benjaoming

mnot, 7 months ago to random

Mozilla is ringing the alarm bell on a dangerous EU regulation.

https://last-chance-for-eidas.org

benjaoming, 8 months ago to random

thanks to whoever did this 😂

stefan, 27 days ago (edited 27 days ago) to fediverse

Some recent #fediverse #data explorations and #polls:

• Fediverse clients vs alt text: https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/impact-of-fediverse-clients-on-the-use-of-alt-text/
• Sending a post into the fediverse: https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/data-on-sending-a-post-into-the-fediverse/ (with a great follow-up from @stefan!)
• Keeping fediverse sustainable: https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/the-ways-we-keep-the-fediverse-sustainable/
• How many fediverse servers know about my server?: https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/how-many-fediverse-servers-know-about-my-server/
• Analyzing fediverse followers: https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/analyzing-fediverse-followers/ (featured on the official Mastodon blog!)

https://stefanbohacek.com/category/fediverse-explorations/

#dataviz #poll #mastodon

benjaoming, 8 months ago to random

I really believe that there are WAY TOO FEW local conferences. My focus is on tech conferences, but I'm sure it applies to other areas, too.

So I've written a blog post about small and local events:

https://overtag.dk/v2/blog/local-conferences-big-potential/

Please give comments and suggestions about your ideas on this topic! I wouldn't mind doing a rewrite after your inputs 🙏

benjaoming, 6 months ago to random

Hahaha, this....

@forgejo is developed with @forgejo 💯 [1]

Gitea is developed with.... GitHub🤦 [2]

[1] https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo
[2] https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea

benjaoming, 22 days ago to django

Oy! Today, it's the 10 year anniversary for #Django PR#2692 🥳

It's definitely worth celebrating how the good forces were victorious against all the loud mouth conservatives/trolls. Since my office is full today, I might need to get both a primary cake and a replica cake for redundancy 🍰

Congrats and thanks to @fcurella and everyone else involved in this.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692

benjaoming, 7 months ago to django

Next #django event that I'm at, I shall be equipped with these amazing stickers by @sjbitcode and @adamghill 🎉

This is the most well-made Django merch I've ever had in a long history of cool stuff - and you can get it on djangostickers.com!

"What is Django thing anyways", people might ask?

Answer: It's this awesome community with awesome stickers and wearables. And they happen to run a web framework, too! :djangopony:

benjaoming, 6 months ago to django

Using inputs and inspirations from @adamchainz and @josh among others, I made a write-up about a settings pattern for reusable #django apps:

https://overtag.dk/v2/blog/a-settings-pattern-for-reusable-django-apps/

Teaser: I've added a section on future work, have a feeling we can do a sequel to this approach :djangopony:

benjaoming, 2 months ago to django

On May 20th, it's 10 years anniversary for #Django PR#2692 - feeling very thankful for people who were around early to start this long journey, despite all the crazy internet hate.

You were victorious, so if you know who to congratulate or want to celebrate it, you should... well it's a Monday, but it can be a good opportunity to buy a primary cake and have some replicas ready in case of a extra demand.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692

benjaoming, 2 months ago to random

Schleswig-Holstein's 30,000 employees are switching to Linux, @thunderbird , @libreoffice, OX (Open-Xchange) and @nextcloud ☀️

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/german-state-gov-ditching-windows-for-linux-30k-workers-migrating/?comments=1

benjaoming, 5 months ago to random

Germany 😖️ (but also rest of Europe wtf)

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2023/demographics/#gender

benjaoming, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Wanna start a small office collective in #Malmö with me? Get in touch!

benjaoming, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

I was buying something in a webshop and noticed a "1 item left in stock" message, which turned out to be fake.

At first, I was suspicious that the notification might be fake. I took screenshots before and after buying the item. Afterwards, I sent the evidence to the consumer agency.

