The blogger's lament: staring at your incredibly clever post wondering why no one is linking to it

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I've heard the "praising talent vs praising skill" argument before, but I never connected praising someone's "innate talent" with praising their "breeding", which of course sounds archaic (and probably racist) and completely invalidates the person's hard work and vision.

Now that I'm blogging more often, I often find myself uploading screenshots. MacOS' capabilities are fine, except that I don't really like uploading files with names like "Screen Shot 2020-02-10 at 10.38.34 PM".

Yesterday I asked:

Are there any #macos screenshot utilities that will simply let me name the file before saving it? (My needs are simple, the OS’ own utility is quite sufficient except for the name thing)

My old Six Apart mate Simon Wistow mentioned Monosnap a free utility that does exactly that - lets me name the file before saving it.

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(Conveniently, it also make recording gif screen captures stupid easy)

Are there any #Macos screenshot utilities that will simply let me name the file before saving it? (My needs are simple, the OS' own utility is quite sufficient except for the name thing)

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Unacceptable. Americans, please give this a read, Helen is speaking truth about us.

Ro had this article sitting in his "saved" list, and I've been reading it all afternoon on and off. It's by Helene Schouten, and was written in October 2015, and it's a real eye-opener. I won't quote it yet, because that would mean reducing it to "important" or "notable" parts and I haven't spent nearly enough time with it to tell which parts to safely extract without breaking it.

That last link via https://thetwelfth.house/ "saved" links

Reading and processing: https://medium.com/@scaryh/unacceptable-4cdca86ba0db

Mo Martin on truth, uncertainty, and Trump

Man, Mo nails it - the current political climate (it's been building for a generation or two) is post-truth and it intentionally breaks down the epistemological connections we need for a functioning society.

2020 #goals - use my space here to surface more #diverse voices.

Even my google results are white

My crappy home-grown blog app can't handle #html entities? Who wrote this POS

Jacky Alciné is an active member of the #indieweb and #activitypub communities, and a web developer working out of Oakland.

Imma make this clear: I'm not building software for developers.

I'm working to building tools for people.

You shouldn't have to know to maintain and secure a server to have your own independent identity online. You shouldn't need to know what libsodium or similar library to be secure online.

That's my objective.

https://playvicious.social/@jalcine/101366378320531511

I really like a good #codeascraft comparison. From DeployHQ, via Zeldman:

Woodworkers and web developers have this in common:

Visit a professional woodshop and ask a master carpenter what her favourite tool is. You may find it’s not a tool in the traditional sense, but a “jig” she built. In woodworking, jigs are patterns or templates built to make repeatable tasks more efficient and outcomes more consistent. Building a one-off bookcase may not warrant building a jig. But, if you’re building three or four of the same bookcase, it’s likely worth building a jig first, then using that jig to build the bookcases.

Our jig consists of a small command line application which integrates publicly accessible API’s from these service providers

Taking the time to make the tools to help do the work is the best thing to do, and knowing when to take that time is an important part of an engineer's maturing process (see #yakshaving, Code As Craft)

@jessenoller's tweets have made me terrified of #kubernetes, which has apparently turned #devops into devOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPS. I mean, the number of things that can go wrong, amirite

I'm sure it didn't happen to everyone, but can you see when my use of Twitter took off?

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I've imported my old tweets as Notes on the site here, which is why I can show those stats. To be fair, my blog had not been very active for a while, but it's interesting to see over 20 years where my posting activity went:

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Jesse Noller "Make a load / reliability tool called the JasonStathamator" generated some fun last night

https://twitter.com/jessenoller/status/1226715002112901121

Will @teambloomberg divest himself of his companies if elected president? You KNOW KNOW KNOW the R's are ready to crow if he waffles on it even a tiny bit.

2/n But I also like Amy Klobuchar, and Bloomberg (as much as I hate to have another rich white dude in the office) at least has the stones to mock Trump, a man in serious need of a mocking.

1/n As any non-Trump voter would be, I'm conflicted about the alternatives. I'm generally #teamwarren, because my God we need a woman in the WH, and because she actually thinks about what to do once she's there.