New job opening at Bluesky (part-time; multiple positions available).

“Looking for useful idiots to legitimize us so we can achieve network effects before we screw over our user base.

Right candidate can state ‘I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt’ in public with a straight face in full knowledge that we’re a Silicon Valley outfit backed by the founder of Twitter.

Previous work on Web 2.0/3.0 essential.

Similar positions available at #Nostr.”

#usefulIdiots #jobOffer #BlueSky

Conway’s Game of Life With Physical Buttons

https://hackaday.com/2026/03/20/conways-game-of-life-with-physical-buttons/

Underappreciated story: Trump and Bondi have decided to disregard the constitutional requirement that US Attorneys require Senate confirmation. In state after state they install unqualified apparatchiks, and it's up to the courts to discover that these stooges are serving illegally.

Which the courts have done, again and again. But the Trump regime simply ignores the courts and the law. All the work of these US Attorneys' offices is at risk. (1/2)

F-Droid: Google Android verification is existential threat to alt stores. Open source maintainers must de-anonymize or exit. Security framing hides anticompetitive reality. 📱🔒

https://thenewstack.io/f-droid-says-googles-android-developer-verification-plan-is-an-existential-threat-to-alternative-app-stores/

#android #privacy #opensource

“If you're using print calls to debug your Python code, consider using f-strings with self-documenting expressions instead.”

Read more 👉 https://pym.dev/debugging-with-f-strings/

#Python