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hackers.town: 2024-10-08 Tue 06:26
@grmpyprogrammer Even as a technical user, it’s frustrating. The bubbles of Fediverse usage have sort of crystallized.
Most folks who say “I know, I’ll try Mastodon” start at mastodon dot social, but it’s so poorly moderated that we can’t just have an open door for them. I may never know my friends have joined.
Tech types can run your own server. Mastodon itself needs a chunky setup that’s expensive for personal budgets. Akkoma runs nice and cheap, but a little virality can knock you out of commission or spike your wallet. Oh and follow the fediban tag.
And compatibility issues. Mastodon is the IE 6 of ActivityPub.
Honestly in 2024 somebody asks “Twitter sucks now what do I do” I mention the Fediverse but I recommend bsky. Not as good as old Twitter, but not as alien as this.
hackers.town: 2024-10-08 Tue 09:29
Look at me doing the inane tedious legwork to officially contribute to the thing I’ve been complaining about for the last several weeks.
I must really be enjoying myself.
#ADHD
hackers.town: 2024-10-08 Tue 09:36
@masukomi Didn’t Seaside come out a little before Rails? The ancient conversation fragments my brain is dredging up reference WebObjects, not Rails.
(Seattle.rb was chock full of Ruby folks that started with Smalltalk and / or Objective-C. Probably still is, but I was only active the first couple years.)
hackers.town: 2024-10-08 Tue 09:41
@masukomi looking it up: 2002 for Seaside, 2004 for Rails. But Rails was active and popular for at least a year before the official 1.0.
So from a couple decades on, effectively the same time. Historically they were both part of the same meta-conversation about Web dev.
hackers.town: 2024-10-08 Tue 10:42
@alex and of course my brain immediately conjures a related track.
Trio – Da Da Da Official Video - YouTube
hackers.town: 2024-10-08 Tue 13:26
Heard a loud bonk behind me.
The bird clearly has a better understanding of glass than Jack does.
hackers.town: 2024-10-08 Tue 15:36
Being reminded that I tend to communicate more clearly if I eat food at some point in the day.
hackers.town: 2024-10-08 Tue 16:22
Thanks to a slight taste of dyscalculia, I see 12437 errors vs 359 errors and stops at “yeah the big one is worse” but dang – (counts on fingers, accidental church steeple, gives up) – that’s a lot worse.
hackers.town: 2024-10-08 Tue 17:35
me: “not sure what to say here”
me, 1,000 words later: “wait still some gaps I need to fill in”
hackers.town: 2024-10-08 Tue 19:32
Of course yes I do realize that 80% of what I hate about JIRA is whoever’s configured the one I’m sitting in front of.
Every todo app is the same, but every JIRA instance is unhappy in its own way.
ok there’s the button I was looking for. One of them anyways.
hackers.town: 2024-10-08 Tue 20:31
me, 1,500 words later: “maybe that was a bit much?”
hackers.town: 2024-10-08 Tue 21:05
@thegibson If you say so.
hackers.town: 2024-10-08 Tue 21:25
@thegibson in so many ways. I see “Cards Against Humanity developers” in an article, I never know if the next bit is going to be revolting, horrifying, or some of the best shitposting-for-god I have ever seen.
hackers.town: 2024-10-08 Tue 21:45
@GeoffWozniak @thegibson part of their charm is there’s no barrel they won’t scrape to make sure they’ve hit bottom.
There’s a purity to it.