ALAN LAVENDER @lavenderlens@qoto.org
- Employer
- https://stayahead.com
- Big Idea
- http://mindyourself.io/
- Past Life
- http://www.alanlavender.com/
Java & Web Development Trainer, London & virtual. Author: The Frontend Cookbook. https://FrontendCookbook.com 25+ years’ prior in photography, filmmaking, web development & design for print. Someday would like to do something humanitarian with codeforireland.org and codefortheuk.com. 🌐
Joined Nov 2022
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I'm now the proud owner of a Commodore Amiga A500! It's absolutely filthy and feels disgusting to the touch, but a good project to have.
I haven't tried to power it on yet, but as far as I can tell everything is there, what it needs more than anything is a really good clean.
There is a little damage in spots on the casing, especially the top left, but it's part of its story. If anything, it makes me want to restore it even more the poor thing.
#Netflix Manifest S1:E13 and suddenly there’s a cave. A wormhole-y time cave. Is this turning into Dark?
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I was woken up by an SVT heart racing incident at 01:20 this morning. Rate was 133 bpm as recorded by Apple Watch. I did the MVM* at 01:25 and this stopped it. Rate dropped to 78 bpm.
Data in Apple Health shows the high rate started about 00:50. See pic.
* See this post for more on SVT & MVM https://mastodon.social/@ianRobinson/110251779905694078
Mo Gawdat, “Scary Smart”:
“If we managed to connect your brain to a bunch of flies so they could use all your intelligence to find the next pile of garbage, would you spend the rest of your life proudly serving their needs?”
Rhetorical I guess..
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Apropos of nothing, I've always imagined blockchains as looking like some kind of brutalist/Borg jenga tower.
Vegan Omega-3s. Niiiice….
Just listened to a great episode of BBC R4’s The Food Programme, all about eating for brain health: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001p6yx ...
@flip see? That one was meant for you. Welcome to Mastodon.
Welcome to Mastodon. I have a PhD in f@Viking things up 😂
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Due to popular demand, here is a list of the fedi-services that are part of the infosec.* family:
1 - https://infosec.exchange - Glitch-soc fork of Mastodon (this instance does not block threads.net)
2 - https://relay.infosec.exchange - Activitypub relay
3 - https://video.infosec.exchange - Peertube instance (like youtube)
4 - https://infosec.press - WriteFreely blog*
5 - https://pixel.infosec.exchange - Pixelfed instance (like instagram)
6 - https://matrix.infosec.exchange - Synapse (with sliding sync) homeserver*
7 - https://infosec.place - Akkoma instance (like mastodon)
8 - https://infosec.town - iceshrimp instance (like mastodon)
9 - https://infosec.pub - Lemmy instance (like reddit)
10 - https://fedia.io - General interest mbin instance (also like reddit)
11 - https://fedia.social - General interst Iceshrimp instance
12 - https://elk.infosec.exchange - Elk web interface for Mastodon
13 - https://books.infosec.exchange - Bookworym instance (like goodreads)
14 - https://meetups.infosec.exchange (mobilizon)
15 - https://infosec.space - Glitch-soc fork of Mastodon (this instance does
block threads.net)
16 - https://convo.casa - Glitch-soc Mastodon instance
17 - https://ioc.exchange - Glitch-soc mastodon instance
*indicates the instance authenticates against Infosec.exchange
Cujo being told that it’s Python today and not JavaScript. The amount of code lectures that dog has heard - he must be better than an AI by now. #WoofGPT
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A large, many-leveled topic, but I offered this quick note a moment ago to a post critical of "faith":
The words of course get used in different ways by different people. But as a student of world religion and a Buddhist minister, I favor the distinction a professor of mine made:
"Belief" can be a closed-minded and often bigoted idea.
"Faith" can be an open-hearted and often humbling engagement with life's worth.
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ChatGPT loses users for first time, shaking faith in AI revolution - OpenAI's chatbot has been heralded as spurring a revolution in the tech world. But its sp... - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/07/chatgpt-users-decline-future-ai-openai/
It's under a CW because, logos...
So the flowbite-react batteries-included component was 500+ LOC including inline JS - yuck! Here's mine:
Here ‘Tis. Yes, the very shallow sticky nav at the top of the screen. Yes, whole day. With a nod of homage to https://familyconsignmentstore.com/
Is it excessive to spend a whole day on a small UI component for a Redux Toolkit demo app that’s actually supposed to demonstrate state management? I don’t think so. It has to look great at all sizes and orientations.
Remind you of anyone you know? I hope not! Just marvel in these highly evocative words from this American version of today’s psalter: Psalm 5:10
- Employer
- https://stayahead.com
- Big Idea
- http://mindyourself.io/
- Past Life
- http://www.alanlavender.com/
Java & Web Development Trainer, London & virtual. Author: The Frontend Cookbook. https://FrontendCookbook.com 25+ years’ prior in photography, filmmaking, web development & design for print. Someday would like to do something humanitarian with codeforireland.org and codefortheuk.com. 🌐
Joined Nov 2022
