there are few things quite as glorious as a whole day with no meetings
we all know maker’s schedule manager’s schedule, but still, the impact on productivity never ceases to amaze me. way bigger than linear
(even so, I do miss the bandwidth of a whole team! way harder and slower doing everything myself)
Hi all! Well, I didn’t plan it, but word got out anyway: Bridgy Fed‘s Bluesky <=> fediverse support went online a couple weeks ago, quietly and without announcement, but people still found it. Over 1200 accounts have turned it on so far and bridged themselves one direction or the other. It’s great to see so much early interest!
(For anyone unfamiliar with Bridgy Fed, here’s an introduction.)
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Saw “brownfield” for the first time just now as the opposite of “greenfield.” Yuck.
Feels a bit harsh – legacy software projects do much of the heavy lifting that makes the world go ’round – but I guess still a useful term. Maybe.
A Belgian man was acquitted of a drunk-driving charge on Monday after court officials learned he suffers from a very rare metabolic condition that causes his body to turn certain foods into alcohol.
Due to his condition, the man’s body creates ethanol, which is intoxicating, after ingesting sugary and starchy foods. Symptoms are akin to that of actual drunkenness, including slurred speech and dizziness.
In what the man’s lawyer Anse Ghesquiere called “another unfortunate coincidence,” she said the defendant is employed in a brewery.
TIL: shadow API. The developer equivalent of shadow IT. There’s a whole ecosystem of wild, feral technology here just waiting to be discovered and categorized.
Hi all! It’s been a while since my last status update on Bridgy Fed, its upcoming Bluesky/AT Protocol support, and the resulting firestorm.
It’s coming along! It’s not launched yet, I still have a number of things to build and tests to run, but it’s getting there. Also, Bluesky’s current federation test is limited to 10 users per federated server. We can’t launch until they lift that limit. I don’t know when that will happen, but I’m confident it will. Continue reading
