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Jeremiah

@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold

I work in tech, fight for digital rights and the environment, kiss dudes, cycle, lift heavy things, and don’t eat animals. Swedish immigrant, US American emigrant. Occasionally shirtless. (he/him | they/them)

Working on https://restoration.software/@restoration.software

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#ADHD #environmentalist #EU #fedi22 #fitness #gay #GSRD #LGBTQ #openSource #plantBased #plants #privacy #programming #Stockholm #Sverige #tech #technology #webDev #WebMonetization #YesBot #searchable

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Jeremiah, to random
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Feeling a bit overwhelmed at the moment.

I paused consulting in December to work on a fragile idea that might only be useful to me, but I’m passionate about it.

Getting close to sharing the first design prototype publicly soon. I’m doing initial user testing now. The first feedback was helpful, but rough.

I hope there is a space between public broadcasty social media like here and tens of group message chats across 5 apps, but explaining the concept is proving difficult.

Jeremiah, to random
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US Congress is attempting to slip the Kids Online Safety Act into the must-pass FAA reauthorization package. The bill claims to make kids safer, but it’s really a dangerous censorship bill that will give the US government unprecedented control over the Internet.

US Americans: call your representatives NOW to oppose KOSA. This website gives you the phone numbers and script:

https://www.stopkosa.com/#call

chartier, to random
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Hey

Remember the SarcMark? Website’s still up. 😄

Anyone ever seen it implemented somewhere?

https://sarcmark.com/

Jeremiah,
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@chartier I feel this would be seriously considered by the Unicode Consortium if it were not trademarked.

aphyr, to random
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Fun time to buy a Tesla, a car which is entirely dependent for long distance travel on Tesla's charging network, which was maintained by a five hundred person team Musk just fired in its entirety https://www.fastcompany.com/91116692/tesla-lay-offs-supercharger-team-evs-network-automakers-gm-ford

Jeremiah,
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@aphyr I just sold all my $TSLA stock because of this decision. With the recent departures of brilliant people, I no longer have much long term optimism for Tesla’s dominance.

Jeremiah, to random
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Yay! I got my US passport with my updated legal name!

Now I can schedule a trip to the foreign Social Security Office in Oslo because the US still does not have a central identity register.

https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/name/

Jeremiah, to random
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Tumblr is removing tipping, citing low usage and a need to prioritize other feature development higher.

https://changes.tumblr.com/post/749295377342251008/tipping-is-going-away-on-june-1-2024

Jeremiah,
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I tried Tumblr’s tipping feature to document the experience before it gets removed.

• Low usage: took ~20 minutes to find a creator with it enabled
• On iOS, payment did not use Apple Pay. I had to type my name, postal code, credit card number, expiration, verification code.
• When trying to send a second tip, it remembered my name, currency, postal code, but not my credit card details.
• Prices in USD even tho I set SEK as currency
• Smallest tip option $1.99

Jeremiah,
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@thisismissem Agreed. I think this is more a failure in execution than concept.

I just tested it for the first time. It was a terrible UX.

Searching the comments suggests many Tumblr users never knew the feature even existed.

I assume Tumblr’s use of Stripe prevented many categories of Tumblr creators from being able to benefit from the tipping feature.

Castopod, to random

📈 When you are in YCombinator Hacker News' Top 10… 😲

Jeremiah,
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@Castopod Where you should be!

randahl, to random
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Want to write italics?
It really 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 work.
Want to write bold?
𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐝 works too.

However, this was done using a Unicode text converter, and it would be better, if we could do this through the app.

But maybe it is a design choice that this is not possible — perhaps to ensure the timeline does not look too messy.

Try it: https://capitalizemytitle.com/italic-text-generator/

Jeremiah,
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@randahl Please do not do this. It results in garbage to people using screen readers.

https://twitter.com/kentcdodds/status/1083073242330361856/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1083073242330361856&currentTweetUser=kentcdodds

Jeremiah,
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@randahl @lukem It has nothing to do with the quality of the screen reader. These symbols have specific meaning and are correctly read as their intended meaning, not as a visual hack.

https://twitter.com/kentcdodds/status/1083073242330361856/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1083073242330361856&currentTweetUser=kentcdodds

Mastodon does not yet support rich text authoring, but it does support rich text viewing from more capable servers.

