When connecting to APIs, how do you test how your app will react to failures? Are you even testing it beyond wrapping the code in try..catch?

If it's something you struggle with, check out the #MicrosoftGraph Developer Proxy: a local proxy that you can test to simulate errors in APIs that you use in your app.

Check out the latest version: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/microsoft-graph-developer-proxy-v0-4-with-improved-output-more-guidance-and-plugins/

Work from home has been a huge boon to employment access for disabled people.

“The jobless rate for disabled workers — typically in double digits and 12.3% two years ago — dropped to 5.8% in November … the lowest rate for people with disabilities since record-keeping began in 2008.”

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-12-15/long-left-out-of-job-market-people-with-disabilities-reap-benefits-of-covid-19s-teleworking-boom

Reposting given so many new folks are joining #Mastodon today:

Welcome! You’re going to like the #fediverse.

- Start with an #introduction about yourself & say hello 👋

- Share content you’re passionate about to meet others with similar interests. Hashtags will help you find them faster.

- With a few exceptions (just block them) this is a pretty friendly place.

- Be patient as instance hosts adjust to the #TwitterMigration.

I’m glad you’re here.

Okay, that was an interesting experiment. A week ago, I moved from infosec.exchange to my own instance at toot.merill.net and just moved back to infosec.exchange.

What I've learnt.

* It's easy to move from one instance to another (your follows and followers will be moved across)

* Your posts will stay in the same server. There is no way to move posts across.

* You can even move back to an instance you were on

* Running a Mastodon instance for even one user takes a bit of disk space - @derek did warn me ;)

* It's too much work to maintain if you don't know what you are doing 😀

I know that it's dunk-on-Twitter week, but I'm also going to mourn its deterioration. As faculty at a small, rural institution with no masters or PhD program, the visibility (and opportunity) in my career is in no small part due to Twitter.

I hope that early-career folk can continue to find those amplifying spaces.