Patrick Foley

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Integration software developer, mostly using aws lambda and sst.dev with typescript. Violinist for fun but pretty serious about it
One of the great curses in technology is that, if you’ve ever built a content management system, especially a blogging tool, you can never stop building better ones in your head, even though the actual products in reality never get any better. Here @mathowie falls down the rabbit hole again. https://a.wholelottanothing.org/a-blueprint-of-my-dream-blogging-cms/
Ideas for my dream blogging CMS

Ever since I changed over from Wordpress to Ghost to power this site, I've gotten emails and replies asking me if Ghost is really good and worth making the jump from any other blogging engines. My answer is this: it's currently the least bad one out there, but it is

A Whole Lotta Nothing
Microsoft has quietly launched an end to end Code Signing solution and it's free until June while in Preview https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/security-compliance-and-identity/trusted-signing-is-in-public-preview/ba-p/4103457 Do you have an open source app or project and strugging with code signing? Give this a try
Trusted Signing is in Public Preview

The Trusted Signing service (formerly Azure Code Signing) is a Microsoft fully managed end-to-end signing solution for developers. Figure 1: Creating a Trusted..

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'you go to prison not for stealing, but for stealing too little'

this might helpfully distinguish theft as an emergent market corrective that spontaneously reallocates hoarded and clogged wealth, and theft as primitive accumulating, cartel extorting, market disciplining dispossession

ie the poor steal to satisfy their deprived needs, which is criminalized and punished, while the rich steal to accrue capital and exact tolls on restricted access, which is permitted and protected

Sam Altman right now.
“The most accurate image AI has ever generated” via https://skeeet.xyz/profile/justingarrison.com/post/3keb43sucp42n
Justin Garrison (justingarrison.com)

This is the most accurate image AI has ever generated

So, for a little project I needed to compress a bit of data, and @cancel and I made up a spec that should be possible to implemented on small systems without too much headaches.

I wrote a bit of documentation for it, and I was wondering if anyone wanted to put the docs to the test and see if they could write a toy implementation in a language of their choice. It'd help me see if there's things missing in the docs.

http://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/ulz_format

So, think of it as a little puzzle.

XXIIVV — ulz format

Antidepressants or Tolkien's character?

If really good-looking people are "eye candy" I am somewhere between "eye broccoli" and "eye kale."

"Ohai, this is Windows. You may have noticed that I killed all the long-running jobs that you left going overnight and restarted your computer so that I could inject some AI-flavored bullshit you never asked for into your (*) operating system. You're welcome!!!”

(*) “It's not actually yours, of course. The OS now works for our Marketing Department rather than you. kthxbai.”

#Windows #enshittification

We all felt a bit nauseated after Wednesday night’s platforming of Trump on CNN. Bad as this was for our democracy, it was really terrible for Republicans hoping to shake free of Trump. I explain why in today’s piece. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/about-that-trump-town-hall?sd=pf
About That Trump Town Hall...

I gave it a day. I gave it a day for the Republican Party to digest what happened Wednesday night during CNN’s “Trump Town Hall,” aired before a live audience of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters. (Don’t get me started on CNN’s irresponsible and cynical play for ratings.) I waited for the party to respond to the extreme statements by their current front runner. After all, here was the chance for other candidates to distinguish themselves and really take him on, to show that the GOP really isn’t a cesspool of Trump acolytes and sycophants.

The Status Kuo