anildash

anildash, 3 hours ago to random

Just trying to imagine if people a few hundred years ago had been here to witness, in the span of a few weeks, an eclipse, an earthquake, a supernova as bright as the North Star, and an unexpected appearance of the northern lights.

anildash, 1 day ago to random

One of the most consistently wonderful and inspiring parts of @glitchdotcom after all these years is seeing brilliant young creators coming of age in the community and making the internet their generation deserves. Here's an interview telling one of those stories: https://blog.glitch.com/post/pranking-and-pixel-perfecting-with-khaleel-gibran/

tvaziri, 6 days ago to random

Introducing two first-timers to “Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior” (1981).

(They have not seen the original, and that’s okay.)

anildash, 9 days ago to random

Here’s a charming little wallpaper generator app for iPhone, with the backend written and created on @glitchdotcom ! https://techhub.social/@thatvirtualboy/112366825045223769

Mastodon, 13 days ago to mastodon

#Mastodon forms new 501(c)(3) non-profit entity with new board of directors in the United States to facilitate tax-deductible donations and in-kind support:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/

anildash, 14 days ago to random

One of the great curses in technology is that, if you’ve ever built a content management system, especially a blogging tool, you can never stop building better ones in your head, even though the actual products in reality never get any better. Here @mathowie falls down the rabbit hole again. https://a.wholelottanothing.org/a-blueprint-of-my-dream-blogging-cms/

triptych, 19 days ago to random

@anildash hi Anil, have you given puter a gander? Seems like a lot of synergy with it and Glitch. https://puter.com

loke, 23 days ago to random

Oh my lord. Gruber is really doubling down on his defence of Facebook using the argument of "how dare you tell me I have to stop robbing banks? How else can I preserve these profits?". Along with a sprinkle of not understanding that the DMS only applies to large dominant companies.

Did anyone write a good rebuttal to this yet? I need something to clean the bad taste from my mouth.

danilo, 23 days ago to random

So the CFPB has Lambda School and Austin Allred dead to rights as scammers

Allred, noted crook, is not allowed to do anything like student lending for ten years

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-takes-action-against-coding-boot-camp-bloomtech-and-ceo-austen-allred-for-deceiving-students-and-hiding-loan-costs/

devs, 28 days ago to opensource

#HugOps to unpkg and to everyone in #OpenSource who goes through similar stresses — outages like this demonstrate modern digital infrastructure's fundamental fragility: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/12/24128276/open-source-unpkg-cdn-down

danhon, 29 days ago to random

One day in October, a few days after I've installed that year's iOS update, I'm going to wake up and find that all my voice memos have been transcribed*, aren't I.

This would be... good and helpful?

• locally, offline

chrisgeidner, 1 month ago to random

On Tuesday, Dick Durbin pushed back against the “baseless and bigoted attacks” being faced by Third Circuit nominee Adeel Mangi. Good for him.

The trio of Dems who have fallen for the attacks — Cortez Masto, Rosen and Manchin — should rethink things. https://www.lawdork.com/p/adeel-mangi-judicial-nomination-under-attack

paulca, 1 month ago to random

Pretty stoked to have @anildash back at an event I'm involved in. Anil continues to inspire me, 25 years since his first blog post. And he's going to sponsor a reciprocal speaker at This Next Thing. Yes!

https://2024.thisnextthing.com/posts/our-next-headline-announcement-anil-dash

anildash, 1 month ago to random

https://youtu.be/DROnNTmTIgY?si=8h_pnpWVLB2zqLvk

anildash, 1 month ago to random

I’d asked this in hopes of identifying people who are currently early in their careers, but it’s interesting how many read it as asking who inspired them early in their career. https://me.dm/@anildash/112214630805398084

anildash, 1 month ago to random

Who are the early-career people in tech that inspire you or give you hope with their work or their ideas?

anildash, 1 month ago to random

There's been a ton of conversation about the xz exploit, but the real reason this kind of thing could even happen is because of human vulnerability, not a technology vulnerability. So we have to take a deep look at how we truly support the people who make open source happen. Here's the real, substantive investment @devs has been providing: https://www.fastly.com/blog/what-can-you-actually-do-to-reduce-the-threat-of-hacks-like-xz

anildash, 1 month ago to random

This is a milestone for the open web. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24119353/joe-biden-threads-mastodon-activitypub-fediverse