Another weekend with a bike focus
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Things to do in Salt Lake City
With KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 just a few months away we thought it would be fun to ask our ambassadors and other locals about where to go and what to do while we’re all in Salt… ⌘ Read more

Monocaster
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Monocaster
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org This looks like a nice way to do it.

Another thought: if clients can’t agree on the url (for example, if we switch to this new way, but some old clients still do it the old way), that could be mitigated by computing many hashes for each twt: one for every url in the feed. So, if a feed has three URLs, every twt is associated with three hashes when it comes time to put threads together.

A client stills need to choose one url to use for the hash when composing a reply, but this might add some breathing room if there’s a period when clients are doing different things.

(From what I understand of jenny, this would be difficult to implement there since each pseudo-email can only have one msgid to match to the in-reply-to headers. I don’t know about other clients.)

@prologic@twtxt.net I guess I thought they were search engines. Anyway, the registry API looks like a decent one for searching for tweets. Could/should yarn.social pods implement the same API?

** Constants, variable assignment, and pointers **
After reading my last post, a friend asked an interesting question that I thought would also be fun to write about!

They noted that in the reshape function I declared the variable result as a constant. They asked if this was a mistake? Because I was resigning the value iteratively, shouldn’t it be declared using let?

What is happening there is that the constant is being declared as an array, so the reference … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ha, sweet thanks for this! For some reason I thought you had to do this with an environmental variable or command-line option and I didn’t think to check the settings. 🤦‍♂

After work bike tour
I admit it, I should rename the subtitle of my blog from “Thoughts of an IT expert” to “My bike tour log”. Even though it was 29° C outside today, I wanted to do another bike tour after work. 42 km through the surrounding area of my hometown. I discovered new places and noticed that it actually feels colder next to trees. It was much fun! ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I thought “stochastic parrot” meant a complete lack of understanding.

Lowlands bike tour
On Thursday, I made another bike tour. Not in the low mountains, but in the south of the North German Plain. With more distance compared to the last time, I had way less incline and that makes a big difference. ⌘ Read more

Telegram worries
Telegram was always my favorite messenger, as it provided a fast and user-friendly experience on multiple devices. But one and a half years ago, I already started doubting my decision to rely on Telegram. ⌘ Read more

Watch Steve Jobs Speak at the 1983 International Design Conference
The Steve Jobs Archive, which was launched by Laurene Powell Jobs, Tim Cook, and Jony Ive, has shared an hour-long video of a then 28 year old Steve Jobs speaking in Aspen at the 1983 International Design Conference, as well as some thoughts from Jony Ive, and a nice collection of old photographs and Apple … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/07/27/watch-steve-jobs-speak-at-the-1983-international-d … ⌘ Read more

GoBlog can show GPX tracks as SVG now
After my bike tour on Monday, I first felt the usual exhaustion, but later that evening and night, more symptoms joined and showed me, that I, again (third time already this year), caught some infection. Nothing too bad, but it forced me to relax and recover the last two days. ⌘ Read more

Post-vacation bike tour
Today was my first workday after summer vacation, and with the weather being pleasant – not too hot, and no rain – I decided to finish work a bit early and go for a 39-kilometer bike tour through the surrounding area. ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Somewhere or another, I think in a William Byrd talk, I heard it suggested that the best ideas in computer science should fit on an index card (ah yes it’s this one: https://paperswelove.org/2017/video/will-byrd-most-beautiful-program/ ). He was referring to the basic principles of LISP/the lambda calculus, which have sometimes been called the Maxwell’s equations of computer programming (by Alan Kay). Simple, short, elegant, but very densely packed with meaning–generations of people have spent their whole careers unpacking what those simple rules can do.

Much of modern software feels like the polar opposite of that. Not only can you not write it on an index card, you never will be able to because people who write software don’t seem to aspire to try. I wish more people thought this way though!

