Table of Contents Intro Thoughts Promises Only Retrieve The Data You need Fewer requests Get Data in the appropriate shape Your query’s shape will match the shape of the response Moves much of the data filtering and parsing back to the server An API reference document for people using it Combine data from multiple systems in 1 response Subscriptions (Implied Promise) Look Ma, it’s almost JSON Counterargument Intro Thoughts I’ve been mostly avoiding GraphQL and watching from the sidelines.
Table of Contents Ancestries not Race Backgrounds are more meaningful Skills Feats aren’t just abilities Character Creation is easy The Archetypes So Many Classes You Don’t Need To Buy Books You Don’t Need Details Details Details Bookcraft The World All The Colors of the Rainbow The Adventure Paths What about Starfinder? What Next? Obligatory Disclaimer A friend asked what was notable about Pathfinder 2nd Edition in comparison to D&D 5th Edition.
Overview It’s important for all knowledge workers to have a Personal Knowledge Management System (PKM). That doesn’t mean you need a fancy tool, or a complex process. Sometimes, the “stupid simple” solution is the best one.
To that end, I wanted to talk through my wife’s system. It’s an important example because her choice to specifically not use any of the fancy purpose built tools has resulted in a better solution for her needs.
Table of Contents Knowledge Management As A Survival Trait It’s not you, it’s me. Surviving The Torrent Of Information Falling Behind Ignore the things you don’t need Less is more Observe, Try, Steal, Refine, Repeat What Now? “Personal Knowledge Management” (PKM) feels like a lot of “bullshit” to many people. In this, I will speak to the idea that PKM isn’t bullshit. It’s just that other people’s ways of managing knowledge, just aren’t designed for your brain.
Overview A group calling itself “Mask Group” has purchased three of the largest mastodon instances.
Mastodon users, especially people on those servers, should be very concerned.
Why? There are some things you need to consider about mastodon to understand why this is very concerning.
Large Mastodon instances are expensive to run. Mastodon is not a good platform for large advertisers for a number of reasons. This means that by buying a large mastodon instance you are signing up for a very large ongoing cost in a system whose current state is adverse to profit generation for the owners.
Table of Contents Overview In the Beginning Final Totals Writing in Chicken Scheme Delusions of Sharability Crystal Lang Final Totals Writing in Crystal Fast-Forward… And then Raku Final Totals Writing in Raku Reflecting on the rewrites If you liked that… P.S. What about the email app with the same name? Overview “Hey!” started as an Interruption Tracker, and now supports Time Tracking too. It has been through 3 iterations: Chicken Scheme, Crystal, and now Raku.
Overview There's plenty of documentation about how to send an SMS via Twilio, but very little about how to receive one. Receiving one in a MongoDB Atlas Function involves an extra complication. By the end of this post you'll know how to receive a text in Twilio, and have it successfully interact with your MongoDB Atlas Function. I'll also cover a couple nice-to-have's in Twilio that you'll probably want to set up anyway.
Table of Contents Quick Summary It started as a joke… The work Begins… Generating images Prepping images RedBubble The site Know Thyself That Sweet Marketing Copy Final Thoughts Will I share my code? What’s my favorite? So Many Images Quick Summary I used Midjourney to generate art that I threw on t-shirts, coasters, and almost everything else RedBubble offers. Then I used OpenAI to generate copy for it, and combined that with a handful of custom scripts to generate a product site called Bed Bath & The Beyond.
Musk has given the remaining employees an ultimatum: come back to the office, sign up for 'hardcore' work, or take 3 months severance and get out.
Acknowledging that there are some people who can't really say "no" because of visa issues, or other complicated home situations….
Aside from them, who would say "Yes! Sign me up for 'hardcore' working hours…
for a boss who regularly fires people who politely correct his lies about your work, in a place where morale is going to be "in the shitter" for a very long time in a place where incredibly important sections of the staff have been fired in a place where you can't trust the boss's claims from day to day where 40hrs probably won't be enough.
Armin Ronacher wrote that Scaling Mastodon is Impossible
I'd like to offer a rebuttal. As someone who's been doing professional web development since 1995, with most of that time being spent in Rails jobs, or doing Rails work on the sidelines, I think i have a pretty good perspective on the situation. For those who don't know, Mastodon is written in Ruby on Rails.
Decentralization promotes an utopian view of the world that I belief fails to address actual real problems in practice.
