@cwebber Hey, nice to run into you online in a new place. I liked your recent writeup of ActivityPub. @355E3B is starting some integration for https://lobste.rs (where I'm sysop).
@nixy Howdy! Looks like we have a lot of overlapping interests.
#CodeAndCoffee: Come for the regularly scheduled project time, stay for the invaluable discussion with professional colleagues. Thanks, @nickgracilla@twitter.com.
It's funny to me to see an "impossible" list of skills for a full-stack developer in this article on Lobsters, because I excercise all of them maintaining Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/x5ytgo
Lately Jordan Peterson comes up pretty much every time Lobsters gets mentioned somewhere new, so I added a note to the end of our About page: https://lobste.rs/about#michaelbolton
Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️🌈🎄
I chanced upon an ancient cache of code:
a stack of printouts, tall as any man,
that in decaying boxes had been stowed.
Ten thousand crumbling pages long it ran.
Abandoned in the blackness to erode,
what steered a ship through blackness to the moon.
The language is unused in this late year.
The target hardware, likewise, lies in ruin.
Entombed within one lone procedure’s scope,
a line of code and then these words appear:
# TEMPORARY, I HOPE HOPE HOPE
When asking for a spot on the bench press, is there a polite, unabiguous way to say, "Keep your filthy, rep-stealing paws off the bar unless it's actually crushing my throat?"
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A Lobsters visitor surfed a bit, visited /about, visited my profile, then visited a URL that threw a 500 with the word 'boop' in it. If you just booped me with a 500, DM me for an invite.
Because it just blew a few people's minds: Fisher Stevens, who played the bad guy in Hackers, also played the "Indian" guy in the Short Circuit movies. You're welcome.
made a new version of lisp where everything is exactly the same but instead of () it uses <> for, quote, "aerodynamic purposes"
Just closed a Lobsters security bug that allowed commenters to use any hat. Thanks to David Wolgemuth for reporting and patching this. An audit showed it was never exploited. https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/commit/07a0a4fd88e5a4836cc5cb6616663232b7b2aa86
If your Ansible playbook randomly stopped being able to copy up files when you updated to Ansible 2.5: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters-ansible/commit/8217190a6720aa97b1f508afe1e64f98310c394c
<hands type="jazz">software</hands>
Experimenting with using fugitive as my interface to stage and commit work. Hopefully committing fewer temp files, a regular mistake for me. https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive
None of the 10 sites I've domain-banned from Barnacl.es for consultancy "content marketing" spam have even contacted me, let alone pretended at contrition.
Period reminder that Americans have almost no privacy rights in public/stores and businesses are planning to track everywhere you go and every dollar you spend: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/technology/amazon-facial-recognition.html
Don't put animated gifs next to words you want people to read or in articles you want them to finish. Movement captures the eye and enormously distracts from your work. News sites do it because they don't care if you finish, they get paid for the ads if you click to another page.
Chicago's summer was convicted of acting corruptly in its public duties and has been incarcerated in the governor's wing in Joliet.
Every year I love a little more that, no joke, the official Illinois Secretary of State's office lives at CyberDriveIllinois.com.
