Aaron Parecki

there's been almost twenty years of work on optimizing javascript engines with JIT and complex heuristic-based GC and a wealth of feature-rich profiling and analysis tools and validation and testing frameworks for deployment and integration and syntax improvements and functional and higher-order primitives and serverside transpiled code. and it's all enabled some amazing new stuff, for example github now takes 10 seconds to display a plain text file, and you cant search properly anymore

@kissane IME there’s a mismatch between Fediverse as a collection of standards and tech and Fediverse as culture and norms- the insistence that Threads implementing ActivityPub “isn’t fediverse” is culture-over-tech, or bridging being antithetical etc. it’s gonna keep rearing its head as the people who desire the scale/ergo of twitter etc try to use/extend fediverse tech to do so and clash with the people who are very happy with the current scale/reach and see it as a feature.

they should switch to passkeys

I love Elle Cordova and her clever, funny videos. This one is for all my writer and editor friends.

😂

In a world with even “digital-natives” increasingly don’t understand basic file management, and where it’s more and more common for user data to be siloed per-app even on desktops, I propose a corollary to Zawinski’s Law: “All apps which don’t store data transparently in the file system are doomed to implement their own limited and fragile filesystem equivalent”

PLEASE check your kids' Halloween candy. Just found an Okta admin access token in a Snickers bar.

It’s a very autumnal IndieWebCamp in Nuremberg this weekend. #indieweb

I have lived long enough to see the phase "there's an app for that" go from a marketing slogan to a threat

Found this out hiking the other day. There HAS to be a great caption for this... What's your best shot?

I'm assuming it has potential for at least the #UX and #QA folk

Kudos to Sarah Silverman! This will most likely become a landmark case.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sarah-silverman-copyright-suit-chatgpt_n_64ab2ce5e4b02fb0e6f94a1b

This article reminded me that Meta launched Threads not to scoop up disgruntled Twitter users, but to scoop up disgruntled Twitter *advertisers*. Because of course that's all they care about. Duh.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epvp8j/threads-is-all-the-worst-parts-of-twitter-and-instagram-in-one-very-bad-app

I find I get this uneasy feeling in my belly every time earth system parameters hop outside of the limits of the last 125,000 years. You?

There are real downsides to running my website on VPS I sysadmin myself & a homegrown pile of code in JavaScript, Python, Swift, and Zsh. The code is all over the place in every sense of the phrase.

But I can personally guarantee that it'll keep working and remain available so long as I can afford the DNS and VPS fees. I can't say that about any other place I post on the internet.

Own your own space on the web. Post there. Write there. Link to it from your various accounts elsewhere. #indieweb