It took me so long to find the cause of a memory leak in GoBlog. I thought it was smart to use a cache for prepared database statements. But I didn’t read the documentation and didn’t know that prepared statements need to be closed when they are no longer needed to free up the allocated resources. 🤦‍♂️ I finally fixed it by removing the prepared statement cache altogether. Less code, fewer problems in the future, and the cache wasn’t much of an improvement anyway. I also learned about the usefulness of memory profil … ⌘ Read more

Pinellas County - Base: 7.01 miles, 00:10:30 average pace, 01:13:38 duration
nailed the base portion of it. took a walk break and then a “cool down” to top it off. thought it would be nice outside with some rain but it was barely sprinkling when i was out until after the run.
#running

I have a question for the IndieWeb community: What can we do against Webmention spam, except filter it out, when it fails validation? I receive hundreds of invalid Webmentions a day, and even using a filtering DNS server doesn’t seem to help much. But I also don’t want to waste network traffic to access all those spam sites. Is there any good block list I can check first before doing the request for validation? I thought about Akismet, but the API has no such option to only check the submitted URL. ⌘ Read more

Another day, another bike tour 🚴
Another day, another bike tour. Today’s tour is on the same route as my planned tour between my two apartments. The first half of the tour was easy regarding elevation, the second parts challenging. But I made it, and I didn’t even have to get off the bike to walk instead of biking. 💪 ⌘ Read more

Another day, another bike tour 🚴
Another day, another bike tour. Today’s tour is the first part of my planned trip between my both flats. The first half of the tour was easy regarding elevation, the second parts challenging. But I made it, and I didn’t even have to get off the bike to walk instead of biking. 💪 ⌘ Read more

** One trip to the beach inspired me to make two programs this weekend **
This weekend we traveled 20 minutes to a sort of secret beach. It was a grey, overcast day, and we timed our trip to line up with low tide so that we could walk waaaaaaay far out into the ocean all the way to some little islands. It was fun, and we saw some neat birds, including an Oyster Catcher. While on this adventure I took a picture. Later at home I thought“it’d be nice to dither this!” I usually reach for [Dit … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net haha, thanks! my wife definitely thought i was crazy for even thinking of it.

Bad Map Projection: Exterior Kansas
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Bad Map Projection: Exterior Kansas
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First tour with my new bike
Yesterday, I finally took my new bike for a longer ride. Instead of 30 km like the last time, this time I chose another way about 36 km the other way along the river. And instead of getting on the train back home, I went both directions with pure muscle power. ⌘ Read more

Why I have a minimal website theme
Wouter Groeneveld wrote about his new website theme. His old one was too minimal for his taste, and so he decided on a more fancy theme. ⌘ Read more

The New Stack: “A Chat With CloudNativeSecurityCon North America 2024 Co-chairs”
Conference leaders share their thoughts on the latest trends and challenges in cloud native security, and the sessions they are most looking forward to. ⌘ Read more

🚭
One of the things I hate, yes, I really hate it, is cigarette smoke. I get angry when I smell the smoke of the neighbors who are smoking directly in front of the entrance door of our apartment build, while we are trying to let fresh air in. But situations like smelling smoke at train stations or bus stops make me feel really uncomfortable as well. ⌘ Read more

My fluctuating interests
It seems like my interests fluctuate a lot. I have a topic that interests me, do a lot of research, learn many new things, get excited. And then suddenly another topic pops up, which at the same time reduces my interest in the previous topics. ⌘ Read more

Adding more context to my blogroll
The hosted Miniflux finally contains my newly contributed feature to save descriptions for feeds. The exported OPML also contains them, and that’s why I’m finally able to show some context on my blogroll. ⌘ Read more

Radio advertisements slapping away sustained thought on the coffeeshop stereo. I’d like a real-life ad blocker.

Feathers dripping dry from the drainspout with a new thought on his lips: this is tedious.

