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Joe Steinbring

@joe@toot.works

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I write code (#JS, #VueJS, #PHP, #Laravel), take photos, and travel. I live in #Milwaukee, #Wisconsin. I created a bunch of mastodon bots and https://toot.works .

This is my main fediverse account. I am also @steinbring on Pixelfed and @steinbring@midwest.social on mbin/lemmy. You can follow my blog at @joe or my second account at @joe@jws.social.

My opinions / shoes are my own.

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Joined November 01, 2022

Website:

https://jws.dev

Blog:

https://jws.news

CodePen:

https://codepen.io/steinbring

Github:

https://github.com/steinbring

@joe@toot.works

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@brett@bitflipp.social The last time I found myself unemployed, I was trying everything I could to get into the 1000-lb gorilla in the local job market. I used connections in the company to get lined up with job postings that were aligned with my skills, get recommended by current employees, and talk directly with hiring managers. I was told over and over again that your website doesn't matter, your blog doesn't matter, but your LinkedIn profile 100% matters. That experience is the reason why I log in to it.

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@joe@toot.works

· 5mo ago

I think that it's time to get the #motorcycle out of winter storage.

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@joe@toot.works

· 2mo ago

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@brett@bitflipp.social AI Button?

I don't think that I've heard about that. I do schedule out posts on LinkedIn and keep my profile up to date for the previously stated reason, though.

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@joe@toot.works

· 2mo ago

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@tewha@appdot.net Give him head scratches for me

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@joe@toot.works

· 12mo ago

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@mcc@mastodon.social I spent 3 months unemployed last year and I spent 40 hours per week at my local library studying, building, and marketing myself. I came out the other end with a new found respect for your local library and immediately signed up for the friends of the library organization.

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@joe@toot.works

· 3mo ago

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@AmbianceAsunder@infosec.exchange It is but writing a script to do that has to happen after the other five things that are in the hopper.

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@joe@toot.works

· 3mo ago

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@jamie@zomglol.wtf Same

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@joe@toot.works

· 5mo ago

I am up to 436 days. I'm pretty happy with that.

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@joe@toot.works

· 6mo ago

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@aeva @schtaks I had a boss once upon a time who would say that if you are thinking about the project, that time is billable (since it has value to the client). That would make stress dreams billable, I guess?

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@joe@toot.works

· 6mo ago

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@rl_dane If your goal is just to make sure nobody is using your identity to sign up for a credit account, I would freeze your credit reports with Experian, Equifax, and Trans Union. If you need to buy a car or sign up for a credit card, you can do a 48hr thaw, go ahead and do it, and let it refreeze. It's free to do, and the way I heard it put, if you can't sign up for new credit because of the freeze, somebody pretending to be you can't either.

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@joe@toot.works

· 6mo ago

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@cmccullough I pay $29/yr for a "shared hosting" plan that allows 50gb of storage and unlimited websites. It's isn't a B Corp, it isn't based in Switzerland, and it doesn't advertise five 9s but it's cheap and it gets the job done. If you are looking to your to host your node, php, or python project, you could do worse. That's where a few of my WordPress sites are hosted.

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@joe@toot.works

· 7mo ago

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@snazzyq I spent a week writing code on an m1 with 8gb of memory while the IT department at work was working on my workstation. That cemented in my mind, how irresponsible selling a mac with 8gb of memory really is.

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@joe@toot.works

· 7mo ago

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@arclight@oldbytes.space I remember being asked to migrate an inventory management system for a large international corporation, early in my career. One of the big goals was to move the web app from using Microsoft Access to using Oracle RDBMS. I did a little bit of digging and realized that Access was being used as the intermediary between the web app and an Excel spreadsheet. Excel can do a lot ... just because it can do a lot doesn't mean that it should do a lot, though. 😏

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@joe@toot.works

· 5mo ago

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@jkirkendall@wandering.shop I was watching a video earlier today, where they were saying that if you are an American citizen, you can get a Japanese library card for free through https://www.jflalc.org/libby (Canadians can use https://tr.jpf.go.jp/library/collection-and-services/) and then you can use it with Libby, too.

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@joe@toot.works

· 5mo ago

"Let me Google that for you" ➡️ "Let me ChatGPT that for you" 😫

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@joe@toot.works

· 5mo ago

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@jamie Same.

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@joe@toot.works

· 5mo ago

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@davidho@mastodon.world I made the personal rule at one point of "It is big enough if I can fit a 50-pound dog in the cargo area." Having the dog in the passenger seat proved difficult. That is the reason why I ended up with an eGolf instead of a Chevy Bolt.

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@joe@toot.works

· 6mo ago

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@dHeinemann@fosstodon.org Looking good!

