A chilling reminder that American science denial does not just affect people in the US, it kills people globally.

Jeff Bezos is arriving for his wedding in Venice in a mega yacht and his guests are turning up in 95 private jets.

We're here avoiding food waste in our kitchens. 😑

@amyfou That's a big puddle of sky!

Announcing: https://justaqrcode.com.

Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.

My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!

#QRcode #Free #FriendlyWeb #Resistance

@nikkid I've noticed a lot of sites, especially commerce sites, don't work in Firefox anymore and it's deeply frustrating.

Software development methodologies compared.

#software #development #agile #waterfall #ai #developer

While everything is indeed horrible, you are not obligated to solely focus on the horror. The availability of a constant stream of bad news does not make that news valuable by itself. Paying constant attention is not "doing something." So if the information isn't actionable, filter it.

/ WARNING:
/ MANY ANTI-DEPRESSANTS, ANTI-PSYCHOTICS, & OTHER PSYCHIATRIC MEDS CAN IMPAIR UR BODY'S ABILITY 2 DEAL W/ HEAT
/ AS WELL AS OTHER MEDS AS WELL
/ THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE LIST
/ PROBS BEST 2 CHECK EVRE MED U TAKE 2 SEE IF IT CREATES HEAT INTOLERANCES
/ SO TAKE IT EZ IN THE HAWTWAVE
/ STAY HYDRATED
/ REST OFTEN
/ UTILIZE AIR CONDITIONING TECHNOLOGY
/ PART OF REPENTANCE 2 UR WEATHER LORDS IS STAYING SAFE & NOT DYING
/ SO THAT U CULD LIVE 2 REPENT ANOTHER DAY

Everybody under an extreme heat watch or warning now 🥵 #VAwx #MDwx

Careful out there this week…models are showing heat indices of 105 to 110 at least Monday and Tuesday. We’ll likely see heat advisories issued either later today or tomorrow. #RVA #VAwx #MDwx #DCwx

@phil_browne They moved it to a new location in 2017, but it's still in VA! There's a small sign that talks about its creator and origin. I learned they even properly aligned it with the solstice when they moved it! Very cool!

Today I went to Foamhenge, a full-sized replica of Stonehenge. It was pretty amazing!

What’s the worst detail in this story?

The mother forced to use unclean water to make formula for her baby?

The child with cancer now facing relapse symptoms?

The 16-year-old trying to be strong for her 2 younger siblings and mom, all trapped in the camp together?

This is America. Don’t look away.

https://apnews.com/article/migrants-child-supervision-texas-e4994b2b6786717ea79a4be230e476bf

Rails 3 and Rails 8, feature comparison:

@BenjaminHCCarr Time to bring back the 4 humors?

Hey friends anyone around here familiar with *indexing* for an academic book? @snd1101 and another colleague and I have a textbook ms and our publisher wants us to create the index and I can certainly create a crappy one given the info I have.

Advice, interest in gig work if this is your gig...anything's welcome!

#indexing #publishing #books #ohNo #writing

I love a good mansplain smackdown.

I introduced my team to Fishery (the typescript version of FactoryBot) and BLEW THEIR MINDS. 😁 They were previously using brittle, hard-coded mocks.

I can't convinced them to change the project over to ruby, but I can at least introduce a little developer happiness when I find the opportunities!

This is the 100 year anniversary of humans having an idea of what the heck the sun and all the stars actually are. If you had asked a leading astronomer in 1925 what the sun was, they would say that it's basically the same as Earth, but very hot.

In Cecilia Payne's doctoral thesis she was the first to say, from spectral data, that the sun was overwhelmingly made of hydrogen and helium.

It was later described as "the most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in astronomy".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin

We now have a political assassin impersonating a police officer on the loose in Minnesota, which, aside from being horrifying in and of itself, underscores the danger of the proliferation of anonymous federal law enforcement deployments from a wide variety of unfamiliar agencies conducting aggressive immigration operations across the country.

Is that uniformed person who's stopping you or demanding entry to your home legit or a psychotic vigilante seeking to harm you? It's impossible to know.