Shut Up, Moby #racism #the90s #butimvegan https://www.good.is/articles/shut-up-moby-how-the-but-i-m-a-vegan-problem-is-ruining-progressives dammit, Moby is the soundtrack of much of my 20s

Best Nesting Or Laying Boxes For Chickens https://selfsufficientme.com/poultry/chickens/best-nesting-or-laying-boxes-for-chickens #bookmark #chickens #rurallife

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to-show-or-not-to-show tags: mastodon,playviscious,ui title: Post Activity in Mastodon - to show or not to show twitter_id: "1232318268884389888" twitter_url: https://twitter.com/steveivy/status/1232318268884389888

For the most part I appreciate the design decision that the #mastodon developers made to not show reply/boost/fave numbers on the feed lists, because it puts more focus on the content and less on gaming an algorithm for popularity or "engagement".

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but I also realize that this makes it harder to know if there are responses! For example, this post by Jun on #playviscious actually has an interesting thread that I'm learning from, but nothing in the UI signifies that there is more content to find connected to the post.

I wonder if there could be an additional affordance in the #UI that there are replies (boosts and faves not so much)?

My response to agreeing with something online should be "say so and amplify it", not "say something clever and self-centering #amplifytruth

Twitter is testing new ways to fight misinformation — including a community-based points system https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/twitter-testing-new-ways-fight-misinformation-including-community-based-points-n1139931 #twitter #community #moderation

Rage Against The [white, privileged] Machine https://twitter.com/michaelharriot/status/1231800076021968897 #institutionalracism #investing

None#mood: Deftones, White Pony, 2000

What is Dimensional Model in Data Warehouse? https://www.guru99.com/dimensional-model-data-warehouse.html #bookmark remarkable informative #datawarehouse #dataengineering

Getting my Matrix on #thematrix

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Converting a small playground #python data pipeline from ruffus to #apachebeam and wrecking my assumptions

https://beam.apache.org/

Data Processing with Apache Beam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ppsHzhdTnU&feature=youtu.be #bookmark #dataprocessing

Posting UI #experiment #goldfrog

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So I don't forget: Unacceptable by Helene Schouten https://medium.com/@scaryh/unacceptable-4cdca86ba0db #bookmark #racism #economics #america

Swiping #Macos Spaces feels very #scifi on a curved monitor #swoosh

wanting to be able to post from my phone has me learning about css grid and flexbox, so there's that #css #webdevelopment

I've started messing around a bit with javascript-enhanced UIs for #goldfrog. Rather than use all of JQuery, I decided on a small subset of Jquery's functionality as implemented by Sprint.JS.

1. I only load the JS for me, since I'm logged in.
2. It's only used on the home page to power the new switchable post form, and
3. It powers a character-counter for the note UI.

Here's the new posting UI:

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I'm trying to implement some basic progressive enhancement - the forms work as is without javascript, but the switcher and the counter are niceties for me, the author.

while being a privileged beneficiary thereof, I can say that #capitalism is objectively terrible

None#standingdesk update: it's been 2 hours. Legs aching, back on fire, sweat breaks out across my brow. Never has anyone striven for so much, so long. Rescue unlikely, expecting the sweet embrace of death. Tell my wife I loved her #drama

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Ran into a friend today at church and he asked me "hey I'm trying to learn Python, do you have any good sites or books to recommend? I'm kinda... bored."

Now some of us geeks can't imagine being bored learning something new, but I went through this when I first started learning Go. I had decided I wanted to learn a new programming language, and Rust was way too... Rust, so I picked Go and started building a small o-nothing web app. I got part way in an realized that I had no interest in what I was doing, and it (and some bits of Go that hadn't matured) was killing my fun. So I put it down.

Fast forward to this year. I was ready to pick up Go again, but this time I also knew that I wanted to start writing again, and that the friction in my blogging process was killing my joy there, too. So I decided to write my own blog software (see #goldfrog), and I was going to write it in Go.

Suddenly I was energized to learn, because I had all these feature ideas for the site, and I had to learn the #golang techniques for tasks I'd only one in #python before. Also, it got me into the golang newbies Slack, and connecting with a community - for me at least - helps.

So my advice to my friend was:

• Find a project you're passionate about, or at least really interested in
• Be willing to re-learn things you think you already know
• Find a #community!

Taking Back New Tabs https://serialized.net/2019/09/taking-back-new-tabs #bookmark we used to call this "home pages"