josh avant

@joshavant
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12+ years of deleting DerivedData📱
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Checking back in here… Is this a safe space to avoid AI and GPT talk?

Uhhh.. why is Iggy Pop and co hanging out in the server room?

https://www.instagram.com/p/CnF-FqmPLre/?hl=en

Duff McKagan on Instagram: "I'm so happy to be a part of @iggypopofficial brand-new-out-TODAY record, appropriately titled FRENZY! We got to play @jimmykimmellive today, and you can watch it on Monday. Iggy is the f*ckin GODFATHER, and I'm so proud to be a small part of his magnificent life and story.@chadsmithofficial @thisiswatt @pluralone_official"

Duff McKagan shared a post on Instagram: "I'm so happy to be a part of @iggypopofficial brand-new-out-TODAY record, appropriately titled FRENZY! We got to play @jimmykimmellive today, and you can watch it on Monday. Iggy is the f*ckin GODFATHER, and I'm so proud to be a small part of his magnificent life and story.@chadsmithofficial @thisiswatt @pluralone_official". Follow their account to see 1211 posts.

Instagram
Who here plays Playdate?

Looks like I can self-host all of those for under $40/mo.

Managed equivalents are equal-priced or single-digit $/mo more.

All in all, not terrible if you care about owning your data and have the appetite to learn (and maintain) some sysadmin things.

Also, the svelte customer experience of whitelabeled services under your own domain. :)

Did some planning for services I want to self-host today (equivalents for Airtable, Zapier, and a web analytics service).

Suddenly understand why AWS has felt unapproachable for so long.

Choice of EC2 instance family + size revolves around:
- Architecture (x86_64, amd64, arm64)
- Memory
- Steady-state CPU usage
(in approximately that order)

Discovered:
- Baserow, 4GB, amd64 > t3a.medium
- n8n, .5GB, arm64 > t4g.micro
- Plausible, 2GB, arm64 > t3a.small

🤪

You know you've been working on the terminal for too long when you open a browser, click the address bar, and immediately type `cd` while thinking of which website you wanted to go to.

✨ Friendly reminder...

👏 Review 👏 and 👏 leave 👏 comments 👏 on 👏 your 👏 own 👏 pull requests

Are we still doing this clap text thing? I don't know

But self reviewing PRs will just make everything better:
- Catch uh-ohs before your coworkers see them
- Makes you look like you care 😉
- Gives other reviewers come guidance to make reviewing easier
- Educate junior or new developers on what your changing
- Focus conversations on things you are unsure about

Thank you for your time ❤️

The South Park creators got funding for a deepfake VFX studio.

At least we'll ride into this terrifying new era with some jokes...

(They've already done some projects which I just checked out and it's pretty wild.)

https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/trey-parker-matt-stone-deep-voodoo-deepfake-funding-1235466563/

Deep Voodoo: Trey Parker, Matt Stone Deepfake Studio Lands $20 Million

Trey Parker and Matt Stone are going deeper into Deep Voodoo. The creators of “South Park” have secured a $20 million investment for their AI entertainment startup Deep Voodoo. The fund…

Variety
It appears Matthew McConaughey is an autocapitalization off kinda person.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CmW2on9MIJg/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Matthew McConaughey on Instagram: "#iMcConaughey"

Matthew McConaughey shared a post on Instagram: "#iMcConaughey". Follow their account to see 327 posts.

Instagram

I, for one, look forward to when Bird Site inevitably starts to look like 90s digital social spaces where people use 1337speak to avoid b4d w0rd filter5.

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