jonatk @jonatk@mastodon.org.uk
Empathetic software team manager. Python developer. Decentralised system fan. Lover of positivity.
I’m currently sat in a bar. There was a distressing incident where a man assaulted a woman who he was with. Alcohol was involved.
The police who have been here for the last 45 minutes have been just amazing. Deeply empathetic, considerate listeners. Absolute professionals.
A huge overdue update to one of our biggest clients to move them from Django 1.7 on Python 2.7 up to Django 2.0 and Python 3.6 tonight. It all went without a hitch (if you don’t count anxiously waiting 60 minutes for their Elasticsearch index to rebuild). I. Am. So. Pleased.
It's also worth saying: ActivityPub wouldn't have made it to W3C Recommendation without Mastodon's community. About 8 months or so ago, I was in despair because it seemed clear that we wouldn't have enough time to wrap up the work that needed to be done in time to make it through the process before the group's charter ran out. Mastodon's interest in AP directly lead to an extension and a renew of enthusiasm.
Thank you everyone. It means a lot to me.
Watching the Letterman/Obama interview. It’s incredible how much the world has lost in the last twelve months.
The system seems pretty straightforward to me, I don't know what the problem was
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about all the silent ‘operations’ work which we do to keep things running smoothly; patching, upgrading, keeping track of releases and monitoring vulnerability lists etc. It’s a huge mental burden which is rarely compensated (‘part of the job’) by the clients we work for. I wonder how this can change.
Today’s Bitbucket downtime has been incredibly frustrating. I’ve just had a good look at the Gitlab features page and it looks like they support remote CI now, which is sorely tempting me.
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howdy. i'm the sheriff of bad unicode support
I trained a neural network on a list of deleted Wikipedia titles. Not sure who is weirder this time, neural net or humans. http://aiweirdness.com/post/169309161212/wikipedia-articles-invented-by-a-neural-network
Welp: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/
> A fundamental design flaw in Intel's processor chips has forced a significant redesign of the Linux and Windows kernels to defang the chip-level security bug.
> Crucially, these updates to both Linux and Windows will incur a performance hit on Intel products. The effects are still being benchmarked, however we're looking at a ballpark figure of five to 30 per cent slow down.
> A spokesperson for Intel was not available for comment
Weren't they now.
Going back to work was exhausting 😦
I know there are problems with online abuse, and I don’t want to downplay or ignore them, but I really do feel like “free speech” has become a dirty word in the space of about 12 months after literally decades of consistent, principled and passionate adherence to the idea, *especially* by internet nerds. This never used to be a right vs left splitting point, Noam bloody Chomsky argued very straightforwardly in favour of FoS precisely for ideas that you despise. What happened? (end, 2/2)
I have to admit I'm slightly worried even bringing this up on Mastodon, but is anybody else genuinely experiencing some kind of ideological whiplash in response to the speed, thoroughness and vitriol with which the dominant set of beliefs amongst people “from the internet”, especially those who do things like idealistically design new communication protocols, has turned *against* what is apparently now called "free speech absolutism"? (continued, 1/2)
media.ccc.de - Console Security - Nintendo Switch
Decentralization Roundup for 2017
http://clutchofthedeadhand.com/roundup-2017/
I have been planning this meal since ~October, and it all came together perfectly. I can actually relax now.
Federated GitLab? Yes, please…
I run my own GitLab. You run your own GitLab. Your GitLab sends my GitLab a pull request.
How cool would that be?
If you’d like to see that, take a moment to upvote issue #4013: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4013
I really enjoyed this article about text-only and low-bandwidth news publishing. https://www.poynter.org/news/text-only-news-sites-are-slowly-making-comeback-heres-why - it seems a shame it doesn’t address RSS as a method of letting the user choose the sophistication level of the presentation on screen.
Good morning 🙂 A day for cooking and family.
Whenever I hear a baby in an airport I don't get annoyed. They're just saying what we're all thinking.
