David Edgar's website

This fairly closely aligns with why I am having so much trouble using micro.blog, a service I have been paying for since the Kickstarter. Using it just doesn't align with my read of the idea of owning my own words (I mean, I guess content is the right term but it has such a gross meaning in our degraded, hustle-ised culture). When I think about ownership, I think of having control of it. But obviously when I put those words on someone else's service, I have ceded control. Sure, Manton seems like a nice guy. So does @shlee@aus.social. Nevertheless, I am giving them a bit of me every time I post to their databases.

• culture
• indieweb
• web

Looks at list of last books read. Hmmm

• The Martian
• The Library on Mount Char
• the entire fucking run of Murderbot Diaries

All of which are at least on their fourth go around. So comfort reading and competence porn.

Well, at least it got me out of my rut or not reading at all.

An understated call to action to reject the lure of "the global town square"; not the same stridency as Cory Doctorow's "enshittification" themed articles, but the same basic point.

• indieweb

A self-history on building S3 from a person who was there. The only thing I knew going into this was knowing the used Scrum as a project management tool. Not sure if it was the same person, but someone joined a Twitter Space run by Bryan Cantrill and defended the methodology on that basis. Which is not really here nor there.

• architecture
• software
• system
• web

• engineering
• software

I wonder if each morning as I get out of bed the pets look at me and think “oooh, big stretch!”

I had reason to try and explain this metaphor to someone this week, trying to reason with them that some debt is worth taking because delivering speedily is worth it. I couldn't remember this link though. Well, now I will.

• coding
• engineering
• software
• system
• technical_debt

I wonder if people with aphasia, the inability to picture something in their mind's eye, are more or less affected by hallucinogens.

• drugs
• explained
• mind

Tending and caring for an indie web in the midst of generative AI content farms

• culture
• generative_ai
• indieweb
• web

Was highly amused at the Product-Engineering quartet alignment meeting the duelling declarations, spoken within minutes of each other, that we need an AI feature to differentiate is from the competition and we also need an AI feature because we’re losing sales as the competitors are all promising one too.

• capitalism

Apple Guy Gruber (I don’t know why I bothered, it’s not like he could have a vanity search going anyway) approving quotes:

Why doesn’t the EU just turn off the web?

(https://www.threads.net/@levie/post/CurnRtuLgv_ CW Threads link)

And I just don’t get it. It’s not the web that vexes the EU, it’s surveillance capitalism. A thing he also claims to dislike in many ways. Calling for TikTok to be banned; a visceral dislike of Facebook; supporting Apple’s privacy initiatives.

I mean, you can’t help but wonder if he just has a grudge because the EU wants to force Apple to make the iPhone fractionally more consumer friendly with standardised cables.

I kinda of love, in a horrified way, the evaluation that middle management is basically glorified high school politics and the solution is drumroll Taylorism. No, not Taylorism like that. Like this.

Saving in order to sporadically remind myself the dangers of systemisation.

I read this one a lot, before every new starter.

• howto
• Management
• People

Some obvious, some not obvious tips. I can't get past first interview any longer, so...

• howto
• interview
• work

Look. I’m never going not going to see the worst on anything Peter Dutton says. He’s an amoral monster that would happily see people suffer for a win for his party. But honestly, doing anything but unreservedly apologising for #robodebt, trying to find a way to attack the ALP? Just dumb. The LNP openly broke the law to punish a class of people they hold in contempt, an action that resulted in foreseeable loss of life. There is no way for the LNP to find honour in this.

• auspol

Wordle 745 1/6*

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I knew this day would come eventually

Checking out my taxes because 🤘. ATO says I can't claim coffee, tea, or milk as a work from home expense. Doesn't say anything about the hard liquor.

Saving this so it will get archived for me as a PDF because Twitter is shitting the bed

• people
• support

This seems extremely cool. I am 100% here for nntp in all its glory and warts.

https://dialup.cafe/@vga256/110637361651638656

• Indieweb
• retro
• technology

Every chef or cook I’ve ever met has said, when faced with one of those Cook Your Own Steak stone grills has said “Fuck off, make my steak for me” and yet I have shaved so many yaks in my time.

https://mastodon.flockofnazguls.com/@flockofnazguls/110627127357199666