Matthew @mattasdata@qoto.org

Pretty sure Madness wrote a song about this.

#Madness
#OurHouse

Check out this best worst thing I found. It is my UX nightmare but also fun to play.

https://userinyerface.com

#UX #Games

We spend roughly 10x as much time reading code as we do writing it. A tool or technique that makes you twice as "productive" at writing code *at best* makes you 5% more productive over all. Making your code easier to understand will have 10x the impact. But that doesn't sell tools, so you won't be reading about it in Forbes.

Secret Panel HERE 🧠 https://tapas.io/episode/2383199

#CollabW23 has started! We kicked off with a hybrid breakfast social. Excited to be back at my favourite conference and see how we can make this work in hyrbid!

@us_rse @de_rse @nordic_rse @researchsoft @HeathrTurnr @AlanSill @code4thought @mattasdata @codebrewer Based on your good replies in thread, I started this blog post, please improve since I wrote it fast!: https://github.com/nordic-rse/nordic-rse.github.io/pull/412
And what's our next follow-up?

Went to a rally, got a T-shirt.

Thanks for the design @tomflood

Stop the Online Safety Bill

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/634725

Sign the petition before they pass a law that requires all messaging providers to monitor the content of everyone's messages.

I often tend to lose track of my day. I have accepted myself for who I am. My supervisor hasn't. 🥲⁠ ⁠ #cartoon #cartoons #comic #comics #instacomic #instacartoon ⁠ #academia #science #research ⁠ #errantscience

Happy 33rd birthday to the Hubble Space Telescope, launched onboard space shuttle Discovery (STS-31) #OTD in 1990.

The 2023 anniversary image is the nebula NGC 1333, a star forming region about 970 light years away in the constellation Perseus.

Image: NASA, ESA, STScI

Coming in May: An easy path to join #Mastodon and the growing movement to #TakeBackSocial.

See a preview and join us here to build this movement together.

▶️ https://spreadmastodon.org/

My blue tick appears to have suffered a rapid unscheduled disassembly.

I think that's how Elon would want me to say it.

If you're interested in particular topics, you can join Fediverse groups. They work like this:

1. Join a group by following its account
2. Posts from that group will start appearing in your timeline
2. Post to a group by mentioning it in a public post
4. Leave the group by unfollowing it

The groups work via third party services, the most popular ones at the moment are https://chirp.social and https://a.gup.pe.

More info on discovering and creating groups at https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on-the-fediverse

First #RaspberryPi earned a shitstorm by hiring a cop formerly specialized in hidden surveillance.

Now they accept an investment by Sony for their proprietary AI engine to be included in the next Pi. Which "only sends metadata to the cloud".

Here's a fine list of alternatives to that now-garbage company:

- https://pine64.com/
- https://beagleboard.org/
- http://www.orangepi.org/
- https://www.banana-pi.org/
- https://www.hardkernel.com/
- https://www.friendlyelec.com/

#Privacy #Security #SBC