anildash

devs, 1 month 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, 1 month 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

anildash, 1 month ago to random

why do all the WiFi routers look like the king of the Nazgûl now

waldoj, 1 month ago to random

NYC's chatbot tells me that you must wear long pants to the DMV, so that's good to know about.

anildash, 1 month ago to random

The perfect @glitchdotcom story: Slate covers a family of Wordle enthusiasts, and there’s an aside where a high schooler casually builds a tool for tracking NYT Spelling Bee high scores, using Glitch. https://slate.com/culture/2024/03/wordle-connections-nyt-hint-word-new-york-times.html

dansup, 1 month ago to random

I'm honestly considering a paid verification program in Pixelfed to help sustain the project long term.

It would be a centralized list, and would be present in clients, regardless of server.

A blue checkmark would not only help our project financially, but would also provide a trusted visual mark of verification.

Thoughts?

#boostsAppreciated

Gargron, 1 month ago to random

Visiting @anildash and @haubles.

#Plushtodon #Merchtodon

anildash, 1 month ago to random

From the “kids are geniuses” department: the high schoolers on this bus are playing a game of punchbuggy, but instead of hitting each other when they see a VW, they shout “Tesla!” and punch each other when they see a Tesla.