@mjg59 FUSE's highest use!
@[email protected] @[email protected] I can't think of anything I've done with FUSE that wasn't a crime, a hack around my own ignorance, or both
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Christian, husband, dad, coder, trainer, speaker, rpg geek, adhd
@jalcine Friend, you and I both!
There is a ratcheting process on this, I think.
We need a core of server software that supports the ActivityPub API, so that client developers have something to work against. I've made one (onepage.pub), and I know there are others happening.
Then, we need a set of interesting API clients, to show what having a standard API can get us. I've done a couple that I like (a geosocial checkin app and a movie review app), but it would be cool to have more.
@[email protected] @[email protected] I've successfully posted to a @[email protected] instance using C2S, partly because the project I'm using to do so is something I'd like to see work in a wide variety of places and I'm hoping that I can do my small part to resolve the chicken and egg aspect of server/client support by producing things that use the API from the client side. I'd love to see broader support.
Also: if you're an employer, why not make this a policy? Apart from the ethical arguments, I've seen many commercial projects stall waiting for an open source feature or taking a hard to maintain internal branch when they could have just submitted the fix upstream for everybody. And it will please the kind of staff who you actually want to retain.
Michael Newton
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RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116566758802645935
Keep coming back to one of the most important heuristics for a good life:
Nothing only men like is cool.
@codepo8 ooh I like this. Also: 'Is this content wage-appropriate?', 'I'm afraid that is wage-restricted, you need to have your wage confirmed first.'
@[email protected] @[email protected] This reminds me of a friend of my brother who loved expensive cars. Office wear was generally t-shirt and jeans, but on the days they had to meet investors he would put on a really nice suit and then take a long lunch break to go test drive a car. Because it turns out that the test drives were in fact wage-restricted, they just didn't have a great way of measuring "wage".
#Poll time!
Which terrorist organisation do you belong to?
@[email protected] @[email protected] Did you play "Paranoia", by any chance?
Friend computer is looking increasingly representative of what a genuine US military AI would look like every day. #ttrpg
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Apart from the group courses at fixed times I'm running at Thinker's Meetup for 11+ year olds, I'm also currently doing online mentoring of #HomeEd individuals or groups who'd like to add #gamedev with #godot, #ComputerScience, or #InteractiveFiction to their activities (whether that's working towards a specific qualification or project based). Drop me a private message if you'd be interested.
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Michael Newton
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What's this? New courses? And being announced more than a week in advance?
thinkersmeetup.com/scholars/...
If you're interested in either writing or creating assets for a #visualnovel, we've got you covered. Five weeks on each as online sessions for 11-16 year olds in the European afternoon/US morning. #creativewriting #gamedev #homeed
@pikesley It also implies Fairy Plasma, and we can definitely induce a phase change to plasma using sufficiently powerful lasers. For Fairy Liquid, I'd recommend using a scaled-up Polytron:
@[email protected] @[email protected] I... wow. That is quite the advert.
I just got an email from a journalist who works for the quarterly journal of the main Dutch scientific grant organisation. They want to interview me for the upcoming issue of their journal.
The theme of that issue is: Failure.
Especially, the email helpfully clarifies, *personal* failure.
@[email protected] Many years ago there was a TV show on the BBC called Mastermind in which the contestants could pick a specialist subject to be asked question about.
"Your special subject is personal failure" is not a choice I recall, I must admit, but I feel I wouldn't score too badly!
It occurs to me that I don't remember many individual commits from my career with pride, and of that small number every single one was a net decrease in code size (and normally associated with a large increase in either performance or reliability)
Michael Newton
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Don't know where y'all are at, but round here it's spring time #flowers #DoomScrollingBreak
LinkedIn right now: "I know lines of code is a lousy metric, but hear me out..."
@[email protected] "... we're making billions! Billions I tell you!"
"Profit?"
"Don't be silly. Lines!"
Michael Newton
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The narrator can hardly get a word in edgewise between these people.
Michael Newton
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I will be teaching my two-day course, Practical Messaging, at NDC Oslo this year. I suspect it will be the only public presentation this year. It's two days. On Day One, we cover the basics: messaging, eventing, queues, streams, message pumps, and DLQs. On Day Two, we cover event-driven architectures and how to architect them.
https://ndcoslo.com/workshops/practical-messaging-workshop/9dcee4aeae91
Michael Newton
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@[email protected] @[email protected]
The South Carolina pastor who prayed over a 22-foot-high golden statue of President Donald Trump last week says it is not an idolatrous golden calf as described in the book of Exodus.
Mark Burns is a self-appointed pastor who previously lied about his educational background and previous military service. He unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018, 2022 and 2024. He was an early and ardent supporter of Trump’s presidential campaigns.
Brutal from opening from [checks notes] Baptist News Global. Even the url is sharp and pointy: baptistnews.com/article/its-...
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Michael Newton
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My “I am not visibly committing the mortal sin of idolatry in the national news media” T-shirt is making people ask a lot of questions already answered by my T-shirt
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Michael Newton
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I never post in English on Mastodon because I lack the audience for it, but maybe your boosts can help this post reach a wider crowd?
I've started a crowdfunding campaign for my newest TTRPG, "A Week with Frog and Rabbit", on BackerKit as part of Pocketopia!
https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/come-martin/one-week-with-frog-and-toad
It's a small game of cozy adventures for 2-3 people and all ages, emulating the look and feel of children books.
You'll find a link to a free digital version of the game on the page as well!
