From Away. #ottawa
Post #4123824
I announced on 3 social networks that I was going to #WeirdAl fonight. By far the most reactions came from the #Fediverse. My people! Why am I not surprised….
Post #4115467
Going to see Weird Al tonight! First time. Can’t wait. #ottawa #weirdal #readytopolka
Post #3965265
RE: https://flipboard.com/@ctvnews/canada-0ue5f20qz/-/a-AewRwHWOQAOb7-6629VGKg%3Aa%3A2823982346-%2F0 This is so silly. Just allow remote work. Problem solved.
Post #3939954
Going to see #TheGuessWho for the closing night of #OttawaBluesfest tonight.
Post #3845338
Ottawa Bluesfest. Week 2! Here we go. #OttawaBluesfest
Post #3844313
Ice cold root beer. #canada #aw
Post #3440742
The frogs are making lots of noise tonight. #nature #frogs 🐸
Post #3350012
“I am Batman” - this guy, probably I don’t know this cat. It befriended me on a walk tonight. #CatsOfMastodon
Post #3318614
RE: https://ottawa.place/@trecartin/116749180589669670 Yes Canadians. Signal has said they’ll pull out of Canada if C-22 passes. Contact your MP today. #Canada #CanadaBillC22 #privacy #encryption
Post #2139797
Backstage is so organized :) #theatre #livesound
Post #2139795
Reminder to never put your wifi password where TV cameras will pick it up. #Montreal #habs
Post #2139794
Anyone else I know going to be in Toronto for #AWSSummit next month? Just registered today.
Post #2139793
This is the best photo I&#39;ve seen yet showing where the fire happened at the Eugene O&#39;Neil theatre in NYC. Explains the followspot I saw in photos circulating earlier this week.
Post #2139792
RE: https://flipboard.com/@ctvnews/winnipeg-rdpvj158z/-/a-1Q676KBWTqOjQlVY1uzgJQ%3Aa%3A2823982346-%2F0 This is neat.
Post #2139790
Surprise &quot;The Bear&quot; episode! :) &quot;Titled “Gary,” the episode accompanies Bernthal’s Mikey and Moss-Bachrach’s Richie as they embark on a trip to Gary, Indiana. The episode precedes the first season of The Bear, which takes place after Mikey’s death by suicide.&quot; https://au.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/the-bear-surprise-prequel-jon-bernthal-ebon-moss-bachrach-94592/
Post #1188095
Looking for pros/cons of joining a small Mastodon instance vs having your own instance (self or 3rd party hosted, doesn't matter for this question) #mastodon #fediverse
Post #1091177
Artemis II is on its way back to Earth. I don&#39;t think everyone understands the gravity of this event. 🥁 #artemis
Post #1043081
Thank you @Quinnypig for this quote: &quot;AWS pricing is where dreams go to get itemized&quot;
Post #1043079
University of Waterloo developing bacteria that can eat cancerous tumours from the inside out. https://uwaterloo.ca/news/media/beating-cancer-eating-cancer #FuckCancer
Post #1042612
Graat post from @joost on the need for refactoring and modernizing WordPress core. https://joost.blog/wordpress-refactor-not-redecorate/ #WordPress #PHP
Post #1041539
https://pages.awscloud.com/aws-reaction-ai-space-orbit.html I can see it now: &quot;AWS region space-2 is down today due to a collision with space debris, which ironically was the abandoned space-1 data centre, which lost connectivity after a misconfigured DNS entry.&quot;
Post #964190
The period when NASA is expected to lose signal with Artemis II while it orbits around the dark side of the moon is 41 minutes long. Pink Floyd&#39;s album, &quot;Dark Side of the Moon&quot; is 42 minutes and 50 seconds long. Could the orbiter just tap the brakes... just a bit? #Artemis #NASA #PinkFloyd #DarkSideOfTheMoon
Post #933619
For those of you who work in live production. https://superproductionquest.com/ This is hilarious. Reminds me of all the old text-based PC games I played back when I had free time, before working in production. #Events #AV #StageCrew #ProAudio #ConferenceLife
Post #820031
Looking at the apps on my computer that are &gt;= 1GB. How is XCode 12 GB?!
Post #820030
OpenAI shutting down Sora. No complaints from me. https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/openai-shutting-down-sora-video-disney-1236698277/
Post #820029
Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google-owned YouTube negligent in designing addictive platforms https://ground.news/article/20c3b07f-310a-4663-a00b-45b3714368af
Post #820027
@amberhinds I shared your accessibility checklist with one of my front-end colleagues today. His reply: &quot;Great resource! thank them on my behalf :saluting_face:. this seems like a good excuse for a fun weekend project using Chrome DevTools MCP :smile:&quot; So, thanks :) https://equalizedigital.com/website-accessibility-testing-checklist/
Post #804316
&quot;The old internet was messy. Half-broken. Full of ugly forums, strange little blogs, abandoned tutorials, and personal sites that looked like they had been built at 2 a.m. by someone running on caffeine and obsession.&quot; https://dev.to/the_nortern_dev/i-think-a-lot-of-developers-are-quietly-grieving-the-old-internet-3d8?context=digest