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mez

@mez@mastodon.nz

Work: Web & software development 🧑🏼‍💻

Play: Ultimate (retired?) 🥏, climbing 🧗🏼, tramping 🏕, D&D 🧙🏼‍♂️

My header is from the Oregon on the US west (best) coast.

That's Guster in my profile pic with me. He's a good pupper, but couldn't move to New Zealand with me.

He/Him, wouldn't be fussed by They

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mez, to node
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nom audit fix just “improved” my vulnerabilities from

36 vulnerabilities (1 low, 10 moderate, 20 high, 5 critical)
to
36 vulnerabilities (1 low, 7 moderate, 18 high, 10 critical)

Cool cool cool, so my critical issues have doubled. Are those new or did it just shuffle things around?

joncounts, to nz
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Yesterday, I did my monthly 40 km Port Hills biodiversity bike ride to Lincoln, making 717 mapped out species observations as I biked. As usual, almost all of the endemic forest birds were in the hills.

For the past week I've been trying a new microphone mount, which holds the microphone above my handlebars. This is reducing the background bike noise and has improved the already high accuracy of the AWS transcriptions.

There are new lambs about on the farmland. Here's a photo of a black lamb with two adult black sheep.
A photo of two kererū (NZ wood pigeons) perched in a tree up Dyers Pass.
A map of the NZ endemic forest birds seen along my bike route. All bellbirds/korimako, kererū, and tomtits (miromiro) were in the Port Hills, where the native forest remnants are. One riroriro (grey warbler) and several piwakawaka (fantails) were in the farmland, but, again, most were in the hills. This is the usual pattern along this route.

mez,
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@joncounts Wow, I figured your ride was some big ol’ steel frame beast for mounting everything! What a setup, got space for your hands? :D

fraying, to random
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Here's a photo of a bee going to TOWN on a pumpkin flower. That is all.

mez,
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@fraying This is amazing! 💛

mez, to 13thFloor
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My reader is full of tech blogs and personal blogs of tech people. It’s very monochrome. I need some variance, some creativity and .

Hit me up with your favorite short story , fiction writers, horror-in-sentence writers.

What about people writing about their hobbies, handcrafts, or hidden treasures?

Game design, world building, adventures?

Boosts welcome

zachleat, (edited ) to random
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Whew, I have thoughts on this article from @ricmac: https://thenewstack.io/is-jamstack-toast-some-developers-say-yes-netlify-says-no/

Jamstack as a meaningful term lost a lot of power because it was diluted to include practices that went against the original definition.

If we want Jamstack to continue to be relevant and useful—we (as a larger community independent of Netlify) need to clarify the definition to have a meaningful and consistent technical foundation.

mez,
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@zachleat @ricmac “Jamstack” is fairly opaque as a term, but it's cute and catchy. "Composable architectures” on the other hand…🤮

sysop408, (edited ) to random
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A lot of people still think about Covid as a wash your hands and socially distance kind of thing.

Chances of getting Covid from touching something is near zero and we're far more likely to catch it from someone we can't see because it can stay in the air for a long time, drift long distances, and remain potent long after a contagious person is gone (as much as 2 hours).

This is why improving ventilation is one of the most important things you can do to reduce risks of infection for yourself and people around you. With good air flow, an infectious person is less dangerous. Infected air is diluted and can't linger to keep infecting.

I took a variety of CO2 readings to estimate indoor air quality. Based on these readings, places I wouldn't want to be unmasked would be: house gatherings, offices, meeting rooms, conventions, public transit, a plane, funerals.

Places that may not be as risky as originally believed are: supermarkets, pharmacies, and restaurants.

mez,
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@sysop408 High CO2 is just an indicator of rebreathed air and/or low circulation, correct? Higher chance of contracting something airborne if something airborne exists.

Regarding planes, what’s the deal with their fancy filters and constant circulation they tout? I’d imagine even with filters CO2 could show up high?

mez,
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@sysop408 But in the case of airplanes, a high CO2 is just cause they recycle the air a lot, not bring in fresh. It’s still being run through strong filtration. Right? That said, I’m still wearing a mask on planes! And you’re totally right, the rest of the flying experience is terrible (not just cause of infections! 😅)

mez, to fediverse
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Is there a use/benefit/purpose to having a Mastodon account, a Pixelfed account, and a Calckey account? They all seem to fit a different niche, but there’s a lot of overlap it seems. (I haven’t used Calckey yet.)

And also, what if I want to actually host/own my content all in one place without hosting several different instances? I can use my website, but then need to syndicate all that to ActivityPub and handle incoming as well?

mez,
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@kainoa @paulhellyer Kainoa, What are your thoughts on the different uses of the various Fediverse apps, having written this one? Or is there a good explainer you can link that you keep in your back pocket when people like me ask? :)

I have an inkling, my best move is just get on a Calckey instance and have a go!

mekkaokereke, to random
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🤔 Do bicycles create empathy? Or do people that care about other people, tend to care about bikes?

Why is there such a big overlap between "bike infrastructure radicalized people," and "people that care about people that are different than themselves?"