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@joe@toot.works

· 6mo ago

It's 5am and I am drinking tea and watching GMM because I am too sick to breathe right.

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@joe@toot.works

· 7mo ago

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@jamie I'm guessing that they named the company after Isambard Kingdom Brunel (the british engineer).

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@joe@toot.works

· 10mo ago

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@maxleibman@beige.party I think that there is a The Lonely Island song about that.

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@joe@toot.works

· 25mo ago

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@davidzipper Link to get around the paywall: https://archive.ph/faiXa

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@joe@toot.works

· 6mo ago

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@Migueldeicaza Looking good

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@joe@toot.works

· 5mo ago

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@Pepijn I remember being outside of the one the US, Nepal, and England but I don't think that I was ever inside of any of them.

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@joe@toot.works

· 2mo ago

There is a second Hong sign on my block, now.

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@joe@toot.works

· 5mo ago

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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange Does that put it into Goblin Mode? 😏

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@joe@toot.works

· 6mo ago

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@feld They might even have amazon deliver it for them. I've seen that more than once.

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@joe@toot.works

· 8mo ago

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@vkc@linuxmom.net If your admin blocks "cesspool.domain", unless the maintainer of "cesspool.domain" forks mastodon and does some shenanigans, no user from that instance can follow any user from your instance and vice versa. They could go to your profile and take a screenshot of it or link to it if the post is public (vs "Quiet Public" or "Followers Only") but they can also do that if they aren't using Mastodon at all. Truth Social is using an old, tweaked version of Mastodon but nobody federates with it.

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@joe@toot.works

· 5mo ago

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@amber Ten years ago, we were talking about how people copy from Stack Overflow and paste into the codebase without understanding what's going on. In my opinion, it's the same situation.

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@joe@toot.works

· 7mo ago

@tvaziri I was watching a video where they were saying that the reason why it's not called "Spider-Man Noir" is because if they used the Spiderman name, their agreements with Marvel would require them to get Marvel involved. A Spider-Man movie without Marvel's involvement does make me fear a repeat of the Madame Webb incident but I remain hopeful that they'll be able to figure it out.

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@joe@toot.works

· 4mo ago

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@raymondcamden@mastodon.social That's a lot of Enya

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@joe@toot.works

· 5mo ago

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@raymondcamden@mastodon.social Congrats! 💪

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@joe@toot.works

· 6mo ago

My sinuses really hate me, today.

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@joe@toot.works

· 6mo ago

I wish I was asleep

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@joe@toot.works

· 5mo ago

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@vmstan@vmst.io Are you D.B. Cooper?

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@joe@toot.works

· 6mo ago

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@RikerGoogling@mas.to Why was Earl grey?

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@joe@toot.works

· 6mo ago

A buddy messaged me earlier today saying that he had been stuck at ORD for 30 hours with his extended family.

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@joe@toot.works

· 5mo ago

The grift never fucking ends.

"Republican leaders will pay private lawyers up to $550 an hour in taxpayer money to represent the Legislature in a lawsuit challenging them over that very practice: using taxpayer money to hire private attorneys."

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2026/04/15/wisconsin-lawmakers-hire-private-lawyers-for-suit-over-private-lawyers/89592209007/

#Politics #USPol #Pol #Wisconsin #WIGOP

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@joe@toot.works

· 5mo ago

A few days ago, I read about PGBackRest's (https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest) maintainer giving up because he can't find the sponsors to make the project viable and now I am seeing a lot of people hate on Blender (https://fund.blender.org) for taking money from a new corporate sponsor.

#Blender #Anthropic

GitHub - pgbackrest/pgbackrest: Reliable PostgreSQL Backup & Restore

Reliable PostgreSQL Backup & Restore. Contribute to pgbackrest/pgbackrest development by creating an account on GitHub.

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@joe@toot.works

· 6mo ago

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@evacide@hachyderm.io Same.

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@joe@toot.works

· 2mo ago

I should probably double check my PTO balances, this week. I have a 15-day trip to budget for before it refreshes.

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@joe@toot.works

· 5mo ago

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@zkat If the issue is with your followers not moving over, it's likely that fedi.zkat.tech isn't federating with those users' instances. I had that issue moving from mastodon.social to toot.works. Federation takes time (a few weeks at the very least).

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@joe@toot.works

· 3mo ago

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@0x00string@infosec.exchange If the police refuse to enforce the law, lock them up and find ones that will.

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@joe@toot.works

· 7mo ago

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@rhysmorgan @snazzyq I wasn't using xcode or running docker containers. I was writing php and node. It shouldn't be that bad.

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