Just a reminder: You should have your own site, with your own links, on a domain that you control. We'll give you that for free on @glitchdotcom (just bring your own domain) and you can set it up in a few minutes. https://glitch.com/glitchinbio
@JasonPunyon@polotek the other large issue here is "VC" as the signifier when the company sold to an owner years ago? There are no VCs running Stack Overflow at present.
@anildash Prince q 4 u: Know any lore around P and Bernie Grundman? BG mastered all of P's albums, all of The Time’s, Morris Day solo, Sheila E, even Wendy and Lisa (and BG was hard to book in the 80s).
I fell down the BG rabbit hole because I got an original pressing of The Time debut for $7 and it sounded so good, I got weak kneed.I found a Prince podcast that interviews BG, and it's v v good, but ironically doesn't talk all that much about P and nothing about proteges. Whaddya know, oracle?
@selviano he was consistent about using Grundman but if I recall correctly, really didn’t interact with him or give him notes. I think he sort of liked having it be someone separate who had final say. (There’s a great BG reference in a Janelle Monae lyric that I think is also a nod to P.)
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.
#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:
@FinchHaven@Raccoon@Mastodon what is the acceptable amount of support a service is allowed to have? And what is the maximum acceptable salary for a mastodon maintainer?
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/
@kimonostereo I’ve been using @eleventy on @glitchdotcom and I love it. I can just write when I wanna write, and there’s fun easy stuff to tinker with when I wanna do that.
@triptych the first couple times i loaded it, it was just a bunch of gradient colors, now it's a login box wtih no description of what it is. a little too unapproachable for me.
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.
@jimray@tantramar@ianbetteridge@tfb@loke yeah I think John is at least still willing to engage honestly with people who favor regulation, but certainly that cohort is surrounded by VC-style extremism around demonizing laws.