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Jeremiah

@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold

I work in tech, fight for digital rights and the environment, kiss dudes, cycle, lift heavy things, and don’t eat animals. Swedish immigrant, US American emigrant. Occasionally shirtless. (he/him | they/them)

Working on https://restoration.software/@restoration.software

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#ADHD #environmentalist #EU #fedi22 #fitness #gay #GSRD #LGBTQ #openSource #plantBased #plants #privacy #programming #Stockholm #Sverige #tech #technology #webDev #WebMonetization #YesBot #searchable

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Jeremiah, to random
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Gen Alpha might get to be the first generation of US Americans to stay mostly intact since 1925. Lucky them.

https://bird.makeup/users/amazingmap/statuses/1784657593295675489

molly0xfff, to web
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Many yearn for the "good old days" of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

Jeremiah,
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@molly0xfff This was a lovely read to start my day with. Thank you for writing it!

polotek, to random
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Questions for software engineers about estimates. Feel free to answer any of these in any order.

Have you ever had an explicit conversation about how to estimate projects? How did you learn?

If you feel that you were never taught the skill in any real sense, what do you feel you're doing at work when you're asked for estimates? Are you making it up? Have you developed your own personal guidelines?

On average, how confident are you in your own estimates? How do you measure success?

Jeremiah,
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@polotek When I worked at Fitbit, the company had Ken Rubin teach a 2-day agile training once a quarter to new hires. This gave everyone a shared, foundational understanding of how to break problems down into known knowns and unknowns, how to estimate effort or timebox until able to estimate effort.

Many of us were skeptical at first, but we did actually get much better at estimating at the team level. Success was how accurate the team was in delivering the work committed to in a 2 week sprint.

Jeremiah,
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@polotek The techniques I learned from Ken Rubin’s agile training worked well on other teams I managed at Spotify & Stripe. With about 2 months of data and collaboration, teams could start breaking down multi-quarter projects to estimate with reasonable accuracy.

For known knowns, I used story point estimation <https://www.scrumdesk.com/breaking-free-from-the-traditional-approach-agile-estimation-techniques-for-better-project-management/> with this guide for estimating effort <https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/agile/user-story-estimation/>.

Known unknowns used timeboxed investigation with output of learning or estimatable user story.

Jeremiah, to Stockholm
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Berzellii Park

mrcopilot, to mastodon
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My apologies to the Slashdotted admin.

"Please don't share our content because of server load" sounds an awful lot like an admin/config problem.

Also sounds a lot like a plea for a centralized link preview farm.

Oh no the server is Melton, @lisamelton

#Mastodon #LinkPreview #LoadSpike

Anyone venturing into this solution space?

https://news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link-problem/

Jeremiah,
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@mrcopilot This sounds like a problem best solved by websites experiencing this problem adding caching on their end (Varnish/Squid server or Fastly/Bunny/CDN service) than Mastodon et al changing anything.

Jeremiah, to random
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These birds are listening to Night Moves by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

Jeremiah, to random
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First time wearing shorts outside in Stockholm in 2024!

Jeremiah walking in blue shorts and a white shirt wearing reflective bro-y sunglasses. He smiles with a sun lens flare behind him.

Jeremiah, to random
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Sounds Right is a music initiative to generate royalties from the sounds of planet Earth to fund conservation projections.

At least 50% of royalties from songs that feature NATURE and 63% of royalties from ambient nature sounds will be donated to biodiversity conservation and restoration projects. The project is overseen by the UN.

Ellie Goulding, Brian Eno, and V of BTS already have songs out.

https://www.soundsright.earth/

Listen: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/38ABjTam1XalavZAhxZyFt?si=2f5aac70ed3f452f

Jeremiah, to ADHD
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The hostility of governments towards tourists with ADHD who just want to take their medication is a true test of the effectiveness of that medication.

Within the EU, I must fill out a form with my pharmacist for them to file for each trip beyond Sverige’s border.

For my trip to Korea, I must download 2 Word docs from a website in Korean, submit a copy of my passport, flight information, notarized English translation of my Swedish prescription, and email it all 10 days before travel.

Jeremiah,
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Given the decades of research, prescription, and millions of people using the medication, I think governments should stop treating people with ADHD like they are potential drug mules.

People buy enough alcohol in duty free stores at the airport to get shitfaced and that’s ok, but someone with a pill a day for the duration of their trip so their executive function works is a 🚩? Sure, Jan…

Jeremiah,
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Update: Korea told me to “leave [my] narcotics at home” or “postpone [my] trip if cannot function without” because I submitted my application less than 10 work days in advance of my trip. There are 2 Korean holiday periods coming up I did not account for not being work days.

