Sly Gryphon @sgryphon@qoto.org

Screenshot of outline of today’s announcements — Honor Among Thieves (trailer), A Little D&D Tune, Meet the Legendary Beasts, More Movie Magic, The World of Drizzt, Virtual D&D Adventure, Monster Minis Unleashed, Documenting 50 years of Fun, Mysteries of the Multiverse #DnDDirect

Looking forward to tonight's talk at Sydney Alt .NET.

I think it'll be super interesting and something I can probably get my teams thinking about to make their life easier.

See you on Twitch soon! https://www.twitch.tv/sydneyaltnet

Details: https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/sydney-alt-net/events/ftrmfsyfcfblc/

Making an Espresso Machine with open source hardware

https://sohl.substack.com/p/espresso-and-open-source-hardware

If as a #libertarian you like to explain to people that you're "not on the left or the right," but then you harp relentlessly about the excesses of #wokeism while shrugging and remaining largely silent about DeSantis's culture war or attacks on drag shows, consider that you are in fact not nonpartisan at all, but in fact very much on the conservative right.

New: The Roundup - episode 11

This week's #fediverse news gathered into an easy overview. Some standout ones:

📸PixelFed is working an on Instagram Import feature
📖Bookwyrm is used to maintain a list of all banned books in US public schools
🛠️Automattic is considering making their newly aqcuired ActivityPug plugin for WordPress into a Canonical Plugin

@fediversenews

Read it all at: https://fediversereport.com/the-roundup-episode-11/

Some Fearne Fanart from a while ago

#MastoArt #CriticalRoleFanart #DnD #DigitalArt #CreativeToots

Please please PLEASE make DNS records for your services. You can't just put a dotted quad in your HTML, .pls file, or really anything anymore and expect it to work everywhere. It's bad enough that your service is legacy-only, but absent a DNS entry, I can't reach your service from my NAT64/DNS64 network without manual intervention. Don't assume I'm running CLAT or in any way have a working AF_INET socket.

This plea brought to you in frustration trying to listen to Radio Free Fedi. I'm not tagging them in this post because it appears they're using a third-party streaming provider who really should know better.

#ipv6

Anyone have an interesting blog that uses the WordPress ActivityPub plugin?

If so, please leave a link/handle as a reply to this post.

(And even if you don't, please forward this thread on so it can reach people who do.)

#WordPress #WebDev #Fediverse #Automattic @pfefferle #Mastodon

Does anyone know someone in Sydney who wants to be a Deputy CIO?

It is a good role for someone who would like to be a CIO one day or for someone who is toward end of their career who wants to give back.

Please DM me. And please RT.

The @EclipseFdn is trying out @matrix as a chat service: https://chat-staging.eclipse.org/docs/

Your chance to take a look, try it out, and provide some feedback!

Dear devs,

It's NEVER ok to lock people out of a webapp because their User-Agent doesn't match your predefined list. 😡

Especially webapps they need to manage their healthcare.

(I am in fact using one of the browsers on this list, your code just isn't able to tell.)

Please boost for basic education.

#webdev

So cool to bump into people that say they love @penpot 🤩 A web developer praising our tool, saying it's so cool! @pcultural thanks for your forward!
https://syntax.fm/show/584/node-in-the-browser-webcontainers-nodebox

This year's Tabletop Jam is live! Make a physical or digital game from March 7 through March 20 🎲
We're figuring out some specifics, but the event track includes a hybrid in-person/digital feedback night and showcase 😍
Register here, more updates soon ~

https://itch.io/jam/pigsquadtabletopjam2023

(Tabletop jam includes a huge variety of games btw. Board games! Pen and paper dice games! Larps! Bring em on!)

#PIGSquad #gameJam #ttrpg #tabletop #larp #physicalGames #boardGames

My programming hot take of the day is that your user model shouldn't contain your password hash field.

It should be a on a separate table and web app tutorials should go through the effort of putting it on a separate table.

Because eventually you're going to log or serialize the user model in a way that is going to accidentally leak the password hash.

And while systematic log redaction is nice, it's much harder than simply not storing the two things with each other.