Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

I can't figure out if this is a good blogpost topic or not, but I've been thinking about how many conversations I see about human behavior in software overindex on like, differences between people* and not within-individual variation**

Overall malleability of our own traits and states over time is fascinating and underexplored in a very essentialist kind of culture***

* "all managers are like x"

** "some days I am like x and some days I am like y"

*** I find tech to be very essentialist

“Nothing is better than having more Microservices than users.”

You'd be smiling like this too if your rack was this neatly cabled from the factory! We call this the cabled backplane and it means you'll eliminate time spent on intra-rack network cabling and configuration issues. And of course, no power cords either thanks to the DC busbar!

@ice I have one of these, a thing I really like doing is walking around town wearing these and seeing how the sound changes. I've experienced walking down a section and finding a two-meter space where I walk into this patch of sidewalk, bam on like a light is a loud hum, I walk out on the other side, bam it's off. Apparently I just walked over a buried power cable, I couldn't have known was there otherwise. It's like having an entire new *sense* for directly experiencing EM fields, it's amazing.

I’ve got a new "music player". As in "what kind of weird noise will this random object produce if I put that little black box next to it while wearing headphones?"

I’m not sure how to define the SOMA Ether. It’s a bit of a noise instrument, a bit of a detector. It’s described as an anti-radio, since it grabs broad unfiltered radio waves and electromagnetic activity.

Using it feels like ghost hunting. I now have no doubt that my washing machine is inhabited by some drill n bass spirit.

Today at #emfcamp #emf24 I'll be around and about including crocheting. Find me after my talk (7:30pm, stage B) to talk about trees and satellite imagery and wildfire prevention, or indeed anything else. Most of the day i'll be wearing or carrying a well engineered pale pink hat.

How do we think about aptitude, ability, performance and potential -- these are massive and complex arguments even in the areas of psychology where we have done the most work and have the strongest evidence to draw on. I've been reading a lot about "predicting programming aptitude" and this work here is better than a lot of what I've been reading, but in the entire area I see a lot of failure to integrate with modern education research.

@t36s hm, well you didn't technically ask, but i use a package manager so i can get upgrades to things i've installed without having to remember what it is i've installed

Folk using "algorithms" to refer to everything that's wrong with the web the way folk believed "miasma" caused the spread of disease pre sanitation

@kate O Plikenscribe, O Plikenscribe, O Plikenscribe, I prithee. 🎄 https://youtu.be/LC6F8wnYKkg #simlish

imagine what a creature called the "mountain chicken" might look like.

then google it.

Yep, I like it

As a keyboard shortcut maxi, I will overcomplicate my life to an truly insane degree just to be able to use apps without touching my mouse.

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration

Not sure if anybody's already coined the term "OStalgia"—the feeling you get when you see a screenshot of the OS you used growing up—but I've been having a fair amount of that lately.

Lot of good memories associated with System 7 and Mac OS 8–9.

Saw some text online that made me want to turn it into signage. What good are graphic design skills if you can't have a little fun with them.😜

I’ve had folks I’ve been mutuals with forever unfollow me for saying that leveling Palestine and waging war against a population trapped within its borders is wrong.

That scares me. Because people I have respected for years, that have clearly respected me for years, are coming to the conclusion that saying that this act is wrong, is antisemitism.

That can’t be a line. It must be possible to criticize a literal atomic power that has already killed tens of thousands of civilians, and hurt tens of thousands more.

adventures in cartography

WP21

It seems like just yesterday WordPress was becoming a teenager, and in a blink of the eye it's now old enough to drink! 21 years since Mike and I did the first release of WordPress, forking Michel's work on b2/cafélog. There's been many milestones and highlights along the way, and many more to come. I've been thinking a lot about elements that made WordPress successful in its early years that we should keep in mind as we build this year and beyond.

https://ma.tt/2024/05/wp21/