Woke up, had coffee & Italian sweets, kicked impostor syndrome in the 🎱 🎱 #Wikipedia#Editing wasn't ever on my bingo card, but here we are!
Any tips for rookie editors (that aren't in the official guidance)?
Stay humble.
Ask questions.
Keep at it, slowly.
Expect to never stop learning.
If something seems difficult or strange, remember you're not alone and plenty of people are eager to help as we share a common purpose/mission of improving Wikipedia, you can reach out on talk pages, village pumps, wiki project pages, and off-wiki on fedi to explain what you want to do, and ask for help.
The thing about me being a BDFL for #curl is that it has the D in there. I have the means and ability to push for just about anything I like. I say that I truly try to be a benevolent dictator, but then I presume quite a few dictators would say so.
Next week I will tell you all about how I view this dictatorship and how it is not quite like a dictatorship of a country since in our case, everyone could just leave if I misbehave.
Holy cow, the person sitting behind me at the coffee shop is on work calls (fine, I do it too) but they sound JUST LIKE those "here's what corporate speak sounds like when spoken by a millennial" videos.
> Flesh that out and run it up the flagpole, ping the boss and circle back. Prioritize to align on lunch orders criticality. Land the plane. Five-year plan to pivot and productize the deliverables.
TIL you can absolutely use an external fan on a M1 MacBook Air to cool it and keep thermal throttling to a minimum. Janky? Yes but 99% of the time I am not working with video or anything so CPU intensive that it causes issues.
Oh great... As if it isn’t bad enough that I have to clear every single mention notification twice in Ivory (and there is no way to turn off the rest of the notifications)... now even going to each tab no longer clears them and I need to quit the app entirely to do so.
I think it's time I put all my computers away... in the trashcan.
I really dislike how Mastodon handles direct messages, as if there were just any other post with replies.
Twitter does this much better. Direct messages are grouped by person, as they should be. On Mastodon, though, it’s difficult to see your message history with a person, and it’s always unclear whether you should reply to an old, possibly unrelated direct message or start a new “thread”, which is more difficult than it should be.
Some other Fedi software pretend to do the above but within any server handling, like ELK, that seems worse as that makes it seem more safe than it actually is. Any wrong mention...
For Mastodon specifically, I believe they don't want to create a separate UI until E2E is also finished.
MKBHD is reportedly taking criticism for his honest and even generous review of a shitty tech product. The truth is it was just one guy on Twitter giving him shit, until journalists came to do a poor job with it and create outrage and attention, to then rewrite and report more.