Jason Cosper

@boogah@simian.rodeo
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Wears a lot of hats. Mostly Dodgers ones. Professional #WordPress nerd from #Bakersfield, CA. I advocate feminism. Runs simian.rodeo. He/Him #fedi22
Bloghttps://jasoncosper.com
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Shout out to everyone who rebroadcasts and retransmits games without the express written consent of Major League Baseball. ♥️

Back in the day, Twitter used to be really good if I set up a thread to connect freelancers with clients. Let's see if Mastodon can do it.

Clients: if you're looking for freelancers/contractors, get in the comments

Freelancers/contractors: get in the comments

Everyone else: boosts appreciated.

The market is *dead* for freelancers and a big part of that (in my opinion) is fragmentation. Let's get that network effect *back*.

#FediHire

Totally happy to run a Tor Snowflake proxy until I start getting "You're out of free articles" paywall prompts on sites I never visit.
Now where in the hell did I put that pesky SD card reader? 
fox theater, bakersfield, california, 1978

Landed on this method over using something like Anubis because I wasn't wild about the interstitial page that tools like it toss up to do the proof-of-work part.

Also, I really love finding new reasons to use Nginx's `return 444`.

I've decided to share the sketchy user-agent blocking setup that I've been using on my Nginx servers to keep some of the most annoying AI crawlers and scrapers away.

https://github.com/boogah/sketchy-ua-blocker

GitHub - boogah/sketchy-ua-blocker: Sketchy User-Agent Blocker for Nginx

Sketchy User-Agent Blocker for Nginx. Contribute to boogah/sketchy-ua-blocker development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
Writing a spot of Python to funnel data from a list of WebPageTest runs into a CSV file.
replying to every jira ticket with this from now on

"AI is Sea-Monkeys."
[…]
"Sea-Monkeys were my first experience with hype cycles. In retrospect, $1 was a good price for that lesson."

https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-keep-sea-monkeys-alive/

How to keep sea-monkeys alive

Little painting I did a couple of weeks ago. There’s a stick so it looks like a protest sign, but I cropped it out. Enjoying the newsletter? Gimme $2 for...

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