The conversation:

Cat: meow
Me: Wow, really?
Cat: meow
Me: This is incredible stuff
Cat: meow
Me: First I've ever heard of it
Cat: meow

The conversation from her viewpoint:

Cat: I'm hungry.
Human: hønk
Cat: Feed me, you big dumb kitten.
Human: hønk
Cat: Look here you dumb shit, I'm a regal predator and I deserve your respect!
Human: hønk
Cat: Your curtains will hear about this

#CatsOfMastodon

The TikTok ban, the Musk Twitter takeover, the Facebook moderation policy changes, the Republicans’ rapidly intensifying crackdowns on speech... let these be the proof you needed to move anything you care about online to a space you control.

Digital sovereignty is more important than ever.

#DigitalSovereignty

Top good song with a creepy video: Katie Melua, "I Cried For You".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGnNcLi5SmY

Good song.

Creepy fucking video.

The secret to succeeding in technology is to build exciting things with boring technology.

Boring tech is well-understood and the edge cases well-known.

Your product should be what’s exciting, not your stack or your devops.

Draft for a test code quality manifesto:

Test code is code.
What’s considered bad in production code, is bad in test code.

Its intention should be immediately obvious.
Its functionality shouldn’t be obscured.
Its results should be meaningful.
Its failure causes should be easy to find.

Man... SOME people! Parks in the fire lane right next to the sign that says no parking in the fire lane! There was even a cop nearby who didn't do a thing about it.

We were stopping at the out-of-frame grocery store for road food, not the shown place for road liquor. We're on a multi-week trip, about 3500 miles so far.