Fuck my executive function, I guess. 😞

Jeremiah, to random
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The Getty Museum released high resolution images of ~87,000 artworks it owns under the @creativecommons CC0 free culture license. More museums should do this!

You can print and sell Vincent van Gogh’s famous irises as much as you want, but the hope is that people will remix and build new masterpieces on the culture that came before them.

Open Content Program FAQ: https://www.getty.edu/projects/open-content-program/faqs/

Browse the collection: https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/search?open_content=true

Jeremiah, (edited ) to random
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My sleep has been shit the last few weeks.

Will I survive a Barry’s Bootcamp class on 5 hours of sleep? Let’s find out! Because it’s too late to cancel and not lose the money.

At least the weather is nice. 4° and pouring rain.

Jeremiah,
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I survived. 💪

EU_Commission, to random
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Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay.

We are working on a solution to ensure our continued presence on your feeds, taking full advantage of Mastodon's identity portability.

And we are even growing the team behind our Mastodon presence, increasing efforts to engage with your comments on our posts.

We are fully committed to being a real part of the conversation in the fediverse.

Interested in our next steps? Follow us as we take on this new chapter.

Jeremiah,
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@EU_Commission Better than identity portability would be finding a way to keep your current server operating for you and all the other official EU accounts using it.

Jeremiah, to random
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I was quoted in an article about making friends in Sverige.

https://www.thelocal.se/20240426/we-all-cheer-each-other-on-how-we-made-friends-in-sweden

Jeremiah, to random
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😡 The @EU_Commission is giving up on @Mastodon and @peertube because @EDPS couldn’t find an agency within the commission to continue operating it.

https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/press-releases/2024/edps-decentralised-social-media-pilot-end-successful-story_en

Jeremiah, (edited )
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The @EDPS missed an Internet meme moment to use the phrase “our incredible journey” when announcing the discontinuation of EU Voice and EU Video. https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

Was the experiment really “a successful story” when the outcome was learning no EU agency cared about digital sovereignty enough to lead by example?

GDPR and DSA are great for changing the status quo of social networks.

But to build a better future, governments must fund, support, and use the alternatives.

@EU_Commission

Jeremiah,
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@Ciantic @EDPS @Gargron Given the EU runs its own websites, I think it's capable of running its own social web profiles too. EDPS reasonably was not the right IT department to do so long term.

I think big community servers should be reserved for individuals and small organizations lacking the expertise/capacity/budget of running their own website, but I agree that any continued social web presence would be better than no presence.

Jeremiah,
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(Edits: EDPS is an independent body, not an executive agency of the EU Commission. Thank you to the kind people who corrected me privately.)

Jeremiah,
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@EU_Commission 👋 Hi EC! Thanks for the reply. Big fan of yours in general.

Can you clarify if your fediverse survival plan means finding a new EU agency to continue hosting social.network.europa.eu, migrating to another community server, or something else?

Please don't say Threads. That would only further Meta's dominance.

shanselman, to random
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We just open-sourced DOS 4 (and found binaries of Multitasking DOS 4) https://www.hanselman.com/blog/open-sourcing-dos-4

Jeremiah,
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@shanselman Will version 8.0 ever be open sourced?

Jeremiah, to random
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I’m going to write every day in the month of May. I will publish as often as I can, aiming for twice a week or 10 posts. I have an enormous drafts pile and getting those out into the world would feel satisfying.

https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/weblog-posting-month-2024

Jeremiah,
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As I prepare for , I’m curious if there is anything you would like me to write about next month.

Some things I’m considering:
• /now page update
• my ADHD journey last year
• my complicated relationship with religion thanks to Derrida, Darwin, and dick
• the origin of developer experience
• creator economy economics
• marketing tactics for the social web
• why GDPR is amazing and not to be feared
• autonomy, alignment, accountability in teams
• thoughts on Fitbit and InVision

Jeremiah,
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@samuel Challenge to write every day in the month of May. Publish as often as you can.

https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/weblog-posting-month-2024

renchap, (edited ) to random
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Nobody seems to have noticed it but the Mastodon project have been granted funding by @NGIZero in the Entrust fund.

This is amazing, but the best part is that this funding is targeted at implementing… Quote Posts 🎉

This effort started several months ago and we already did some preliminary work, but this will be a big feature for our next 4.4 version. This funding will cover the ActivityPub work, as well as backend, web frontend and official mobile app implementation.

Jeremiah,
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@renchap @NGIZero So happy to read this! And still so happy we got to meet up at the NGI Forum.

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