Folks, it’s The Holiday Season™.
| Web/microblog | https://jaredwsmith.com |
| Weather | https://chswx.com |
| Weather on Mastodon | @chswx |
| GitHub | https://github.com/jaredwsmith |
Jared Smith
- 36 Followers
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- 1.4K Posts
Dachshund dad. Software engineering, weather, indie web, Padres baseball.
If I ever find myself back in academia, this is how I’m writing my papers. Only way I can truly feel like I’ve achieved the “in-school” mindset.
I’ve not been paying much attention to Threads lately, and the growth-hacking notifications have definitely been picking up steam. If there’s one thing Meta knows, it’s how to sound desperate when you ignore one of its platforms.
Instead of sleeping at a reasonable hour, I’m considering consolidating my personal fediverse presence on micro.blog to get the benefits of using my domain. Will want to migrate my Mastodon following and the like. Probably worth investigating during my holiday time off. (NERD.)
Lesley Carhart 
I understand the politics at play in appearing friendly to the USA at a national level, but any recruiter in a LGBTQIA friendly nation that is not at least shooting a discreet shot at queer American high-demand scientific, medical, and tech professionals is missing a huge opportunity.
Just told iOS to not suggest Threads to me anymore, and I took the PWA for it out of my Dock. Just too much rage-bait in the algorithm no matter what I do — not surprising from a company that ran experiments on its users to try to manipulate their emotions.
Thankful the really smart people from there are Fediverse-enabled so I can follow them here.
Cracked open the chswxbot parser this weekend for the first time in a while. Starting to add some more metadata parsing for each product. This effort begins with the coastal flood products, hopefully making those automated alerts more useful.
I also need to do some better character-limit wrangling with the influx of folks to Bluesky. You get used to having 500 chars available here. (I’ve already baked in the concept of variable limits, of course, so Mastodon’s support remains first-class!)
Gul DukatI have decided to nominate Commodore Oh as head of the Department of Federation Intelligence. Our secrets will be safe with her! CONGRATULATIONS COMMODORE OH!!
Charleston WeatherWe start the weekend with the potential for major coastal flooding from 6-10am, closing numerous roads downtown. Be ready to reroute! From there, we've got a nice weekend ahead with near-normal temps and plenty of sunshine.
I finally put together a real merch page for @chswx!
