The problem with mic-dropping a zoom meeting is you don’t get to see people’s reactions.
The problem with mic-dropping a zoom meeting is you don’t get to see people’s reactions.
I’m working on a fictional universe… and I’m thinking of making the website a point-and-click adventure like I don’t have anything else to work on.
One thing I’m trying to learn: it’s ok to take breaks. It’s ok to be slow. Even if I already feel like I’m behind.
Smolblog isn’t a startup. I’m not burning runway. The features that really matter will still matter a year from now.
Take time and rest.
I realized what irks me about some tech: the shoehorning of one tech into another (server-side JS, Not-SQL databases, anti-cascading CSS) shows unwillingness to learn the other tech. Experimentation or time constraints are valid, but don’t claim that it “fixes” something that’s not even understood.
Y’all whippersnappers and your Tailwinds and your server-side rendering like you’re allergic to CSS and PHP. Y’all never had to use font
tags inside of every paragraph or try seeing which table
property will actually change the background color or transcribe your angst from your YakBak to your LJ.
Really appreciated this article by Dan Moren on regulation and the App Store:
Let’s not root for Apple to win—let’s root for Apple to do better.
A good rule to remember with any corporation. See also: Dropout’s adventure with Ticketmaster’s Dynamic Pricing.
Messy space, messy brain. Time to clean the office!
Are there any good electric cars coming out in the USA that aren’t crossovers or straight-up SUVs?
(I know the Mini Electric exists, but I’m hoping for at least 200mi of range.)
Currently in Smolblog, I don’t like how much boilerplate there is around Content Types (and CRUD operations in general). I’ve gotten close to a good abstraction a few times. But something in my brain just isn’t clicking.
Maybe I just need to sleep on it. Again.
I wish more people who are worried about FOSS supply side attacks would realize that universal basic income and free healthcare would result in an almost infinite stream of excellent software from people who care more about quality than profit.
I’m increasingly convinced we need this.
Interesting choice for ESPN to add commercial breaks (“we’ll pick up right where we left off”) to an F1 race that everyone’s going to be watching on DVR anyway (and thus skipping said commercials). What weird kind of contractual obligation is this? 🏎️
Just sent out the first set of private beta invites for Smolblog. 😬
I will have made the first public post about Smolblog five years ago this May.
Let’s see if I can’t get to Open Beta by then.
And it’s not even consistent? Like my logs are full of rejected inbox requests because the Delete
messages are signed with public keys that don’t exist because they belong to the account ostensibly being deleted!
I’ve been “almost done” for a month now. 🫠
ActivityPub might not be complicated, but trying to figure out all the little nitpicks with Mastodon that if you don’t do just right means nothing works is almost enough to make me give up on the whole thing.
Count me in with people calling large-context machine learning models “spicy autocorrect” instead of “AI.” That being said…
It’s getting to the point where it doesn’t matter how good it actually is, just that it’ll be good enough for lots of people to be out of work. What are we doing about that?
Did beta work using smol.blog. Production server is Smolblog.com, but with handles on smol.blog…
Except mastodon.social cached the URLs and, even with the webfinger changes, only talks to smol.blog. With the old IDs.
sigh
TBT to when the internet went out and I worked from a Starbucks (because their internet wasn’t from the local cable company and therefore still worked).
…haven’t worked from a coffee shop since. 🙃
TIL a Time Machine backup can fail because the disk you’re backing up (not the disk you’re backing up to) is too full. 🫠
Thought I was going to send out some closed beta invites this weekend, but I ran into a snag with my last-pass testing. The good news is, I think this means custom domains and fediverse handles are coming sooner than expected…
I’m trying to customize the account registration page in WordPress. The hooks for adding fields work fine, but not the hooks for validating. I can only assume that, because it’s multisite, it works differently? Because reasons?
Am I actually going to launch manually creating user accounts?
Working on a color scheme… I don’t think I need any interface colors besides primary, secondary, error, and neutral, right? I know a lot of the off-the-shelf systems have “success” and “info” and “danger” (not to be confused with “error”), but I also feel like I never use those.
If you’ve been interested in Smolblog and you haven’t signed up for the mailing list, now’s a pretty good time.
Just saying… 😇
OK, let’s try this monorepo business…