David Edgar's website

I keep seeing the thing from the guy with the messianic belief in startups and extractive capitalism. It's such an obvious thing for a person like that to write that it scarcely warrants mentioning. But I noticed a couple of people say "Yeah, $founder I worked for does the same thing and they're worth billions so what do I know?" as if there aren't countless other founders who did the same thing and flamed out completely and maybe just maybe the on-paper valuation of an organisation is just the consensual hallucination of rent-seekers that bears little to no resemblance to the ability of the organisation to actually meet the expectations that valuation represents.

I spent the better part of the weekend trying to work out why Mastodon didn’t like my ActivityPub integration. Turns out all the c# libraries think various properties on Actor should be Link objects. They’re supposed to be Collections.

And you know I can’t blame them to much, I’m yet to meet a clear, well written W3C spec.

The tendency of technologists to note that some new technology is kinda fucked and almost tailor made to debase society so some billionaires can have more, but blithely shrug and ask “what can you do?” continues to radicalise and depress in equal quantities.

I kind of always worry a little bit about people with bright line restrictions on meetings, like, maybe you're just an introvert who doesn't understand that talking to people is actually the first, second, and third most important tasks on your JD. Still, there is a bit here

• communication
• meetings
• work

It takes a special kind of thinking to emerge from an episode of being so unpopular you have to buy supporters to campaign for your unflattering picture to be removed from view and decide you need to come up with ways to be held in even greater contempt.

The thing that sticks in my craw the resentiest about Shorten and the Government not banning gambling advertisements is…. we have publicly funded news. Fucking defend and support that, not the for profit media companies, if you think news is so important.

I just checked and I have a distressing number of notes in my system with the tag #hellojailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYvhC_RdIwQ

The way things are going, we’re mere weeks away from Vance going on Howard Stern and semi-spontaneously bringing up “the couch thing” to deny it.

Luckily no-one is ever going to make the mistake of asking me to adapt a fantasy story for television, but if they did, I am pretty sure I would not pick the one with an extremely thin story, because it’s basically just a fan service book to stop the awful fans from bullying the author, and what cinematic moments it does have cost a bajillion dollars per second to generate on computers.

• rfc
• specification
• web

You’d think Gruber would have an affinity for people who make large, ill-founded stretches to try and score points from a group they don’t like.

There should be half-sized dishwasher-safe occy straps you can use to tie down Tupperware containers so they don’t flip over and fill up with manky water.

I received a typo'd acknowledgment today, "undertandable". My diseased brain then decided to go off and spend time coming up with a meaning and etymology for that word because why would it do the things I need it to do.

From the Old English under, from PIE *nter- "between, among", and the Middle English both, from Old English toð, from Porto-Germanic *tanthu, from PIE *dent, "tooth"

To be among teeth.

"undertandable" then is to be subscribed to aus.social right after someone has been to the fucking dentist.

An engineer goes off at the current fad, LLM-based feature development. Particular reference made to grifters and the inability of most companies to even do the basics of software engineering correctly.

• ai
• business
• llm
• software_engineering

I’m kind of bummed to learn that Aubrey Plaza is not playing David Haller’s psychotic hallucination in Agatha All Along.

I was never jealous of any of my friends until two of them escaped capitalism within days of each other.

Saving for posterity because it is so generally usable

• image
• kubernetes
• meme

The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it

• homebrew
• indie
• personal
• software

• computers
• small

Author describes building the first homelab

• computers
• homebrew
• lab
• servers