The power of control
You know, I’ve found a pretty effective way to reduce my addiction to certain websites: blocking them at the DNS level using NextDNS. It’s a trick I picked up after realizing I was spending far too much time on Hacker News (my addiction to that is gone for quite some time already!). And now? I’ve extended it to a forum I used to frequent multiple times a day. ⌘ Read more

Get the first look at CloudNativeSecurityCon North America 2024’s schedule, add-on events, and more
The schedule for CloudNativeSecurityCon North America 2024 is now live, and is filled with 75 sessions offering practical solutions and thoughtful discussions of some of the biggest challenges in security today. The conference will be held June 26… ⌘ Read more

From my father, there’s still an old Commodore 64 he used when he was young. I kept it since I thought I might try some retro-computing. But now (some years later) in the process of cleaning up my flat and throwing out things I no longer need, I tried to connect it to the TV, but somehow didn’t get it working. It might be the wrong cable, the wrong adapter, or just a faulty graphics unit in this device. I will just sell it on eBay untested. In the end, I think I wouldn’t enjoy that device much anyway. I grew up w … ⌘ Read more

Outback blogger’s creative outlet away from farm life strikes chord with foodies
What started as blog posts centred around her thoughts, recipes and life on a remote sheep station more than a decade ago has become a popular creative outlet for Jane Smith. ⌘ Read more

Open source software in AI and cloud trends to watch in 2024: thoughts from the Netris community
Member post originally published on Netris’s blog Let’s face it: The world of open source software can feel boring – in a good way. Open source has become so pervasive, and so deeply entrenched within modern software stacks… ⌘ Read more

** books, the end of winter, video games and javascript **
Since my last update I’ve read a handful of books. Some standout reads include Tales from Earthsea, The Other Wind and The Left Hand of Darkness, all by Ursula K. Le Guin. I’d read them all before, accepted for The Other Wind. I thought I’d read The Other Wind, but hadn’t! Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick was also a fun read. I liked it for the rabbit holes it invited me down; I’ve been thinking a lot … ⌘ Read more

What a week!
What a week! This week I was on vacation, but I didn’t relax at all. I worked harder than on workdays. Since my mother and I finally emptied all the furniture from the apartment I grew up in and moved out of two years ago (I even moved again after it). ⌘ Read more

XMPP Providers: XMPP Providers Server

We recently started to set up our own XMPP server to provide a support chat.
Our goal was to automate as much as possible to reduce the maintenance effort to a minimum.
While doing that, we also thought about how the experience is for XMPP newcomers to set up their own XMPP server.

There are many XMPP servers available.
But only few projects focus on q … ⌘ Read more

Home Server Offline ☹️
Today, I woke up and noticed that my home server, located in my second flat, and also the router, all behind a 5G connection (that was showing as working fine on the provider’s website), were offline. No VPN connection anymore, and also Tailscale showed the nodes as being offline. I’m glad that I had automatic backups and was able to easily restore the three important services from that server on my VPS, without the need to travel to the second flat first. ⌘ Read more

Scaleway Serverless Jobs
Scaleway continues to build a European AWS alternative. Today, I tried one of its new products: Serverless Jobs. ⌘ Read more

Extended content warning
I realized recently that I wrote some cringe (to put it mildly) posts in my late adolescent phase. On the one hand, I would of course like to banish these posts from my blog, after all, my opinion has changed completely in some cases since then. But on the other hand, it would be a shame to let this part of my personal development simply disappear. ⌘ Read more

What should I do with my new domain?
I recently complained about domain registrars. But I also recently registered a new domain: j7s.me. A numeronym of my first name. And the .me TLD to show that I am a person. (And it is a short domain that was available.) ⌘ Read more

Kory Reeder - if the thought evaporates #nowplaying

Somewhere I read that changing location, like entering a room, can rejigger neural pathways so that some thoughts and memories are somehow associated with the space. It’s the same for me when picking up a laptop. My purpose feels clear until I open a blank web browser window and my mind goes blank, too. In all the moments where I’m drawing a total blank, and then suddenly the thoughts come easily again: maybe that’s my brain looking for the room it was in before.

Where’s the perfect domain registrar?
Why is there no pure domain registrar? ⌘ Read more

Where’s the perfect domain registrar?
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https://aerc-mail.org/ Discovering and hacking the #aerc email client. A modern CLI app that is very well thought.