Handwritten lyrics to If I Killed Your Boyfriend, one of the funniest songs I’ve ever heard, from Christopher Worth, one of the best musicians I know and a wonderful human being. Check him out if you’re near Portland or his next tour.
New pictures
New pictures are up! Playgrounds, family, skiing, the Wave Organ, panoramic views, and more.
Learned about the Cushing, Oklahoma oil interchange today, one of the largest in the world. Its oil manifolds have automated electrical valves that transfer millions of barrels of oil automatically, just like packets routed through switching fabrics and router backplanes in the internet’s Tier 1 peering points. So cool!
Bridgy Publish for Facebook shuts down in August
Bridgy Publish launched four years ago with the ability to create posts, RSVPs, comments, and likes on Facebook and other silos. It’s created over 30k silo posts since then (details), 7k on Facebook specifically.
After the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke, Facebook started limiting its API in a number of ways. Notably, it disabled RSVPing yesterday, and will disable posting on August 1, which will effectively kill Bridgy Publish. More background in the docs.
I’ll send Facebook notifications to warn users that they only have a few months left. RIP Bridgy Publish for Facebook, we’ll miss you. So long, and thanks for all the fish!
Notebooks like Jupyter and Observable are great for research, data science, and really any interactive computing or documentation. I want to start using them for ops/SRE projects too. Thomas Kluyver‘s bash_kernel works, but has lots of rough edges. Anyone have any other ideas?
To complain about modern society is a backhanded way of putting down your professional rivals.
Gina and Brooke were out of town this week, so I’ve been home alone with the new Zelda, one of the best games I’ve played in years.
I’m an introvert, so I was sorely tempted to hunker down, hack on work and other projects, and otherwise just play a ton of Zelda.
Instead, I got together with a bunch of friends I don’t see often enough. I went for a few long runs. I cooked a bit, edited pictures, read a good book, did some writing. And yes, I played Zelda a lot too.
Sometimes, every now and then, willpower actually works. Sometimes.
Current status: iterating on PR docs with Google employees by emailing
.doc files back and forth with edits. 🤦♂️
Making art is hard. No microchip changes that.
– John Teti, More, More, More—How Do You Like It?
Setting: a busy public place.
“Brooke, do you want to go potty with me?”
“No, you need some privacy.”
*click*
“I THINK MY PAPA IS HAVING A LITTLE PRIVACY!!!”
We are in the business of novel outages.
…since ideally you find and fix each outage’s root cause. Admirable. Definitely the right idea!
Bridgy stats update
A new year means new Bridgy stats. Perfect timing, too, since we’re just about to hit 1 million webmentions!
Let’s go to the numbers. Since launch in December 2013: 4300 users, 940k webmentions sent successfully to >1500 unique domains, 9.5M responses handled (likes, comments etc), 26K POSSEs published, total cost ~$.02/user/month (up from ~$.01 18 months ago).
Data, methodology, previously, previously, previously.
