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)

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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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.

The Joel Test is almost... 20 years old

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-steps-to-better-code/

Also Headlamp posted a Joel Test for remote teams, which is also interesting:

https://www.projectheadlamp.com/joel-test-for-remote-teams/

#bookmark

Via old friend Jim Roepcke, from 2006:

Jacob G. Hornberger: How Hitler Became a Dictator:

But how many people know how Hitler actually became a dictator? My bet is, very few. I’d also bet that more than a few people would be surprised at how he pulled it off, especially given that after World War I Germany had become a democratic republic.

Although the National Socialists never captured more than 37 percent of the national vote, and even though they still held a minority of cabinet posts and fewer than 50 percent of the seats in the Reichstag, Hitler and the Nazis set out to consolidate their power. With Hitler as chancellor, that proved to be a fairly easy task.

I read this back when Jim first posted it in 2006, and a couple of times since, and it's even more apropos today.

"Those cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -- probably George Santaya

Sound the dread alarm Through the primal body Sound a reveille To be or not to be #uspol #democracy

Senate Republicans just paved the road to American authoritarianism:

The precedents they have set are alarming. Trump’s defense partly argued that a president must violate a specific crime in order to be impeached.

The defense made the argument, probably with the guidance and support of the right honorable Mitch McConnell and co, who than affirmed it. This whole debacle was an exercise in providing cover for Republicans to make their predetermined votes. And their complaints about the House Democrats amount to "it's their fault for bringing this to the Senate when they know we rigged it -- what did they think was going to happen?"

But imagine the following scenario: This weekend, Trump tweets that he will pardon anyone who engages in blatant voter suppression or voter intimidation before the November election. Hundreds of henchmen take it upon themselves to act, helping ensure his reelection. Trump’s legal and constitutional authority to pardon them is unquestioned. It would be a corrupt abuse of presidential power, but not a crime.

Trump now has a blank check. We all know that he will try to cash it.

He'll cash it, and cash it, and cash it, with the Senate Republican's co-signing and cackling the whole time.

The only date format YYYY-mm-ddTHH-MM-SS

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Republican Senators today are telling us that none of us should be allowed a fair trial, while sending a signal to this and all future US Presidents exactly how to avoid impeachment, and to other countries that we don't mean it when we tell them to fight corruption honestly.

https://twitter.com/allatti2d/status/1223376266893516800

Chris Aldrich wrote a blog post about manually adding Webmentions for links to his posts from sites that are not themselves Webmention-enabled.

This reminded me that I'd like to add a "I linked to you" feature for the post detail page in #goldfrog for this site. (Goldfrog does support Webmentions, so Chris should get an automatic link from this post :))

I wanna update my blog code but I dug too deep, too fast #diffsOfMoria

I think we're looking at the coming end of a government with co-equal branches. The Senate Republicans, tying their pursuit of personal power to Trump's own, have abdicated their Constitutional role and are effectively handing Trump a monarchy.

I suppose they cannot imagine a Democrat taking the position again, or believe in that case they will simply find a way to again redefine the Presidency on their own terms? I don't know.

#kingtrump #uspol #crimeboss

Did my first live webmention test on monkinetic #webmention #indieweb #goldfrog

This could be an embarrassing failure, preserved for posterity for all time!

this link goes to one of the test pages on webmention.rocks

Update: templates should now support h-card with u-photo better.

While we are definitely not "live off the land #farmlife types, my wife and I live on an acre of land in a rural neighborhood tucked in a large swatch of suburbia in metro Phoenix.

Due to circumstances we still don't entirely understand, we find ourselves now in "possession" of 6 adult chickens, and 8 not-quite-young-adult chickens. The adults quickly learned to fly - well, flap semi-effectively - over the 5' fences we used to contain them. So on Friday I did some research on how to clip the chicken's wings to keep them earth-bound, and yesterday my daughter and I spent 15 minutes grabbing chicks one by one from the coop and giving them flight-curbing trim.

The article I ended up using was this one on Instructables, simply titled Clipping Chicken Wings.

> The hardest part about clipping chicken wings is catching the chicken. Some chickens are docile and like being touched, others fear humans and run away like their lives depended on it (which I guess they do sometimes).

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Aaron Parecki has a great tutorial on Sending your First Webmention from Scratch#webmention #indieweb

Hello #webmention testing:

https://webmention.rocks/test/1

Finished #webmention discovery in #goldfrog, all 23 discovery tests on https://webmention.rocks pass. :)

Towards IndieWeb: POSSE and Notes

#posse #blogging #webmention #indieweb

https://t.co/15Q3wsMv9J

Go By Example

Go By Example might be one of the best getting-started resource I’ve ever seen for a programming language.

Huge thanks to Mark McGranaghan for giving this to the community.

#golang #newbie #documentation

https://t.co/jBjzA9UALb