[Repost] Calm after the storm
Regarding the alignment offer at Automattic that resulted in around 1 of every 12/13-or-so Automatticians being paid to leave, my colleague Rosie writes of her experience of the week of the offer and...
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Playing simultaneous games against both children might have been less challenging if they hadn’t both kept trying to start fights with one another at the same time! 😂 👏 Congratulations on being an RSS...
View Article[Repost] London Transport 25
Girl on the Net is a popular sex blogger, so this is a link to a SFW page on an otherwise NSFW site. If your only concern is seeing or hearing sexy things or somebody looking over your shoulder and...
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[Article] Firsts and Lasts
A lot of attention is paid, often in retrospect, to the experience of the first times in our lives. The first laugh; the first kiss; the first day at your job1. But for every first, there must...
View Article[Note] Sick words
This evening I pushed against my illness-addled brain to try to sit in on the fortnightly Zoom call with the Three Rings dev team. Unfortunately it seems like the primary symptom of my cold is an...
View Article[Note] eBay Balance
eBay UK have changed their terms to (a) remove seller fees for most private sellers, but (b) instead of paying-out immediately, payouts are four times a year (or on-demand). That sounds like they’re...
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You know that you REALLY needed that coffee when you: 1. get out a mug, 2. turn on the coffee machine, 3. load the dishwasher while you wait for the coffee machine to warm up, 4. can’t find your mug...
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[Repost] Google turns to nuclear to power AI data centres
… “The grid needs new electricity sources to support AI technologies,” said Michael Terrell, senior director for energy and climate at Google. “This agreement helps accelerate a new technology to meet...
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[Note] Facebook AI Training Opt-Out
And while we’re talking about AI. It took a disproportionate about of time to find the right (tiny) link, but eventually I managed to opt-out of my content being used to train Facebook’s AI. They don’t...
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Happy International Pronouns Day! 🥳 I use he/him pronouns. 🪄 Feeds are wonderful, and you're a wonderful person for using them. 🔮
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[Article] WordStress [RSS Exclusive!]
This post is secret; you can only find it via my RSS feeds (and places which syndicate them). It's okay to talk about it or link to it, though. Thanks for being part of RSS Club! Ugh, I’ve had enough...
View Article[Note] Zero
✅ Inbox Zero ✅ Slack Notification Zero ✅ Assigned PR Reviews Zero ✅ Owned PRs… one, but it’s approved and just waiting for the right moment to merge That’s got the be the first time in… literally...
View Article[Checkin] Dan Q wrote note for GC9GTV3 Drive Slowly; Fox Crossing
This checkin to GC9GTV3 Drive Slowly; Fox Crossing reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Checked-in in this cache to ensure it was still healthy, after a recent spate of...
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[Article] Nex in CapsulePress
I’ve added Nex support to CapsulePress! What does that mean? Here’s how nex://danq.me/ looks in my favourite desktop Gemini/smolweb browser Lagrange. Nex is a lightweight Internet protocol reminiscent...
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[Note] Fixing BBC News… Yet Again
The Beeb continue to keep adding more and more non-news content to the BBC News RSS feed (like this ad for the iPlayer app!), so I’ve once again had to update my script to “fix” the feed so that it...
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Kicking off day #1 of my three-month sabbatical from work at a hotel in Reading, at a meeting with fellow Three Rings volunteers to discuss our organisational culture and values. 🥰 You're reading this...
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Day #2 of my sabbatical had a morning in which I’ve mostly been roped into some charity-related digital forensics… until I got distracted by dndle.app, which apparently I accidentally broke yesterday!...
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[Article] Bad Names for Servers
Six or seven years ago our eldest child, then a preschooler, drew me a picture of the Internet1. I framed it and I keep it on the landing outside my bedroom – y’know, in case I get lost on the Internet...
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[Checkin] Geohashing expedition 2024-10-22 51 -1
This checkin to geohash 2024-10-22 51 -1 reflects a geohashing expedition. See more of Dan's hash logs. Location Harcourt Hill Bridleway, between Cumnor and North Hinksey Participants Dan Q Plans I’m...
View Article[Repost] NextPress is a Forking Awful Idea [RSS Exclusive!]
This post is secret; you can only find it via my RSS feeds (and places which syndicate them). It's okay to talk about it or link to it, though. Thanks for being part of RSS Club! We’re in the process...
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