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)
Christian, husband, dad, coder, trainer, speaker, rpg geek, adhd
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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!"
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The narrator can hardly get a word in edgewise between these people.
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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
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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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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!
@mavnn @Bonfire That's interesting. A missing `created` field would be an error with draft-cavage-12 signatures; they need to have a created stamp to avoid replay attacks. I wonder about the one-success-only issue; I bet that means that Bonfire is trying RFC 9421 signatures, they work, but it falls back to draft-cavage-12 signatures. I'll see if I can do some testing to make this work better.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Thank you!
Hi @[email protected]! You asked people to let you know if there was weird behaviour or bugs with tags.pub. I'm not sure if this is on the tags.pub end or on the @[email protected] end, but at the moment I seem to be able to federate exactly one outbound activity each time Bonfire restarts to tags.pub and then ask further pushes are rejected with a 400 error and a response about a missing Created field. Unfortunately I haven't found an easy way to see the outgoing request, so I don't know what info they're being signed with (I don't know if @[email protected] can suggest a way of me extracting that info?)
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it's important to remember the backlash is severe because the progress is real
and also that the young men who broke for Trump because they were promised the rewards of patriarchy are already changing their minds about that
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The backlash when there's progress part is undoubtably real; I saw at least a couple of people who were nominally egalitarian just flat out refuse to believe that #metoo was real, for example. And when someone points out to the meeting chair that they have asked the only non-male person to take the minutes again they basically have the choice of deciding they want to change or just deciding that maybe "the women" were really always the problem after all. Doesn't stop the pushback grossing me out though!
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Aaron Swartz joined the RSS working group when he was 13. At 15 he became a foundational member of Creative Commons. He was working on precursors to markdown at 16.
We should not be locking young people out of our communities and keeping them away from digital tools that can open doors for them, expand their knowledge, sharpen their skills, and help them grow into well-rounded adults.
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] I think there is some of that, but honestly I think the reality is a lot more complex than a single chart (or my initial exasperated comment). People feeling 'allowed to say what they really think' is a thing, but so is people changing opinion, even quite fast, and not having the self awareness to notice. We all tend to assume we've always been like we are now, and a lot of people don't challenge the assumption.
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] about the age range thing: I hope that's true. I'm also in a smallish town in Italy, so gender related social dynamics have a bunch of other factors playing in.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] I think there is some of that, but honestly I think the reality is a lot more complex than a single chart (or my initial exasperated comment). People feeling 'allowed to say what they really think' is a thing, but so is people changing opinion, even quite fast, and not having the self awareness to notice. We all tend to assume we've always been like we are now, and a lot of people don't challenge the assumption.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] As a man, can I just say... W. T. A. F?
My 18 year old son complains regularly about the attitudes of his cohort but I was hoping that was more along the lines of "I know it's bad, but at least it's better than it used to be" rather than straight up "you're right, and it's getting worse"
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It's incredible how decisively Google has pivoted from "organize the world's data and make it universally useful and accessible" to "repeat absolutely any bullshit found on the internet as fact."
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Turns out the standard drag and drop for controls in #godot is really well thought out and nicely implemented, which makes it a pity that the first several pages of hits I got when searching for the docs were about hand implementing your own with the physics engine. Which, if dragging objects that interact with the game world is actually part of your gameplay fair enough - but I don't think that's what a lot of the tutorial authors were actually thinking about.
Also, it really does feel that internet search is much less of a solved problem than it was ten years ago.
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We’ve pushed young people completely out of our public physical spaces and now they’re getting pushed out of our digital spaces as well. Where are they supposed to go?
