Mastodawn

I occasionally help an elderly neighbor get stuff done with their computer. And every single time, I walk away in incandescent rage at how hard we have made this stuff for people who have not spent their entire waking lives marinating in it

Dave Feb 17

No Boilerplate Feb 17

PSA: If you block the `claude` user on GitHub, you'll get a warning every time you view a repo with that user in its commit history.

Now, the moment you look at a repo, you can immediately adjust your expectations.

You may do so here: https://github.com/settings/blocked_users

Dave Feb 11

Ben Pate 🤘🏻Feb 10

I see tons of posts about #selfhosting here, and it makes sense. It’s a great option for people who can.

But this excludes the vast majority of regular people who do not have the technical skills to run a data center.

We owe it to everyone to make open cloud services that:

- do not put profit first
- do not “own” or “monetize” their users’ data
- resist enshitification by letting users take their data somewhere else
- are as easy and straightforward as the “closed” status quo

Dave Jan 10

Foxocube Jan 10

My ticket says "not valid to Paddington", does that mean it's valid to Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof?

Dave Jan 4

big awoo notation Dec 25

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are:

1. Getting up in the morning
2. Going to bed at a reasonable time

Dave Jan 2

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eta Jan 1

I sent this to @Ninji and they made it into a motivational poster

Dave Jan 1

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Dave Dec 29

Dgar Dec 29

Hi to all those joining us from LinkedIn.

If you have any career advice, please don’t. Hesitate to offer it.

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Dave Dec 20

Fuck, I should have searched this ahead of time

Dave Dec 20

Okay but what about Where's Waldo audiobooks

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