Over the weekend, I learned that in modern JS, you can just make up your own events and create listeners to respond to them, and *nobody can stop you*. Like, you can add a listener for an event you call `control-reset` or `text-edit` or `steve` or *whatever*, and then when something on the page dispatches that event at the listener, the listener will act! It’s event anarchy!
Pet snake
One of my new kittens has decided it's a good idea to start climbing on top of my corn snake's terrarium and just staring at her as she tries to inch in closer. Gotta relocate the snake now cause she tried to strike at the cat (stopped bybthe terrarium cover) which didn't dissuade it from sitting longer
@jonny "if our wildest dreams for "open science" are to pay amazon to rent our own data... we need better dreams" 💯 there is this weird push for expensive (and carbon-unfriendly) cloud hosting of raw data in neuroscience. everything else on the poster is also awesome.
Open source maintainers are often good at writing code but not good at asking for money
Companies aren't very good at giving money away, but they absolutely know how to hire consultants - and they often have a training budget set aside already
Spend that money on maintainers!
Fission Tech Talk now: Willow talk with @gwil and Aljoscha https://lu.ma/fission-tech-talk-willow-overview @fission #FissionTechTalk
tech anger
Great and it doesn't want to recover encryption keys for my chats. Wonderful software! Military grade.
This also handles generating digests for your request body and adding in expected headers like Host and Date.
Also has a useful function for generating new keypairs and an example structure for your Actor object.
Just published a new module for doing signed HTTP requests for #ActivityPub in #JavaScript for #NodeJS
This wraps over the `fetch` API that's typically used in browsers but is now available in node.
Still worth it to not have to jump between a bunch of apps and "slack workspaces" to get my work done. :P
silicon valley VCs' best ideas of the 2020s:
-put a drone on something
-wrongness generator 3000 (uses more energy than a small nation)
-fraud
-space pollution
-self-crashing cars
-an app that is actually criminally underpaid workers in another country
-an app that is actually criminally underpaid workers in this country
-fascism
-vrchat but it cost 20x to make and it fucking sucks
-layoffs
Ugh the Element Matrix client is so annoying. It randomly freezes up and starts eating all my CPU and freezing my render thread and then has the gall of corrupting it's state and needing me to do a full sync again. (which takes tens of minutes because it wants to load every single message/user/room or something.
Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.