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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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I can’t remember ever leaving a meetup early unplanned, but I did tonight. What was supposed to be a presentation on EU startup competitiveness turned out to be an ignorant and pessimistic rant from a VC about EU regulation.

DSA and DMA are startup-friendly regulations that inhibit anticompetitive practices by incumbents. GDPR and AI Act are pragmatic guidelines for ensuring human rights are not harmed by innovation. They’re accessibly written. They’re not perfect, but they are reasonable.

Jeremiah,
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If your business idea is crushed by any EU regulations listed on that slide, it doesn’t deserve to exist in the market.

And just because it would be allowed in the US and make rich people there richer doesn’t mean it’s a benefit to humanity or a loss for Europeans.

Don’t let shortsighted VCs preach anti-regulation without actual demonstrations of harm.

Jeremiah, to random
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Anti-competitive behavior from Google: 3rd party appointment booking services like Calendly are now being restricted in a way Google’s newly launched competitor is not.

Google recently changed users’ defaults to not show 3rd party invites in Calendar unless the booker has previously emailed the host. This defeats the purpose of scheduling apps. People then miss meetings because they never appear in their calendars.

https://help.calendly.com/hc/en-us/articles/13009942892311-Google-Calendar-Invitations-Unknown-Sender-emails-

Jeremiah, to random
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If you want to be able to reserve IPv6 addresses on GCP with Terraform, please gimme a 👍.

https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-google/issues/14748

Jeremiah, (edited ) to random
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Research does not support the widespread belief that blue light emitted by electronic device screens in the evening is worse than warmer colored light when trying to fall asleep.

My next #WeblogPoMo2024 post is an expansion of an earlier thread on Mastodon.

https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/blue-light-sleep/?source=Mastodon

Jeremiah,
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@daniel I haven’t but will watch and update. Thanks!

Jeremiah, to fediverse
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  1. Download the 2 images

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You can follow me on Mastodon: Mastodon is the only Twitter alternative that: • has over 11 million people using it • is truly federated, meaning no single company “owns” it • will be supported by WordPress, Tumblr, and more soon!

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Jeremiah, to random
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Pat Robertson dedicated his long life to dehumanizing queer people. His words influenced my parents and the Christian community I was raised in. I do not celebrate his death, but I welcome the slow, incremental quieting of hate speech from one loud voice no longer speaking.

https://www.advocate.com/news/pat-robertson-homophobic-history

Jeremiah, to fediverse
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I will be speaking about the fediverse and the creator economy on Monday. I’m super excited to share what I’ve been working on with the Interledger Foundation!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/interledger-foundation-presents-open-payments-huddle-jeremiah-lee-tickets-658557532307

Jeremiah, to fediverse
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If you want to learn more about JSON-LD, the data format for the ActivityStreams 2.0 protocol used by the ActivityPub protocol used by Mastodon, these videos by Manu Sporny are a great introduction.

https://www.youtube.com/@ManuSporny

Jeremiah, to UI
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[screen fade to black on scroll]

"Continue reading" on modal

is my new most hated UX.

Jeremiah, to UI
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I still think the swipe down from the right third to get to control center and swipe down from the remaining ⅔ to get to notifications is a terrible UX on iOS. There is no/little affordance to their behavior.

Similarly, I cannot tell you what tapping the digital crown, side button, and swiping up and down does on the Apple Watch Ultra. I just cycle thru all of them until I get the screen I’m looking for.

#UI #UX #iOS #AppleWatch

Jeremiah,
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@jhogervorst I agree the control icons are a minimal affordance on iOS. Unlike WatchOS, I remember which place to swipe, but I often unintentionally swipe too far left when I want the control center. Big hand problems, I guess, but I think there should only be one swipe-from-edge gesture for any particular edge.

Jeremiah, to random
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Lock him up! Lock him up!

https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-hush-money-trial-05-30-24/index.html

#USPol

Jeremiah, to random
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Lemon Squeezy, a popular "merchant of record" payments provider built on Stripe, took over a month to refund a purchase I made.

I wanted the purchase, but the payment confirmation got lost in their system. I was charged, but their system couldn't find it. The seller couldn't do anything. Lemon Squeezy's support took so long to respond that I missed the live event.

I would not recommend using Lemon Squeezy for payments.

Jeremiah, to webdev
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Every time I have to code a HTML table I miss Macromedia Dreamweaver a whole fuckin’ lot. Where is the open source version of that?

I wish VS Code had a barebones WYSIWYG editor. I think it would replace most Markdown use cases for me.

#WebDev

Jeremiah,
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@negative12dollarbill Such an interesting and sad list. Aptana got EOLed 5 years ago. BlueGriffon just EOLed in March.

Jeremiah, (edited ) to random
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While fictional, the Law of Jante’s disapproval towards individualism and personal success are very real parts of Scandinavian culture. What would a therapist say?

https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/jante/?ref=Mastodon

Jeremiah, to random
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Stack Overflow is a community optimized for well actually men who enjoy Internet points more than helping people.

Jeremiah,
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Don’t subject your community to Stack Exchange hostility.

Host a fediverse server for Q&A instead.

https://answer.dev/

Jeremiah, to random
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What level Marriott Bonvoy status gets me a room without tiny lights or panels glowing at night?

Power outlets that support the weight of a wall wart?

How about for a tv with motion smoothing and color modifications disabled?

I didn’t bring enough duct tape to cover all the lights in my room AND hold my laptop power in the socket.

Jeremiah,
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I yell, “MacGruber!” wherever I must use duct tape to make power outlets functional in airports.

Jeremiah,
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Update: using husband’s cable cantilevered precisely with exposed prongs necessary to maintain power flow. 🎶 MacGruber!

Jeremiah, to random
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According to https://www.BrewFiles.com, I am an architect developer.

I consider myself a full stack Web developer, but I don’t install frontend tools or Rust with Homebrew.

Fun little project from Warp, my fav terminal app. https://app.warp.dev/referral/2YRKGY

Jeremiah, (edited ) to webdev
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I was curious about what percentage of people visiting my site had set preferences for light/dark mode, reduced motion, or increased contrast. I also wanted to know what percentage had HDR support.

I figured out how to do that custom tracking with @plausible and wrote a tutorial.

https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/plausible-accessibility-tracking/?source=Mastodon

#WebDev #a11y #WeblogPoMo2024

Jeremiah,
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I have been writing at least an hour every day as part of . I never intended to publish daily, but I also have not published nearly as much as I had hoped. This post was a result of 3 other related posts that are almost ready. Maybe I will meet half my goal of 5 published posts this month…

Jeremiah, to random
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My husband got upgraded to first class on his 12 hour flight. I was in the cheapest economy saver seat because I work with non-profits and he works for Big Tech Co. (We were on different flights.)

You might say our Lufthansa experience “was a little different for me…”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDtgChc7voY

Jeremiah,
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@anderseknert His company bought him business class. His loyalty status (from work travel) + limited demand for that route today I assume got him an extremely reasonable upgrade price.

m2m, to random
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Does anyone know—and trust—any cloud backup system similar to Backblaze, but hosted in the EU?

#AskFedi #Backup

Jeremiah,
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@m2m Following along because I have also been curious about this for a long time.

The only ones somewhat similar, but not really, I have found: https://www.eucloud.tech/eu-providers/backup

Jeremiah, to random
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I can’t tell if my much lower conference talk proposal acceptance rate in the last year is because my proposals are less desirable or because I no longer work at a Big Tech Co. I suspect it’s the latter, which is a bit of an ego buster and a disappointment in conference organizers.

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