Finally made it to #pyconus — well, still standing outside the conference, but it’s progress.
Looking forward to t-string-aplooza in S-3 at 2PM!
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Dave Peck
@davepeck@mastodon.davepeck.org
mastodon 4.5.11A bit of computer.
A modicum of music.
Plenty of pancakes.
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Joined January 25, 2023
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Replying to
@siracusa I spent some time exploring whether there’s a viable indie business helping orgs that broadcast on X get set up on Mastodon and Bluesky. I focused on state and local public agencies. Alas; the typical mid-size progressive city’s transit department doesn’t even know this is something they should consider.
Apple, though? It boggles.
That moment when you realize that the only people who once read the Fake Steve Jobs blog, or even know that it once existed, are old. Like you.
For software engineers like me, the cards are wildly in the air. Some of our core skills are being automated away; even when not, the trends are clear.
What remains, I think, is taste.
Technical taste: knowing which languages, tools, and architectures will serve you well; having a code aesthetic and the ability to hold agents to it.
Product taste: having empathy for your customer and a strong eye for design, information hierarchy, and interaction.
Me: what are you up to?
11yo: I dunno, just multiplying I guess.
Me: (takes a closer look)
Replying to
@inthehands@hachyderm.io @anildash@me.dm “If only we could have reasonable conversations” is tough these days.
A friend of mine who works in Philips medical devices described the immense pressure they’re getting from top executives to find ways to apply AI to their products. It’s a horrifying mismatch, doomed to fail or (I fear) worse, and sounds driven entirely by hype/FOMO, conflation of different AI kinds, etc.
No reasonable conversation can be had here without (hopefully benign) failure and cultural change.
do not say load-bearing
do not say blast radius
do not say belt-and-suspenders
do not say
do not
Current status.
Untitled Goose Game, Seattle Edition
Amoedi seems… upset! pastebin.com/LS2LpLZ7
That last sentence: “Due to selection effects, [OpenAI employees] are sort of a gullible bunch, but it seems important to push back on these narratives which Sam [Altman] is peddling to his employees.”
PyCon! Long Beach! Soon. Looking forward to it…
This is the kind of small press ephemera we need.
@yaelwrites@mastodon.social Just read a list of this year’s Pulitzer Prize winners and… wow, congratulations!
Just ordered 17,688 boxes of Girl Scout cookies. AMA.
Why I like this setup:
- New services cost $0 and deploy via git push. I can experiment at will.
- I do zero sysadmin work. No k8s nonsense. Ubuntu is on auto-update. Dokku has been delightfully straightforward.
- If anything outgrows my box, I can git push to DO/etc. Real portability.
- A full OSS stack; I own the data; etc
- Uptime is > 99.9%, less than 99.99% Static sites cache hit anyway. (When it *is* down Clouflare shows a baffling error page I could fix with a Worker... but why?)
Replying to
@ben@social.benjaminturner.me how are you exposing the server to the public internet? Direct, or something like CF Tunnels?
There are so many good home servers waiting to be uncovered in dusty bins at REPC
How I host stuff online:
1. A Beelink SER8 running Ubuntu
2. Dokku
3. My home fiber connection
4. Cloudflare tunnels
The Beelink sips power at idle, makes no sound, has been fully reliable.
For static sites, Cloudflare caches everything; I rarely see a hit, unless I've pushed new content (or explicitly purged the cache).
For dynamic sites... I mean, an SER8 is absurdly overpowered compared to any $N/month VPS I'd care to pay for.
@raganwald@social.bau-ha.us you can't put 'we fixed typos' on a keynote slide
Girl Scout cookies in western Washington are currently an object lesson in the bullwhip effect. We’re at low ebb since first weekend sales significantly outpaced expectation.
@raganwald@social.bau-ha.us I look forward to your performance on YouTube.
On paper at least, Musk can easily afford to buy the entire housing stock of Seattle — every house, apartment, and condo building — after which he’d still be the richest man in the world.
Replying to
@davidism@mas.to My instinct (and, when possible, implementation) is always nullable, default null. Django long ago decided the answer is empty string, so when I happen to be in that ecosystem I demure.