Markus Silpala @msilpala@qoto.org
Male parental unit of two kids; married to their mother; resident of Minneapolis, MN, USA; lover of cats, climbing, human connection; writer of software and occasional coach of software teams.
Joined Nov 2022
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Waybackify-WP.
I've finally cleaned up and posted something I've been using for a few years: wayback-wp.php is a script that you run from cron to replace any old links in your blog posts and comments with contemporaneous Wayback Machine URLs. I do this on all of my posts older than 5 years...
https://jwz.org/b/ykkS
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Anyone have tips on how to clean splattered, raw egg off of a car, when the air temperature is -25°C? Asking for a friend.
Cat washes are closed when it’s this cold.
This is outrageous and illegal treatment of US government staff. It also fits a pattern that both Trump and Musk have followed: get ahead by not paying what you owe.
https://social.coop/@judell/114018068455515369
Anyone else currently attending #CodeFreeze25 in Minneapolis?
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Finally some good news:
The fate of #FarRight website #Infowars will be controlled by #theOnion after the satirical news site emerged as the winning bidder of Wednesday’s private auction of the #media company founded by #conspiracy theorist #AlexJones.
#justice #law
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/11/14/infowars-auction-alex-jones-sandy-hook-the-onion/
@narthur recent versions of iOS let you place multiple “copies” of the same app—so you can have the same app on multiple Home Screen pages. Sounds like you created on accidentally?
Ever since App Library became a thing, all the Home Screen icons are basically symlinks/aliases. At least that’s how my head models it.
@trochee @futurebird Neat! Stigmergy seems to have a lot of overlap with “kanban” as well. Note the lowercase “k”. I mean the classic concept from Japanese and Toyota Production System—not the named methods that sprouted from the Agile movement.
My under-qualified take: Stigmergy seems to be the system of signals and actions, whereas kanban refers mostly to a given signal in the environment.
Asking those who know better: am I understanding correctly?
@GeePawHill I dunno. That’s been Con Don’s MO for a while: whatever thing you’re caught doing, turn around and accuse them of the same thing.
@StOnSoftware @JeffGrigg @GeePawHill I do NOT use cURL to post toots, because I expect that doing so would be far clunkier than using Ivory (my client of choice). But I do use cURL for several dev-centric tasks where repeatability and scriptability are more valuable to me than one-off convenience.
The tool depends on the need; the need varies from moment to moment.
@GeePawHill I coulda just nodded along until you said "command lines". Now you leave me no choice but to rib you in a maliciously-loving fashion.
Malicious compliance. I think I like the sound of that. Need to think on what that would look like.
https://mastodon.social/@jbrains/112530715051794406
@jbrains This makes sense. I recall @qrquartel telling me that FaST evolved from an XP team, which discovered it while trying novel things to deal with their context.
@adrianh Aren't you in the UK? That's a late coffee run.
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“Too many organizations spend effort building beautiful DORA dashboards that no one looks at.”
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In listening to Joseph Pelrine describe effective estimation techniques at #CraftConf, I'm left even more strongly believing that the vast majority of software projects are absolutely wasting energy trying to do this better.
Eventually, maybe. Now, no. I believe you'll benefit more by focusing on the flow of value first. In the meantime, use budgets instead of trying to estimate costs.
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At the first ALE conference, I – the sole USAnian attendee – listened to many stories about the annoyance of working for BigCos. It boiled over at the final lightning talk, where I complained about their complaining and said, “Quit! Start a company! In the USA, going independent is a huge risk because you’ll lose your health care. You have guaranteed health care! Use it!”
I’m pleased that two people later contacted me and said my talk nudged them toward doing just that. https://mastodon.social/@Elucidating/112244383621137601
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Information The American tech scene would explode in a second Renaissance if the US got basic universal health care as a public right.
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What if instead of following a liquids only diet the day before a colonoscopy, you could eat rice, fish, plain yogurt and much more?
Turns out you can:
"A low-residue diet, one that is heavy on starch and protein and free of vegetables, is just as effective, and much less difficult to endure, than a diet restricted to clear liquids all day. (I have seen corn and seeds many times during a colonoscopy, but I have never seen a piece of chicken!)
A pre-colonoscopy diet that includes solid foods is safe and effective, and there are abundant data to prove it."
@williampietri Fair point.
Male parental unit of two kids; married to their mother; resident of Minneapolis, MN, USA; lover of cats, climbing, human connection; writer of software and occasional coach of software teams.
Joined Nov 2022
