I HATE YAML STRINGS SO MUCH

Just how portable is your web site? Could you switch hosting providers in an hour? In a day? Would it take you a week?

You should think about it.

Opposition to killing never justifies killing. As anti-war and anti-genocide activists from Chicago, we must make clear terrorism and bigotry are unwelcome. We will pursue each opportunity to show solidarity with Jewish Chicagoans and support their safety. https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/05/22/chicago-jewish-groups-say-security-is-top-of-mind-after-fatal-shootings-in-washington-d-c

They are cutting our MSTeams chat retention down to 30 days. I'm so angry I memed.

@lil5

I could not believe it myself.

He knows I'm a dev and he's an infosec guy so it's not shocking he'd get curious about the dev side of things, so not just completely random, but like.

This story sounds completely fake, but last night a real person sat across from me a bar and asked me to explain what he'd heard about it being very easy to accidentally write vulnerabilities in C and if the Linux kernel was stuck using it, and I got to explain the joys of #Rust and the lore from the #RustLang drama.

Highlight of my life as a Mastodon user.

@jsbarretto This meme format doesn't usually speak to me, but this one's very good!

I made this today and I'm proud of it.

Miles: It can't be wrong. I got the answer from a computer.

@mistersql I think the model is a logistical curve. If the languages are similar I'd expect very fast growth up to let's say 90% productivity but then it would flatten out a lot until you've actually been working with the new lang as long as the old one.

Bless your transactions by committing them with "amen" in @mariadb

https://mariadb.org/amen-statement-for-committing-transactions/

#AprilFools
#MariaDB
#Database
#Transaction

I love him.

#AprilFools #axolotl #Docker

@ellane I've never used a mac but just to do a "yes, and" here:

The folks saying "Try python3 instead" probably have a good guess. If Mac works like Linux in this instance, it uses python3 to avoid naming collisions with a possible "system" installation of python which you'll want to avoid messing with.

If that's what it is you will probably also end up using "pip3" instead of pip.

I'm handwaving a little but that'll give you enough info to start your web searches. Good luck!

I'm going to make this as simple and straightforward as I can make it.

You don't have to agree with Zionism

You don't have to believe that Zionism is Jewish civil rights.

You don't have to agree with the Zionist idea of Jewish self-determination.

But you do have to accept the following:

Holding all Zionists responsible for the actions of a few politicians in a minority government is not just wrong, it's a form of hate.

Zionism has been part of Jewish thought since were forcibly expelled from our homeland 2,000 years ago, and even in its modern form is older than Herzel and the European Zionist movement.

Saying Zionism is a hate group or hateful ideology is disgusting and inverting the meaning of hate.

70-80% of all Jews are Zionists, and Zionists live around the world.

Using minority viewpoints to say what is and isn't part of Judaism is gross and tokenizing.

#Zionism #Zionist #HateSpeech #Antisemitism #Jews #antizionism

Something from jotted notes:

I think the frame of “government is just people” is unfortunately very misleading for anyone trying to do things in it.

If one scoffs at “corporations are just people my friends” then one should react similarly to the corollary simplification of gov

@allafarce tbh I think "Government is just people" is probably worse than "Corporations are just people". Corporations are made up of people with much more straightforward and easy to understand motivations. The peculiarities of governmentbrain are something else.

@zachleat @alesroubicek

In this economy?!

"We have ceded so many of the core operations of our lives and institutions to tech, we must recognise that strong encryption isn’t the enemy of security — it *is* security." - Signal President
@Mer__edith for the Financial Times on the war on encryption

https://www.ft.com/content/a934150f-e0f5-4e75-a2d1-a3671ea52ca0

Anyway, the nonprofit chapter I cofounded uses eleventy, and if I get hit by a bus there is quite simply no way anyone is going to be able to update the site, and it's fine. The site will live as long as I do and then they'll switch to friggin' squarespace or something.

I kinda knew going in that this was a silly idea, but you really have to experience it to realize just *how* silly this is.

Try this: explain what a package.json file is to a nontechnical person. Don't even worry about it being versioned by git or viewed in something called a "text editor". Just try telling a nontechnical person what it's for.

In less than 50 pages.