Jeremiah,
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@randahl @lukem You can add an affirmative reaction on the feature request for some rich text authoring on Mastodon to show support for this: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/853

Jeremiah, to random
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Gen Alpha might get to be the first generation of US Americans to stay mostly intact since 1925. Lucky them.

https://bird.makeup/users/amazingmap/statuses/1784657593295675489

molly0xfff, to web
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Many yearn for the "good old days" of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

Jeremiah,
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@molly0xfff This was a lovely read to start my day with. Thank you for writing it!

polotek, to random
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Questions for software engineers about estimates. Feel free to answer any of these in any order.

Have you ever had an explicit conversation about how to estimate projects? How did you learn?

If you feel that you were never taught the skill in any real sense, what do you feel you're doing at work when you're asked for estimates? Are you making it up? Have you developed your own personal guidelines?

On average, how confident are you in your own estimates? How do you measure success?

Jeremiah,
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@polotek When I worked at Fitbit, the company had Ken Rubin teach a 2-day agile training once a quarter to new hires. This gave everyone a shared, foundational understanding of how to break problems down into known knowns and unknowns, how to estimate effort or timebox until able to estimate effort.

Many of us were skeptical at first, but we did actually get much better at estimating at the team level. Success was how accurate the team was in delivering the work committed to in a 2 week sprint.

Jeremiah,
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@polotek The techniques I learned from Ken Rubin’s agile training worked well on other teams I managed at Spotify & Stripe. With about 2 months of data and collaboration, teams could start breaking down multi-quarter projects to estimate with reasonable accuracy.

For known knowns, I used story point estimation <https://www.scrumdesk.com/breaking-free-from-the-traditional-approach-agile-estimation-techniques-for-better-project-management/> with this guide for estimating effort <https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/agile/user-story-estimation/>.

Known unknowns used timeboxed investigation with output of learning or estimatable user story.

Jeremiah, to Stockholm
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Berzellii Park

mrcopilot, to mastodon
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My apologies to the Slashdotted admin.

"Please don't share our content because of server load" sounds an awful lot like an admin/config problem.

Also sounds a lot like a plea for a centralized link preview farm.

Oh no the server is Melton, @lisamelton

Anyone venturing into this solution space?

https://news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link-problem/

Jeremiah,
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@mrcopilot This sounds like a problem best solved by websites experiencing this problem adding caching on their end (Varnish/Squid server or Fastly/Bunny/CDN service) than Mastodon et al changing anything.

Jeremiah, to random
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These birds are listening to Night Moves by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

Jeremiah, to random
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First time wearing shorts outside in Stockholm in 2024!

Jeremiah walking in blue shorts and a white shirt wearing reflective bro-y sunglasses. He smiles with a sun lens flare behind him.

Jeremiah, to ADHD
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The hostility of governments towards tourists with ADHD who just want to take their medication is a true test of the effectiveness of that medication.

Within the EU, I must fill out a form with my pharmacist for them to file for each trip beyond Sverige’s border.

For my trip to Korea, I must download 2 Word docs from a website in Korean, submit a copy of my passport, flight information, notarized English translation of my Swedish prescription, and email it all 10 days before travel.

Jeremiah,
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Update: Korea told me to “leave [my] narcotics at home” or “postpone [my] trip if cannot function without” because I submitted my application less than 10 work days in advance of my trip. There are 2 Korean holiday periods coming up I did not account for not being work days.

Fuck my executive function, I guess. 😞

#ADHD

Jeremiah, to random
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I’m going to write every day in the month of May. I will publish as often as I can, aiming for twice a week or 10 posts. I have an enormous drafts pile and getting those out into the world would feel satisfying.

https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/weblog-posting-month-2024

Jeremiah,
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@samuel Challenge to write every day in the month of May. Publish as often as you can.

https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/weblog-posting-month-2024

Jeremiah,
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Good grades and a successful career hid a lifetime of suffering. Burnout at age 38 revealed signs that had been there my entire life. My hope is that sharing my ADHD symptoms and compensation strategies will help others get help sooner.

https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/adhd/

#WeblogPoMo2024 #ADHD

Jeremiah,
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@jacobyaudio I know that exact situation. I hope you find the help you're hoping for!

Jeremiah,
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@mellowfish Indeed. My investigation also included an evaluation for autism, obsessive-compulsive, traumatic stress, depression, and bipolar disorders because of the high comorbidity. My psychologist first presented why I did not (also) have those before concluding with why my symptoms must be ADHD. I appreciated learning a little more about them in case I ever did see myself in those descriptions.

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