Why is there such a low overlap between "people with trash hateful takes" and "people that want more bike infrastructure?"

mez,
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@mekkaokereke Was talking about this yesterday with someone. My city just did a survey on a bike lane. They had a number of people try to skew results with double responding. They found car drivers were responsible for twice as many of these than respondents from all other modes of transport combined.
They were also more likely to not think of others’ needs as pedestrians and cyclists. Often needs = safety when it comes to this too.

mez, to random
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@idanoo Any plans to support video on pixelfed.nz? Not something I see myself using heaps, but just noticed it was a disabled feature when I was poking around today.

mez,
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@idanoo Yeah, seems like a smart initial setting :)
Being away on a trip soon is what initiated the query. No stress though!

bitwarden, to bitwarden
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Learn how to self-host Bitwarden Password Manager on a Raspberry Pi using the Unified deployment—currently in beta, launching soon!

https://bitwarden.com/learning/pm-install-and-deploy-bitwarden-self-hosted/

mez,
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@bitwarden I literally just finished getting Vaultwarden set up because Bitwarden didn't support RPi! 😩

scott, to random
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    mez,
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    @scott I can’t find where he wrote about it, but @malarkey did some clever grids on the latest Stuff and Nonsense redesign. It was some sort of mashup between 4 and 7 columns (or some combination). It ends up with a uneven width 9 column design that’s both structured and interesting.

    iangriffin, to Astronomy
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    As it's the winter solstice here in NZ I've been looking at my latest harvest of long exposure pinhole camera pictures. Here's a 6 month exposure taken from a camera tied to my North west facing deck. Every sunset from December 21 2022 to June 22 2023

    mez,
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    @iangriffin Ooh cool! Is that ease out on the left the summer months and the quicker descent on the right winter?

    talon, (edited ) to webdev
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    Alright, to all my webdevs, hit me. Feel free to reply with reasons, too.

    mez,
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    @talon Vue if I need a full SPA framework - but I try to avoid that these days - Otherwise “None” with vanilla layered on top as needed. It’s fast and reliable. I don’t need to live update/re-render little pieces of the UI too much, but I’d either do a little component or use a little library specific to that if I did.

    fraying, to random
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    Come on, kids! We're going on an adventure.

    mez,
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    @fraying I bet the best part is not being online for all 197 of those 💚

    nbcnews, to random

    Reddit CEO Steve Huffman tells NBC News that he plans to institute rules changes that would allow Reddit users to vote out moderators who have overseen the protest. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-protest-blackout-ceo-steve-huffman-moderators-rcna89544

    mez,
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    @nbcnews Lol, “user protest… doesn’t have wide support”. Every single sub I’m an active reader, poster, or commenter in has gone dark with the full support of their users.

    mez, to webdev
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    I’m confused why when I see someone sharing web components or teaching how to use them that it’s all done with Shadow DOM and scoped styles. Unless you’re creating a design library for a single brand, don’t you want to keep those styles overridable and generic? I’ve been writing a few different components, but I want to re-use them across projects so I’ve kept styles to a minimum, and of those, easy to cascade over. Does no one else do this? What am I misunderstanding?

    Em0nM4stodon, to random

    “Why do you use Signal and all this Encryption!
    Do you have anything to hide? 😡“

    Yes! I do!

    • The color of my underwear
    • My friends’ cats photos
    • My failed gym class grades
    • My first attempt at "portrait"
    • The outcome of my last meal
    • The weird mole on my left toe
    • How much I cried watching Star Trek
    • How much cheese there is in my fridge
    • My failed knitting experiment
    • The horrible poem I just wrote
    • My bank card pin number
    • My social security number
    • My main password
    • The web search history for your birthday gift

    Privacy is a Human Right! ✊

    Not sharing publicly what you do not wish to share is your right! 🔒✨

    🎉

    mez,
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    @Em0nM4stodon If you’re hiding the amount of cheese in your fridge I can already assume the answer is “none/not enough” ;)

    And strong yes to this!

    mez, to random
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    Both Can I Use and MDN say no browsers support grid-template-*: masonry, but I’m looking a grid in Safari right now that’s in masonry configuration. The experimental feature isn’t even ticked in the Develop menu. Do these sources just need to be updated? (I guess Can I Use draws from MDN…)

    @jensimmons This has been supported for a bit, right?

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    @jensimmons frustrated face

    mez, to webdev
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    I’d be curious to see how people are using Notion to power their websites. Not the code side of things, but the Notion. I just scratch the surface of what Notion can do I think - so I’m curious to see how others use it?
    (Pretty sure @andy does this for his site? Care to make a wee video or post some screenshots of your Notion setup?)

    mez,
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    @andy Thanks! Was more curious about the Notion side of things, not the integration. That's harder to share and a bit more personal though!

    chriscoyier, to random
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    This blows my mind.

    https://changelog.com/news/44

    https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/thunderbird-is-thriving-our-2022-financial-report/

    I wonder how the implemented the Call to Action on that. Must have been in-app, right?

    mez,
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    @brad @chriscoyier It’s also on the “home” pane when you have no messages selected.

    Can they do this for Firefox to help it keep up with Chrome & Safari?

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