This deceptive pattern @deceptivepatterns is called "fake scarcity" and is described here: https://www.deceptive.design/types/fake-scarcity #DeceptivePatterns

Edit: Updated with image caption text + minor edits.

benjaoming, 5 months ago to random

Trying out the Mastodon client @phanpy for the first time. It runs as a 100% static website, all settings stored in your browser. Has so many features. So far, it has added all the features that are otherwise missing in Mastodon's built-in web client.

See the many features here: https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy/

Here's some Docker code to get started on your own localhost: https://git.data.coop/benjaoming/phanpy

benjaoming, 3 months ago to random

haha, this blog post is funny https://docs.emailengine.app/how-i-turned-my-open-source-project-into/

Starts like this:

> How I turned my open-source project into a business

Okay! Exciting! A bit later, he talks about PRs and how he doesn't care about contributions:

> 1.9% [PRs] was from other contributors, so not getting PRs merged was not a major issue (...) For EmailEngine, the same numbers were 99.8% vs 0.2%.

Then finally towards the end:

> I also changed the license from LGPL to a commercial license.

carlton, 19 days ago to django

Time to get testing folks! #Django 💃

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2024/may/22/django-51-alpha-1-released/

benjaoming, 4 months ago to django

Double form submissions: I find that they're a recurring pain that somehow keeps attracting a stack of individual and single-use solutions. Also often they're just not solved for the same reason.

I've tried and tested a reusable method for #Django that uses a hash of the POST data in order to combat the issue.

You can read about it here: https://overtag.dk/v2/blog/duplicate-form-submissions-and-how-to-handle-them-in-django/

benjaoming, 5 months ago to django

I wanna talk more about local conferences!

So I wrote another blog post that follows up on the practical steps that we learned through organizing #Django Day Copenhagen with @djangodenmark.

And I would really love to have feedback on this subject -- especially what are examples of great local conferences that you know?

https://overtag.dk/v2/blog/code-globally-meet-locally/

benjaoming, 5 months ago to random

RubyGems supports the feature of "yanking" (deleting a package version after its release). I'm sure there's a lot of discussion about that. Here's the discussion about deleting versions on PyPi, which I hope finds a conclusion sooner or later: https://discuss.python.org/t/stop-allowing-deleting-things-from-pypi/17227

Btw people in the Ruby community are super-nice about this, responding kindly+constructively to the maintainer 💯️

Also, it's a repository with 5 stars, 4 watchers and used by 904 projects on GitHub 😖️ https://github.com/dryruby/json-canonicalization/issues/2

benjaoming, 1 month ago to random

benjaoming, 1 month ago to random

Exciting news! We'll have the fantastic @parismarx visiting in Copenhagen! Speaking about AI at an AI Exhibition at the communication museum ENIGMA, and with @Kjaerulv moderating:

»Don't Buy the AI Fantasy«

More events might be announced soon. The visit is not least thanks to the fact that the local unions PROSA and IDA assisted financially 👏️

You can get tickets here: https://shop.enigma.dk/dk/paris-marx

phildini, 16 days ago to django

What are the best practices / good project templates for starting a #Django project in 2024? Things that I used to do are cargo-culted in my own brain from 5 years ago, has anyone written a good recent guide?

(🚀 for reach welcome)

benjaoming, 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago) to random

The visit by @parismarx in Copenhagen last week went really well. The fact of the interview on national Danish TV (DR2 Deadline) was a testimony to how important real, honest AI critic is.

The episode was published tonight: https://www.dr.dk/drtv/episode/deadline_-politikernes-armlaegning-med-den-kunstige-intelligens_456113

(edit: no geo restrictions! interview itself is in English, starts at 6:30)

hynek, 5 months ago to random

fyi the life-changing GL.iNet GL-MT3000 (Beryl AX) travel router whose praises I’ve been singing forever (including in https://hynek.me/til/beryl-ax-captive-portal/) is on sale for 103.20 € on Amazon.de and $109.90 on Amazon.com.